Twenty-one years ago today, Stevie Ray Vaughan played at a huge concert in (and outside) the Houston Astrodome in Texas, and photographer Tracy Anne Hart captured the moment in her triptych series titled, Texas Flood. 

"The three photos were captured during the guitar solo of the song "Texas Flood" and are taken from one strip of six 35mm negatives. Stevie picked the three images off of my contact sheet himself.  I almost lost the two rolls of black and white I shot, I found them about a week later in a pocket in my big camera bag!" 

It's rare to find a photographer so dedicated to a single subject like Tracy, and her dedication to documenting SRV places her into this unique position of having one of the largest original photo collections of Stevie Ray Vaughan.

Each limited edition poster is printed on Entrada Rag Natural or Somerset Photo and can purchased directly from Tracy's website.

Last June we sponsored PDN magazine's fine art CURATOR contest.  The winning images were showcased in that month's issue of PDN.  Fortunately (for us) there was a world-class panel of judges to select the winners because from the pool of submissions we saw, we were overwhelmed at the quality. 

If you want to see these prints up close, the MILK gallery in NYC is displaying all the winning images - but the show closes today. Yeah, we know, short notice, but if you have a chance to swing by the gallery you'll not only see the stunning prints, but you'll see them reproduced on Entrada Rag Natural 300. 

Our buddy Andrew Darlow, photographer and author of two books, including 301 Inkjet Tips and Techniques: An Essential Printing Resource for Photographers, will be teaching a full day workshop on both Saturday and Sunday, August 28 and 29, 2010 at Nancy Ori Studio in Berkeley Heights, NJ entitled: Fine-Art Inkjet Printing with Lightroom.

As part of the materials for the workshop, each attendee will receive a Moab Sampler Pack containing 2 sheets each of our fine art inkjet papers. For more information about the workshop, click here or you can send Andrew a note here.

Readers of this blog who mention that they read about the workshop here will also receive a 30 minute follow-up call with Andrew following the workshop.

With the hot weather we can't believe there's only about a month of summer left.  But this time of year also signals the back-to-school rush.  We wanted to contribute in some way so we've decided to take 15% off on all the Chinle Ice Nine portfolios and refill pages.

But there's more! (couldn't resist).  We're also blowing out the Chinle Leather v2 Digital Books (8x9 size only) for a whopping $19.95.  All the refill pages for these books are also 15% off.

No school kit would be complete without some means of storage for your prints - Our Economy Folios and Chinle Archival boxes are also 15% off.

Finally, protect your prints with our famous Desert Varnish Spray and Gel.  Yup, that's right, they're 15% off as well.

All these savings can be applied by entering the secret coupon code (BTS2010) in your shopping cart.  The discounts will be automatically applied.