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14 January 2023

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 Christmas trees, Casa Klotz, California's wild weather, recommendations, luck, Flickr Print Shop and Harold Davis.

  • In Bring Out Your Dead (Christmas Trees) (gift link), Antonio de Luca photographs the trees left on the sidewalk for mulching by the Department of Sanitation. "New Yorkers know that, for these couple of weeks, we are running the best-smelling garbage trucks in the world," said Jessica Tisch, the department's commissioner.
  • German photographer Roland Halbe has photographed Casa Klotz, a rural beach house in Chile by architect Mathias Klotz.
  • Photographer Erin Schaff flies Eight Miles Over the Pacific, Getting Inside California's Wild Weather (gift link) with Raymond Zhong. We're staying under it, avoiding the worse by consulting the NSW Radar when we have to drive in it on errands of mercy. Gabrielle Canon writes about the Fast-Moving Floods in Sacramento with images from various sources, including Getty and Reuters. "The flip from drought to downpour was severe this time and will be just as severe when the coin flips back," she writes.
  • Kirk Tuck has decided he's Not Recommending Cameras to Friends anymore because "each time I advise someone on cameras I strike out." Familiar phenomenon, frankly. At one time we were regularly consulted by a friend who routinely bought something else confident it would be superior to our suggestion. Haven't spoken to him in years.
  • For his Friday the 13th piece, Mike Johnston considers a trip to his cardiologist Luck, Good or Bad. The errand through what became a winter wonderland precluded bringing a camera. "Very quickly I decided to simply enjoy the sights and I did," he writes. "It was either lucky or unlucky. I still don't know which."
  • Flickr has launched the Flickr Print Shop "that lets anyone -- Flickr members and visitors alike -- order professional quality prints from a select group of photographers who've made their work available for sale."
  • Harold Davis constructed a Memorial Mandala from flowers in the condolence bouquets that kind folks sent us for the recent loss of his parents. "The practice of my light box work in this case helped to serve as therapy, although there is of course nothing that can make this loss whole," he writes.

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