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Volume 11
Sony FE 70-200MM f4 Macro G OSS II
Nikkor 180-600mm, 70-180mm Z Zooms
Epson Expression 13000XL Scanner
Leica Summilux-M 50, M11 Monochrom
Pentax K-3 Mark III Monochrome
Leia SL 100-400mm, 1.4x Extender
M.Zuiko Digital ED 90mm f4.5 Macro
Sigma 50mm f1.4 DG DN Art Lens
Panasonic Lumix S5 II, IIX, Zoom
Quick Tip: Photoshop's Corrupted Droplets
We Calibrate the M2 MacBook Pro
Ingestor Evolves With AppleScript
Yo-Yo Ma, the Natural World and Our Common Nature
International Holocaust Remembrance Day
The Neighborhood Rhododendrons
Read This If You Want to Take Great Photographs
Eyes of Hawaii Library Exhibit
William Dixon's 'Face to Face'
Face to Face With Fran Lebowitz
A Navajo Photographer Reconnects
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C O N T A C T • S P O N S O R S H I P • S U B S C R I B E • F O L L O W • A B O U T
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Fusion Glass
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Simpson Kalisher
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Urban Trellis
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Tree Cutting
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Automating Ingestor
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Infrastructure
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Quick Tip: Droplets
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Pipe Installation
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Rust
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The Fog on the Fourth
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The Morning Fog
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Amber Waves
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A Study in Treatments
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Enlarge on Hover
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Photoshop Depth Blur
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Happy Juneteenth
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Lisl Steiner
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The Unfamiliar Ordinary
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The Photos We Take
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Foxglove
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The Trek to Ventura
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Stopping to Look
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Read This
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Calibrating the M2 MacBook
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The Forklift
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Generative Fill Test Drive
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Memorial Day
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Who's on First
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Unboxing the Refurb
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It's a DIY World
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Datsun 260Z
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Our Refurb Arrives
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Prepping For a New Mac
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The Easel and the Typewriter
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Neighborhood Rhododendrons
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Ingestor Evolves
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The Pink Rose
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The Diamond Watch
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Dorothy Bohm
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The Natural World
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Evening Clouds
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Blossoms in May
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Glass Pens
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Japanese Maple
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Master Dealer
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Jessica Burstein
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Loren Cameron
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Extract Text From an Image
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Free Fix: The Stuck Pixel
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New Shoes
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Carl Fischer
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Easter?
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A Morning Walk
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Neal Boenzi
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New Construction
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Tow Truck
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Kwame Brathwaite
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O'Shaughnessy Hollow
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A Meditation on Patio Bricks
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Et Tu?
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Landscaping
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A Visit to the Optometrist
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Spring Hath Sprung
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Signs of Spring
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Happy St. Patrick's Day
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Nomatic's McKinnon Sling 8L
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Free Cone Day
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An Exercise in Composition
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Two Quick Fixes
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A Tearjerker
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Victory Trail
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Ciao
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Restoring Tool Behavior
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A Sunset After All
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Scaffolding
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All Flowers Fade
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Presidents' Day
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The Hands
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Julian Wasser
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A Valentine
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Fog
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The ER at Snow Moon
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Lightning Strikes Twice
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East of Twin Peaks
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Joyce Dopkeen
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Shift Ends
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Crab Season
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George Zimbel
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Pruned Olives
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Holocaust Remembrance Day
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Mount Tam
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Marilyn Stafford
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Disaster Recovery
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Stairways After the Storm
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Twin Peaks
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
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Laguna Honda
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Repairing a Nikkor Zoom
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Henry Grossman
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Soaked by a Storm
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How to Pack a Lens
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A Dark and Stormy Night
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Caregiver
Around The Horn
31 July 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 photos of the week, Irish Traveller children, the Nikon Z 8's price, heat, the iPhone Camera app, rubrics and Sinéad O'Connor.
Matinee: 'Anne Lees'
29 July 2023
Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?
Around The Horn
29 July 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 Rhodes, children, a Leica CL slide show, Vivienne Gucwa and Nikon Z 8.
Friday Slide Show: Fusion Glass
28 July 2023
We had a few out-of-state visitors this week, among them our great niece Viv, who is a glass blower and on her way to Pilchuck Glass School this summer. We featured her pumpkin in a 2021 slide show, in fact.
Around The Horn
28 July 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 Joe Greer, CAP prize, portraiture, flyaway hairs, the Maine thing, incomes, street photography, Andrew Molitor and OSXPhotos.
Cyme Adds Conversational Search to Peakto
28 July 2023
Cyme has released Peakto 1.8 featuring a conversational search feature powered by AI image analysis to find photos faster and more efficiently. The company also announced a yearly pricing plan at a 50 percent discount from the monthly plan.
Update: Site Availability
27 July 2023
With just a handful of days to go, it looks like the site will remain available through the end of the month. The quota for bytes downloaded resets at the beginning of each month, so service should remain uninterrupted.
Around The Horn
27 July 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 Workampers, Hong Kong, Brad Walls, elephant slides, Stephen Wilkes, Joseph-Philibert Girault De Prangey, bold street photos, Photon and Generative Expand.
Ventura Update Disables DNP Printer Driver +
26 July 2023
Yesterday's Ventura 13.5 security update has disabled DNP's printer on our M2 MacBook Pro. Attempts to print to the DS-620A all abort with a warning that "'rastertodnp' will damage your computer."
Remembering Simpson Kalisher
26 July 2023
Simpson Kalisher, who turned from commercial photography to photojournalism, died at home on June 13 in Delray Beach, Fla. He was 96.
Around The Horn
26 July 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 Alexandra Polina, a small camera, protecting your content, street photography tutorials and Joe McNally.
Urban Trellis
25 July 2023
Walking back from Laguna Honda Reservoir last week, we came across this colorful display.
Around The Horn
25 July 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 Israeli protests, the Women's World Cup, Gregory Crewdson, Harold Davis, layer masks, starting a blog, one day projects, Z 8 camera straps and Glenn Usdin.
Around The Horn
24 July 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 Cortona's Photo Festival, William Keo, editing, mixing and matching formats and selectable focus sensor areas.
Matinee: 'Life in Miniature'
22 July 2023
Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?
Around The Horn
22 July 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 AP photos of the week, print sales, lightning bugs, Retro and a Library of America sale.
Friday Slide Show: Tree Cutting
21 July 2023
We were surprised the other day when we drove by Laguna Honda Reservoir to see the stately eucalyptus trees that guard the reservoir along Seventh Ave. being cut down.
Around The Horn
21 July 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 Tour De France fans, Estonia, an Generative Fill test, the moon, Barbara Iweins, the Fujifilm GF 35-70mm, under $400 lenses and Tony Bennett.
Joby Introduces Beamo Reel, Beamo Studio Kit
20 July 2023
Joby has announded its Beamo Reel and Beamo Studio Kits, the latest additions to the Beamo lineup to provide simple lighting solutions especially designed for videographers shooting on location or in the studio.
Around The Horn
20 July 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 the Women's World Cup, the World Aquatics Championships, John Dyer, Generative Fill in one minute and LensCulure's Emerging Talent Awards.
Hasselblad Announces 2023 Heroines
19 July 2023
For the fifth year, Hasselblad has announced its Hasselblad Heroines, photographers who have "demonstrated unparalleled creativity, innovation and a distinctive visual narrative," the company said.
Around The Horn
19 July 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 the entertainment strike, the Bleu(e)s, two kisses, a 1937 photo, ultra-wide monitors, a new Think Tank Photo series, NAWA memberships and Lensbaby's summer photowalk.
Phase One Captures Glastonbury Festival Aerial
18 July 2023
Every year over 2,000 people gather at the Glastonbury Festival to enjoy several days of music, poetry and artistic performances on multiple stages at Worthy Farm. But this year they were joined by Phase One high in the sky.
Smith Fund Announces Call for Entries
18 July 2023
The W. Eugene Smith Fund, now in its 44th year, has announced it is accepting applications for its 2023 grant of $48,000 with $30,000 for Top Honor, $15,000 in Smith Fellowships and $3,000 for Best Student Entry.
Around The Horn
18 July 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 Stephen Wilkes, Kaya & Blank, Shaaz Jung, Dave Williams, medium format lenses, a Harold Davis presentation and cheap accessories again.
Automating Ingestor
17 July 2023
After using our new version of Ingestor for a couple of months, it occurred to us it could stand a little improvement. That's they way it is with software. It evolves. Or, to put it another way, we get bored of how it does things.
Around The Horn
17 July 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 Yul Brynner, mushrooms, Harold Davis, processing medium format files and cheaping out.
Matinee: 'The Life Story of Doc Ball'
15 July 2023
Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?
Around The Horn
15 July 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 Magnum's early color prints, the Fujifilm GFX 50S II, Chatting the Pictures, Truth in Photography and surreal portraits.
Friday Slide Show: Infrastructure
14 July 2023
It isn't uncommon when you reach a certain age to believe the long gone are still here. The grandmother who died 60 years ago still lives in her upstairs flat so you can take the bus to stay with her. If you knew where to catch the bus.
Quick Tip: Photoshop's Corrupted Droplets
14 July 2023
We were minding our own business this morning when it occurred to us to create a droplet to Smart Sharpen with our favorite settings. We were testing a method of generating thumbnails that didn't sharpen and we thought we could just drop them on the droplet and get sharpened thumbnails.
Vivid-Pix Announces Memory Station
14 July 2023
Vivid-Pix has announced its Memory Station scanner/software bundle featuring one-click scanning of difficult archival materials with one-click image correction of the scans.
Around The Horn
14 July 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 Comedy Pet Photography finalists, Black portraiture, fundamental concepts and a Photoshop reference.
Around The Horn
13 July 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 the heat wave, reimagined fairy tales, Janine Wiedel, Nikon's DX lineup, cameras missed and America's birds.
DxO Releases 369 New Optics Modules
12 July 2023
DxO has released 369 new Optics modules. The new modules include support for the Leica Q3, Fujifilm X-S20 and Panasonic S5IIX. Additional lens support adds Canon, Hasselblad, Nikkor and Samyang optics.
Sony Announces a6700 Flagship APS-C Mirrorless
12 July 2023
Sony has announced the a6700 APS-C mirrorless camera, featuring still and video capabilities from the latest full-frame Alpha and Cinema Line series in the compact and lightweight design of the a6000 series. The company also announced its ECM-M1 compact camera-mount digital shotgun microphone.
Sony Introduces FE 70-200MM f4 Macro G OSS II Lens
12 July 2023
Sony has introduced its FE 70-200MM f4 Macro G OSS II, compatible with 35mm full-frame Alpha E-mount series and any camera with an E-mount. The company said it is the world's first zoom lens to offer half macro capability throughout the zoom range, featuring a maximum magnification of 0.5 throughout.
