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October Archived
1 November 2023
We've just archived Volume 12, Number 10 of Photo Corners on the Archive page with 14 Features, 15 commented News stories, 26 Editor's Notes (which included 169 items of interest), 1 review and 1 site note for a total of 57 stories.
For the month, we published 129 images in 28 stories and six stories with gear specifications tables.
Pages served hovered at the same half-million mark of the previous two months, all without allowing Google access to the site. That seems to have signficantly crippled both Bing and DuckGoGo indexing as well. But you can always use our custom text search from the Find button on the main page to scour the site's content reliably.
Site visits were up 111 percent, again with indexing prohibited, with unique sites about the same as the previous month.
OUR TOP STORIES again were Around The Horn pieces highlighting photography stories of interest around the Web each day. In fifth place was our slide show of Thornton in the sun.
There were only two Horns in the second five (sixth and ninth place) with the Bob & Diane print sale in seventh, the matinee of Nan Goldin in eighth and our September archive story in 10th, the highest an archive story has ever been.
MANY OF THE SLIDE SHOWS we cite in our Horns have, inevitably, been documenting the war in the Middle East. The Committee to Protect Journalists has counted 26 Palestinian, 4 Israeli and 1 Lebanese journalist killed in the hostilities with 8 injured and 9 missing or detained. Journalism, unlike the social media that often tries to usurp it, remains a brave but costly effort to show the world what is happening.
That is not a pretty picture in the Middle East. Our hearts go sadly out to the innocent victims on both sides.
OUR PROJECT for the month has been a revision of Ingestor, the software we wrote to copy and archive photographs. We wrote a couple of stories about that in October, as we consolidated discreet tasks into a single workflow and then added Image Capture to the workflow, making it an even more seamless process.
We'd call that an interesting distraction if it weren't so useful.
But it is another example of the evolutionary nature of software. It may seem astonishing that a decades-old project like Photoshop should continue to evolve, but that's what it's always done. And the new tools continue to open new doors on some of the toughest image editing tasks (like reflections).
That's true of other image editing software, we hasten to add, although nothing quite matches the innovations based on artificial intelligence Adobe has delivered, which have found their way into our workflow with options like Select Subject.
NO ONE KNOWS what the future will bring, of course. But innovation, it would seem, is inevitable. May it extend in another sphere to the peoples of the Middle East.