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Around The Horn
23 August 2018
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 Kerala floods, flat lay photographs, XQD cards, a softbox for Your speedlights and a history of Aperture.
- Alan Taylor presents 30 images of the Devastating Monsoon Floods in Kerala, India. "Aid agencies and government groups have set up more than 4,000 relief camps, while rescue personnel are making their way to submerged villages in helicopters and boats, bringing supplies and evacuating those they can find," he writes.
- In New Flat Lay Photographs Created From Found Household Materials, Kate Sierzputowski highlights the work of by designer Kristen Meyer who precisely arranges vegetables, crackers and other organic materials like rocks and leaves into compositions she photographs.
- Tom Hogan talks XQD Cards and readers, too.
- David Hobby continues his Strobist Lighting Cookbook with How to Choose a Softbox for Your Speedlights. Without, he adds, spending a lot of money.
- Stephen Hackett recounts The History of Aperture, Apple's defunct image editing software."There are a lot of things to consider when thinking about Aperture's troubled existence," he admits near the end.
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