Around The Horn
12 July 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 Wimbledon, the circus, McGwuire, effort, AI, toy photography, a $13,000 contract, Z 6/7 firmware updates and The Photography Show.
Around The Horn
11 July 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 Pamplona, the World Architecture Festival shortlist, Florida, travel portraits, painting tools, solving problems, Frameright, social media and an Affinity sale.
Update: The Google Attack
10 July 2023
Over the weekend, we took a rather extreme measure to protect your access to the site by blocking Google enirely from the site. We'd tried setting its crawl frequency back but that didn't stop it from continually downloading the entire 4.83-GB site.
Around The Horn
10 July 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 Eve Arnold, Hanna Hrabarska, Zeitsprünge, the Nikon 12-28mm and Adorama's semi-annual sale.
Matinee: 'Gillian Laub's Southern Rites'
8 July 2023
Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?
Around The Horn
8 July 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 Austin, a beautiful sunrise, Satechi Mac Mini hub, wedding photographers' stories and rules for social media.
Friday Slide Show: Pipe Installation
7 July 2023
Running north and south through San Francisco, 19th Avenue is also a segment on Calfornia Highway 1. And at the intersection of Sloat Blvd. (which leads to the zoo), there's been some serious renovation going on.
Around The Horn
7 July 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 Ukraine, Michael Kenna, a product photography toolkit, the V&A's Photography Centre, Stephen Starkman and making art.
Prix Pictet Announces Shortlist for 10th Cycle
6 July 2023
Prix Pictet has announced the 12 photographers shortlisted for Human, the theme of its tenth cycle. The announcement was made at an evening screening at the Théâtre Antique on Thursday, July 6, as part of the opening week of Les Rencontres d'Arles International Photography Festival by Executive Director of Prix Pictet Isabelle von Ribbentrop.
Postal Service to Release Life Magnified Stamps
6 July 2023
The U.S. Postal Service will commemorate the beauty of the microscopic world with 20 new stamps featuring images of some of the smallest components of life.
Epson Announces Perfection V19 II, V39 II
6 July 2023
Epson has refreshed its reflective scanner lineup with the Perfection V19 II and Perfection V39 II, which are apparently the same hardware with different software options. Neither offers a transparency unit.
Around The Horn
6 July 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 Gillian Laub, Scott Lowden, cameras under $1,200 and a new panoramic camera.
Rust
5 July 2023
Market St. meets Portola Dr. on an elevated roadway built into the eastern side of Twin Peaks. We often drive up Market to Portola that way and always imagine a Formula One event climbing Market's curves up to Portola.
Site Note: We're Getting Slammed
5 July 2023
The very first day of the month, we received an ominous warning from our Internet Service Provider...
Around The Horn
5 July 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 the Fourth, white peonies, composition mistakes, Photoshop's Generative Fill, Z system telephotos, high-magnification photography, July opportunities and arts education.
The Fog on the Fourth
4 July 2023
Once again the Fourth of July has rolled around. And with it, here at least, the fog. While the rest of the country looks upward at bombs bursting in air, we are resigned to observing nothing at all lighting up the fog.
Around The Horn
3 July 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 Love Songs, three little girls, the Grant Park 220, Nico Froehlich, Anthimos Ntagkas, Kevin Raber, Houston Cofield, the Congo, McNally's fireworks, Happytecture, Hogan's answers and Tuck's sad walk.
Matinee: Eyes of Hawaii Library Exhibit
1 July 2023
Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?
Around The Horn
1 July 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 California dreamers, snapshots, a gift photo and bulb mode.
June Archived
1 July 2023
We've just archived Volume 12, Number 6 of Photo Corners on the Archive page with 16 Features, 17 commented News stories, 26 Editor's Notes (which included 171 items of interest), 2 reviews and 2 site notes for a total of 63 stories.
JuneFriday Slide Show: The Morning Fog
30 June 2023
It's been cold here for a while now. Low fifties. The weather reporters have all been saying it's going to get warmer and really warm by the end of the week. They make it sound like a disaster is coming, of course. That's their job. Get out your Heat Wave Survival Kits in case the electricity goes out and you have no water.
Around The Horn
30 June 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 Venezuelan women, sea shells, incomes, a Lightroom course with compendium and a LaserSoft sale.
NCOA Announces Photo Contest Winners
29 June 2023
The National Council on Aging has selected the winners of its fourth annual photo contest, which this year focused on the strength and wisdom of women.
Around The Horn
29 June 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 diversity, chronic illness, transgender portraits and National Geographic.
Amber Waves
28 June 2023
We really liked this shot, which we included in a recent slide show, the minute we took it. Well, the minute we saw it, anyway. So we took it.
Around The Horn
28 June 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 Bastiaan Woudt, Astronomy Photographer of the Year shortlist, Blur winners, a creative practice, photo stats, fooling Ai detectors and NASA code rules.
Phase One Announces Travel-Friendly XC Camera
27 June 2023
Phase One has announced its XC camera whose compact form factor and simplicity is designed especially for travel photographers. It also significantly lightens their load, listing for over $62,000.
Andi Galdi Vinko, Isaac Julien Win the Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards
27 June 2023
The two winning titles of the 2023 Kraszna-Krausz Photography and Moving Image Book Awards have been chosen as exemplary demonstrations of originality and excellence in the fields of moving image and photography book publishing, from the past year, organizers said.
Around The Horn
27 June 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 Ken Karagozian, zooming, home projects, more strange things, the Huion Kamvas Pro 13 and a Nikon Z 8 service advisory.
Peakto Update Enhances Capture One Compatibility
26 June 2023
Cyme has released an update to Peakto, its AI-powered catalog software, featuring enhanced compatibility with Capture One.
Around The Horn
26 June 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 the Drone Photo Awards, Pride celebrations, David Nissen, Flickr cameras, Joe McNally, macroscopic fluorescence lifetime imaging, incomes, Gresham's Law, a free webinar and a Lensbaby sale.
Matinee: 'Grad Walk 2023'
24 June 2023
Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?
Around The Horn
24 June 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 a year without Roe, David Hume Kennerly, Christy Lee Rogers, the Voigtlander 50mm APO, the Pentax Monochrome, taking a short walk and star parties.
Friday Slide Show: A Study in Treatments
23 June 2023
We had our hands full. We'd taken Joyce to Kaiser's French campus to pick up some high tech stuff for an at-home test, which we carried under our arm because she was busy with her purse and trekking pole. But we'd also picked up a box of supplies at the pharmacy there.
Around The Horn
23 June 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 LensCulture Critics' Choice Awards, Kahran and Regis Bethencourt, Justin Tedford, intentional camera movement, and the Bebop/Madavor Media story.
Site Tweak: Enlarge on Hover
22 June 2023
We're a little late to the party on this one but we have a good excuse. It had nothing to do with the appetite of our dog, either.
Around The Horn
22 June 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 Brian Airs, the Faroe Islands, Alpine glaciers, Zac Henderson, motion photos, two MOAB papers, the most expensive lenses, SheClicks and creativity's relationship to mental health.
Around The Horn
21 June 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 the Audubon Photography Awards, Farnaz Damnabi, teaching, black-and-white landscapes and a $116K estimate.
DPReview Acquired by Gear Patrol
21 June 2023
In a post on the site, DPReview General Manager Scott Everett announced DPReview has been acquired by Gear Patrol.
Nikon Introduces 180-600mm, 70-180mm Nikkor Z Zooms
21 June 2023
Nikon has announced the Nikkor Z 180-600mm f5.6-6.3 VR and the Nikkor Z 70-180mm f2.8, two new super telephoto Z lenses that combine extensive zoom capability with lightweight design.
Epson Introduces Expression 13000XL Large Format Scanner
21 June 2023
Epson America has introduced its Expression 13000XL scanner, engineered for photo archiving and graphic arts featuring one-button start large-format scanning up to 12.2 x 17.2 inches with 2400x4800 dpi resolution. The scanner also offers an optional transparency unit.
Test Drive: Photoshop Depth Blur +
20 June 2023
Among Photoshop's beta neural filters we've been anxious to try since upgrading to an M2 MacBook Pro is Depth Blur. Still in beta but much improved over earlier iterations, it promises to manage selective focus after exposure.
Around The Horn
20 June 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 Fashion Week, ON1 Keyword AI, faked vacation photos and improved iOS camera apps.
Happy Juneteenth
19 June 2023
On June 19, 1865, Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger issued General Order No. 3 in Galveston, Texas, announcing that in accordance with the Emancipation Proclamation, "all slaves are free." He and his Union troops had arrived to enforce the law.
Remembering Lisl Steiner
19 June 2023
The photojournalist Lisl Steiner who captured the most powerful of her age in their unguarded moments died June 7 in Mount Kisco, N.Y. She was 95.
Around The Horn
19 June 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 Dimpy Bhalotia, street photography, camera size, Nikon Peru, AI or Not and calibrating HDMI displays.
Matinee: 'In Dad's Chair'
17 June 2023
Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?
Around The Horn
17 June 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 35 photos of the week, miniature framed family photographs, what to do in a heat wave and Tony Fouhse's photo book.
Friday Slide Show: The Unfamiliar Ordinary
16 June 2023
If the pandemic has taught photographers anything, it's to find the beauty in the close-at-hand. You don't have to hike into Yosemite or slip through the Parisian rain to find unforgettable images. You just have to take a walk around the block.
Lowepro Introduces PhotoSport X Backpack
16 June 2023
Lowepro has announced its PhotoSport X photographic backpack, its latest addition to the PhotoSport family. Designed to handle challenging mountaineering adventures, the Lowepro PhotoSport X has been specifically crafted for adventure photographers.
Around The Horn
16 June 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 OpenWalls Arles, Rian Dundon, the Orobie Alps, iPhone monochromes, Ventura printing presets, ON1 AI Photo Organizer, the Instant Pot lesson for camera makers and Adorama open box deals.
The Photos We Take
15 June 2023
When we read Mixbook's survey of phonographers that found 80 percent never look at the photos they take, we weren't surprised. But we should have been. We just didn't think about it carefully enough.
BigPicture Award Winners Announced
15 June 2023
The California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco has announced the winners of this year's BigPicture: Natural World Photography Competition. Over 7,300 submissions were entered by photographers representing 58 countries.
Around The Horn
15 June 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 Mars, Arin Yoon, sensor size, ISOlessness, Nikon's firmware updates, camera density, bokeh, a lens cleaning kit, Lensbaby Omni adapter, American Photography Open and the Lucie Foundation scholarships.
Capture One Mobile Released
14 June 2023
Capture One has released Capture One Mobile a new app for iOS to give photographers "the freedom to move, get amazing colors and image quality in the palm of their hand, and collaborate with others from anywhere."
