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30 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 the week in pictures, Wojciech Grzedzinski, WatermarkRemover.io, portrait advice, lunar tips and microSD cards.
- Associated Press photo editor Subramoney Iyer curates the Week in Pictures from "an abortion rights demonstrator and an anti-abortion demonstrator facing off in front of the Supreme Court in Washington, to people of Chinese descent in Asia celebrating the lunar New Year of the Rabbit, to a boy standing amid dead fish on the shore of the Salado River in Argentina."
- Invocatio is Wojciech Grzedzinski's photographic series about "people living at the Lithuanian-Polish border, who, with the fall of the Soviet Union, lost not only their language, but their sense of belonging."
- Scott Kelby observes Photographer's AI Situation Got a Little Worse Today with WatermarkRemover.io. The free site uses AI to remove a watermark from an image "making it easier for people to use your images without your permission."
- In Advice for Portrait Photographers, Alexander Strecker interviews Nadav Kander on making "make your mark in our age of visual glut."
- Mike Panic details How to Photograph the Moon with a thorough discussion and 10 examples.
- Paula Beaton surveys the Best microSD Cards. "We've narrowed this list down to a number of the best microSD cards for all options, across a range of well-known brands like Samsung, Lexar, SanDisk, Toshiba and Kingston," she writes.
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