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Matinee: 'Black Photojournalism'
13 December 2025
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 December 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at Northwest rains, SantaCon, the Geminids Meteor Shower and Steve Sasson.
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Friday Slide Show: A Murano Bracelet
12 December 2025
Riculous, we thought, as we fell into our 25-year-old gas-powered vehicle. Tomorrow, we calculated, was our 50th anniversary and we still didn't have a suitable present. How many years does it take us?
Around The Horn
12 December 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at Reuters, LensCulture's B&W Awards, Gaza, Melissa Ann Pinney, a year-end checklist and Web site issues.
Around The Horn
11 December 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at musicians, aerial photos, winter drinks, a free 50-page PDF and stocking stuffers.
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Adobe Brings Photoshop. Express, Acrobat to ChatGPT
10 December 2025
In a blog post today, Pam Clark announced the arrival of Photoshop (and Express and Acrobat along with it) within ChatGPT.
Nikon Releases Nikon | RED Imaging Recipes
10 December 2025
Nikon and RED have released Nikon | RED Imaging Recipes curated by RED. "By combining the strengths of RED and Nikon technologies, the brands created a truly unique look that delivers richer, more compelling visual expression than ever before," the companies said.
Around The Horn
10 December 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at drone nets, Lauri Gaffin, vintage compact cameras, winter and a camera journey.
Around The Horn
9 December 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at trees, the solar maximum, compositing in Photoshop, recommended photobooks and the Tamron 20-40mm.
Remembering Martin Parr
8 December 2025
Martin Parr, who once explained he was "creating fiction out of reality" has left the world that inspired him at age 73. He had been diagnosed with an incurable form of blood cancer in May 2021.
Around The Horn
8 December 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at Syria, Lando Norris, Jozef Macak, camera nostalgia, an $800 monochrome camera and an eye patch.
Matinee: 'Ten Ugly Christmas Sweaters'
6 December 2025
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 December 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at an ICE deportation center, Frank Gehry's buildings, Frank Gehry's halls and amphitheaters, memory prices and Cloud Dancer.
Friday Slide Show: A Music Box
5 December 2025
We know nothing at all about this music box except Mom kept it on her dresser. When we peeked inside we didn't discover anything of any particular interest. You could even say it wasn't worth salvaging.
Around The Horn
5 December 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at AP's week, Reuters' week, Howard Schatz and the colorful 2026 Lavazza Calendar.
That Handy Camera in Your Pocket
4 December 2025
Yesterday we were having dim sum with some friends when one of the tikes complained to their host, "You have the wrong batteries!"
Around The Horn
4 December 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at West Bank olive harvest, Shiprock, clouds, the brand you know and Claude.
Around The Horn
3 December 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at immigration photos, 80 women photographers, Australia waves, Sony Alpha 7 V ergonomics, the Arca-Swiss P0, wide-angle lenses, Fuji X Recipe Generator, long exposure photography and an unhappy bride.
Sony Announces Alpha 7 V, FE 28-70mm
2 December 2025
Sony has introduced its Alpha 7 V powered by a newly-developed partially-stacked Exmor RS CMOS image sensor with approximately 33.0 effective megapixels and the BIONZ XR2, a new image processing engine that incorporates the AI processing unit functions of the latest Alpha series.
Around The Horn
2 December 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at Lee Chapman, Nina Welch-Kling, a new stamp, Jim Bailey, photography's decline, tripods and the Getty-Shutterstock merger.
Around The Horn
1 December 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at 2025, stock photo earnings, Alejandro Cartagena and a Beseler 23C II enlarger.
November Archived
1 December 2025
We've just archived Volume 14, Number 11 of Photo Corners on the Archive page with 16 Features, 5 commented News stories, 25 Editor's Notes (which included 135 items of interest) and our usual site note for a total of 47 stories.
Matinee: 'Pat O'Neill's Photo Edition'
29 November 2025
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 November 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at unusual pictures, autoimmune encephalitis, sharpness vs. aliasing, digicams and an anniversary.
