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Around The Horn
10 April 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 Holy Week, technology, Easter in Austin, Kim Thue, Tatiana Reinoza, copper pipe flare photos, selling cameras, photographing spring flowers and Digicam Finder.
- The Associated Press presents images of Holy Week Celebrations around the world. New format (click the photo for a slide show).
- The winners of the first Rest of World photography contest have been announced. "We asked our readers to send us images of technology's impact in their communities -- as seen from their lenses," Gengiz Yar writes. "We received 548 entries from around the world, including from Afghanistan, Mexico, Nigeria, Iraq and Pakistan. Photographers captured a wide range of issues, from facial recognition software used at gated communities in Brazil to students studying on their phones during a power outage in India."
- Kirk Tuck spent Easter shooting black and white wide open with a Voigtlander 58mm f1.4 lens on a Leica SL2 and comparing the holiday of his youth to present day observances.
- Danish photographer Kim Thue has published Lode, a multi-layered retrospective of his last 10 to 15 years of work. The Leica Camera Blog interviews him and presents a selection from the book.
- In There and Back Again, Kirsten Lew talks to Tatiana Reinoza, an art historian and Getty Scholar, who is studying artists who use photography to represent their family's complex experiences within Central America. She begins with a discussion of Eadweard Muybridge's visit to Panama and Guatemala in 1975 "where he engaged in some questionable practices."
- Hillary Grigonis details how to shoot Copper Pipe Flare Photos. Start by acquiring a two-inch piece of copper pipe from your hardware store.
- In Six Pentaxes, Mike Johnston talks camera sales. Variant models and simplified ones are two of his suggestions. "At some point in the past dozen years, I went from advocating that the photographer has a responsibility to master his or her camera, to thinking that the cameras are just too complex to master," he writes in support of simplicity.
- Netherlands photographer Albert Dros lists 10 Tips on How to Photograph Spring Flowers with quite lovely example images.
- In Amazon Shut Down DPReview The Community Is Saving It, Ernie Smith details the effort to migrate DPReview's data at Digicam Finder.
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