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Around The Horn
2 August 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 China's bike problem revisited, satellite views of the California wildfires, a mother duck with 76 ducklings, the Canon 70-200mm f4 IS II lens and Spect.
- China Is Still Sorting Through Its Colorful Bike-Share Graveyards, Alan Taylor reports with 24 almost abstract images to prove it. "The scale of the situation was so large to begin with, it will be a long time before the bicycle graveyards fade away," he notes.
- NASA has published Satellite Views Fires Raging in California (and we've enhanced the images in Adobe Camera Raw):
California Wildfires. Smoke patterns from the Northern Calif. (l) and Southern California fires.
- Minnesota photographer Brent Cizek caught A Mother Duck and Her Extraordinary Brood of 76 Ducklings, many of which were apparently adopted, Kate Sierzputowski explains in the accompanying text.
- Roger Cicala (with Aaron Closz) has posted his MTF Tests for the Canon 70-200mm f4 IS II Lens. "Optically, then, the new Canon is better than the last version at all focal lengths, but most dramatically so at 70mm," he writes. But he's just getting started.
- John Voohries takes a look at Spect: Simple Image Management on the Mac. "Point the app at a folder and tell it how deep to peer into subfolders and the app quickly generates thumbnails of the images to that depth of the folder structure," he writes.
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