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August Archived
1 September 2024
We've just archived Volume 13, Number 8 of Photo Corners on the Archive page with 15 Features, eight commented News stories, 25 Editor's Notes (which included 176 items of interest), no reviews and one site note for a total of 49 stories.
We published 83 images in 19 of those stories and three stories included gear specifications. No holidays and no obituaries.
For the first time since we started publishing them on Photo Corners, we were unable to publish a Friday slide show or Saturday matinee. We apologize.
AS WE MENTIONED in the last Horn of August, the site exceeded its bandwidth on the last day of the month, making it inaccessible to avoid running up exorbitant service fees. In fact, we had twice the usual traffic last month.
Normally we'd be able to block access to the offender before cutting cut off by our service provider. But it wasn't a normal month for us after a concussion sent us first to the Emergency Room and then into the hospital for observation, reducing our screen time last month significantly as we tried to recover from the double vision and headaches that still plague us.
Consequently our August readership numbers are not very informative.
The culprit seems to have been DataForSeo.com, which we've now blocked despite their protestations that they are only making the world a better place. Apparently they don't quite grasp how to go about that without shutting down sites like Photo Corners.
OUR TOP STORY by quite a lot was the Robert Frank Centennial story. The Images of the Paris Olympics broke into the top five while our Manfrotto Travel Tripods story came in ninth. The rest of the top ten were Around The Horn columns.
So except for the last day of the month, it appears it was business as usual for you. Which is more than we could ask for under the circumstances.