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Around The Horn
6 March 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 photos, Miguel Gutiérrez, Best of Photojournalism 2022, Harold Davis, JPEG settings, charting Nikkors and Yevgenia Belorusets.
- The Associated Press presents the Week in Pictures from "a lone fox on the streets of London to soldiers enduring the physical pain of war wounds in Ukraine to the sun setting over a construction site in India."
- In Windows on a War, Claire Armistead discusses Windows of Horror, images taken through the windows of Ukraine framed by the Venezuelan photojournalist Miguel Gutiérrez. "Though there are no people in these pictures, they tell a powerful human story," she writes. Gutiérrez is shortlisted in the Sony World Photography awards.
- The National Press Photographers Association has published the 200-page Best of Photojournalism 2022. "The historic events of 2020 continued into 2021. The coronavirus pandemic still affects us globally, but with evidence of recovery. Racial reckoning saw some justice but very little healing," Sue Morrow, news photographer editor, writes. "Migration and international news -- the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan -- were significant, yet the devastating conflict in Ukraine was only hinted at in the fall of 2021. Attacks on the U.S Capitol on Jan. 6 of that year almost brought democracy to its knees."
- Harold Davis is having a Garden Party "with some wonderful colored Calla Lillies on my light box" after adding some blue irises.
- In Dear Adobe, Scott Kelby makes a simple request for a default JPEG setting to avoid the dialog box with Quality and Format options. We don't think hitting the Return key is a big deal but if it bothers you, you could stamp out a Keyboard Maestro macro to handle the confirmation.
- Thom Hogan has been Charting the Nikkors, adding a page to his Nikkor lens sections "that illustrates both the optical design and relative sizes of the lenses."
- War Diary is Yevgenia Belorusets's journal with photographs of Kyiv in the early days of the Russian invasion. "I thought, this has been allowed to happen, it is a crime against everything human, against a great common space where we live and hope for a future," she writes. The 128-page New Directions paperback is $16.95.
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