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Around The Horn
1 May 2024
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 rare blue rock-thrush, David Hurn, bubblegum, Dano Steinhardt, a car kettle and books of collections.
April Archived
1 May 2024
We've just archived Volume 13, Number 4 of Photo Corners on the Archive page with 16 Features, seven commented News stories, 26 Editor's Notes (which included 166 items of interest) and one site note for a total of 50 stories.
Around The Horn
30 April 2024
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 sports, Andrés Mario de Varona, Jami McGrego Smith, a fisheye cathedral ceiling, the shooting experience and a sales comeback.
Solving Photoshop's Folder Follies
29 April 2024
It drives us nuts to open an image in one folder or directory in Photoshop and save it in another when we're doing this repeatedly for a series of images. Photoshop doesn't seem to be able to keep the source and destination locations separate.
Around The Horn
29 April 2024
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 Dudi Ben Simon, Ciro Battiloro, Lydia Goldblatt, Arrayah Loynd, San Francisco Bar Pilots, historical Cairo, press checks, Magnum's Square Print Sale, the Joan Wakelin Bursary Prize and film storage.
Matinee: 'Leah Bokenkamp Beach Art'
27 April 2024
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
27 April 2024
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 Midwest tornadoes, Jelly Febrian, Harold Davis, the Content Authenticity Initiative and USB file transfers.
Friday Slide Show: Apple Blossoms
26 April 2024
Without our noticing it, the old apple tree has blossomed. We hadn't noticed because after last year, we'd given it up for dead. There just wasn't much life in the old wood.
Around The Horn
26 April 2024
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 Carnation Revolution+, LensCulture New York, AP's week in pictures, Beatlemania, the Poetry Camera and travel photography.
Stepping Out
25 April 2024
You ever wonder what some people are thinking? We were crossing the street under our own power when we noticed some fellow sticking his foot out from a cable car as if he was braking it.
Around The Horn
25 April 2024
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 Magdalena Wosinska, Billy Childress, Lance Yamamoto, a People Distractions tool and Ivan McClellan.
Bush Street
24 April 2024
We've always been fond of this block of Bush Street between Grant and Kearney in San Francisco's downtown. No particular reason. It just resonates with us.
Around The Horn
24 April 2024
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 Photography Show, Arles Coliseum Steps, Firefly Image 3 Model and subtractive lighting.
Calculating an Aspect Ratio +
23 April 2024
We should have known better, really. But it seemed like such a simple request. A poster on the Keyboard Maestro forum asked, "Does anyone have ideas for a macro that would show you the dimensions of a selected image file in Finder?"
Around The Horn
23 April 2024
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 sports, the Venice Biennale, Tim Hetherington, Sofia Aldinio, the Nikon 28-400mm zoom, shooting wide open and Saturday in San Francisco.
Cropping a Neighborhood
22 April 2024
Looking down at the city from Twin Peaks, we were charmed by these houses lined up below us. They seemed like the perfect little neighborhood.
Around The Horn
22 April 2024
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 Beijing, Kyotographie 2024, intimacy, Tony Van Le, Tokyo, French Wisteria, Philip Wiper, the Leica Q2 and old gear.
Matinee: 'Michael Foster, Photographer'
20 April 2024
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 April 2024
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, the Burj Khalifa, Kamzy Nuel, Ansel stamps replicas and search text in photos.
Friday Slide Show: Twin Peaks Scope
19 April 2024
On our recent trek up Twin Peaks, we snapped a vertical shot of one of the telescopes installed in the viewing area. And, for some reason known only to fortune tellers, we really liked it.
Around The Horn
19 April 2024
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 Contest winners, Matt Slocum, a banking convention, stolen images and a scratch in the sensor box.
Hasselblad Masters 2023 Finalists Selected
19 April 2024
Hasselblad has selected the finalists for its Masters competition, opening the vote to the public as well as the grand jury.
Cyme Ships Peakto Search for Lightroom
18 April 2024
Cyme has begun shipping Peakto Search for Lightroom, which retrieves photos or videos in multiple catalogs even without annotations. The AI-powered plug-in is driven by either a simple text description or an image.
Around The Horn
18 April 2024
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 sports, Corky Lee, the Rathkopfs, Francine LeClercq, the Fujifilm X-T5 and an office move.
Around The Horn
17 April 2024
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 trench, master craftsmen's tools, sunshine at midnight, volcanic smoke rings, Hippolyte Bayard, urban wildlife and a Fracture deal.
Sony Announced Compact Wide-Angle FE 16-25mm f2.8 G Zoom
16 April 2024
Sony has announced its FE 16-25mm f2.8 G zoom lens, a large-aperture wide-angle zoom for Sony's Alpha E-mount cameras. The lens maintains a maximum aperture of f2.8 over the entire wide-angle zoom range in the smallest and lightest constant f2.8 zoom packasge Sony has produced to date.
Around The Horn
16 April 2024
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 Coachella, Justine Kurland, Karabo Mooki and a damaged SD card.