Around The Horn
14 June 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 children, Mustafah Abdulaziz, Leonardo Sens, Gregory Eddi Jones, dropping a camera, mobile photography apps and a survey.
Foxglove
13 June 2023
There is a place down the hill whose front lawns were replaced with a garden of wildflowers. Among them is this foxglove, which we came across late one afternoon when, to our surprise, we found a camera in our right hand.
Illustrator Beta Adds Recolor Option
13 June 2023
In another demonstration of the company's integration of artificial intelligence into image editing, Adobe announced a Generative Recolor option powered by Firefly in the latest Illustrator Beta.
Lightroom Mobile Introduces Faster Editing, Sharing
13 June 2023
In a release rolling out today, Lightroom mobile eliminates the need to import phone images and introduces a new option called Create Edit Replay to create videos showcasing your edits.
Around The Horn
13 June 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 Photo Basel, the Pentax Monochrome, a Lego Ansel Adams, inspiration, M2 Ultra Mac Studio reviews and FotoAutomat.
Nikon Releases Firmware 4.00 For Nikon Z 9
12 June 2023
Nikon has released firmware version 4.00 for the Nikon Z 9, the third update for its flagship camera, with enhancements to its video and photo capture, usability, operability, autofocus and more.
Around The Horn
12 June 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 the Tony Awards, the British seaside, graffiti composites, gels, Marilyn Monroe, Bruce Davidson, Kodak, kit costs and a Getty project.
The Trek to Ventura
10 June 2023
Ventura is just down the coast from Santa Barbara. We know a young couple there who have just welcomed their second daughter. One of these days we hope to make the trek, even though they do visit when they're in the Bay area.
Matinee: William Dixon's 'Face to Face'
10 June 2023
Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?
Around The Horn
10 June 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 Nigerian photographers, Latin America, Documerica, cameras as fashion statements and workmanship.
Friday Slide Show: Stopping to Look
9 June 2023
Every now and then we get this reptilian urge to move. Just lift one leg and step forward before lifting the other. And getting on with it.
Around The Horn
9 June 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 Alain le Garsmeur, five LGBT photographers, Erik Vroons, Tim Walker, the Pentax Monochrome, a work day, political photo books and creative street photography.
Around The Horn
8 June 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 the Earth Photo shortlist, wildfire haze, kelp forests, Maansi Srivastava, AI retouching tools, Andrew Molitor and VisionOS.
Sigma Announces 14mm f1.4 Art Lens
8 June 2023
Sigma has announced its 14mm f1.4 DG DN | Art lens designed especially for astrophotography with the world's widest f1.4 single focal length lens, the company said. The full-frame optic is available in Sony E- mount and Leica L-Mount.
Around The Horn
7 June 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 low fill light, ignorance, the minimum Mac and DAM meets AI.
Hasselblad Announces X2D 100C Portrait Kit
7 June 2023
Hasselblad has announced a Lightweight Portrait Kit for the X2D 100C featuring the XCD 1,9/80 and XCD 4/45P lenses.
Book Bag: Read This If You Want to Take Great Photographs
6 June 2023
We'd recommend this compact treasure for the photographs alone. Author, editor and screenwriter Henry Carroll, has curated some brilliant images from photographic luminaries that include modern masters rarely glimpsed in one place.
Around The Horn
6 June 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 Janelle Lynch, Generative Fill tips, the Fujifilm GFX 100s with a 50mm, EN-EL15 batteries, new Apple products and a Rocky Nook Pocket Guide discount.
We Calibrate the M2 MacBook Pro
5 June 2023
Sundays are reserved for building maintenance around here (vacuuming, laundry, etc.) so we thought it was the perfect time to calibrate the M2 MacBook Pro's wide LED screen.
Toyo Tires Opens Seventh Shutter Space Contest
5 June 2023
Toyo Tires has opened its seventh Toyo Tires Shutter Space Automotive Photo Contest for submissions. This year's theme is "dramatic lightning" and the Grand Prize includes a Westcott FJ Wireless 2-Light Portable Flash Kit, a Pelican 1535 Air Carry-On Case and an exclusive Toyo Tires branded DSPTCH camera strap, along with publication of the image.
Around The Horn
5 June 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 a church in Antarctica, Brea Souders, Federico Rios Escobar, a New York City workshop, the Johnson Publishing Co. archive, Nikkor 40mms, a Voitlander 40mm, that 3D look and news photographer safety.
Matinee: 'Face to Face With Fran Lebowitz'
3 June 2023
Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?
Around The Horn
3 June 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 death, a camera/lens combo, Paul McCartney, Jackie Bouvier Kennedy and Paragraphica.
Friday Slide Show: The Forklift
2 June 2023
In a neighborhood overrun with Priuses, Telsas, Rivians and Polestars, it's nostalgic to run across a big old forklift that can move 5,400 lbs. with a stick shift. There's an undeniable beauty to the beast.
Around The Horn
2 June 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 clam digging, giant ducks, Hasselblad X2D firmware 2.0, photographers, a Sigma portrait, Epson firmware updates and June opportunities.
ON1 Releases Photo Raw 2023.5
1 June 2023
ON1 has released Photo Raw 2023.5, its Raw image file processor, this week with several new features and a $49.00 introductory price through June 5.
Around The Horn
1 June 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 Zaydee Sanchez, Grego Hofbauer, going mirrorless underwater, Sony CFexpress Type A cards, Sony World Photography Awards and succinct absurdities.
May Archived
1 June 2023
We've just archived Volume 12, Number 5 of Photo Corners on the Archive page with 20 Features, 17 commented News stories, 26 Editor's Notes (which included 172 items of interest), no real reviews (although we had a test drive) and one site note for a total of 64 stories.
MayGenerative Fill Test Drive
31 May 2023
We took Russell Preston Brown's advice and downloaded Photoshop beta with Generative Fill. Downloads are about the only thing that aren't faster on the MacBook Pro M2 we've been using for a little over a week now.
Around The Horn
31 May 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 cheese rolling, magnificent libraries, Generative Fill spaghetti, manuals, Ireland and Lynsey Addario.
Nikon Introduces Nikkor Z DX 24mm f1.7
30 May 2023
Nikon has announced the Nikkor Z DX 24mm f1.7, a fast and affordable compact prime lens for Nikon Z mount APS-C size/DX-format mirrorless cameras. The 24mm focal length provides an equivalent crop of 36mm.
Around The Horn
30 May 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 Judith Joy Ross, Tom Wood, Julie Joubert, Poltava, Avedon 100, Charolette Drury, Harold Davis, an iPhone in Iceland, JC grads and the Z System.
Memorial Day
29 May 2023
We spent a night in Quincy, Calif., in the fall of 2009 at a bed and breakfast as the guest of some friends. Cute place above an appliance store and directly across the street from the county court house. In case you got any ideas.
Apple to Transition From My Photo Stream to iCloud Photos
28 May 2023
In an email sent to My Photo Stream users over the weekend, Apple warned it would shut down the service on July 26. It noted iCloud Photos "is the best way to keep the photos and videos you take up to date across all your devices and safely stored in iCloud."
Matinee: 'NightHawks'
27 May 2023
Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?
Who's on First
27 May 2023
That's not a question. But it sounds like one. And that's where all the fun begins in that old Abbott and Costello routine, which we'll share for posterity...
Around The Horn
27 May 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 Piet Oudolf's gardens, Seb Lester, confusing camera intros, the Leica Q3 and Generative Fill.
Friday Slide Show: Unboxing the Refurb
26 May 2023
Last Thursday we returned home with a 16-GB/1-TB 16-inch space gray MacBook Pro, our first new laptop since 2011. Every time we launched Adobe Camera Raw on our 17-inch 2010 MacBook Pro, it warned us that its days were numbered because neither of its two GPUs was not supported.
Around The Horn
26 May 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 Yemen, NASA composites, Asian American photographers, FeaturePrint and book banning.
Peakto Adds Global Deletion Feature
26 May 2023
Cyme has released Peakto with a global deletion feature that removes photos saved in different folders while working in the Peakto interface. Peakto's new feature now allows you to easily delete unwanted images regardless of their folder or file location, the company said.
It's a DIY World
25 May 2023
Migrating to a new chip architecture has proven more challenging than upgrading to a new operating system. We've done this before, moving to a PowerPC architecture and then an Intel architecture and we didn't break a sweat. Moving to Apple Silicon, however, has required more patience.
Leica Unveils the Leica Q3
25 May 2023
Leica has introduced the Leica Q3, the third generation of its Q family, a 28mm fixed focal length full-frame camera. The new Q features one of the fastest lenses on the market at f1.7 with an integrated macro mode to feed its 60-megapixel sensor. The 3.0-inch touchscreen LCD can be tilted as well without compromising the Q3's IP52 weather sealing.
Around The Horn
25 May 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 Sam Ferris, Jason Lee, Eva Abeling, Jennifer MacNeill, inventory and smartphone tips.
Fujifilm Announces X-S20 Mirrorless, XF 8mm f2.5 Lens
24 May 2023
Fujifilm has announced the X-S20 mirrorless camera for content creators, updating its X-S10. At the same time, the company introduced an 8mm wide angle for APS-C cameras, providing a 12mm equivalent crop.
Canon Announces R100 Camera Under $500, Pancake Lens
24 May 2023
Canon has announced the EOS R100 camera and RF28mm f2.8 STM lens, "two new affordable, compact and lightweight tools for entry-level and emerging content creators to elevate their skills," the company said.
Around The Horn
24 May 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 Guardian readers, Carl Zeiss 35mm f2.0 Biogon, real life stories and more on specularity.
Sony Announces ZV-1 II Vlogging Camera
23 May 2023
Sony introduced its ZV-1 II, the second generation camera to the ZV-1, featuring highly-requested and popular features to help vloggers "make more engaging storytelling with attractive photogenic image quality," the company said.
Around The Horn
23 May 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 Bakhmut, Northern Italy, Cannes, the new Gradient tool, sociable photography, bird photography and Apple's camera adapter.
Adobe Announces AI Innovations for Photoshop
23 May 2023
Adobe has unveiled new generative AI innovations for Photoshop that can render images with a simple text prompt. A new Generative Fill feature is powered by Adobe Firefly, making its first appearance in a Creative Cloud application.
Around The Horn
22 May 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 Espen Rasmussen, Point Reyes, specularity, street photography, the 400mm conundrum and the Tiffen Cross Screen Filter.
Matinee: 'Bay to Breakers'
20 May 2023
Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?
Around The Horn
20 May 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 photos of the week, Translucent Flora, card failure, high contrast histograms and shooting with a phone.
