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20 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 Ramadan, World Press Photo contest winners, Mark Harrison, restoring an old print, Entrada Rag Natural Coldpress and Taku Umebayashi.

  • Alan Taylor presents 32 Images of Ramadan 2023, the Islamic month of fasting and prayer. "For the past month, Muslims around the world have refrained from eating, drinking, smoking and sex during daylight hours in order to focus on spiritual reflection, prayers and charity," he writes.
  • World Press Photo has announced its 2023 Contest Global Winners with interviews and jury perspectives in addition to the images.
  • Suzanne Sease features Last Orders, the personal project of Mark Harrison. 'Last orders!' is always shouted just before a pub closes and the hops farm at the center of this project may have to close this year.
  • Jason Row details his experience Restoring an Old Print to Digital as well as some alternative approaches. He used a mirrorless camera but a smartphone can do a remarkably good job and help minimize the editing. Nothing beats a scanner, though.
  • Harold Davis makes some Prints on Entrada Rag Natural Coldpress by Moab. "This is an excellent and surprising paper that combines texture and cotton goodness with full tonal range photographic printing," he writes. Note that he refers to the full tonal range of a print, not the photograph. Prints have a much smaller range.
  • In an interview with Taku Umebayashi, the creator of stacked CMOS image sensor, recalls, "We were at our lowest toward the end of 2009. Then came 2010, the sample finally produced some image. Boy, I was so happy to see it."

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