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16 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 Raquel Welch, Damien Carter, six albumen prints, cherry blossoms and built-in focus bracketing.

  • The Guardian celebrates the life of Raquel Welch in pictures. The actress has died at the age of 82. "Asked about being a sex symbol, she says with devastating simplicity, 'You can't fight an image,'" writes Rhonda Garelick in the New York Times. "And she never did."
  • Suzanne Sease features It Could Have Been Me, the personal project of Damien Carter. He had been watching the news of Amaud Arbery's murder when his son walked in the room. "Besides the expected, "why did they do that to him' he also asked the more jarring, 'is that going to happen to you dad?'" he writes.
  • In The Earliest U.S. Veterans, Mike Johnston writes, "E.B. Hilliard wrote a book in 1864 called The Last Men of the Revolution that recounted the biographies of some of the last remaining veterans and the book contained six albumen prints."
  • Lisa Michele Burns lists 10 Places to Photograph Cherry Blossoms. "Planning ahead and following the cherry blossom forecasts can be the difference between photographing flowers and photographing branches," she writes.
  • Jim Kasson explains How Your Camera's Focus Bracketing System Works. "Many contemporary cameras have a feature that can sidestep most of the theory and avoid the need for rails and apps," he writes. "From what I've seen on the 'net, there is a great deal of confusion about those things. This piece is intended to supply the missing information."

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