Friday Slide Show: Datsun 260Z
19 May 2023
We stumbled across the gem on a recent walk around Edgehill Mountain. It had just been washed and the 1974 Datsun 260Z gleamed in the morning sunlight. We couldn't go by without taking a few snapshots.
Around The Horn
19 May 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 the 1967 Newark Riots, marine life, the Paris Metro, histograms and Lynn Goldsmith.
Our Refurb Arrives
18 May 2023
In November when the Beaujolais Nouveau arrives at the local wine shops, the posters go up announcing, "Le Beaujolais Nouveau est arrive!" And the party begins. So we thought we'd mimic that tradition on the arrival of our 16-inch M2 MacBook Pro. It's here.
Miops Releases Sun Moon Expert App
18 May 2023
Miops has released Sun Moon Expert versions 2.0.2, an iOS app offering Sun and Moon-related data for planning shots.
Around The Horn
18 May 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 Brendon Burton, 100 for the Ocean, The 'Blur' Portfolio, Saroyan Humphrey, Blue Hour shots, the Sony SLT-A77, histograms and Affinity 2.1.
Ricoh Announces Two Pentax 50mm f1.4 Primes
17 May 2023
Ricoh has announced two new Pentax 50mm prime lenses, the HD Pentax-FA 50mm f1.4 and smc Pentax-FA 50mm f1.4 Classic, the former with a contemporary design and the latter with a nostalgic look. Based on the legacy smc Pentax-FA 50mm f1.4 lens, the new lenses are designs for Pentax K-mount dSLR cameras.
Around The Horn
17 May 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 Pink Lady Food Photographer, Pham Huy Trung, Vanessa Martin, the Nikon Z 8, Drobo and Women Photograph Mentorship Program.
Prepping For a New Mac
16 May 2023
One of the things we learned when we had to reinstall Monterey recently was just how useful Migration Assistant (not to mention Time Machine) can be. It ran overnight but in the morning we had full functionality restored.
Around The Horn
16 May 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 Cathy Cone, Lynn Whitney, Alex Turner, blur, layers, the adventure, Capture One, new DxO modules and home movies.
The Easel and the Typewriter
15 May 2023
We've always armed ourselves with two computers, even in the previous century. In those days it was the accelerated Mac SE for graphics and the DEC Rainbow for text.
Around The Horn
15 May 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 Kirk Tuck, Beijing, a photo adventure, Aurora photography, ImageRights, self-watermarking AI, the Contax RTS II, camera life cycles and the Dell UltraSharp 32 6K monitor.
Matinee: Two Creative Clips
13 May 2023
Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?
Around The Horn
13 May 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 AP photos of the week, a portfolio of portraits, the Hasselblad H system, ND filters, clouds, HP printers and Greg Kwiatek.
Friday Slide Show: The Neighborhood Rhododendrons
12 May 2023
We've been doing so much driving lately to check in on Mom each day at the nursing facility that we are not keeping up with our daily constitutional. And this affects our enjoyment of life, let's just say. So we made an effort to get out earlier this week and, my, what a surprise.
Around The Horn
12 May 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 baby pictures, the Leica Freedom Train, Nikon Z 8 vs. D850, the Contax RTS II continued and Leica M/R lenses.
DPReview Updates Status: Nothing to Share
11 May 2023
In a post on the site, DPReview General Manager Scott Everett updated the status of the digital photography site which had been expected to be shuttered by now.
Around The Horn
11 May 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 Iceland's glacial caves, women photographers, glassblowing, bagels, Google's Magic Editor, ACDSee Photo Studio 9 and the Contax RTS II.
Camera Bits Celebrates 25th Anniversary of Photo Mechanic
11 May 2023
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of Photo Mechanic, Camera Bits is offering a discount on its fast media browser that helps you view, organize, manage and export digital photos.
Nikon Introduces Nikon Z 8 Hybrid
10 May 2023
Nikon has announced the Nikon Z 8, a full-frame mirrorless camera featuring the innovations and speed inherited from its flagship mirrorless Z 9 in a lighter, more compact body.
Around The Horn
10 May 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 migrants at the border, Spanish olive groves, Valery Poshtarov, Martin Parr, Jim Kasson, wide-angle landscape photography and blur.
Epson Introduces Legacy Baryta II Paper
9 May 2023
Epson has introduced Legacy Baryta II, its newest addition to the portfolio of Legacy Papers. Inspired by the legendary f64 Group of photographers, Baryta II is an OBA-free 100 percent cotton fiber paper with a true baryta coating. With a microporous coating that supports rich blacks and a wide color gamut, it is available in cut sheets up to 17x22-inches and roll widths up to 60 inches.
Ingestor Evolves With AppleScript
9 May 2023
When we wrote about our software for ingesting images in 2015, we noted, "The real advantage of this simple scheme is that we can modify it at will if we should want to make an adjustment to our ingestion scheme."
Around The Horn
9 May 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 Photo London, the Westminster Dog Show, ChatGPT, two photos, Z lenses, Lightroom's masking tools, summer and incomes.
Pulitzer Winners in Photography Announced
8 May 2023
Among the Pulitzer Prizes announced today were two photography honors in the categories of Breaking News and Feature Photography, each of which carry awards of $15,000.
The Pink Rose
8 May 2023
There is a rose bush that has grown behind the bird bath in Mom's garden for years and years and years. It blossoms with a lot of small pink roses that don't thrive very long.
Around The Horn
8 May 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 Kentucky Derby hats, Jacob Aue Sobol, photographers on covering the coronation, the Pecan Street Festival, a Sunday photography expedition, how cameras work and wedding film photography.
Matinee: 'Beyond the Lens: Lance Mercer'
6 May 2023
Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?
Around The Horn
6 May 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 Charles III, the week in pictures, photo wallets, picket signs, a gigapixel iPhone print, the Blanton Museum and Imaging Resource.
Friday Slide Show: The Diamond Watch
5 May 2023
Aunt Jimmie, who was really our great aunt, had a long and fascinating life. The last time our family visited her at the flat she and Uncle Louie rented on Lombard St., she was downsizing as she prepared to move to Berkeley.
Remembering Dorothy Bohm
5 May 2023
Dorothy Bohm, who saw a lot in her lifetime carrying a camera all over the world, died at 98 in March in Northwest London. "But I don't show the ugliness of life," she said. "I try to show the good."
Around The Horn
5 May 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 Corky Lee, a collaborative photo project, HDD failure rate and Diane Keaton.
Yo-Yo Ma, the Natural World and Our Common Nature
4 May 2023
Yesterday on Amanpour & Co., host Christiane Amanpour interviewed Yo-Yo Ma about his latest project playing classical music on his cello in beautiful natural settings. "Lately, I've realized that the time that I spend in nature is what brings me back to something much bigger than myself," he says.
Around The Horn
4 May 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 Joel Meyerowitz, Carlos Javier, Utah, a history of women photographers, Lee Friedlander, AI on your smartphone, Photshop via AI, Raw exposures and Jason Lee.
Evening Clouds
3 May 2023
We were returning a call yesterday morning when we were astonished to discover we had lost our voice. We croaked out a hello and struggled through the conversation, relying on the amplifying capabilities of the transmission device to cover for us.
Around The Horn
3 May 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 the Conway Library Photographic Collection, Joe McNally, monochromes, Amazon and loneliness.
Around The Horn
2 May 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 100 for the Ocean, Gideon Mendel, the Heipi 3-in-1 travel tripod, Photoshop guides, wedding photography, social media and some answers.
Blossoms in May
1 May 2023
Almost without our noticing it, the apple tree has blossomed again this year. Sure, we have places to go and things to do but we can always spare a 1/250 of a second to take a shot.
Around The Horn
1 May 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 changemakers, a bully, the Ian Parry Photojournalism Grant, Man Ray, Mikiki Hara, Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day, Carl Zeiss 35mm Biogon and growing.
April Archived
1 May 2023
We've just archived Volume 12, Number 4 of Photo Corners on the Archive page with 18 Features, 14 commented News stories, 26 Editor's Notes (which included 160 items of interest) and two site notes for a total of 60 stories.
AprilMatinee: Pam Fox
29 April 2023
Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?
Around The Horn
29 April 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 Tom Leighton, Yevonde, Greenland, Carl Zeiss 28mm Biogon, blur and Adobe Express.
Friday Slide Show: Glass Pens
28 April 2023
We have horrible penmanship, which we assiduously developed over the years to mask our copyrighted thoughts. Even from ourselves, as it turns out.
Around The Horn
28 April 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 Portugal, Arab American photographers, Renata Cherlise, Janet Kessler, incomes, monochrome minimalism, an Ikea chair and post-photography.
20 Titles Longlisted for the 2023 Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards
27 April 2023
The Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards has announced its long list for the 2023 awards honoring excellence in both still and moving picture publishing. Two winning titles are selected annually, with prize money of 10,000 divided equally between the winning title in the Photography category and the winning title in the Moving Image category.
Around The Horn
27 April 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 Andrea Gjestvang, migrants at sea, latchkey kids, Harold Davis, sharper eyes, approaching strangers and analytics for art.
Around The Horn
26 April 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 Harry Belafonte, Troy Williams, Omar Reda, ISO invariance and img2dataset.
Epson Introduces SureLab D570 Event Printer
25 April 2023
Epson has announced its SureLab D570 professional minilab photo printer whose lightweight and compact design prints small-format photos on demand for event, hospitality, kiosk and retail environments.
Japanese Maple
25 April 2023
We were getting in the car when we looked south toward the sun as the bright red leaves of Mom's Japanese maple filtered the bright light. We took out the camera and took a few shots, hoping something would stick.
Around The Horn
25 April 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 arcades, Earth, mushrooms, Stan Evans, good gear, filters, assumptions and copyright claims.
Peakto Adds Compatibility With DxO PhotoLab, PureRaw
25 April 2023
Cyme has announced Peakto, its versatile image cataloging software, is now compatible with DxO PhotoLab and PureRaw. In addition to providing its cataloging features to PhotoLab, the new release can also manage PureRaw conversions, preserving the link to the original file.
Around The Horn
24 April 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 David Salcedo, Pentax K-3 III Mono samples, Voigtlander Nikon AI lenses, Thom Hogan returns and photoids.
Adobe to Permanently Remove Deleted Cloud Files After 30 Days
24 April 2023
In an email to Creative Cloud subscribers, Adobe announced files deleted from Creative Cloud storage will now be permanently removed after 30 days. The change will begin rolling out on June 4.
Matinee: 'A Lens on the World'
22 April 2023
Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?
Around The Horn
22 April 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 Earth Day, Todd Hido, ethics, lesson from a portrait session and Sunlight Tracker.
Friday Slide Show: Master Dealer
21 April 2023
At what age do you learn how to master something? That you can't just kick a ball and it will go into the net. That you have to read the book to talk about it. That you have to pay your dues.