Remembering Ruth Thorne-Thomsen
28 November 2025
Ruth Thorne-Thomsen, who photographed her "environmental collages" with a pinhole camera, died late last month from respiratory failure at a hospice facility in Philadelphia. She was 82.
Friday Slide Show: Mom's Charms
28 November 2025
As a child there was nothing in Mom's jewelry box as fascinating as her charm bracelet. No gold bracelet, no diamond stud earring, no brooch, no ring. Only her charm bracelet could charm a child.
Around The Horn
28 November 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at AP's week, Reuters' week, Macy's parade, forests and monochrome wildlife.
Around The Horn: Black Friday
28 November 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. Our traditional Black Friday Horn looks at a few unusual shopping resources with links to their deals. As always, shopping with our affiliates helps support this site.
Happy Thanksgiving
27 November 2025
This is the 13th Thanksgiving we've celebrated with you at Photo Corners. As always, we're grateful for your support and roll up our sleeves every day to show it.
Around The Horn
26 November 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at the Olympic flame-lighting ceremony, a new era, Nikon Z Q&A, lighting techniques and swindles.
Around The Horn
25 November 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at Kyiv's subways, Yves Lacroix, Nature inFocus, tripodism and Hogan's latest weekly.
Around The Horn
24 November 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at Lebanon, RPS winners, feral fruit, Lee Miller, Cynthia Katz, AP photographers and Kyoto.
Matinee: 'The Great May Auroras'
22 November 2025
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 November 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at the week, Novak Djokovic, distant dust clouds, a Twin Peaks condo, tripod legs and public bathroom florists.
Friday Slide Show: The Cesca Chair Project
21 November 2025
Nearly 50 years ago we bought four Cesca chairs made in Spain as our kitchen chairs. And since we didn't have a dining room, they doubled as dining room chairs too.
Around The Horn
21 November 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at AP's week, Reuters' week, Oceania Photo Contest winners, the essential tripod accessory and teaching your kids to love museums.
Around The Horn
20 November 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at Deborah Willis, Alastair Philip Wiper, Generative Upscale, Deanna Dikeman and PolarPro's Center-Split Filter.
RPS Awards Winners Announced
19 November 2025
Winners of The 147th Royal Photographic Society Awards for 2025, the world's longest running photography prize, have been has announced. The recipients are...
Around The Horn
19 November 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at immigration courts, Gaza's tent camps, Jun Fujita, Sudanese photographers, a gift guide and a camera stand project.
Revisiting Photoshop's Image Processor
18 November 2025
We had hit a brick wall. We wanted to convert a few dozen DNG files into JPEGs but since we haven't ever done this many at once, we weren't sure which method to use. There were several candidates.
Around The Horn
18 November 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at great Irish writers, Daesung Lee, the Echolens, preventing fungus and DxO discounts.
Around The Horn
17 November 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at Barrie Wentzell, Kansas, Northern Lights, Japan monochromes, tonality, Hogan's digest and private property.
Matinee: '39 Days in Europe'
15 November 2025
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 November 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at Chicago protests, unusual pictures, Paris Photo Sean Gallagher, Icarus and George McCalman.
Friday Slide Show: November Storm
14 November 2025
Our first November storm this year (one of those atmospheric rivers) announced itself with downpours in the middle of the night. We were hoping it would taper off before we left for the skilled nursing facility later in the morning.
Around The Horn
14 November 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at AP's week, Reuters' week, defamiliarizing, camera back alignment, Robby Müller and LensCulture Art Photography Awards.
Leica Launches LOBA Women Grant
13 November 2025
Leica has announced the LOBA Women Grant, "a new project concept and image series, which will subsequently be presented as part of the Leica Oskar Barnack Award." The grant will be awarded for a project concept to be showcased at the Leica Oskar Barnack Award the following year.
