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BigPicture Award Winners Announced
16 June 2025
The California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco has announced the winners of the 12th annual BigPicture: Natural World Photography Competition. Photographers representing nearly 60 countries submitted over 8,000 images to this year's competition, to this year's competition.
Around The Horn
16 June 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 Associated Press over the weekend, Pride Month, NYC's elevated waterfront, Lucas Foglia, Tanaka on the Fujifilm GFX100RF, selling the Fujifilm GFX100RF, iCloud Photos storage and a found SD card.
Matinee: 'Slide-O-Matic'
14 June 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
14 June 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 Associated Press photos of the week, Reuters photos of the week, Russell Ord, the Fujifilm GFX100RF and Excire's AI photo contest judge.
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Friday Slide Show: German Pancakes
13 June 2025
We always make the same thing for Sunday brunch. Scrambled eggs with green scallions and smoke salmon. We have blueberry scones (either baked from a box of from Sconehenge) or croissants with them. And half a bottle of prosecco as we listen to classical music from KDFC.
Around The Horn
13 June 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 Iran, Jae C. Hong, Alice Austen, the Z 9 falling behind and monochrome.
Fujifilm Introduces X-E5 Mirrorless Camera
12 June 2025
Fujifilm has announced its X-E5 rangefinder-style mirrorless digital camera featuring a customizable Film Simulation dial, in-body image stabilization and enhanced viewfinder capabilities.
Fujifilm Announces 23mm f2.8 Pancake Lens
12 June 2025
Fujifilm has announces its Fujinon XF23mmF2.8 R WR lens designed to be thin and unobtrusive while delivering powerful resolution and autofocus performance, the company said.
Leica Announces 28-70 f2.8 Compact Zoom
12 June 2025
Leica has announced its Leica Vario-Elmarit-SL 28-70 f2.8 ASPH., "the most compact and lightweight zoom lens for the SL-System," the company said. The L-Mount lens features a constant f2.8 aperture across its wide-angle to moderate telephoto focal range with fast autofocus.
Around The Horn
12 June 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 parade, Salt Flats, LensCulture portrait awards, AI data licensing and Brian Wilson.
Around The Horn
11 June 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 immigration raid protests, Marjolein Martinot, Europe's subway stations, hybrid shooting lessons, Nikon Z 8 3.0 Firmware, monitors and Liquid Glass.
DxO Releases New Modules For Two Cameras, Nine Lenses
10 June 2025
DxO Labs has announced immediate support for the newest cameras and lenses from many of the industry's leading manufacturers. DxO Modules are now available for Canon's latest vlogging camera, the EOS R50 V and Nikon's newest full-frame mirrorless camera, the Z5 II.
Around The Horn
10 June 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 Los Angeles, Mars, Death of a Fantastic Machine, amazing digital frames and iOS 26.
Around The Horn
9 June 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 Oceans Day, World Pride, the Tony Awards, the Olive Cotton Awards, Ryo Minemizu, Jordon Conway, Karl Mondon, Bernini, Colorsuite and Bill Atkinson.
Matinee: 'Endless Stories'
7 June 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
7 June 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 French Open, Eid Al-Adha, a modest proposal and food photography errors.
Friday Slide Show: The Great Highway
6 June 2025
On the western edge of San Francisco, the four lanes of the Great Highway have run alongside Ocean Beach for several miles since 1929. It's built on a berm that once hosted a railroad to the California Midwinter International Exposition of 1894, providing an elevated view of the ocean.
Around The Horn
6 June 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 week, Raw converter use of embedded JPEGs, a dog resting, wind, framing dye transfer prints and using Lightroom's Lens Blur.
Shortlist for the Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards Announced
5 June 2025
Six titles have been shortlisted for the 40th edition of the Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards, three in the stills category and three in the moving images category. The winner of each category, sharing a 10,000 prize fund, will be announced at the end of June.
Around The Horn
5 June 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 Ralph Gibson, hitchhikers, the Chinese lens industry, James Evangelista and a Lensbaby webinar.
The Light Pole
4 June 2025
We had walked by this charming building without noticing it because we were focused on something in the opposite direction. But when we made a second pass by it, we were looking at the updated, modern houses alongside it and stopped to admire its tenacious hold on the past. It was built in 1941.
Around The Horn
4 June 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's Day, flying foxes, Joanne Leonard and Diane Arbus.
Remembering Herbert Migdoll
3 June 2025
Herbert Migdoll, the official photographer and designer of the Joffrey Ballet for about a half-century, passed away in April at the age of 90.
Around The Horn
3 June 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 an airstrike, two medium format options, Generate Image examples, composition, podcasting, RawTherapee, Photoshop on Android and inherting an archive.
