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Around The Horn
2 May 2022
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 Jane Evelyn, Chukwudi Onwumere, Joe McNally, Kylli Sparre, tripod overhaul, Polaroid and pants.
- Jane Evelyn Atwood goes to Finistère -- the End of the Earth in Brittany with a Leica M11 for two months. "What fascinated me the most were the spectacular landscapes everywhere, nature, the sea and the sky," she says.
- Gregory Eddi Jones interviews LensCulture Art Photography Awards 2022 Winner Chukwudi Onwumere about Road Runners, documenting the daily lives of street hawkers in Nigeria. "My attraction for them grew from the tenacity, zeal, strength and agility I have seen them display and the role they play in the society which has made people dependent on them," he says. "So, I decided to paint them in a different light showing positivity and hope using colors, perspective and shadows."
- In Hard Light, Fast Lens, Joe McNally uses both for a shoot with Thais D'Lima. "She posed for this series during a time when I was able to experiment with the Nikon 58mm Noct lens, which pulls in, f-stop-wise, at a nifty, off the charts wide open value of 0.95, making it the fastest lens I've ever used," he writes.
- Restriction and Movement are the themes of the composed photographic works by Kylli Sparre, writes Grace Ebert. "These surreal, claustrophobic images depart from Sparre's otherwise energetic shots that tend to position women and young girls in motion, whether leaping in the air or sprinting through a house trailed by a swath of white fabric," she writes.
- Nando Harmsen show you How to Clean a Tripod in Five Easy Steps (well, not exactly easy and you will have to have some grease). We prefer a thorough wipe-down before collapsing the legs on site to keep the thing clean. But if deferred maintenance is your method, this is the way to restore your tripod.
- In As Polaroid's SX-70 Turns 50, Instant Photography Is Booming, Harry McCracken points out not even Polaroid could kill Polaroid. "My local Target store -- a junior-sized neighborhood one, not a big box -- sells a full complement of Polaroid and Instax cameras and film, dwarfing the space it allocates to digital cameras," he writes.
- Kirk Tuck has a few Thoughts While Unloading Stuff, including buying $15 pants at Costco. And a confession. "Compared to shooting with my new GH6 or my year old Panasonic S5 my Leica SL2 just plain sucked for walking around Santa Fe," he writes. His favorite "walking around" set up was "the GH6 paired with the new Olympus 12-45mm lens."
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