Remembering Jessica Burstein
21 April 2023
Jessica Burstein, who documented three New York City institutions with her camera, died from lung cancer on April 11 at her home in Manhattan. She was 76.
Remembering Loren Cameron
21 April 2023
Loren Rex Cameron died November 18, 2022 in Berkeley by suicide after enduring congestive heart failure for some time. He was 63.
Around The Horn
21 April 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 Gideon Mendel, Latin America, sports photography, trees in bloom, tulips and the BuzzFeed Era.
Around The Horn
20 April 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 Ramadan, World Press Photo contest winners, Mark Harrison, restoring an old print, Entrada Rag Natural Coldpress and Taku Umebayashi.
Canon Announces the RF100-300mm f2.8 L Zoom
19 April 2023
Canon has announced the RF100-300mm f2.8 L IS USM lens, featuring "outstanding image quality, excellent speed for indoor shooting and relatively light weight for hand-holding," the company said.
Macro: Extract Text From an Image
19 April 2023
With the release of macOS Monterey, Apple introduced a new software framework called Vision to extract text from an image. At the same time, the company released Shortcuts, an automation tool previously available only on iOS, which tapped into Vision to scan images on the clipboard for text.
Around The Horn
19 April 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 Peruvian ballet dancers, Hadi Mizban, Lightroom AI innovations, the Polished Portrait plug-in, a monochrome-only camera, Leica M11 Monochrom crops and the research-based photobook.
Free Fix: The Stuck Pixel
18 April 2023
In the days of CRT monitors, there was no such thing as a stuck pixel. We lived a life of blissful ignorance and the nuisance a tiny little dot of bright color can cause. Until, that is, the advent of LCD screens on laptops.
Around The Horn
18 April 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 Jacob Black, Magnum Square Print sale, Adobe Camera Raw update, the seasons, promptography and USB 3 SSDs.
Nikon Introduces 12-28mm Nikkor
18 April 2023
Nikon has announced the Nikkor Z DX 12-28mm f3.5-5.6 PZ VR, the widest Nikkor Z DX-format lens yet with the added benefit of a power zoom. The Nikkor Z DX 12-28mm weighs only 7.3 oz., mating well with lightweight cameras like the Nikon Z 30, Z 50 or the Z fc, the company pointed out.
Around The Horn
17 April 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 Orthodox Easter, LensCulture's Portrait Awards, Paul Cupido, Peakto, film memories, adventures, wildlife, more monochrome, Depravity's Rainbow, WiFi SD cards and Judith Joy Ross.
Matinee: 'Farouk Ibrahim'
15 April 2023
Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?
Around The Horn
15 April 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 Truth in Photography, B&W Day, a Lumix S5 set to L.Monochrome.D, Tony Fouhse and an ebook sale.
Friday Slide Show: New Shoes
14 April 2023
There are no photos of new shoes in this slide show. Just so you know. The new shoes, though, are what propelled us through the neighborhood as we shot these images.
Around The Horn
14 April 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 Sony World Photography Awards, LensCulture Portrait Awards, incomes, spring inspirations and the Leica M11 Monochrom.
Leica Announces Summilux-M 50, M11 Monochrom
13 April 2023
Leica has announced its Summilux-M 50 f1.4 ASPH. with 11 aperture blades and a shorter minimum focusing distance as well as technical and optical refinements. Designed for M cameras, the new lens can also be mounted on the Leica SL2 and the SL2-S with an M-Adapter L.
Around The Horn
13 April 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 Mary Quant, pond hockey, going manual, Rojasianthe Superba and wireless flash triggers.
Ricoh Announces Pentax K-3 Mark III Monochrome dSLR
12 April 2023
Ricoh has announced the Pentax K-3 Mark III Monochrome based on the flagship model of Pentax's APS-C-format series while "totally redesigning and optimizing the imaging characteristics by adding a new, monochrome-specific image sensor with approximately 25.73 effective megapixels."
Remembering Carl Fischer
12 April 2023
Carl Fischer who shot some of the most memorable magazine covers of his time, died last week at his home in Manhattan. He was 98.
Around The Horn
12 April 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 Willy Spiller, Mark Rammers, Adrift, manual focus lenses, gifts, Smithsonian Open Access and restaurant policy (plus a few more).
DxO Releases 1,192 new Optics Modules
12 April 2023
DxO Labs has released 1,192 new DxO Optics modules, including support for the latest Canon mirrorless cameras as well as its latest kit lenses. Also included are Nikon's new pancake lens and the new Sony 20-70mm f4 G, plus a range of Sigma lenses and teleconverters for a variety of mounts.
Site Tweak: Twitter Account
11 April 2023
This doesn't really count as a Site Tweak so much as damage control. We were recently surprised to find ourselves automatically tweeting our latest headlines from a different Twitter account that the one we've used for years and years.
Around The Horn
11 April 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 H.J. Hunter,Drew Smith, Photo London preview, two magazine covers, Adobe Express, sunsets and the Synology ds1522+.
Around The Horn
10 April 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 Holy Week, technology, Easter in Austin, Kim Thue, Tatiana Reinoza, copper pipe flare photos, selling cameras, photographing spring flowers and Digicam Finder.
Easter?
9 April 2023
Who knew today was Easter? Well, lots of people. Even we knew. But we forgot overnight. And then we realized why.
Matinee: 'Lake Tahoe Basin'
8 April 2023
Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?
Around The Horn
8 April 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 the week in pictures, a sandhill crane, Easter Week, worries, income and the five senses.
DPReview to Remain Available as Archive
7 April 2023
In a post today DPReview General Manager Scott Everett updated the site's closure plans, confirmed that "the content will remain available as an archive."
Friday Slide Show: A Morning Walk
7 April 2023
As we walked around the neighborhood in the morning (for a change), it occurred to us that it's quite a luxury to be free at 10 a.m.
ICP to Present Photobook Fest May 12 to 14
7 April 2023
The International Center of Photography will present the ICP Photobook Fest on May 12 to 14 at ICP at 79 Essex Street, New York City. This year's Photobook Fest will expand into ICP's galleries to host nearly 50 leading and independent photobook publishers from more than 10 countries, showcasing their latest image-based books, magazines and zines.
Around The Horn
7 April 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 a Holocaust survivors' cookbook, love, CCD Colors and an AI winner in the Sony World Photography Awards.
Remembering Neal Boenzi
6 April 2023
Neal Boenzi, a staff photographer for the New York Times for 40 years, died earlier this week at an elder care facility in Newhall, Calif. He was 97.
Around The Horn
6 April 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 California reservoirs, Australia's Outback, Sean Scheidt, a Mamiya RB67 repair, Midjourney and Andrew Molitor.
Harvey Posts ExifTool 12.60 Production Release
5 April 2023
Phil Harvey has posted ExifTool v12.60, the first production release since v12.50 on Nov. 8, 2022. The small download is available three formats, including a Windows executable and Macintosh OS X package.
New Construction
5 April 2023
In January 2022 we published a slide show of the demolition of an old neighborhood home. Once the building was knocked down, the lot was groomed, excavated and left alone for a while.
Around The Horn
5 April 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 Baldwin Lee, Anne Collier, Tony Fouhse, Sigma's I series lenses, photography at home and Flickr.
Tow Truck
4 April 2023
The maintenance light went on and stayed on one day last month when we started the car. We found a YouTube video explaining how to turn it off. Then we found the same instructions in the manual. Ha ha.
Remembering Kwame Brathwaite
4 April 2023
Kwame Brathwaite, the photographer who "made black beautiful," as historian Tanisha C. Ford wrote, has died. He was 85.
Around The Horn
4 April 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 Roger Bamber, Sabiha Çimen, Cari Letelier, being good at something, Lightroom's Book module and Dave Williams.
Sigma Announces I Series 17mm, 50mm Mirrorless Primes
3 April 2023
Sigma has announced the Sigma 17mm f4 DG DN Contemporary and the Sigma 50mm f2 DG DN Contemporary I Series full-frame lenses with all-metal barrel for the Sony E-Mount and Leica L-Mount.
Around The Horn
3 April 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 Jan Michalko, Lynne Buchanan, Joe McNally, silhouettes, taxes and Jim Kasson.
Matinee: 'A Navajo Photographer Reconnects'
1 April 2023
Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?
Around The Horn
1 April 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 Observer photography, highrises, edible bugs, restoring film, work and some opportunities.
March Archived
1 April 2023
We've just archived Volume 12, Number 3 of Photo Corners on the Archive page with 19 Features, 16 commented News stories, 27 Editor's Notes (which included 165 items of interest), one review and one site note for a total of 64 stories.
MarchFriday Slide Show: O'Shaughnessy Hollow
31 March 2023
In July and September 2021, we featured slide shows of some serious road work being done to stabilize the very steep and very rocky cliffs along O'Shaughnessy Blvd., which cuts through San Francisco's ancient Glen Canyon. This week we returned to the area but from a different direction.
World Backup Day
31 March 2023
It's World Backup Day again and we'd be remiss not to issue a public service announcement. We backup everything every day these days because, as Scarlett says in Gone With the Wind (which was the greatest movie ever about data loss), "Tomorrow is another day."
Around The Horn
31 March 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 Barnum, Bailey and Ringling's Circus, a peony, the Aura digital photo frame, more incomes, Instagram and the creator economy.
OM Digital Opens Tech Center for OM System Lenses
30 March 2023
OM Digital Solutions open a new manufacturing technology center in Tokyo
Around The Horn
30 March 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 the Hahnemühle Student Award, Dawn Wilson, Jared, Claudine Williams, Rune Guneriussen, capturing colors and art photography.
Sony Announces ZV-E1 for Video Creators +
29 March 2023
Sony has announced the ZV-E1 featuring a full-frame 12-megapixel sensor, a BIONZ XR image processing engine, a dedicated AI processing unit and compatibility with over 70 Sony E-mount lenses.
ICP School Names Colette Veasey-Cullors Dean, Deputy Director
29 March 2023
Colette Veasey-Cullors has been named dean and deputy director of the International Center of Photography's school. An educator, artist and photographer, Veasey-Cullors will become the first BIPOC leader of ICP's school on June 15.
Around The Horn
29 March 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 World Press Photo regional winners, LensCulture Exhibition, long exposures, discussing art, a color distraction and firmware updates.
A Meditation on Patio Bricks
28 March 2023
We live in a 360 degree world but we seem to look straight ahead most of the time. "Look both ways!" parents scream often in the nick of time to make that point about the 360 degree world. And lucky for us they have eyes in the back of their head to see what they can't see in front of them.
Around The Horn
28 March 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 Bernard Plossu, Edward Burtynsky, Nicolas St-Pierre, Cartier-Bresson's New Jersey, cropping, Adobe Firefly and a used gear sale.
