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It is snowing today. To walk around in the silence after it snows in a large city is one of the few things I look forward to each year. The snow seems to act like a large muffler that deafens the already quiet evening air. With the snow deadening the noise of all of the road vehicles tires it is much more peaceful.

College students around the United States are having some interesting experiences this fall.

With the push to get their latest product seen Adobe has a group traveling to various colleges and universities throughout the nation. This 'tour' includes a series of lectures by two people, from Adobe Julieanne Kost and from the photojournalism/advertising world Colin Finlay. Julieanne gives a really great lecture on how to use the new Adobe product; Photoshop Lightroom and Colin lectures about his photography and the stories behind the images.

The tour stops at 25 different schools over a three month period. At each of the schools a small group of students takes part in a one day workshop event with Colin Finlay. A specific aspect of each of community is explored photographically over the course of the day after which they return to edit down their photographs and take part in a group critique led by Finlay with the assistance of Kost as well as other Adobe representatives and school faculty. After the critique each of the students 300 or so photographs have been wittled down to 3, which are then uploaded to the project photoshop lightroom website for all the world to see.

Chicago, The Loop. The elevated subway tracks are casting a shadow on the sidewalk as cars pass under the tracks..

It was about 30F outside and this man in a banana suit was serving free samples of frozen drinks.

The Loop. Chicago.