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Around The Horn
3 November 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 Saul Leiter, Bonneville Salt Flats, Himbachel Viaduct, Hassani women, falling down, 1937 cameras found, Sebastiaan de With, infected news sites and World Digital Preservation Day.
- Mee-Lai Stone presents photographs from a new book of Saul Leiter's Unseen Images. "Upon his death in 2013, Saul Leiter left behind a collection of more than 40,000 colour slides, only a fraction of which had seen the light of day," she writes.
- Rick Bowmer captures visitors to the Bonneville Salt Flats where the water appears turquoise because it’s been dyed by a mining company. But the salt flats are shrinking.
- Harold Davis captures the Himbachel Viaduct in monochrome with his Nikon D850 and 28-300mm zoom at 28mm, f22 and ISO 200. Manual mode, if you must know.
- Suzanne Sease features images of Hassani Women, the personal project of Amira Karaoud. "Hassani women have played an essential role in building community in the refugee camps in Southwest Algeria to which they fled during the Western Sahara War in 1976," she writes.
- In You Know You're Learning if You're Falling Down, Moose Peterson quotes his son Brent's encouragement when the photographer kept toppling over while cross country skiing. "The thing is, you have to learn from your failures or you'll either just keep failing or worse, give up," he writes.
- In Expedition Finds Cameras Left by Yukon Mountaineers in 1937 (gift article), Amanda Holpuch reports cameras Bradford Washburn stashed to drop weight on an escape from a glacier have been recovered 12 miles away from where they had been stowed after 85 years.
- A Small Step, a Huge Leap is how Halide's Sebastiaan de With sums up his iPhone 14 Pro camera review. "With iPhone 14 Pro, Apple has made a huge change to its entire camera system -- and yet, it seems many reviewers and publications cannot agree on whether it is a small step or a huge leap," he writes.
- Ric Ford reports Major News Web Sites Infected With Malware. A malicious JavaScript file is used to install SocGholish, which will infect those who visit the compromised Web sites with malware payloads camouflaged as fake browser updates delivered as .zip archives, he explains.
- Ironically perhaps, it's World Digital Preservation Day. "Can you bake an at-risk digital material, crochet a file format or reconstruct a process in Lego? Share your pictures with us on social media using the hashtags #BitListBakeOff and/or #WDPD2022," organizers suggest.
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