Photo Corners headlinesarchivemikepasini.com
A S C R A P B O O K O F S O L U T I O N S F O R T H E P H O T O G R A P H E R
Enhancing the enjoyment of taking pictures with news that matters, features that entertain and images that delight. Published frequently.
Around The Horn
7 April 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 Holocaust survivors' cookbook, love, CCD Colors and an AI winner in the Sony World Photography Awards.
- In Honoring Auschwitz Survivors Through Food Photography, Ellyn Kail tells the story of Honey Cake & Latkes, "an ode to the many dishes that survived the unthinkable, the people who made them, and the memories and dreams they carried." Ellen Silverman took photos of the dishes. "After the war, preparing favorite dishes helped to keep alive memories of those who perished and served as a bridge that connected and bonded the new generation to the old," Silverman says.
- In Wilder Shores of Love, Harold Davis photographs "flowers all in bloom right now in my garden and photographed on my light box" to illustrate that "many splendored" thing.
- In What's So Special About CCD Colors? Robin Wong shows what the CCD sensors of his Olympus E-1, Nikon D50 and Olympus XZ-1 can do:
- In Awards Judges Need to Do Better, Feroz Khan disputes the choice of Boris Eldagsen's image The Electrician as the winner of the Creative section in the Open category at the Sony World Photography Awards. The problem? "It's an image generated by inputs he provided to the Open AI photo tools," he writes.
More to come! Meanwhile, here's a look back. And please support our efforts...