A Smile From the Past +
15 April 2024
In an old Kodak box labeled Lantern Slide Cover Glass we found a single glass positive. It was intended to be viewed by a Magic Lantern, predecessor of the slide projector. But you can just hold the 4.0 x 3.24 inch slides up to the light.
Around The Horn
15 April 2024
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 animals, Ed Ruscha, natural resilience, driving and Todd Hido.
Matinee: 'Pablo Herrera'
13 April 2024
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 April 2024
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, new marine species, David Johnson, Josef Koudelka, colorizing and two Epson excerpts.
Friday Slide Show: City Safari
12 April 2024
Photographers have always been susceptible to the attraction of a safari.
Around The Horn
12 April 2024
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, LensCulture Portrait Awards, two eclipse shots, two Ranunculus blooms, shooting old negatives and blurred edges.
Sony Updates Its Camera Remote SDK
12 April 2024
Sony has released a Camera Remote SDK v1.12 with more features and WiFi connection among other improvements. The new Camera Remote Command capabilities also enables remote control of 29 digital cameras. And the new specification document removes restrictions on third-party software development, supporting the creation of software that remotely controls Sony's digital cameras, including shooting, monitoring and file transfer.
Around The Horn
11 April 2024
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 Eid Al-Fitr, sports, Dekotora, a Man Ray auction and Sears Portrait Studio codes.
Epson Introduces Auto Chart Reader
10 April 2024
Epson has announced its Auto Chart Reader with Epson Edge Color Lite software to extend color management capabilities for the Epson SD-10 Spectrophotometer and Epson Edge Print customers. The new color management workflow creates color profiles and quickly verifies and calibrates color.
Epson Announces 64-Inch SureColor P20570
10 April 2024
Epswon has introduced its SureColor P20570 featuring an improved printer design supporting a 12-channel printhead and Epson UltraChrome PRO12 ink delivering the widest color gamut in its class with incredible black density.
Around The Horn
10 April 2024
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 Nick Bradt, Salvatore Ferragamo, Richard Avedon, eclipse aftermath and Rosie Marie Cromwell.
Around The Horn
9 April 2024
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 eclipse, The Photography Show, Kimberley Flower Shoot, six image-sharing sites, the Epson SC-P5370 printer, external drives and anamorphic lenses.
Dancing Cactus
8 April 2024
Only a few minutes (very few) before we encountered this dancing cactus, we had been walking down the street in a hail storm. Fortunately we had been prepared for rain and slipped our hood on. But we were not prepared for a dancing cactus.
Around The Horn
8 April 2024
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 seven Afghan families, Gaza, Akihiko Okamura, Jiatong Lu, Ian Berry, Treasure Island, umbrellas and the eclipse.
Matinee: 'Joan Myers -- Fire & Ice'
6 April 2024
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 April 2024
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 in pictures, Atle R_nningen, the arms industry, Malcolm Daniel, a portable fridge and a Rocky Nook sale.
Friday Slide Show: The Shakespeare Garden
5 April 2024
After entering Golden Gate Park from the Ninth Ave. entrance (which is getting a monumental facelift with some enormous boulders), you see the botanical garden on the left and the ball fields on the right before you come to the music concourse where the de Young and Academy of Sciences buildings are.
ICP, Leica Announce Leica Scholarship
5 April 2024
The International Center of Photography and Leica Camera have established the Leica Scholarship at ICP to provide tuition support to a deserving student applying for a One-Year Certificate Program at ICP.
Around The Horn
5 April 2024
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 cherry blossoms, more cherry blossoms, Vision & Justice, shooting wide open, an hour with Steve Gosling, a boudoir shoots question and QuickLook.
Around The Horn
4 April 2024
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 Anja Niedringhaus, farm animal photos, show dogs, Rahim Fortune, Jan Erik Waider, the Leica M240, a cellphone eclipse, an on-set grip kit and the biggest digital camera.
Baby Shoes
3 April 2024
Among our archeological finds (and we seem to make a few more every time we open a closet door or a dresser drawer) at Mom's house were these baby shoes. They aren't ours, we know, because ours weren't high tops.
Around The Horn
3 April 2024
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 Taiwan, World Press Photo winners, Asom Khan, Layer bounds previews, equivalent aperture, fast apertures and Mosaic.
Around The Horn
2 April 2024
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 Alastair Philip Wiper, Anupam Nath, Patty Carroll, Jim Westphalen, SD card transfers, Leica-capable flashes, a Think Tank Photo deal and Daido Moriyama.
Around The Horn
1 April 2024
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 Easter Parade, Easter Sunday, domestic workers, Peru, artistic swimmers, love, flowers and a few jokes.
March Archived
1 April 2024
We've just archived Volume 13, Number 3 of Photo Corners on the Archive page with 24 Features, 16 commented News stories, 26 Editor's Notes (which included 163 items of interest) and two site notes for a total of 68 stories.
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10 December 2012
It would almost always catch us by surprise. We'd advance the film on our Nikon FM2 only to find out we'd already taken the last shot.
Sometimes that happens in life, too.
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We wish the company well and remain grateful for the opportunity to discuss our passion for getting the picture with each reader who welcomed such a long email every two weeks in their inbox.
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