Spain Honors Graciela Iturbide With Princess of Asturias Award
2 June 2025
Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide has been awarded the 2025 Princess of Asturias Award for the Arts. The honor recognizes her five-decade career capturing Mexico's cultural essence and global human experiences through a lens that jurors called "a profound, respectful and evocative gaze." Jurors also praised Iturbide's "innovative perspective" and "hypnotic world" blending harsh realities with "spontaneous magic."
Around The Horn
2 June 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 cicadas, Reuters, the Milky Way, Japan and more Ctein images.
May Archived
2 June 2025
We've just archived Volume 14, Number 5 of Photo Corners on the Archive page with 15 Features, 10 commented News stories, 26 Editor's Notes (which included 159 items of interest) and one site note for a total of 52 stories.
Matinee: 'Morandi's Books'
31 May 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
31 May 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 Alan Taylor's picks, Ctein dye transfer sale, read noise comparison, Tamara Lanier's photos and a funeral session.
Friday Slide Show: Doré's Vase
30 May 2025
We have long admired Le Poème de la Vigne (The Vintage) by Gustave Doré. We would sit next to it outside the de Young museum to admire the hilarious theatrics of its 58 cherubs wrestling with various insects assaulting the 11-foot tall vase, which happens to be a generous 22 feet in circumference.
Around The Horn
30 May 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 week, that Swiss village, Michael Shaw, a MacBook Air M4 and ChatGPT.
Ninth Annual Toyo Tires Photo Contest Opens
29 May 2025
Toyo Tires is now accepting entries to its Ninth Annual Toyo Tires Shutter Space Automotive Photo Contest. The automotive photography theme this year must showcase a rolling vehicle shot, "capturing those dynamic moments in time that convey speed and energcs," the company said.
Around The Horn
29 May 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 two apple trees, Mount Everest, Stefan Falke, Abhishek Khedekar, the rainy season, Natacha Pisarenko, Manhattanhenge, Google Photos, portfolios and a Masters in Photograph.
Sony Introduces the FX2 Hybrid Camera
28 May 2025
Sony has announced the FX2, the latest addition to its Cinema Line family, featuring a full-frame 33-megapixel, back-illuminated Exmor R sensor with up to 15+ stops of wide latitude using S-Log3.
Around The Horn
28 May 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 Scripps National Spelling Bee, Gaza, the Hapa Project, David Burnett on Nick Ut, Harvard returns Tamara Lanier's family photos and Nikon price adjustments.
Around The Horn
27 May 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 American Music Awards, Stephen Shames, Carnaval, Neil Leifer, Death Valley, Sacha Stejko, Ctein's print sale, failure, film photography and Fotospeed papers.
Memorial Day
26 May 2025
A few years ago we ran into a family friend at her father's funeral. She charmingly introduced us to her children as "Mr. Mike," following the family custom for addressing adults.
Remembering Sebastião Salgado
24 May 2025
Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado, known for his images the introduced the world to the Amazon rainforest among others depicting social injustice, died on Friday in Paris from leukemia. He was 81.
Matinee: 'Memories of Love Returned'
24 May 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
24 May 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 Alan Taylor's photos of the week, a family photo, lidar and Sebastião Salgado.
Friday Slide Show: Blown Glass
23 May 2025
We look at this glass vase every day. It seems to have always been there on the little table above the heater vent in the dining room. But we can't recall how we came by it.
Nikon to Raise Prices
23 May 2025
In a brief notice on its Web site, Nikon announced a price increase "due to the recent tariffs." The price increase will take effect June 23.
Around The Horn
23 May 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 Associated Press, Reuters, Gui Christ, light painting, digitizing at the Internet Archive and Norm's connection to photo history.
Harvey Posts ExifTool 13.30 Production Release
22 May 2025
Phil Harvey has posted ExifTool v13.30, the first production release since v13.25 on Mar. 13, 2025. The release is available in three formats, including a Windows executable and macOS package.
Fujifilm Announces X Half Digicam
22 May 2025
Fujifilm has announced the X Half, the latest model in its X series, a half-frame camera featuring a body weighing only 8.5 oz. with a Frame Advance Lever and film-like photographic emulations.
Around The Horn
22 May 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 black holes, Katherine Hubbard, Lucas Foglia and Ricoh GR IV.
Around The Horn
21 May 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 Chelsea Flower Show, World Food Photography Awards, Climate Visuals, Creative Cloud Pro, Ctein's dye transfer print sale, camera technology and checking actuations.
Around The Horn
20 May 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 Constance Jaeggi, a beer bath, recent enhancements to Photoshop, movement and a rolling backpack.
Smogged
19 May 2025
Today's accounts payable included vehicle registration renewal for the Honda, which has had the distinction lately of being the oldest vehicle in several funeral processions. Implying, perhaps, that we're next.
Around The Horn
19 May 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 recent storm damage, Bay to Breakers, Cannes Red Carpet, Reuters' photos of the weekend, Japanese stone works and JPEGs.
