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26 April 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 the red carpet, Tomasz Kawecki, Jo Fischer, home, spring, the Sigma 35mm f1.4 Art lens, composition, upgrading firmware, pixel-shifted images and Louise Dahl-Wolfe.

  • The Guardian presents a few images from yesterday's Oscars 2021 Red Carpet. It's just "a selection of the best looks from the red carpet at the 93rd Academy Awards in Los Angeles" but enough to give the men a nod for once.
  • In A Lair, Cat Lachowskyj features the magical creatures of Tomasz Kawecki's imagination set in the forests of his childhood. He created them with the help of his grandmother, a biologist specializing in mycology, who also models for him.
  • Bonjour Tristesse highlights the common beauties found in Jo Fischer's series of that name. "In my mind, tristesse is everything ordinary with which I'm confronted in my homeland," he says.
  • Derrick Story's revelation while Documenting Mom's House is something we've experienced, too. Like him, we have an elderly mother managing on her own in the family homestead. And we too have wondered "how much longer I'll have the opportunity to enjoy this space" where the family has gathered since the beginning of the 1960s. Our own iPhone capture:
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  • Michael Johnston's Random Snap: Days of Spring is a lovely Fujifilm X-H1 shot. "The older I get, the more I love the turn of the seasons," he writes.
  • Kirk Tuck reflects on the virtues of the Sigma 35mm f1.4 Art Lens with an L mount. "I think the lens is a winner; spectacular even and I'm trying to imagine more and more situations for which it's a perfect solution," he writes.
  • Dahlia Ambrose highlights 30 Photographs That Make Brilliant Use of Compositional Guidelines. "If you are a beginner, this list will help you to observe each image and learn the techniques used to make each image powerful and visually appealing," she writes. And if you're not a beginner, they're a pleasure to look at anyway.
  • Scott Kelby details the trick to Upgrading Your Camera's Firmware with a step-by-step recounting of upgrading his Canon R's firmware. One caution: do it with a full-charged battery. It's a short process but you don't want the lights to go out in the middle of it.
  • Jim Kasson demonstrates Two Ways to Make 100-Mp Pixel-Shifted Images With the GFX 100S.
  • We never miss a piece by Margaret Renkl. In today's The Picassos of the American South, she writes about the sculpture of William Edmondson, "the first Black artist to have a solo show at the Museum of Modern Art." His tombstones, bird baths and other sculptures were photographed by Louise Dahl-Wolfe who photographed rural Tennessee life during the Great Depression. She would later make her name as a fashion photographer for Harper's Bazaar. Two of her images are included in the piece.

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