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Around The Horn
14 February 2024
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 Tine Poppe, Mother Nature, Black photographers, limited palettes, comments combined, NX MobileAir, authenticity, Double Click and Backblaze drive stats.
- In Gilded Lilies, Sophie Wright interviews Tine Poppe about her portraits of cut flowers shot against landscapes ravaged by climate change. "The cut flowers were portrayed in front of prints of my own images from landscapes that have changed appearance since the images were shot, due to floods, draughts, fires, landslides or earthquakes," she says.
- Rob Wood presents 17 Gorgeous Photos of Mother Nature.
- Chris Gampat and VSCO's Ashely Robinson collaborated on this list of 22 Black Photographers to Watch.
- In Limiting the Palette, Harold Davis suggests "a limited palette of colors can actually seem more colorful than a full spectrum of rainbow colors."
- Mike Johnston caught up with reader comments in Remedial Tuesday, publishing comments from five stories in one gulp. "It took me eight solid hours of work today to untangle all the messed-up comment moderation from the past two weeks," he writes. His new pacemaker must be doing its job.
- In The NX MobileAir Mess, Thom Hogan lists five serious problems with the product whose sole task is sending files from a camera to an FTP server.
- In Authenticity in the Digital Age: Going Beyond Certified Organic, Hans Hartman explains why it matters that Google, Meta. and OpenAI will label GenAI images specifically
- Double Click by Carol Kino is a dual biography of the lives of pioneering twin fashion photographers Frances McLaughlin-Gill and Kathryn Abbe. The pair rose to prominence during New York's glamorous magazine heyday of the late 1930s and 1940s during a brief window of expanded opportunities for women before and during World War II. The Scribner title will be published Mar. 5.
- In Backblaze Drive Stats for 2023, Andy Klein reports failure rates for 269,756 data drives covering 35 drive models, comparing those rates to previous years and presenting the lifetime failure statistics. "The 6-TB Seagate drives are over 8.6 years old on average and, for 2023, have the lowest Annualized Failure Rate for any drive size group potentially making a mockery of the age-is-related-to-failure theory, at least over the last year," he writes.
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