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23 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 a blackwater dive, NASA's Webb, Antarctic expeditions, ordinary women, Bavarian Forest National Park, Christian Tisdale, software, free Lightroom presets and a U.S. Copyright Office ruling.

  • Discovered in the Deep showcases images taken by underwater photographer Robert Stansfield on a blackwater dive in the open ocean near the island of Cozumel, Mexico. "Every night a huge volume of life migrates up from the mesopelagic zone up to the epipelagic. This night-time migration gives us the opportunity to see life at the surface that normally lives well beyond recreational diving depths," he says.
  • In NASA's Webb Reveals Intricate Networks of Gas and Dust in Nearby Galaxies, showing how the "young, newly forming stars influence the structure of the gas and dust of nearby galaxies and therefore how they evolve over time." The images are from from Webb's Mid-Infrared Instrument.
  • Frozen Memories samples the hundreds of rare and fragile images, digitized from glass plate negatives and lantern slides, of early 20th century British and Australian Antarctic expeditions restored by the National Archives of Australia.
  • In 'Imperfect' Models in Italy Redefine Beauty, Trisha Thomas and Alessandra Tarantino explore an Instagram project that highlights ordinary women and their imperfections and has transformed into the modeling agency Imperfetta that hopes to redefine notions of beauty in Italy.
  • Grace Ebert features the aerial images by Bernhard Lang of the Bavarian Forest National Park. "In the last years, the forest has recovered by itself from the bar beetles and wind-caused damages," Lang says. "Mushrooms, other plants and young trees are growing again, having the dead wood as a basic fertile soil."
  • Suzanne Sease presents Makers, the personal project of Christian Tisdale, "that focuses on the human experience of making -- it's about the patina and scars on experienced tools and experienced hands, finely tuned workshops perfected over thousands of hours of iteration and individuals that dedicate their lives to creating."
  • In What Software Do You Really Need? Thom Hogan advises you "find a big fish you like and stuff some money down its gills."
  • In exchange for your email, ON1 offers 40 Free Lightroom Presets that use Lightroom's AI-based masking to "automatically enhance specific elements in your photos, such as color, tone, and contrast, to bring out the best in your photography."
  • Blake Brittain reports AI-Created Images Lose U.S. Copyrights in Test for New Technology. The images were created for a graphic novel but presumably the U.S. Copyright Office ruling would apply to AI-generated photographs as well.

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