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Around The Horn
2 January 2023
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 cold swimmers, last week, return shots, Greenland, Pelé, Peakto, car talk, an appraisal and Olan Mills double exposures.
- Pejman Faratin presents images of New Year's Day Swimmers Around the World. Accompanied, naturally, by the photographers who, themselves, got wet.
- Associated Press photo editor Anita Baca curates The Week in Pictures from around the globe. That would be the last week of 2022. And the contrasts are glaring.
- In Scenes of Return, Joanna Cresswell explores what makes seven photographers return to the same places over and over again.
- In Into the Ice, Danish director and photographer Lars Ostenfeld discusses his adventure on Greenland's ice sheet with a team of glaciologists. "After 14 days on skis and with a sled, we came out to the coast and suddenly heard a bird for the first time. It dawned on me that we hadn't seen animals, plants or any life during the trip," he says.
- In Pelé -- the Smiling, Joyous King of Football, Joe McNally tells the story of photographing him once "in the showers at Giant Stadium in New Jersey." Not his best shot, he admits, but he learned a lesson.
- In Peakto 1.3 Evolves in the Right Direction, Derrick Story reviews the latest version of Cyme's AI photo manager. He's running it on a 2017 iMac with Ventura. We're running it on a 2010 MacBook Pro with Monterey. And, yes, each release improves this product in the right way.
- Mike Johnston has a little more More Car Talk to get off his chest. Not so metaphorically this time. But we were amused to learn he's had the same $24,000 car for eight years (which is about $3,000 a year). We've had the same $16,000 car for 22 years ($727 a year). Not to mention our $7,500 jewel we've had for 38 years at $197 a year. It's inconceivable to us how a Rivian pickup at $80,000 would ever be as cost effective. Dividing the purchase price by the years of use is an interesting way to evaluate a purchase. Try it with your cameras.
- In Looking Backwards, Looking Forward, It's All Good, Kirk Tuck reminds us "we supposedly got into this racket because we loved making the photographs." Not the gear itself.
- A Reddit poster wonders how Olan Mills Double Exposure were made in department store photography studios of the past. The double images, which show a close-up paired with a middle distance shot on the same print, can be made in camera or, more conveniently, in the darkroom.
More to come! Meanwhile, here's a look five years back. And please support our efforts...