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Around The Horn
23 February 2021
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 10 Black photographers, Mount Etna, a yellow penguin, Robert Blomfield, compositing, Virginia Heckert, inspiration, a hidden message and a welcome FCC proposal.
- In Reflection: 10 of the Best Black Photographers We've Featured, Chris Gampat revisits the Black photographers The Phoblographer has featured over the past 10 years.
- In Mount Etna Illuminates Night Sky With 1,500-Metre Lava Fountain, Lorenzo Tondo reports yesterday's eruption "soared to 1,500 meters -- a display described by one expert as "one of the most striking in the last few decades."
- Yves Adams photographed A Rare Yellow Penguin on a South Georgia Island in a sea of 120,000 king penguins. "The atypical coloring is due to leucism, a condition that results in the loss of melanin, which turns the black feathers and feet into a lighter hue," Grace Ebert explains.
- In Hidden in a Shoebox: Vintage Edinburgh Shots, Elena Goodinson presents Robert Blomfield's images of life in the Scottish capital that were hidden away for decades.
- Adobe is featuring Julieanne Kost's 25-minute presentation of Photoshop Compositing Tools and Techniques. Discover how to use Photoshop to "select and isolate subjects, unify disparate elements and eliminate discrepancies of scale and proportion to create believable, compelling and impactful imagery."
- In Conceptual Photographs, the Neutral in Realism and More, Jim Casper interviews Getty curator of photographs Virginia Heckert.
- Dave Williams reflects on What Inspires Us. Sometimes it's not only what other people do but we ourselves do, he points out.
- In Hidden Message Found on Nasa Mars Rover Parachute, Martin Belam decodes the red and white pattern. "The origins of the phrase," he explains, "are an 1899 speech by Theodore Roosevelt, in which he said: 'Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.'"
- Devin Coldewey reports the FCC Proposes Rules for Emergency Broadband Program to Keep Struggling Families Online. "From work to healthcare to education, this crisis has made it clear that without an Internet connection too many households are locked out of modern life," said acting FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel in a statement.
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