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Around The Horn
17 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 Orthodox Easter, LensCulture's Portrait Awards, Paul Cupido, Peakto, film memories, adventures, wildlife, more monochrome, Depravity's Rainbow, WiFi SD cards and Judith Joy Ross.
- The Associated Press documents Orthodox Easter, "essentially an outdoor celebration, with equally intense spiritual and pagan parts and religious services followed by feasts, familial and communal."
- LensCulture showcases the 39 photographers featured in its Portrait Awards. "There are intriguing stories behind most of these individual portraits and winning series," the editors write.
- The opening exhibition of the new Leica Gallery Paris presents Séléné, the latest series by the Dutch photographer Paul Cupido.
- Feroz Khan reviews Peakto. "Peakto was introduced last year as a solution for viewing all your images scattered across different catalogs and hard drives. And in this regard, Peakto succeeds effectively," he writes. "The showstopper (for me at least, only for now, hopefully) is in the AI capabilities of this software."
- Derrick Story describes his method for Protecting Film Memories With Your Digital Camera. "Using a digital camera with a close-focusing lens is the easiest way to preserve, enhance and ultimately share aging film images that may have otherwise languished," he writes.
- Joe McNally shares a few shots from his recent Adventures. "I've always maintained that the life of a photog is turning the pages of an illustrated adventure book," he writes.
- Mike Johnston recounts his own adventures in Wildlife in the Half-Light. "A little tip -- at any time near dusk, with woods and trees nearby, don't drive casually," he writes.
- In More Monochrome Sharing, Kirk Tuck gets poetic (and even indulges in some Italian, herewith machine translated):
There is something about the light that enters my kitchen early in the morning that makes me want to take pictures. Things that end up in the sink look particularly beautiful. On Saturday, after I finished my coffee at home, I rinsed out the cup and put it in the sink. When I looked at it from an angle it spoke to me and I felt compelled to shoot it. I took a Lumix S5 with a 58mm lens on the front and snapped a few frames. When I saw the results on my digital contact sheets (not in Capture One) I knew I had to share the beauty of that camera's monochrome profile. When I look at the photograph I want more coffee. And more fun manual targets to play with. If you don't like black and white images, please don't be a pedantic sh*t and make some dramatic statement that's offensive. Just mention that you might like the color to work a little better. Huh?
- In Crit: Depravity's Rainbow by Lewis Bush, Andrew Molitor reviews the book by "more or less the best of the Serious Academic Photography weenies that I pay attention to."
- A Reddit poster surveys the WiFi SD Card Market with links to references. The discussion suggests at least one alternative, too.
- The Philadelphia Museum of Art will exhibit 200 photographs by Judith Joy Ross from April 24 to Aug. 6. "Her pictures -- unpretentious, quietly penetrating, startling in their transparency -- consistently achieve the capacity to glimpse the past, present and perhaps even the future of the individuals who stand before her lens," the liner notes say about a preview of the show.
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