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Around The Horn
20 November 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 +Mongolia's herders, Roger Deakins, Elena Helfrecht, Thom Hogan, a Fujifilm fix, disposable cameras and affiliate cash.
- In Mongolia's Herders Fight Climate Change With Their Own Adaptability and New Technology, Manish Swarup and Aniruddha Ghosal team up to tell the modern story of an ancient way of life. Photos by Swarup.
- The Leica Gallery Los Angeles is exhibiting The Photographs of Roger Deakins from Byways, his book of black-and-white images. "I have spent almost half a century enjoying my life as a cinematographer, during which time I have photographed both documentaries and something like seventy feature film," he says. "Photography has remained one of my few hobbies, more often it is an excuse to spend many hours just walking, my camera over my shoulder and with no particular purpose but to observe."
- In Rituals, Renewal, and Order From Chaos, Sophie Wright interviews Elena Helfrecht about her project Unternächte. "In Helfrecht's family, women have performed specific customs to get a sense of what is to come and ensure a safe transition into the next year. Passed down between generations, these rituals now find a visual manifestation in Helfrecht's photographs, as she continues to use them to seek order and guidance in the chaos of life."
- In Sorry We Didn't Listen to You, Thom Hogan writes, "There's little doubt in my mind that a fair amount of the collapse of the dedicated camera market is due to the distance between the designers and the users."
- Fix This Setting Before It Bricks Your Card, Hillary Grigonis warns Fujifilm owners. "I was in the middle of photographing a wedding when an error message popped up on my Fujifilm XT4: Frame No. Full," she writes. The card wasn't full but the camera had run out of filenames. "You'll need a memory card that can be formatted without losing image," she explains. You can then set the Save Data Set-Up option to Renew rather than Continuous, format the card, and return the option to Continuous.
- A Reddit poster remembers, I Used to Re-Use a Disposable Camera and prompts a few other reminiscences, several of getting a shock from the flash capacitor.
- Kirk Tuck warns about influencers trolling for Affiliate Cash on Black Friday. We're always ambivalent about our Black Friday lists here (it's a lot of work with little if any reward) but at least we don't rig the list. And we never publish them until after Thanksgiving.
More to come! Meanwhile, here's a look five years back. And please support our efforts...