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Around The Horn
26 June 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 Drone Photo Awards, Pride celebrations, David Nissen, Flickr cameras, Joe McNally, macroscopic fluorescence lifetime imaging, incomes, Gresham's Law, a free webinar and a Lensbaby sale.
- Winners of the Drone Photo Awards have been announced as part of the Siena awards festival of visual arts.
- The Associated Press showcases this year's Pride Celebrations around the world "as legislators in many states seek to ban drag shows, restrict gender-affirming health care and limit how teachers can talk about sexuality and gender in the classroom."
- Stop Motion presents the night time images of David Nissen. "The spectator generally has a close relationship with a photo, which allows him to enter into it by sight and touch: the photograph is an image that the spectator can hold in his hands to look at it; he is somehow physically "attached" to the image. This attachment is physical, allowed by the small size," he says.
- SimpleGhar graphs The Most Popular Cameras in Every Country, Based on Millions of Flickr Photos. "To discover the most popular camera brands, camera devices and camera phones used around the world, we considered more than 470 million photos that have been uploaded to Flickr.com and tagged with the name of the device that was used to photograph."
- In The Light and Choosing the Location, Joe McNally lights a dingy bar to photograph guitarist Dominic Minix.
- Harriet Sherwood reports Camera Brings 'Unprecedented Clarity' to Restoration of Historic Artworks by using fluorescence to measure the depth of varnish. The bespoke camera was "was derived from consumer technology such as smartphone cameras," she writes, to build "a 25,000-pixel photon sensitive camera that uses a technique called macroscopic fluorescence lifetime imaging."
- Rob Haggart continues his series Photographers, How Much Do You Make? with six more profiles.
- Jim Kasson finds a link between Gresham's Law and Photography Forums. "Argumentative, repetitive, insulting, nasty, unhelpful and ignorant posters (call them, for purposes of this discussion, the bad posters) drive away polite, knowledgeable, helpful and pleasant ones (let's call these the good ones)."
- Harold Davis will present a free webinar titled Composing Your Photographs With Printmaking in Mind on Tuesday, July 11, at 9 a.m. PT. Registration is required.
- Lensbaby is having a Fourth of July Sale of 23 percent off its entire photography collection.
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