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Around The Horn
11 July 2022
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 Lake Mead, aging, youth, deep thoughts, Photoshop of the Web and microSD cards.
- In Withering Drought Shows Lake Mead Boat Graveyard, John Locher presents Associated Press photos of vanishing Lake Mead. "Receding waters of Lake Mead National Recreation Area have revealed the skeletal remains of two people along with countless desiccated fish and what has become a graveyard of forgotten and stranded watercraft," he writes.
- In Time as We Know It, 81-year-old Marna Clarke writes about photographing herself and her 92-year-old partner Igor, "chronicling our time together, growing old." At the same, she writes, "I am gaining a much-appreciated perspective that was not available to me previously."
- Spanish photographer Navia photographs On the Other Side of the Door. "I take pictures to try and photographically reconstruct the past, starting from the present," he says. "I think that we all have special memories of the places where we were happy, during our childhood."
- In Latest Things Said on the Internet, Thom Hogan applies some reflection to knee-jerk pronouncements left lying around the Internet. "We seem to be in an era where we don't want to think (or learn) any more," he writes. There's an interesting discussion of long lens options, too, "positing a specific need and simply trying to figure out the best option."
- Jacob Kastrenakes reports Adobe Plans to Make Photoshop on the Web Free to Everyone. The free-to-use version is being testing in Canada at the moment, he adds but the company "eventually plans to gate off some features that will be exclusive to paying subscribers."
- Paula Beaton lists eight of the Best microSD Cards for 2022, advising you "to stick to well-known brands such as Samsung, Lexar, SanDisk, Toshiba and Kingston." Never bad advice.
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