Matinee: 'Barbara Thollot's Revêrie'
17 May 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
17 May 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 Associated Press, Reuters, Skander Khlif and the Valkyries.
Friday Slide Show: Apple Blossoms
16 May 2025
We've been overwhelmed lately. Just too many loose ends threatening to form themselves into nooses. So now and then something we had planned to do gets lost in the dust raised by the shuffle.
Around The Horn
16 May 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 USAID cuts, SOS Richmond, odd photos, Satan's Barrel, emerging photographers, Zed Nelson, calculating reach and an industry survey.
A Timepiece
15 May 2025
It took us quite a while to decipher this watch dial. What time is it displaying?
Around The Horn
15 May 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, Simonopetra, Photo London, power houses, Don Pettit and AFP storage.
Around The Horn
14 May 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 Eurovision, Baldwin Lee, Waterworks, Lee Miller and more on the wrong camera.
Around The Horn
13 May 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 Vesak Day, Engetsukyu, sensor noise, Lightroom catalog settings, Karen Williams, the Foto app and tripod heads.
Fortieth Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards Long List Announced
12 May 2025
On its 40th anniversay, the Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards for moving images and stills has released its long list for the 2025 edition. It announced 10 titles in the Still Image category and another 10 in the Moving Image category.
Around The Horn
12 May 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 gold, the Bealtaine Fire Festival, poppies, the Kraszna-Krausz Photography Book Awards, B&W conversions, Kristin Schnell, CMOS read noise, tariff updates and AI training.
Matinee: 'Stefano Santucci'
10 May 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
10 May 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' week, Isabel Mateos, Ugreen's smart tracker and a 16th St. alley.
Friday Slide Show: American Women Quarters
9 May 2025
We got into the habit of hoarding quarters when we used to carry our towering basket of laundry around the corner to the laundromat to do three loads in the time it takes to do one at home these days. The dryers, which didn't offer the same efficiency, also took quarters. So you could never have enough of them.
Around The Horn
9 May 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, the ADM awards, an MS-Optics ISM 50mm f1.0, dancers and black point errors.
Capture One Update Adds New Logo, AI Portrait Retouching +
8 May 2025
While we did attend the online briefing, we found it impossible to actually access the press materials (including the beta) on Capture One's site.
Around The Horn
8 May 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 white smoke, VE Day tributes, Phil Buehler and camera storage.
Esmeralda and the Blown Glass
7 May 2025
When we moved into this place in 2003, we found a Disney character on top of the garage fluorescent fixture. It was Esmeralda) from The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
Around The Horn
7 May 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 prisoners of war, more Alcatraz, Hong Kong, iPhone = Leica, Harold Davis, the 16-bit fallacy, Muybridge and Apple Silicon.
Sigma Announces Tariff-Based Price Increases
6 May 2025
In a letter to customers today, Sigma America president Mark Amir-Hamzeh announced the company is obliged to raise prices effective June 2. "Due to the recent implementation of government-imposed tariffs, our costs at Sigma America have increased substantially," he explained.
DxO Introduces Nik Collection 8
6 May 2025
With the theme "Live in Color; Dream in Black and White," DxO Labs has released Nik Collection 8 with some welcome user interface improvements and the ability to share masks with Photoshop, piggy-backing on Adobe's AI masking to add a more intelligent local focus to the suite's image editing.
Around The Horn
6 May 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 Met Gala, the Valdez Trail, Chris Donovan and Bernat Armangué.
Around The Horn
5 May 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 Calais, Sovereignty, Sanket Khuntale, bamboo, the wrong camera, Blurb, NAS suggestions and Alcatraz.
Matinee: 'Michael Kenna's Venice'
3 May 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
3 May 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 hats at the Derby, Green Day, the Aurora Borealis, a 108-billion-pixel scan, dogs and Leica price increases.
Friday Slide Show: Inside Alcatraz
2 May 2025
We've never understood the fascination visitors to San Francisco display for Alcatraz. The prison, not the island. Everybody who visits us always wants to go there. We used to go along with them, out of politeness, but we now plead poverty and stay onshore.
Herminio RodrÌguez's 'Osamenta' Opens
2 May 2025
Oliva Gallery in Chicago presents Osamenta, a photographic exhibition by Herminio RodrÌguez that explores the landscapes of decay and resilience across Puerto Rico. RodrÌguez's work focuses on socioeconomic hardship in the aftermath of economic recession, governmental debt and natural disasters on the island.
Around The Horn
2 May 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 May Day, Lagos negatives, travel tripods, point-and-shoot cameras, compartmentalizing, Apple tariffs and backup omissions.
Around The Horn
1 May 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 Underground Railroad to Canada, Jerusalem wildfires, West River, Chris Leventis, dSLRs and a price increase.
April Archived
1 May 2025
We've just archived Volume 14, Number 4 of Photo Corners on the Archive page with 13 Features, 8 commented News stories, 26 Editor's Notes (which included 154 items of interest) and 2 site notes for a total of 49 stories.
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