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Around The Horn
12 July 2018
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 Castelluccio in bloom, Brazil's favelas, wider street portraits, visual apps, Pete Souza, Jerusalem, MacBook Pro updates and RSS feeds.
- In Colors Bloom Across the Great Plain of Castelluccio, Italy, Alan Taylor presents 21 photos of fields of lentils and poppies "carpeting the landscape with a colorful quilt of blossoming flowers."
- João Pina is In Brazil's Favelas, Caught Between Police and Gangsters. "Pina is a photographer with a keen sense how places fail to grapple with past actions," David Gonzalez writes in his profile of the photographer. "There are more than a thousand favelas, yet at the height of the pacification campaign, only 45 were pacified," Pina tells him. "What happened? When you pacified one place, it just moved to another place."
- Robin Wong discusses the art of taking Wider Street Portraits as he moves from a 45mm to a 25mm lens (90mm to 50mm 35mm equivalent). "The biggest challenge for me is to have my subjects in their original position and pose without being alerted by my presence or intention of shooting them," he writes.
- Hans Hartman explores Visual Apps: Photo, Video, Photo + Video?, finding "Less than half of the top-ranking apps in Apple's iTunes Photo and Video categories are 'pure' photo apps: 40 percent provide photo-only features, 25 percent offer video-only features and 35 percent offer features for both photos and videos."
- Shade: A Tale of Two Presidents by former White House photographer Pete Souza is a portrait in presidential contrasts, telling the tale of the Obama and Trump administrations through a series of visual juxtapositions. Available for preorder now, the 240-page hardcover edition will be published in October.
- Under My Window by Michal Ronnen Safdie is a collection of photos taken looking out over the Western Wall precinct, the Dome of the Rock and the Al-Aqsa Mosque. Her photographs capture personal moments alongside large-scale public events in Jerusalem. The 120-page book will be available in September.
- Apple has updated its MacBook Pro with up to 6-core processors and 32-GB of memory, True Tone display and the Apple T2 chip.
- In RSS Has Already Won, Pine software developer Brian Schrader argues "that RSS and Feeds as a whole never really disappeared, only the Feed Readers did." And the readers are coming back because RSS feeds (like ours) have never disappeared.
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