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C O N T A C T • S P O N S O R S H I P • S U B S C R I B E • F O L L O W • A B O U T
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The Shuttle Stop
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The Folding Corona
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Old Men
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George Tice
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The Rumbalino Returns
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Dining Alone
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Tricks of the Evening
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Holocaust Remembrance Day
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Empty Vases
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
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George Kalinsky
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The Rumbalino
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Welcome, Newbie!
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Oliviero Toscani
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Two Redcoats at Fort Point
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The Trouble With Sunsets
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Constantine Manos
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A Coalport Top Hat
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Charging the Battery
The Shuttle Stop
10 February 2025
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Here's a tip for you if you ever find yourself taking Muni and SamTrans to get from San Francisco to Daly City and back (no one? just me?). SamTrans gives you a two-hour free transfer window from when you first board. So if it can get somewhere in half an hour and you can do what you have to do in an hour and half, you can get a free return trip.
Around The Horn
10 February 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at Super Bowl LIX stills, Super Bowl Commercials, the OM-3, software and tillman crane.
Matinee: 'A Lens on London's Wildlife'
8 February 2025
Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?
Around The Horn
8 February 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at the Critics Choice Awards Red Carpet, Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe, down time and creative blocks.
Friday Slide Show: The Folding Corona
7 February 2025
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Among the things we are now in charge of dusting is Joyce's folding Corona portable typewriter. Its patents are listed from 1913 to 1917, making it a Corona 2 or 3, we suppose with no authority.
Around The Horn
7 February 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at AP's week, Reuters' week, Arthur Tress, ice fishing, Karan Kapoor, Superb Owl, AI Detector and an old photo.
OM Announces OM-3 Camera, Three Lenses
6 February 2025
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OM Digital Solutions has announced the OM System OM-3 Micro Four Thirds camera, its M.Zuiko 100-400mm f5.0-6.3 IS II and two primes: the M.Zuiko Digital 17mm f1.8 II and 25mm f1.8 II. Details follow.
Around The Horn
6 February 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at the Lone Cypress, Larry Clark, Mexican troops and the Unpro camera app.
Nikon Announces the Coolpix P1100 With 125x Optical Zoom
5 February 2025
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Nikon has announced the Coolpix P1100, a compact digital camera featuring a 125x optical super-telephoto zoom, which can be pushed digitally to 250x. The camera also features Dual Detect Optical VR for a 4.0-stop improvement at the center of the frame and 4K UHD/30p and superlapse movie recordings.
Nikon Announces the Nikkor Z 35mm f1.2 S
5 February 2025
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Nikon has announced the Nikkor Z 35mm f1.2 S, a medium wide-angle prime lens with a fast f1.2 maximum aperture.
Around The Horn
5 February 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at Santorini, Uncanny, London's Square Mile and real photography.
Old Men
4 February 2025
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We rode the 28R up 19th Avenue to Park Presidio and Geary Blvd. where we caught a 38R down to 40th Avenue for a tour of a room-and-board for people who need 24-hour care. We were a bit early for our 4 p.m. appointment.
Around The Horn
4 February 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at A Day Without Immigrants, Rebecca Norris Webb, Oded Balilty at Auschwitz, 1970s England, prime lenses, photo gamut mapping, film photography and 1960s San Francisco.
Remembering George Tice
3 February 2025
George Tice, the "Bard of New Jersey" died in January at his New Jersey home from complications of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. He was 86.
Around The Horn
3 February 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at the Grammys, Alexander Gronsky, Black photographers and Nikkor telephotos.
Matinee: 'Deborah Turbeville: Photocollage'
1 February 2025
Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?
Around The Horn
1 February 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at AP's Photos of the Month, the immigration crackdown, Reginald Kofi Boateng, free benches, off-season photography and shooting film.
Site Tweak: Highlights
1 February 2025
We've been a little concerned about the size of our Highlights indices. Each month we add about nine thumbnails to the collection, so over 12 years, that's a lot of thumbnails to download.
January Archived
1 February 2025
We've just archived Volume 14, Number 1 of Photo Corners on the Archive page with 19 Features, 5 commented News stories, 26 Editor's Notes (which included 156 items of interest), no reviews and one site note for a total of 51 stories.
Friday Slide Show: The Rumbalino Returns
31 January 2025
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We don't like to repeat ourselves but sometimes life feels life Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered. An epic poem, that is, "filled with themes of valor, divine intervention and the struggle between good and evil."
Around The Horn
31 January 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at AP's week, Reuters' week, Photo Brussels 2025 and RawTherapee or DarkTable.
Dining Alone
30 January 2025
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These days, with Joyce marooned in a nursing home, we are dining alone. So we've picked up a trick or two we thought we'd pass along.
