[[Image:Reid Blackburn's car after May 18, 1980 St. Helens eruption.jpg|thumb|Blackburn's car after the eruption.]]
'''Reid Blackburn''' ([[11 Agustus]], [[1952]] - [[18 Mei]], [[1980]]) adalah fotografer killed in the [[1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens|1980 volcanic eruption]] of [[MountGunung St. Helens]].<ref name=Ryll_2005>{{cite news | author = Ryll T, Olsen K | title = Overshadowed | work = The Columbian (Vancouver) | date = 2005-05-18 | accessdate = 2007-05-22 }}</ref> Blackburn was a [[photojournalist]] covering the eruption for a local newspaper - the [[Vancouver, Washington]] ''Columbian''<ref>{{cite web | title = Timeline of The Columbian Newspaper | work = | url = http://www.columbian.com/history/columbianhistory.cfm | accessdate = 2007-05-22}}</ref> - as well as [[National Geographic]] magazine<ref>{{cite journal | author = Stoler P | title = Slowly, the Wounds Begin to Heal | journal = Time magazine | url = http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,951689-2,00.html | date = 1981-05-18 | accessdate = 2007-05-22}}</ref> when he was caught at Coldwater Camp in the blast.<ref>{{cite journal | author = Findley R | title = Mount St. Helens: Nature on Fast Forward | journal = National Geographic | url = http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0005/fngm/index.html | year = 2000 | volume = May | accessdate = 2007-05-22}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title = Path of destruction: The lateral blast | work = Mount St. Helens: From the Ashes | url = http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/mountsthelens/laterblast.shtml | publisher = Seattle Post-Intelligencer | accessdate = 2007-05-22}}</ref>
The National Press Photographers Association awards a competitive [[scholarship]] annually in Blackburn's honor.<ref name=NPPA>{{cite web | title = Reid Blackburn Scholarship| work = National Press Photographers Association| url = http://www.nppa.org/professional_development/students/scholarships/blackburn.html | accessdate = 2007-05-22}}</ref>