Around The Horn
13 November 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at Paris remembering the victims of the 2015 terrorist attack, Bangladesh farmers, Ferrari, Siloam Heath and the Sonoma County Autumn Photo Workshop.
Around The Horn
12 November 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at Veterans Day, the UPS plane crash, Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize, Ying Ang, Charlie Cramer on Curves, Nicholas Wolken and getting hassled.
Veterans Day
11 November 2025
Much as we welcome national holidays as a day off around here, we find this Veterans Day a little contentious. There are peoople in high places, let's just say, who would like to forget the contributions of some who have served.
Looking South
10 November 2025
The trip to the top of Twin Peaks is not to be missed. There is a parking lot just beyond Eureka, the northern peak, leading to Christmas Tree Point where you can survey the East Bay and Marin, Alcatraz and the Golden Gate Bridge, all the sights of downtown and more.
Around The Horn
10 November 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at coal miners, food banks, New York City, Reuben Wu and San Francisco's parks.
Matinee: 'A Harvest of Memories'
8 November 2025
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 November 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at the week, the Parthenon, Stranger Things, popular camera systems, the Camp Snap CS-8 and Gampat's eye surgery.
Friday Slide Show: The Hospital Room
7 November 2025
You are rolled out of the ICU on a gurney, down hallways, around corners, avoiding collisions, to another room, the size of a closet, where the nurses hook you back up to the monitors and fuss over you a bit.
Around The Horn
7 November 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at Kent State, airports, unusual pictures, costumes, portraits, Nagasaki, Maddie McGarvey, Buzkashi, the Godox iT30 Pro, Excire Foto and the Twirly Shirley.
Remembering Sara Terry
6 November 2025
Sara Terry, who documented the effects of war in places like Bosnia and Sierra Leone, died at her home in Los Angeles on Oct. 13 at the age of 70.
Canon Announces R6 Mark III, RF45mm f1.2 STM Lens
6 November 2025
Canon U.S.A., Inc. has announced its R6 Mark III full-frame mirrorless camera and the RF45mm f1.2 STM lens.
Datacolor Expands SpyderPro Software With Update
6 November 2025
Datacolor has released an update to its SpyderPro calibration software with new workflow tools that include image processing and exporting as well as content credentials embedding.
Around The Horn
6 November 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at the Border Wall, Typhoon Kalmaegi, the Vaillancourt Fountain and Nancy Pelosi.
The Glove Situation
5 November 2025
We've been spending a lot of time visiting the ICU at a nearby hospital. Much of it quietly waiting for something good to happen. So our eyes wander until they fall on something that gives our mind something to chew on.
Around The Horn
5 November 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at the election, George Orwell's Jura, Theyyam, Josh Aronson, the Pentax HD 16-50mm and still life photography.
DxO Updates PhotoLab, PureRaw, Nik Collection +
4 November 2025
DxO has released updates to PhotoLab, PureRaw and Nik Collection. Details follow.
Around The Horn
4 November 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at Ian Parry Photojournalism Grant, Pushkar Camel Festival, Dick Cheney, the Red Spider Nebula, Vjaybombs, Lightroom 9, the Sony a7Rv, Visual 1st, the Godox V480 N and Shoot Extraordinary.
Around The Horn
3 November 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at the World Series, Dia De Los Muertos, the East Wing demolition and dSLR vs. mirrorless.
Fall Back
1 November 2025
After Game 7 of this particularly entertaining World Series ends tonight, don't go to bed. You have an important chore to do. Daylight Saving Time (for those of us under its thumb) ends at 2 a.m. tomorrow. Which instantly becomes 1 a.m. again.
Around The Horn
1 November 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at Halloween, Melissa Ann Pinney, cheap film cameras and Kōyasan.
Matinee: 'Rosslyn Chapel'
1 November 2025
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?
October Archived
1 November 2025
We've just archived Volume 14, Number 10 of Photo Corners on the Archive page with 13 Features, 12 commented News stories, 27 Editor's Notes (which included 152 items of interest) and 1 site note for a total of 53 stories.
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