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Around The Horn
16 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 pictures of the week, street photography winners, Stonehenge, balance, a fisherman, vintage effects, digicams and Gena Rowland.
- Reuters showcases 25 photographs from around the world as its Pictures of the Week.
- LensCulture has announced the winners and finalists of its Street Photography Awards.
- Grace Ebert features Josh Dury's image of The Perseid Meteor Shower Raining Down on Stonehenge. Dury took 46 shots he oomposited into a single image.
- In Elements in Balance, Rob Wood presents Light Stalking's July contest winners. "Achieving balance ensures that no single part of the image overpowers the rest, making the overall composition more pleasing to the eye," he writes.
- Associated Press photographer Hassan Ammar describes how he captured A Fisherman Casting in Swirling Seas along the Beirut coastline on a sweltering day. "I used a 28mm f2 Sony lens with a very slow shutter speed to show the movement of the waves. As I didn't have a tripod, I had to hold my breath for long seconds many times to catches the picture I wanted," he writes.
- Julienne Kost continues her Lightroom classic series with Black & White and Vintage Effects in this 5:52 video:
- In 'Mistakes Are Romantic:' The Revival of Point-And-Shoot Cameras, Ellie Violet Bramley identifies a few reasons compact film cameras appeal to younger people as they weary of their phone cameras.
- The Guardian celebrates the life of Gena Rowlands in pictures. The actress who never seemed to be playing a part has died at the age of 94.
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