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Around The Horn
5 August 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 the Paris Olympics, the NYT's running Olympics feature, Hector Vivas, Great White Shark tours, Jerry Day, American Glitch and retouching skin color.
- The Associated Presshas Olympic Highlights From Day 9 while Reuters posts its Best Photos of the day as well. The Guardian, though, has Day 10 for you.
- The New York Times updates its running feature of Highlights From the 2024 Paris Olympics (gift link), with the most recent photos each day.
- Getty Images photographer Hector Vivas has created a series of composite images called Layers of the Games, which show "the multiple moments that happen in a game or a day of competition in Paris."
- In Pricey Great White Shark Tours Take Off in Cape Cod, Kayana Szymczak photographs one boat trip.
- Irene Chen covered the 22nd annual Jerry Day to celebrate Jerry Garcia at McLaren Park in San Francisco on Saturday. "Attendees drove from all over the Bay Area -- and beyond -- to enjoy a sunny day of dancing, picnicking and day-drinking in the tree-lined grove. And many, if not most, wore tie-dye, scarves and jewelry reminiscent of the era that birthed the Grateful Dead."
- Magali Duzant reviews American Glitch by Andrea Orejarena and Caleb Stein. "Combining original photographs made by Orejarena and Stein with images from the Internet collected across years spent searching online, the project investigates a world in which the 'real' is constantly up for debate," she writes. American Glitch is available as a 208-page Flexibound book for $52.
- A Reddit poster asks about dealing with Postmortem Changes to Skin in post production. They work for a non-profit that supports families experiencing baby and child loss and they want "to reduce the amount of purplish-red areas and bring balance to their skin tone somewhat." The first answer was the solution.
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