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Happy Bluesday Morning!

Got back from Chicago Sunday night, too tired to do much of anything but go to work and get stuff caught up here yesterday, so I'm finally getting back in the swing of things. Since I missed my Monday Blues shot, I thought I would make up for it on Bluesday, er I mean Tuesday...

This is the other Elvis, a Mr. Costello, better known for his New Wave bad boy days and bouncy, almost punk music from the 1980's, singing the song "Killin' Floor" with Hubert Sumlin and the Billy Gibson Band. He did an admirable job, too!

He has some sort of hieroglyphics written on the back of his hand, but I could not make out what it is. Perhaps some sort of notes for his performance on the main Budweiser stage later on that evening. I think it was pretty cool of him to step over to the Blues tent to pay homage to Hubert Sumlin. You can see a close-up shot of Elvis Costello in an earlier upload on TL.

This was taken at the Beale St. Music Festival at Memphis in May, 2009. I shot it with my 70 - 300mm VR lens in low light at a high ISO in RAW. I used some noise reduction, unsharp mask, cropped a bit, added a frame and title, re-sized for TL and unsharp masked a little more. Voila! Great concert image!

Of course, I have to thank my wife for helping me smuggle in the Nikon to this festival - they consider any camera with a removable lens to be a professional camera, and therefor not allowed. Strangely, they did nothing regarding folks with cell phones and point n' shoot cameras shooting entire sequences of the acts. So I don't feel too bad about breaking the rules. I just wish I didn't have to!

Have a great Tuesday and the rest of your week. It's a short work week for those of us in the US due to our country's birthday celebration on July 4!