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Around The Horn
6 February 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 the Grammy Awards, Bruce Heinemann, Mount Athos, Ioanna Sakellaraki, the new standard mainstream camera, announcement week and Instant Ink foibles.
- The Guardian presents "the best looks" at this year's Grammy Awards both on the red carpet and on stage.
- Bruce Heinemann finds the Faces of the Divine in his expressive color landscape photography. "When I stand before a landscape, camera in hand or later in processing, I am always compelled to ask myself: What attracted me here?," he writes.
- Rusian Hrushchak photographs the Orthodox Monastic Republic of Athos where "timeless quiet has persisted for centuries."
- In The Seven Circuits of a Pearl, Joana Cresswell reviews Ioanna Sakellaraki's photo project that considers both her family history via her father's photos and the history of the Australian pearling industry. "A pearl is formed by the intrusion of a foreign object into the living oyster and getting trapped there, slowly turning into a pearl by being coated with shell material called nacre. I sometimes feel like an intruder in my father's archive, constructing my own escape from the labyrinth or trap I built for myself," she says.
- Mike Johnston asks what advanced amateurs would consider the The New Standard Mainstream Camera.
- Meanwhile Thom Hogan gets ready for Announcement Week from Canon, OM Digital Solutions and Sigma. He observes that Nikon is not teasing any new products, which prompts him to play The 'What if' Game.
- In 'My Printer Is Extorting Me', Slashdot summarizes Charlie Warzel's adventure with HP's Instant Ink program when his credit card expired and the printer refused to print. We just went through this with my mother's Instant Ink subscription (which has cost her less than $10 a year to keep the printer in ink). HP had sent emails to her explaining there was a problem but the real issue was her bank stopped sending paper statements so she hadn't paid a $2 bill, so HP cut her off. We resolved the issue through a chat session with HP one afternoon (which didn't end until the HP rep had confirmed the printer was back in harness).
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