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Around The Horn
17 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 Barrie Wentzell, Kansas, Northern Lights, Japan monochromes, tonality, Hogan's digest and private property.
- In Beatles, Bowie, Dylan, Mercury and More, Mee-Lai Stone talks to music photographer Barrie Wentzell about shooting the biggest stars between 1965 and 1975. "Elton welcomed us with a glass of champagne, which I spilled on his Persian carpet," he remembers meeting Elton John. "I apologized and Elton just laughed and said, 'Don't worry, I had Keith Moon over last night and he's already christened it.'"
- Charlie Riedel gave the Northern Lights A Kansas Touch after he covered a basketball game. "I shot the photo at 12mm to capture as much of the sky as possible but still this wasn't wide enough to get the entirety of the display," he writes. "The whole event lasted about 15 minutes and faded away as rapidly as it appeared."
- Reuters shares 24 images of the Northern Lights a bit further north than Kansas.
- Harold Davis captures the Biwa-No-Taki waterfall and the Neagiri Goyo-Matsu Pine Tree in Japan in black and white.
- In The Tones, the Tones, Mike Johnston writes, "Tones move me. Colors don't. I don't know why." He bemoans "depressed mid-tones ... which is, unfortunately, a digital sensor's natural way of rendering." Meaning darker mid-tones.
- In Weekly Digest for Nov. 10-16, Thom Hogan tries a new format which he's considering making "available only by subscription via a weekly email as well as a private site."
- A Reddit poster is concerned about Photographers Using My Property. As private property, they have no right to it and the property owner assumes a liability for accidents if they do, commenters note. Post signs, require a permit fee, make sure the photographer is insured, others add.
More to come! Meanwhile, here's a look five years back. And please support our efforts...