Around The Horn
30 January 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at 50 Years Ago, Pictures of the Day, the Year of the Snake, Wim Wenders, Flowers, Lia Darjes, Smithfield Market, Fulvio Bonavia, the Frame tool and Thunderbolt 5 SSDs.
Around The Horn
29 January 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at the Year of the Snake, food, James Clifford Kent and upgrading.
Tricks of the Evening
28 January 2025
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When we came into the living room the other day we did a double take. Who had turned on the old brass lamp?
Around The Horn
28 January 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at Chromotherapia, Ukraine, a ZfII and Sequoia 15.3.
Cyme Releases Peakto Search 1.3
27 January 2025
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Cyme has released Peakto Search 1.3, its Mac-only plug-in for Lightroom Classic and Capture One, with two new locally AI-powered features that expand its Search capabilities.
Around The Horn
27 January 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at Holocaust Remembrance Day, Auschwitz, Venice in Winter, the state of play and Pixelfed.
International Holocaust Remembrance Day
27 January 2025
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Today marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the German concentration camp in Poland where 1.1 million people were exterminated during World War II. The day of liberation by Soviet troops has been commemorated since 2005 as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Matinee: 'Vittorio'
25 January 2025
Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?
Around The Horn
25 January 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at the Ocean Art Contest, McAwhy, pandas and old age.
Friday Slide Show: Empty Vases
24 January 2025
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The days this January have been long and stressful, dealing with problems that have no solutions while trying to keep our head above water. When we get home, we collapse, falling asleep on the couch. But it doesn't help. Yesterday, almost in a fit, we jumped up, grabbed the old Olympus and picked a subject to photograph. It was restorative.
Around The Horn
24 January 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at AP's week in pictures, Reuter's pictures of the week, Truth in Photography, Iceland, Close-Up Photographer of the Year, obsolete electronics, Blu-Ray media and lost photos.
Canon Announces RF16-28mm f2.8 IS STM Lens
23 January 2025
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Canon has announced its new RF16-28mm f2.8 IS STM lens, joining the Canon RF28-70mm f2.8 STM as a more affordable f2.8 zoom option for Canon mirrorless users. Its compact, durable design makes it at home in both urban environments and remote locations.
Michele Sons Wins OM System Photography Contest
23 January 2025
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OM System has announced Michele Sons of Roanoke, Va., is the grand prize winner of its recent Creativity. It's in our nature photo contest. Her photograph Fairy Forest is "a mesmerizing image of fireflies illuminating a serene forest, praised by the selection jury for its magical and natural composition," the company said.
Around The Horn
23 January 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at Richard Sharum, Postcards From the Border, Ethan Swope, fluorescing foliage, Aaron Anderson, American Job: 1940-2011, 2025 innovations and the Fediverse for photographers.
Around The Horn
22 January 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at Gaza today, Arlene Gottfried, Henry Roy, murals by Harold Davis and energy.
Around The Horn
21 January 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at Inauguration Day, the Israel-Hamas ceasefire, Los Angeles, MPIX, Rocky Nook, still life photography, Ashok Sinha, darkroom printing and abandoned file systems.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
20 January 2025
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Well, it's ironic, to say the least. This year Martin Luther King, Jr. Day happens also to be Inauguration Day. You'd be hard pressed to find two more different people than MLK and the new president. "More different" puts it rather mildly. There couldn't be a greater contrast.
Remembering George Kalinsky
20 January 2025
George Kalinksy, for many years the official photographer of Madison Square Garden, died last week at a senior living facility in Manhattan from complications of Parkinson's disease. He was 88.
Matinee: 'The Silent Agreements'
18 January 2025
Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?
Around The Horn
18 January 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at AP's week in pictures, Reuters' week, Susan Berger, Keerthana Kunnath, Jan Schölzel, live co-editing and the EU's Article 17.
Friday Slide Show: The Rumbalino
17 January 2025
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If you were reading us in the early days of our digital photography career, you might recall a piece or two mentioning the Rumbalino and may even recall a few digicam sample shots of it. We often tested macro mode on the interior and challenged sensors to capture its red paint.
Around The Horn
17 January 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at odd photos, Assad's prisons, Loli Kantor, Mike Johnston, calendars and adventure tips.
Leica Announces SL3-S Hybrid Camera
16 January 2025
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The Leica SL3-S integrates state-of-the-art technology to provide speed, flexibility and versatility, the company said. The SL3-S is also the first camera in the SL system to be equipped with content credentials technology in accordance with the Content Authenticity Initiative for photos.
Around The Horn
16 January 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at a cease fire, the Infrared Photography Contest, Zoë Law and Camera Control.
Around The Horn
15 January 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at Southern California pets, amateur astronomers, Reflection Removal, Jay L. Clendenin and r/PhotoshopRequest.
