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Around The Horn
13 February 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 photos of the week, Art Photography Awards, Travel Photographer of the Year, Venice, Harold Davis, cropping, autofocus, Vermeer and Superb Owl Sunday VII.
- Associated Press photo editor Pamela Hassell curates the Photos of the Week from "Brandi Carlile happily embracing her three Grammy Awards in Los Angeles to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy giving the peace sign in Parliament at London's Westminster Hall to the death and destruction following a catastrophic earthquake in Turkey and Syria."
- LensCulture has announced the winners of its Art Photography Awards. "Among these 40 award-winning works, challenging topics are treated in many different ways: mutilated negatives and prints, poetic metaphors, colossal collages, straightforward documentary, staged portraiture and colorful in-your-face humor," the editors note.
- Winners of the Travel Photographer of the Year contest in several categories have also been posted.
- One, No One and Fifty Thousand features portraits of Venice residents by tour guide and Belgian photographer Marc De Tollenaere. "In a Venetian house there is not only the family currently living in it, but the many layers of previous lives going back centuries," he says.
- In Topography of Camellia, Harold Davis plants a memorial garden to his parents on the shaded side of his house from which he created an abstraction from one of the first blossoms.
- Kirk Tuck took his Leica SL2 with an 85mm Sigma DN DG Art out for a walk in the rain and returned with A Photo Essay in Defense of Cropping.
- In Does It Focus? Thom Hogan takes a deep dive into the mysteries of autofocus you need to master. "Yes, these are truths as I know them," he writes. "Based upon decades of personal experience, decades of working with others and decades of writing about the nuances of autofocus systems."
- Laura Cumming reviews the Vermeer exhibition at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam as "one of the most thrilling exhibitions ever conceived." Think of it as cross training in compositional skills.
- In case you missed it, Sunday was Superb Owl Sunday VII although Superb Owls are celebrated year long.
More to come! Meanwhile, here's a look five years back. And please support our efforts...