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Around The Horn
5 September 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 rural America, Andean women, Dad Jokes, Appalachian Trail hiker archive, Indianapolis Airport photography exhibit, motion, camera straps and eyesight's link to dementia.
- How Older Adults Navigate Their Health Care Needs in Rural America begins, "Senior health care access across much of rural America is in a state of crisis." Freelance photographer Tim Evans writes, "NPR reporter Juliana Kim and I traveled across the Great Plains of North and South Dakota in May to photograph and document this predicament."
- In Ana Flores Captures Her Andean Heritage Through a Fashion Photography Lens, Grace Ebert features the portraits of the Andean women of Peru’s Valle Sagrado region. "Shot in film, the photographs in Donde Florecen Estas Flores (Where These Flowers Bloom) meld Flores's background in fashion photography with her keen interest in exploring the ways places shape us," she writes.
- Suzanne Sease features Dad Jokes, the personal project of Josh Huskin. "For nine months I invited friends and strangers alike to sit while I told them my best Dad Jokes while capturing their reactions," Huskin confesses. The captions to their portraits are the jokes.
- We found our nephew in the Hiker Photo Archive of the Appalachian Trail Conservancy Hiker Photo Archive. He hiked the trail in 2009. It took 16 volunteers 425 hours to scan 12,779 images of over 18,000 hikers.
- Kevin Raber writes about putting together his Indianapolis Airport Photography Exhibit of his and Michael Durr's images from Antarctica.
- Jason Row discusses How Motion Creates Emotion in Your Photography."A common misnomer is that by motion in photography, we are talking about slow shutter speeds, however, fast shutter speeds have an equal place in conveying motion," he writes. In addition to shutter speed, he talk about intentional camera movement.
- Kirk Tuck wonders Which Camera Strap Is the Best in the Universe? Turns out it's a Domke camera bag for him and his medium format camera. "I was so happy with the operational characteristics of not juggling a camera strap, of not worrying about drawing attention to myself or looking too nerdy as the only person within a ten mile radius dragging a huge camera down the sidewalks, that I researched and ordered a similar but cooler looking additional Domke bag for use with one M camera and one lens," he writes.
- Nicola Davis reports Treating Eyesight Issues Could Prevent One in Five Dementia Cases, Study Finds. Fortuntely, more than 90 percent of vision impairments are preventable or correctable.
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