When Ronnie Dunn isn’t busy being a great singer, one of his hobbies is photography.  He loves to travel and take photos all over the world, but the challenge is what to do with all those pictures.  Ronnie has a friend who was a career photographer for Sports Illustrated, who just got the rights to his photo catalog back, and he says they’ve talked about opening a small gallery in Nashville.  “I was showing him the stuff that I took in Cuba,” says Ronnie.  “He said, ‘Let me see what you’re doing.’ So I showed him and he goes, ‘Man, let’s do some stuff together, like let’s post …’ and I said, ‘No, let’s don’t post ‘em, let’s do like a little like exclusive gallery where people can come see some of these shots.’ … That kind of stuff is kind of fun, creative outlet, like a little gallery, moving stuff in and out, playing around. Nothing serious, but for fun.”

No word on when the gallery might open, but Ronnie will have plenty of photos to hang from Cuba, Africa, all over the U.S. and more, when it does.  In the meantime, he is busy promoting his latest single, “I Worship the Woman You Walked On,” off his Tattooed Heart album.

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“I have a little building here in town that I bought years ago. I think I’m going to get with some buddies – There’s one friend in particular his name is Ron Modré who is a Sports Illustrated staff photographer for 28 years and he just retired.  And one of the cool things about what he did was, like a songwriter if you can ever get your songs back, called your catalog, you get your songs back, you’re free to do whatever you want to with ‘em.  Well he just got his catalog back. And I was showing him the stuff that I took in Cuba. He said, ‘Let me see what you’re doing.’ So I showed him and he goes, ‘Man, let’s do some stuff together, like let’s post …’ and I said, ‘No, let’s don’t post ‘em, let’s do like a little like exclusive gallery where people can come see some of these shots.’ He sent one to me the other day that was voted like one of the top 10 sports shots of all time by Sports Illustrated and the people in the industry.  That kind of stuff is kind of fun, creative outlet, like a little gallery, moving stuff in and out playing around. Nothing serious, but for fun.”