Peakto Adds Cataloging to Pixelmator Pro
28 March 2023
The Pixelmator Pro and Cyme teams have collaborated on a new version of Peakto to bring cataloging features to the Mac image editor.
Around The Horn
27 March 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 a Ukrainian ballerina, Jennie Ross Cobb, Ava Pellor, the thing about portraits, Select Subject enhanced and salvaging an iCloud disaster.
Et Tu?
26 March 2023
The closure of DPReview by its parent company, the apparently beleaguered Amazon, has sounded alarms in the digital photography community. Who's next if the Big Guy has fallen?
Matinee: Julia Fullerton-Batten
25 March 2023
Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?
Around The Horn
25 March 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 the week in photos, looking up, TOP's income, commercial photographers' incomes and Gordon Moore.
Friday Slide Show: Landscaping
24 March 2023
We're tempted to concoct some distinction between gardening and landscaping. But it would be an artificial one. Gardening is an ongoing activity akin to maintenance while landscaping is the execution of a design.
Around The Horn
24 March 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 Picturing High Streets, Black farmers, Tourist Central, clouds long exposures and Greta Rico.
A Visit to the Optometrist
23 March 2023
We managed to escape our post briefly yesterday for a visit with our optometrist, who we haven't seen during the pandemic. He's one of those people you try to think up questions to ask because the answers are so illuminating.
Around The Horn
23 March 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 Mary F Calvert, Judy Doherty, Andrea DiCenzo, Jane Housham, couple poses and Thom Hogan.
Around The Horn
22 March 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 Florida seniors, Carnaval de la Plaine, Earth and DPReview.
Spring Hath Sprung
21 March 2023
Almost without our noticing it, spring arrived yesterday. And in a gracious gesture by the universe, it was a rare sunny day as the 12th atmospheric river of the season bore down on us. Today is another deluge.
DPReview to Close
21 March 2023
In an announcement on its site, Scott Everett announced DPReview will close "in the near future."
Around The Horn
21 March 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 International Color Day, Geoff MacCormack, editing found images, post processing, Lightroom Mobile, Adobe Firefly and generative AI content.
Around The Horn
20 March 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 Frédéric Stucin, Ousman Diallo, an SXSW sideshow, glass bottles, printing, making the Z move, knowing your camera, an outlet adapter and the largest photo.
Matinee: 'Massimo Piersanti'
18 March 2023
Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?
Around The Horn
18 March 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 the week in pictures, Sylvia Rafael, France, observation and lens equivalents.
Friday Slide Show: Signs of Spring
17 March 2023
The greening of the world isn't just a St. Patrick's Day event. It's the annual rite of spring. And after 11 atmospheric rivers this winter, we expected to see some signs of it.
Around The Horn
17 March 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 Barbara T. Smith, online portfolios, more incomes and Midjourney v5.
Happy St. Patrick's Day
17 March 2023
It's a great convenience when St. Patrick's Day falls on a Friday. The festivities may start no earlier but they may continue unimpeded by any other obligation that the observance of a weekend.
Nomatic's McKinnon Sling 8L Swings
16 March 2023
There's nothing quite like an atmospheric river for testing a waterproof camera bag. As it happened, Nomatic sent us its $159.99 McKinnon Sling 8L just in time.
Around The Horn
16 March 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 Moises Saman, the Mobile Photography Awards, FORMAT, Andrei Duman, Harold Davis, Goldilocks, Kase Wolverine filters and Rocky Nook camera guides.
Free Cone Day
15 March 2023
Walking by this gathering of traffic cones, we couldn't suppress a smile. They looked like a public utility crew in search of a 311 call. Or a meeting of executives with no agenda.
DxO Releases PureRaw 3
15 March 2023
DxO has released DxO PureRaw 3, its revolutionary Raw enhancement software. PureRaw 3 with greater control through DeepPRIME XD while upgrading the user interface. PureRaw 3 preprocesses Raw data, optimizing the quality of any image by eliminating noise, improving color, enhancing detail and correcting lens flaws.
Around The Horn
15 March 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 the Sony World Photography Awards, nursing homes, Diane Arbus, repairing things, a camera simulator and Samsung on its Scene Optimizer.
Around The Horn
14 March 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 Ernest Cole, Ray Collins, Israeli protests, Kevin Krautgartner, the future and a retro weekend.
Cyme Adds Cross-App Annotations to Peakto
14 March 2023
Cyme has released Peakto 1.5 with borderless annotation, which can apply various attributes to images regardless of which photo catalog they are in. Supported annotation types include flags, favorites, colors, ratings, title and some other basic text fields.
Around The Horn
13 March 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 the Week in Pictures, Alberto Venzago, Harold Davis, SXSW, a legally blind photographer, a safari rig and Samsung's Space Zoom mode.
Matinee: 'The Paddy Irishman Project'
11 March 2023
Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?
Spring Forward
11 March 2023
Public service is in our blood. Twice a year, anyway, when we feel the urge to remind you that Daylight Saving Time (for those of us who observe it) takes effect at 2 a.m. tomorrow. Which instantly becomes 3 a.m.
Around The Horn
11 March 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 50 famous sports photos, simplicity, filters, more incomes, cafe display, Luminar Neo, SSD reliability stats and cURL.
Friday Slide Show: An Exercise in Composition
10 March 2023
There isn't always a Tomorrow, Scarlet, and Never Again comes before we're ready for it, so we walked the camera one morning well before our usual hour, marveling at familiar sights in a new light.
Two Quick Fixes
10 March 2023
Sometimes you go in for an oil change only to be told it's been 10 years since your last tune-up and all your fluids look like they came straight from the La Brea Tar Pits. "And one more thing, sir," our service tech timidly informed us. "Your tires are bald."
Around The Horn
10 March 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 Wendy Stone, Kellie Swanson, HP 's dynamic security and remembering Loyle.
Around The Horn
9 March 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 Egypt, the Benro Theta, point-and-shoot cameras, some stats and repairs.
Leica Unveils Compact SL 100-400mm, 1.4x Extender
9 March 2023
Leica has announced its Vario-Elmar-SL 100-400 f5-6.3 telephoto zoom lens and the new Leica Extender L 1.4x for the SL system.
Around The Horn
8 March 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 the Leica Women Foto Project, What We See, Wesaam Al-Badry, The New Big 5, LensCulture and a Miops deal.
Carrie Mae Weems Awarded 2023 Hasselblad Award
8 March 2023
The Hasselblad Foundation award committee has named Carrie Mae Weems the 2023 Hasselblad Award laureate for her decades of work capturing the struggle for equality and painful history that African Americans have experienced, all under the undeniably captivating power of her photography.
Around The Horn
7 March 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 landscape projections, the Portrait of Humanity shortlist, a lightweight kit, creating presets, self portraits, an interesting workflow and more strange things said.
Hasselblad Heroines Invites Public Nominations
7 March 2023
Hasselblad has announced its Heroines program will returs for its fifth year with a nomination process open to the public.
DNP Betas Party Print Web Service
6 March 2023
DNP has launched the beta of a new Web service dubbed Party Print that adds on-location prints to participant photos.
A Tearjerker
6 March 2023
You have a few options when you find something on the street. You can invoke the finders-keepers rule and keep it. You can pocket it and put a lost-and-found notice on craigslist. You can leave it where you found it. Among others.
Around The Horn
6 March 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 the week in photos, Miguel Gutiérrez, Best of Photojournalism 2022, Harold Davis, JPEG settings, charting Nikkors and Yevgenia Belorusets.
Matinee: 'Stand Together'
4 March 2023
Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?
Around The Horn
4 March 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 a polar bear, Magdalena Szurek, camera scanning, Tre Cime National Park, more incomes and long exposure photography.
Friday Slide Show: Victory Trail
3 March 2023
There is a lot of nature tucked into a city like San Francisco if you know where to look. Sometimes, you just have to take a couple of steps off the sidewalk to find it. And a couple of steps off four-lane Laguna Honda Blvd. you'll find the dirt paths that make up Victory Trail.
Around The Horn
3 March 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 Werner Bischof, the World Nature Photography Awards, Zuzana Pustaiová, East Palestine, spring and the Sigma 90mm.
Fujifilm Announces Instax Mini 12 Instant Camera
2 March 2023
Fujifilm has announced its Instax Mini 12 instant camera with a new look and enhanced features that include parallax correction capabilities, automatic flash control and a convenient multi-function twist lens.
Ciao
2 March 2023
When you don't know whether you're coming or going, it's nice to have a dual purpose word to hurl into the void. "Ciao" works well for that, both coming and going.
Lemke Software Releases GraphicConverter 12
2 March 2023
Late last month, Lemkesoft released GraphicConverter 11.6.1, the Swiss Army knife image editing utility, with new and updated features plus a few bug fixes.
Jerry Ghionis to Offer Nikon Mentors Course on Wedding Photography
2 March 2023
Nikon has announced a new Mentors Course that teaches the fundamentals of wedding photography with Nikon Ambassador Jerry Ghionis. The online course is created for intermediate and emerging wedding photographers to provide the techniques needed to advance in this highly competitive field.
Around The Horn
2 March 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 National Geographic Traveller winners, Deutsche Börse shortlist, Tyre Nichols, Ludovic Balay, Matt Odom and the Z-Mount.
Around The Horn
1 March 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 Jan Erik Waider, the Instant Box Camera, three commercial photographers, Capture One Pro, Kobe Bryant settlement and Patti Smith.
February Archived
1 March 2023
We've just archived Volume 12, Number 2 of Photo Corners on the Archive page with 16 Features, 14 commented News stories, 24 Editor's Notes (which included 145 items of interest) and one site note for a total of 55 stories.
FebruaryAround The Horn
28 February 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 Milan Fashion Week, Vic Bakin, Paul Kuroda, Sho Shibata, the Sony World Photography Awards, the Living Archive Series, celestial events, Kim Steele, more strange things, hard cases and Thunderbolt.
Quick Tip: Restoring Tool Behavior
27 February 2023
One of the benefits of Adobe's move to a subscription service is the company's freedom to update the product at will. That means we get not only new features but bug fixes as soon as possible.
A Sunset After All
27 February 2023
The rain was pouring down as we drove home from the skilled nursing facility where we have been visiting our mother. When we pulled into the driveway, we ironically hosed the car down. It had been plastered with pine needles from the tree we had parked under.
Around The Horn
27 February 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 AP photos ofo the week, Richard Sandler, Narelle Autio, the crazy uncle hobbyist effect, skin retouching, CFexpress Type B card sustained write speed and the Sony Star Sphere Satellite.
Matinee: 'The Feelings of Injustice'
25 February 2023
Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?
Around The Horn
25 February 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 Tina Barney, the Voigtlander Nokton 58mm, AI-generated art and a winter freeze.
