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Around The Horn
12 March 2019
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 end of winter, masculinity, four modern freedoms, the Sony FE 135mm f1.8 GM, fusion X-Ray images, a Frans Lanting offer, Bell Labs long ago and Tim Berners-Lee.
- After springing forward you may be ready for An Ancient Ceremony to Celebrate the End of Winter. Alan Taylor presents 21 images of the fun, including a nearly 10-foot-wide pancake (with three cooks).
- In Masculinity Manifests Strangely in Kristine Potter's Exploration of the American West, Rosie Flanagan writes, "Captured using a large format camera, the original photographs were shot in color, and later digitized and turned to black and white." The figures are consequently absorbed into the landscape, she says.
- In Updating Norman Rockwell's 'Four Freedoms' for a Modern, Diverse America, Fayemi Shakur looks at how Hank Willis Thomas and photographers Emily Shur and Wyatt Gallery (among others), have updated the famous series. "To create these highly stylized and staged images," Shakur writes, "Shur said they worked with a team of retouchers who helped make the photos using elements like wallpaper samples, walls, staircases and environments that weren't actually present when the photos were taken."
- Roger Cicala goes bananas over the Sony FE 135mm f1.8 GM Early MTF Results. "This is the sharpest lens we've tested," he writes. "Period. (At last count, that's out of 300+ lenses tested.)"
- In Radiating Beauty: Creating a New Photographic Form With Fusion X-Ray Images, Natalie Holmes looks at the images of photographer Harold Davis and radiologist Dr. Julian Köpke, "who combine their skill, passion, and vision to create stunning X-ray photography and pioneering fusion images."
- Mat Stark reports National Geographic Photographer Frans Lanting Wants to Critique Your Bird Photography. Lanting is teaching a course on the subject and part of it could be your submission.
- 1969 & 1970 -- Bell Labs is the result of one day at a Bell Labs data center in Oakland, Calif., when operations manager Larry Luckham took his camera to work. They were working on a state-of-the-art database search system. Pretty nice job on the white balance under those fluorescent lights, too.
- Tim Berners-Lee Says World Wide Web Must Emerge From 'Adolescence' on the 30th anniversary of the collaborative software project his supervisor initially dubbed "vague but exciting."
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