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Around The Horn
25 July 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 Comic-Con, California wildfires, Gleeson Paulino, Jonas Wresch, Silo City, used cameras, a Goldilocks camera, Internetting, Lightroom sharpening and the Worldwide Photowalk.
- The Associate Press presents a few images from Comic-Con in San Diego, i"the first full-attendance version of the pop culture phenomenon since 2019."
- The Guardian presents images of California Wildfires from photographers from the Associated Press, Getty Images and Reuters.
- In Batismo, Magali Duzant showcases Brazilian photographer Gleeson Paulino's dreamlike series of images that uses water "as a catalyst of renewal, forgiveness, encounter and play."
- In A Village Confronts Hunger, Jonas Wresch documents the drought in Kenya. "I explore the place a bit more with each picture, photograph simple farmers and village elders, school children and mothers and gradually gain the people's trust," he says. "They open up their doors for me and let me take part in their lives."
- In Behind the Shot -- Silo City, Kevin Raber talks about his image called Grain Distribution. "There were a lot of things happening in this picture and I wanted the viewer to explore the angles and dangles as well as try to understand what they were looking at."
- Kirk Tuck photographed cases of Used dLSR Cameras. There are hundreds of them and they aren't moving. "I got bored photographing the dSLR surplus with my phone and asked to see the case with the used L mount system stuff or the used Leica SL/CL stuff. It didn't exist," he writes. "Seems people don't trade them in very often."
- Mike Johnston reveals The Goldilocks 'Just Right' Camera for him is the OM System OM-1.
- In More Responses to Internetting, Thom Hogan takes on a few more wildly inaccurate claims exhibiting an "inability to observe reality."
- Jim Kasson takes a look at Lightroom Sharpening of Leica Q2 Monochrom Files. Input or capture sharpening, to be specific, in which the "objective to get the file sharpness to match the scene sharpness."
- Scott Kelby's Worldwide Photowalk will be held on Aug. 13. Where? Everywhere. Visit the site to see about a walk in your city.
More to come! Meanwhile, here's a look five years back. And please support our efforts...