Friday Slide Show: Scaffolding
24 February 2023
We human beings build towers we never ascend. They stand there like monuments whose meaning is left to interpretation. And usually reduces to just one word. Vanity.
Around The Horn
24 February 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 NYT photographers on Ukraine, Sigma's Z primes, Canon's R50, income, product photography, a Shutterfly migration guide and an AI primer.
Lensbaby Debuts Double Glass II Optic Swap Module
23 February 2023
Lensbaby has announced the Double Glass II optic, a new-and-improved version of one of the earliest in Lensbaby's Optic Swap System. The new module is compatible with all current and legacy Optic Swap lens bodies.
100ASA Promises to Plant a Tree for Each New Member
23 February 2023
The online photography platform 100ASA has announced a new paid membership drive in which the first reward is combatting climate change. For each new paid member, the organization will plant a tree "appropriate for local ecosystems."
Around The Horn
23 February 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 a blackwater dive, NASA's Webb, Antarctic expeditions, ordinary women, Bavarian Forest National Park, Christian Tisdale, software, free Lightroom presets and a U.S. Copyright Office ruling.
All Flowers Fade
22 February 2023
Three a.m. unable to sleep. So we go down to the bunker and look over our February photos.
Around The Horn
22 February 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 concrete, pets, paddling, the Golden Hour, income and Benj Edwards.
Hasselblad Announces X2D 100C Field Kit
22 February 2023
Hasselblad has announced its X2D 100C Lightweight Field Kit consisting of the X2D 100C camera with the XCD 4/21 and XCD 4/45P lenses. It describes the four-pound kit as "a complete set of professional tools for shooting and reporting in the field".
RMetS Launches 2023 Weather Photographer Contest
22 February 2023
The Royal Meteorological Society announced it will host a free live Zoom session chaired by Liz Bentley, RMetS chief executive and judge of the competition, featuring "hints, tips and anecdotes to help you plan your weather photography, take your photo and get it noticed."
Sony Announces FE 50mm f1.4 GM Lens
21 February 2023
Sony has announced the FE 50mm f1.4 GM lens as a lighter, more compact replacement for its Planar T* FE 50mm f1.4 ZA and FE 50mm f1.2 GM.
Around The Horn
21 February 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 Greenland, Kin Coedel, frilly godesses, Walter Smith, wildlife, editing letter forms, tabletop photography, photography sins, third-party Z lenses and Thunderbolt 4 hubs.
Tamron Announced Development of 11-20mm Zoom
21 February 2023
Tamron has announced the development of its 11-20mm f2.8 Di III-A for Fujifilm X-mount APS-C mirrorless cameras. The compact, lightweight zoom features a 35mm equivalent range of 16.5mm to 30mm.
Presidents' Day
20 February 2023
This weekend the Carter Center announced Jimmy Carter, who served as the 39th president of the United States, has "decided to spend his remaining time at home with his family and receive hospice care instead of additional medical intervention." Carter, who is 98, has recently been hospitalized several times.
Matinee: 'In Search of Giants'
18 February 2023
Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?
Around The Horn
18 February 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 Lynsey Addario, sheep, three camera myths and resizing for the Web.
Friday Slide Show: The Hands
17 February 2023
What do the hands show? That's what we were wondering as we swiped through some images of Mom during her recent hospitalization.
Around The Horn
17 February 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 the Virgin of Guadalupe, Amsterdam, cocktail photos, fashion income and generative AI.
Around The Horn
16 February 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 Raquel Welch, Damien Carter, six albumen prints, cherry blossoms and built-in focus bracketing.
Peakto Now Catalogs Instagram Accounts
16 February 2023
Cyme has released Peakto 1.4.0 adding support for Instagram accounts while improving performance and reliability, plus fixing a few bugs.
Remembering Julian Wasser
15 February 2023
Julian Wasser, who blanketed Los Angeles for Time magazine in the 1960s and 1970s, covering both news events and celebrities while posing some indelible images on the side, died last week in Los Angeles. He was 89.
DxO Releases 492 New Optics Modules
15 February 2023
DxO has announced the release of 492 new Optics modules that include support for many new cameras and lenses from Sigma, Leica and Pentax. The list includes Sigma's f1.4 wide-angle primes and several of Leica's Summicron lenses.
ON1 Releases Photo Raw 2023.1
15 February 2023
ON1 has released Photo Raw version 2023.1 with "newly enhanced features and tools along with big performance gains for a fast and smooth editing experience."
Around The Horn
15 February 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 Ukraine after a year of war, street photography tips, pricing an ad campaign, Euphoric 100 film and Larry Haynes.
A Valentine
14 February 2023
Sometimes, to steal a couple of words from the pages of the tattered songbook left open on a dusty piano, love hurts.
Around The Horn
14 February 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 the Museum of Lost Memories, a Norwegian fisherman, Company 605, selecting colors, attachments, hidden features, fish and artificial intelligence.
Fog
13 February 2023
Leaving the hospital yesterday we stopped to admire the fog bank creeping over the hills from the ocean. It had been a sunny if not warm winter day. Now the familiar fog was rolling in.
Around The Horn
13 February 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 photos of the week, Art Photography Awards, Travel Photographer of the Year, Venice, Harold Davis, cropping, autofocus, Vermeer and Superb Owl Sunday VII.
Matinee: 'The Hidden Paradise'
11 February 2023
Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?
Around The Horn
11 February 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 Migwa Nthiga, Jon Tonks, something to look at, a massive rainbow, five photogenic places and getting an agent.
Friday Slide Show: The ER at Snow Moon
10 February 2023
Luck. Don't mention the word to us. We had to make a 911 call Monday afternoon for an ambulance, casually mentioning our patient was not likely to cooperate. So 911 sent the police. And the Fire Dept. And an ambulance. As the full moon rose in the February sky. The snow moon.
Around The Horn
10 February 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 Bernheim Forest, Austin, Instagram trends and product boxes.
Around The Horn
9 February 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 beards, creator cameras, an old problem, Netflix-approved cameras, project ideas, a modified Nikon F2 and darktable.
DxO Releases PhotoLab 6.3
8 February 2023
DxO Labs has released DxO PhotoLab 6.3, adding the ability to simulate papers and inks when soft proofing, expanded the use of DxO Wide Gamut and adding both JPEG and TIFF editing in its new color space. The new release also provides a smoother Optics modules installation process.
Around The Horn
8 February 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 Sony World Photography Awards, product introductions, annual income and scanning your photos.
Canon Announces R50, R8, Two RF Lenses
8 February 2023
Canon has announced the entry-level R50 mirrorless camera, the compact hybrid R8 and two new RF lenses, including the RF-S55-210mm f5-7.1 IS STMM and the Canon RF24-50mm f4.5-6.3 IS STM. All of these products are expected to be available in this spring.
OM System Announces 90mm f4.5 Macro
8 February 2023
OM Digital Solutions Corp. has announced the M. Zuiko Digital ED 90mm f3.5 Macro IS Pro featuring 2x magnification, seven stops of shutter speed compensation with in-lens image stabilization and high speed autofocus.
Around The Horn
7 February 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 the Turkey and Syria earthquake, Kari Medig, the fast slow shutter shot, camera selection and the Fujifilm X-H2.
Sigma Introduces 50mm f1.4 DG DN Art Lens
7 February 2023
Sigma has announced its 50mm f1.4 DG DN Art lens featuring "the ideal balance of the size, weight and autofocus performance," the company said. The new optic will be available in Leica L and Sony E mounts.
Nikon Announces 85mm, 26mm Nikkor Z Primes
7 February 2023
Nikon has announced two new Nikkor Z primes: the 85mm f1.2 S portrait lens and the 26mm f2.8 pancake lens. The company also announced a new black version of its Z fc mirrorless camera based on the FM2.
Lightning Strikes Twice
6 February 2023
Friday is a busy day around here. We had worked into the night Thursday to get our slide show in shape but it was so late we hadn't done even a simple backup before closing up shop. We were tempting the Fates.
Around The Horn
6 February 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 the Grammy Awards, Bruce Heinemann, Mount Athos, Ioanna Sakellaraki, the new standard mainstream camera, announcement week and Instant Ink foibles.
Matinee: Zuma Pictures of the Month
4 February 2023
Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?
Around The Horn
4 February 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 the week in photos, Fons Iannelli, a bear, the Leica 35-70mm f4.0 and 7 Mile House.
Friday Slide Show: East of Twin Peaks
3 February 2023
We were able to saunter over to the other side of Twin Peaks last week late in the afternoon. The light had changed as the shadows lengthened, making the familiar exotic to us.
Remembering Joyce Dopkeen
3 February 2023
Joyce Dopkeen, the first woman to be hired by The New York Times as a full-time staff photographer, died from heart failure earlier this week in Rockville, Md. She was 80.
Around The Horn
3 February 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 Orvieto in the fog, Photoshop portrait magic, that ice storm, black-and-white photographers and portable SSDs.
Around The Horn
2 February 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 fungi blooms, orcas, Hugh Kretschmer, feathering and zooming, Lumina and February opportunities.
Around The Horn
1 February 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 shepherding, Texas ice storm, Proteus X-ray, pyschedelic cloaking, updating a site and network backups.
January Archived
1 February 2023
We've just archived Volume 12, Number 1 of Photo Corners on the Archive page with 21 Features, 10 commented News stories, 27 Editor's Notes (which included 178 items of interest), no reviews and one site note for a total of 59 stories.
JanuaryShift Ends
31 January 2023
We often labor late into the night to bring you a fresh Photo Corners in the morning. And when we do, this is what we see as we close up shop when our shift ends.
Around The Horn
31 January 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 Stephen Starkman, long lenses, crashing Teslas, life experiences, Smart Objects, shutters, PhotoLab 6 on the M2 Max, practicing and log literacy.
Crab Season
30 January 2023
Beginning in November we keep an eye on the ocean at night for the bright lights of the crab boats. This past November there were none. None in December. And almost none in January as various factors contrived to delay the opening of the season.
Around The Horn
30 January 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 the week in pictures, Wojciech Grzedzinski, WatermarkRemover.io, portrait advice, lunar tips and microSD cards.
Remembering George Zimbel
28 January 2023
George Zimbel, who proudly identified himself as one of the last elders of photography faithful to the legacy of the Photo League, passed away earlier this month at a care facility in Montreal. He was 93.
Matinee: Ed Panar's 'Walking Home'
28 January 2023
Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?
Around The Horn
28 January 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 the Polar night, John Fielder, Observer photos, music photographers, Harold Davis and ChronoPhoto.
Pilara Foundation to Close Pier 24
27 January 2023
The Pilara Foundation has announced its intention to close Pier 24 Photography when its lease with the Port of San Francisco expires in July 2025. The foundation plans to transition to a granting foundation focused on supporting organizations devoted to healthcare research, education and the arts.
