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Around The Horn
12 November 2025
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 Veterans Day, the UPS plane crash, Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize, Ying Ang, Charlie Cramer on Curves, Nicholas Wolken and getting hassled.
- Reuters presents 21 photos of Veterans Day Across America while the Associated Press adds images of Nations Honoring Their Veterans in both the U.S. and Europe.
- Freelancer Jon Cherry captured The Smoke Plumes of a UPS Plane Crash. He hopped into his truck when he saw smoke coming from the airport as he stood on his front porch. "The backdrop of a beautiful, cotton-candy sunset as the plume of smoke wafts from the crash site, is bizarre," he writes.
- The Guardian showcases a few entries in The Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize from among almost 6,000 submissions.
- Grace Ebert features images from Ying Ang's book Fruiting Bodies. "Ying's images glimpse a variety of common mushrooms from ground level. Her lens pokes through blades of grass to peer upwards at the spongy underbellies of the growths, capturing their unique textures and colors in impeccable detail," she writes.
- Jim Kasson explains how Using Curves Adjustment Layers in Photoshop. He walks through how Charlie Cramer combines Curves with Layer Masks so it "becomes the digital equivalent of darkroom dodging and burning on steroids."
- Heidi Volpe talks to Nicholas Wolken about his Creativity Revolving Around Movement. "I miss plenty of fleeting moments as is; a fast easy, tool helps me," he says. "Ironically, the best images often appear when it’s the last thing on your mind: too steep, too cold, a bit scared — that’s when the magic is happening and thats when I want a fast tool."
- Mike Johnston shares a recent episode of Getting Hassled and then revisits a few past ones. "You're not in the game if you're not getting yelled at," he writes.
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