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Around The Horn
13 July 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 heat wave, reimagined fairy tales, Janine Wiedel, Nikon's DX lineup, cameras missed and America's birds.
- The Associated Press showcases images of the Unrelenting Heat across the globe. "Millions around the world have been seeking refuge from the scorching sun as climate change, a strong El Nino and summer in the Northern Hemisphere converge, toppling temperature records."
- Suzanne Sease features the Reimagined Fairy Tales of husband-and-wife team Kahran and Regis Bethencourt. The couple casts Black children of different ages, skin tones and hair textures in the traditionall roles in their elaborate book of 141 photos.
- In Heavy Metal, Stuart Jeffries writes about how Janine Wiedel captured Britain's industrial life in the 1970s. "In her native U.S., she'd photographed Black Panthers and student protests at Berkeley in California, but neither prepared her for this industrial inferno, on which one-time West Midlands resident JRR Tolkien reputedly based Mordor," he writes.
- In Nikon's DX Lineup Is Aging Out, Thom Hogan responds to readers of his Some More About the Missing DX Cameras, which hit a nerve.
- In Cameras We Missed, Mike Johnston admits he'd still like to try the Ricoh GR IIIx.
- Birders have it tough. A Third of North America's Birds Have Vanished, report Anders Gyllenhaal and Beverly Gyllenhaal. "The hardest hit were grassland birds, down by more than 50 percent, mostly due to the expansion of farms that turn a varied landscape into acres of neat, plowed rows," they write, citing research by Adam Smith.
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