Welcome to Digital Photography, Newbie!
14 January 2025
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The first tool you need to make a photograph is, of course, a camera with some sort of lens on it. But for many newbies, that's where the investigation stops. They've been misinformed by their experience taking pictures with phones.
Around The Horn
14 January 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at devastation, Trumpland, the "What", a Z9 generation table and a cat photo controversy.
Remembering Oliviero Toscani
13 January 2025
Italian photographer and art director Oliviero Toscani has died after a two-year battle with amyloidosis. He was 82.
Around The Horn
13 January 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at people reading, a ski jumper, tulips, APS-C, Goldilocks, Advice for Young Artists, Teju Cole and Moneta Sleet, Jr.
Matinee: 'Sarah Arnett's Creative World'
11 January 2025
Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?
Around The Horn
11 January 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at enhanced northern lights captures, wildfire victims, the Dakar Rally, Ömer F Kuranli, ideaphoria, Picture Controls and a People's Choice award.
Friday Slide Show: Two Redcoats at Fort Point
10 January 2025
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We confess we've begun the new year housebound with a head cold that has persisted more than a few days. We're getting better with the help of a midday break that involves lying down on the bed. And now that we're feeling better, we sometimes indulge in a midday movie.
Around The Horn
10 January 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at Jimmy Carter's funeral, a yellow cardinal, a Ring camera watches the fire, LA fires and SanDisk SD card corruption.
Around The Horn
9 January 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at World Sports Photography Awards, Letizia Battaglia, Harbin Ice and Snow World, Greenland, 35mm film scanner and the LA fires.
Around The Horn
8 January 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at th Palisades Fire, the Shutterstock-Getty Images merger, the Pebble Flow, Joe McNally and Meta.
Getty Images, Shutterstock to Merge
7 January 2025
In an email to its customers today, Getty Images CEO Craig Peters announced plans to merge with Shutterstock under the name Getty Images Holdings, Inc.
Around The Horn
7 January 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at Reuters, Richard Sharum, migrating birds, hallucinating Web sites, social media for photographers and Gen Z's Christmas haul.
The Trouble With Sunsets +
6 January 2025
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We were lying on the couch Saturday evening pondering the possibilities for dinner when we saw the sun reveal itself as it was setting on the horizon. It had been overcast but there was just enough cloud cover to make the sunset interesting.
Around The Horn
6 January 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at the week in photos, the Golden Globes Red Carpet, Marilyn Monroe, Irene Poon, camera wars, more interesting things, an M4 MacBook Pro vs. a Dell Tower, Alan Adler, state net neutrality laws and January 6.
Matinee: 'Ice Memories'
4 January 2025
Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?
Remembering Constantine Manos
4 January 2025
Greek-American photographer Constantine Manos has died at the age of 90.
Around The Horn
4 January 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at winners, extras, 13 film images and net neutrality.
Friday Slide Show: A Coalport Top Hat
3 January 2025
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One used to dress to the nines for New Year's Eve. Top hat and tails. Furs and high heels. What else would you wear to clink glasses of champagne held by their thin stems and kiss the New Year hello?
Around The Horn
3 January 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at 2025 celebrations, Bourbon Street, a moment of joy, photographing cancer and printing.
Charging the Battery
2 January 2025
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So, as it turned out, we didn't drive our 2001 Honda Civic HX after Aug. 12 last year. We did put a charge on the battery a couple of times but that was the extent of our automotive ambitions.
Around The Horn
2 January 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at Gaza, Naples, Public Domain Day, Apple Photos privacy, NPR photographers, your goldmine, 2025 by month, new lens sets, Creative January and macOS trends.
December Archived
1 January 2025
We've just archived Volume 13, Number 12 of Photo Corners on the Archive page with 15 Features, 8 commented News stories, 25 Editor's Notes (which included 146 items of interest), no reviews and two site notes for a total of 51 stories.
It's 2025!
1 January 2025
Once again, we mark the obsolescence of last year's calendars despite their beautiful prints celebrating each month and herald the new year's promise of images yet unseen.
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10 December 2012
It would almost always catch us by surprise. We'd advance the film on our Nikon FM2 only to find out we'd already taken the last shot.
Sometimes that happens in life, too.
After 13 years as the editor of the Imaging Resource Newsletter, we have parted ways. It's going one way, we're going another.
We wish the company well and remain grateful for the opportunity to discuss our passion for getting the picture with each reader who welcomed such a long email every two weeks in their inbox.
But as we used to tell our (usually) patient subject when we realized we had to put a new roll of film in the camera, "Wait a minute!"
Because we aren't done yet.
And this publication is our way of continuing to discuss our passion for getting the picture. We have several reviews in progress, covering tablet software, new image editing software for the desktop, LED lighting and more.
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