Friday Slide Show: Pruned Olives
27 January 2023
The sidewalks of the church property up the street are lined with slender olive trees. Every year they get pruned back. And every time they do, we marvel at the art of it.
Around The Horn
27 January 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 Truth in Photography, blurring a background, the Nikon SB-500, QuickLook Preview, Light It, Shoot It, Retouch It and a PureRaw deal.
International Holocaust Remembrance Day
27 January 2023
Today marks the 78th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the German concentration camp in Poland where 1.1 million people were exterminated during World War II. The day of liberation by Soviet troops has been commemorated since 2005 as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Mount Tam
26 January 2023
That's what we call it around here. The full name is Mount Tamalpais and it's one of the three peaks in the Bay area. Mount Diablo to the east and Mount Hamilton to the south are the other two. Twin Peaks are just a couple of hills in comparison.
Around The Horn
26 January 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 Europe's ski resorts, Minimalist Photography Awards, Mariachi musicians, editing via text, Shutterstock's AI option, Thunderbolt hub performance, copyright bots and a backup system mistake.
Remembering Marilyn Stafford
25 January 2023
The photojournalist and fashion photographer Marilyn Stafford, whose work was rediscovered when she was in her 90s, died earlier this month at her home in Shoreham-by-Sea on the English coast. She was 97.
Around The Horn
25 January 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 snake-handling, work, filming strangers in public, McCartney photos and conversation.
Disaster Recovery
24 January 2023
Sunday morning we waltzed down to the bunker to go through the news online as we warmed up with a cappuccino only to find our backup laptop (and Sunday driver) was stuck on a restart. The crash report mentioned a missing library file but that file is not on our production box either.
Around The Horn
24 January 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 Lunar New Year, Thatcher's Children, Street View, the Masks panel, Cosina, vintage fast lenses, Pre-Photoshop, night shooting and a jammed hot shoe.
Around The Horn
23 January 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 Dzesika Devic, Margaret Renkl, Pedro Guimarães, an animated chart, more strange things said and the M2 Mac mini.
Matinee: 'Ranald Mackechnie'
21 January 2023
Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?
Around The Horn
21 January 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 Danuri, Dayanita Singh, Filter, black-and-white JPEGs, High Plains Farm, Pictures From Home, archives and no photos of Putin bathing this year.
Friday Slide Show: Stairways After the Storm
20 January 2023
There is not a lot of flat ground in hilly San Francisco. When someone claims to have found some, we tell them to let their foot off the brake with the transmission in neutral and see which way they roll. Because they will roll.
Around The Horn
20 January 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 Grace Lau, a drop of seawater, testing a theory and two Kelby tips.
Twin Peaks
19 January 2023
We were on the west side of Twin Peaks during a break between January storms when we saw these clouds dancing over Eureka Peak (left) and Noe Peak. We stopped to listen to the music.
Around The Horn
19 January 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 ocean art photography contest, Mirror of Self exhibition, the Icelandic hot dog, the 2022 Stamp Yearbook, Capture One, two AI lawsuits and fashion photography.
Around The Horn
18 January 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 drive-ins, icicles, Jack Lueders-Booth, Joe McNally, Louis Fleckenstein, Z system advice, PhotoPills, Howard Oakley, a $137,175 contract and Isaac Newton.
Sony Announces FE 20-70mm f4 G Zoom+
17 January 2023
Sony has announced its FE 20-70mm f4-GB lens, extending the familiar 24-70mm range to a wider 20mm. The extended range is expected to appeal particularly to vloggers and selfie shooters.
Around The Horn
17 January 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 Devin Allen, Tony O'Shea, wildlife cameras, Yassine Toumi, Luis Carlos Tovar, tool tips, character, a workshop, an Epson paper, inspiration, scale, straightening and new M2 machines.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
16 January 2023
Equality is the first word that usually comes to mind when thinking about Martin Luther King, Jr., who the nation pauses to honor today. Equal rights, in short. Regardless of race. A revolutionary idea in its day.
Matinee: 'Art In This Present Moment'
14 January 2023
Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?
Around The Horn
14 January 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 Christmas trees, Casa Klotz, California's wild weather, recommendations, luck, Flickr Print Shop and Harold Davis.
Friday Slide Show: Laguna Honda
13 January 2023
Just down the hill is a natural lake that serves as a reservoir. When the local news reported our rainfall since October was nearly 200 percent of normal, we walked down to see how high the water level had risen in Laguna Honda. On the one sunny day of the whole week.
Around The Horn
13 January 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 Layla May Arthur, Sid Grossman, 98.5mm and photography apps.
Around The Horn
12 January 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 indigenous photographers, Afghan women athletes, Tyrone Turner, old 50mm lenses, more strange utterances, the LensCulture portrait awards, gifts and disk image formats.
Sigma Introduces 10x Zoom for Mirrorless Systems
12 January 2023
Sigma has announced its 60-600mm f4.5-6.3 DG DN OS | Sports lens, the world's first and only mirrorless 10x ultra-telephoto zoom, according to the company. The second full-frame mirrorless zoom lens in the Sigma Sports line, with 1:2.4 maximum magnification at 200mm and weighing 5.5 pounds, the lens is offered in Sony E-mount and L-Mount.
DxO Updates Include New Camera, Lens Support
11 January 2023
DxO had announced updates to its software that add support for four new cameras and six new lenses, bringing the total of Optics modules to nearly 1,700. The announcement also promises a February update with two new cameras and five new lenses.
Around The Horn
11 January 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 Horacio Coppola, pandemic photos, David Teran, Mark Murrmann, predictions, winter photographs and iPhone photos.
ICP Announces 2023 Infinity Awards
11 January 2023
The International Center of Photography has announced the 2023 honorees of its annual Infinity Awards. Honorees include Ming Smith, Joyce Cowin, Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, Poulomi Basu and Zora J Murff.
Epson Announces SureLab D1070 Minilab Printer
11 January 2023
Epson has announced the SureLab D1070, its new high-performance minilab printer. Built for high-volume photo and graphic arts production, the drylab printer's modern design integrates seamlessly into workflows for maximum profitability and enables businesses to quickly deliver outstanding prints to their customers, the company said.
Repairing a Nikkor Zoom
10 January 2023
If you read our exuberant piece titled Fixing a Nikkor Zoom, you know we suffered the same problem with two 18-200mm Nikkor zooms. Which is that the scene in the viewfinder hops up and back down before focusing.
Around The Horn
10 January 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 Ian Macdonald, Landforms Project, Joe McNally, Victoria Sambunaris, Kari Medig, iconic locations, a Leica zoom lens, Lightroom plug-ins and Pocket Guides.
Remembering Henry Grossman
9 January 2023
Henry Grossman, who made revealing formal portraits as well as intimate candids, died on Nov. 27 in Englewood, N.J. after being hospitalized several months after a fall. He was 86.
Around The Horn
9 January 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 Mountain Photo of the Year, Dancing Bears Festival, Close-Up Photographer of the Year, Terry LaRue, Laura Visigalli, some thoughts and Gen Z's digicams.
Matinee: 'Funeral Photographer'
7 January 2023
Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?
Around The Horn
7 January 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 Nate Gowdy, Isabel Malia, Gen Z's digicams and 2023 photography contests.
Artist Emergency Relief Grants Now Available
6 January 2023
The San Francisco Arts Commission has partnered with the Minnesota Street Project Foundation to share information about available resources to assist local artists who have recently been impacted by severe weather and flooding.
Friday Slide Show: Soaked by a Storm
6 January 2023
The second of three atmospheric rivers hit the region this week dropping another four or five inches of rain. The ground was already saturated after the first. The second brought both more flooding and power failures from downed trees along with it.
How to Pack a Lens
6 January 2023
We've unpacked and packed hundreds of cameras and lenses in 25 years of reviewing photographic gear. But we always unpacked and packed consumer packaging. We've rarely had to pack anything from scratch.
Around The Horn
6 January 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 Alpine ski resorts, the Filter Photo Festival, a TP-Link solution, Aputure lighting, Maven magnetic filters plus Martin and Virginia Davis.
A Dark and Stormy Night +
5 January 2023
We had just chopped the Romaine into slivers for our chopped blue cheese salad with olive oil and lemon juice when the lights, which had been flickering, went dark with a sort of finality that could not be mistaken.
Nikon Announces Development of 85mm, 26mm Nikkors
5 January 2023
Nikon has announced it is developing the Nikkor Z 85mm f1.2 S, a fast mid-telephoto prime lens, and the Nikkor Z 26mm f2.8, a slim wide-angle prime lens for the Nikon Z mount system. Both lenses will be full-frame, FX-format capable.
Around The Horn
5 January 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 wildlife candidates, Ian Spanier, Merlin, Nikon lenses and a fraud alert.
Panasonic Announces Lumix S5 II and S5 IIX
4 January 2023
Panasonic has announced the Lumix S5 II and Lumix S5 IIx full-frame mirrorless cameras. The new releases include the Lumix S5II camera body, the Lumix S5IIx camera body, kits with the S5II and S5IIx cameras and a 20-60mm zoom lens, plus a new 14-28mm ultra-wide L-mount half-macro zoom lens for photo and video applications.
CES Notebook +
4 January 2023
The Consumer Electronics Show kicks off today in Las Vegas as yet another Covid-19 variant has been identified. Several years ago, CES was suspected of incubating the first outbreak of the disease in the Bay area. So once again we are monitoring events in drone mode, so to speak. At a safe distance.
Around The Horn
4 January 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 LA's arcades, nordic landscapes, Nancy Rubin, a Nikon wishlist and global shutters.
Around The Horn
3 January 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 Jan. 1, Jan Bell, missed shots, aspect ratios, the Synology DiskStation, Fujifilm's film simulations, Christmas tree light bokeh, resolutions, opportunities and debloating Windows.
Caregiver
2 January 2023
During a brief respite from our caregiver duties on the sunny patio yesterday, we looked up from our book to find this remnant of potted basil looking back at us. We dismissed it idly and went back to reading Vonnegut's letters but it called for a second look.
Around The Horn
2 January 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 cold swimmers, last week, return shots, Greenland, Pelé, Peakto, car talk, an appraisal and Olan Mills double exposures.
December Archived
1 January 2023
We've just archived Volume 11, Number 12 of Photo Corners on the Archive page with 18 Features, 8 commented News stories, 27 Editor's Notes (which included 169 items of interest), 2 reviews and 1 site note for a total of 56 stories.
It's 2023!
1 January 2023
Once again, the exclamation point in our headline expresses, not just optimism, but some genuine enthusiasm. Last year hasn't just ended but a new one has begun with a lot of positives.
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