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Around The Horn
9 August 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 Thomas Lohr, therapy dogs, the Cumberland Plateau, Martin Parr, rules of vision, reporting focal lengths, ChromaLuxe textured photo panels and the Perseid meteor shower.
- Stephanie Wade highlights German photographer Thomas Lohr's images of The Feathers of Exotic Birds in Vibrant Detail.
- Alan Taylor presents 21 photos of Therapy Dogs at Work, "bringing care, peace and joy to those in need."
- In Documenting the Vanishing History of Appalachia's Famed Cumberland Plateau, Miss Rosen looks through Rachel Boillot's new book Moon Shine: Photographs of the Cumberland Plateau, calling it "an eloquent epitaph and a reliquary of spirit and soul, a quiet and thoughtful reminder that history disappears if it is not told."
- Jonathan Blaustein reflects on Martin Parr's 'Only Human' at the National Portrait Gallery. The London show has closed but, Blaustein's concludes his belated review, you didn't miss much.
- Ming Thein has published the first part of his Rules of Vision (Or, Things We Can't Help Seeing), listing "the autonomous/ subconscious/ reflex/ automatic -- pick your preferred term -- visual responses that we should be aware of and seek to utilise when we compose an image."
- Kirk Tuck has been Adding Up the Numbers in Lightroom using the metadata filter described by David Dyer-Bennet in his comment to Mike Johnston's article on The New Sony FE 35mm F/1.8. Peter Williams points out the free Exposure Plot "will scan through a folder full of image files and tell you all sorts of info, including focal length" but it only reads JPEGs not Raw files. Jeffrey Friedl's Focal-Length Sort Lightroom Plug-In adds a "Focal Length in 35mm" option, reading that data from the Exif header of your images and storing it in the Lightroom catalog, which can normalize focal lengths for any sensor size (like digicams and smartphones).
- ChromaLuxe has introduced its ChromaLuxe Textured Photo Panels with "a unique tactile feel along with the durability and features that are synonymous with the ChromaLuxe name." The glare-free, fingerprint resistant panels are scratch-resistant and easy to clean.
- The annual Perseid Meteor Shower will occur Aug. 12 and 13. And if you're in Southern California, you can see it from the observatory deck of the Chabot Space & Science Center with staff astronomers available to answer questions from midnight to 1 a.m. The annual Perseid Meteor Shower will peak on Aug. 12, the Center predicts, with potentially 60-70 meteors per hour from the comet Swift-Tuttle.
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