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Around The Horn
21 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 Tour De France fans, Estonia, an Generative Fill test, the moon, Barbara Iweins, the Fujifilm GF 35-70mm, under $400 lenses and Tony Bennett.
- The Guardian presents a few amusing images of fans lining up to watch the Tour De France. Some 12 to 15 million fans will line the 3,404km of French roads to witness the 110th edition of the event.
- In The Look and Feel of Light in Estonia, Joe McNally returns from a portraiture workshop there with a few images to tell the story.
- In Reacting to Your Insane AI Generated 'Photos', Photographer Peter McKinnon tries to guess what elements of images were added with Photoshop's Generative Fill in real time. You can play along:
- In Shoot for the Moon!, Antares Wells details how 19th-century astronomers photographed the night sky.
- Belgian photographer Barbara Iweins photographed Every Single Thing she owned. "The project took four years and 12,795 photos later, her task was complete," writes Guy Lane. "Now her work is on show at the Cortona on the Move photography festival in Tuscany."
- Kirk Tuck continues his adventure in medium format by testing the Fujifilm GF 35-70mm f4.5-5.6 zoom. "Much as I like futzing around with cheap, all manual lenses I have to admit that it's nice to have lenses that autofocus and can be used with all the autoexposure programs on one's camera," he writes.
- LensRentals lists The Best Lenses Available for Under $400. Mostly shortish primes. Fewer elements. No zoom. Canon, Fujifilm, Nikon, Sigma.
- Just a note to mark the passing at 96 of Tony Bennett. We have sung his I Left My Heart in San Francisco all over the world to purge our inevitable homesickness. A consolation in our youth (I Wanna Be Around) and a companion later (You Must Believe in Spring from the Bill Evans recordings), his music inspired our later years with his love of performing duets (How Do You Keep the Music Playing?). And in a corner of Union Square downtown, you'll find the heart he painted for the city. There was no one like him.
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