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Around The Horn
23 December 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 remembering those we lost, photos of the week, winter and kit lenses.
- The Lives They Lived (gift link) includes seminal portraits of the artists, innovators and thinkers we lost this year.
- Alan Taylor compiles 35 Photos of the Week that include a Christmas fair in Germany, a new volcanic eruption in Iceland, a floating Nativity scene in Italy, border crossings in Arizona and Texas, war damage in a Ukrainian cathedral, Israeli strikes inside the Gaza Strip, guard geese at a penitentiary in Brazil, an ice hotel in Sweden and more.
- Grace Ebert features the Entrancing Timelapse Filmed Across Five Winters by Jamie Scott. Winter "documents the icy seizure of plants, leaves and terrain across New York State and MontreĢal," she writes. "Glimmering, white snow quickly overwhelms the frigid, barren scenes, causing pine branches to droop and frost to form on every possible surface from cobwebs to waterfalls."
- A Reddit poster wonders, Kit Lenses Getting Slower? One respondent confided a camera company rep told them most casual camera buyers never really use them, taking less than 100 photos before giving up. Others cite both excellent (that 24-70mm Nikkor Z) and less (Sony) kit lenses. And a few mention that with excellent high ISO performance and body image stabilization, fast kit lenses really aren't necessary.
More to come! Meanwhile, here's a look back. And please support our efforts...