Photo Corners headlinesarchivemikepasini.com
A S C R A P B O O K O F S O L U T I O N S F O R T H E P H O T O G R A P H E R
Enhancing the enjoyment of taking pictures with news that matters, features that entertain and images that delight. Published frequently.
Around The Horn
30 October 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 a rare bioluminescence bloom, the House of Mirrors, training NASA's Rovers, Ethiopia revisited and a Leica CL.
- In Electric Blue, Jamen Percy was taking photos of surfers at Freshwater beach on the northern beaches of Sydney last week when he noticed the water turning blue from a rare bioluminescence bloom.
- Harold Bloom suggests his Funhouse made within the House of Mirrors on Petrin Hill in Prague is "a fairly appropriate image for Halloween." Nightmarish, certainly.
- You Can Help Train NASA's Rovers to Better Explore Mars, NASA says. "Members of the public can now help teach an artificial intelligence algorithm to recognize scientific features in images taken by NASA's Perseverance rover." You like looking at images, right?
- Luminous Landscape has reprised Michael Reichmann's A Photographic Expedition to Ethiopia, first published in December 2015, as a complimentary article. It's interesting to evaluate the accompanying images taken with 2105 gear and processed in 2015 software. Are they dated at all? Can you improve them in your image editing software now?
- Kirk Tuck unboxes his Leica CL and slaps a Panasonic 20-60mm S lens on it, a 30-90mm full-frame equivalent. "The Leica CL hit my radar earlier this year when I realized that the bigger SL variants, while being superb picture taking machines, were a bit heavy to carry around when you just want a companion camera with which to capture ephemeral and errata," he writes.
More to come! Meanwhile, here's a look back. And please support our efforts...