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Around The Horn
17 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 Ocean Photographer of the Year, Amazon drought, Nikon's Small World, Japanese fireflies, shooting Alaska, Apple Photos in iOS 18, McNally in Poland, today's lunar eclipse and a fine art photography swindle.
- The The Ocean Photographer of the Year is Rafael Fernandez Caballero for his shot of a Bryde's whale. Second place was taken by Jade Hoksbergen and third by Thien Nguyen.
- In Historic Drought Marks Amazon's Parched Landscape, Reuters documents "the most intense and widespread Brazil has experienced since records began in 1950."
- Kate Mothes presents the Winners of Nikon's Small World in Motion.
- Sophie Wright interviews Kazuaki Koseki about his project Summer Fairies, which documents Japanese fireflies, showing the effects of human activity and climate change on them. "Nature cannot speak like people, but if you spend a lot of time in it, sometimes it seems to speak to you and tell you something -- in a very quiet voice," he says. "I take pictures of these events with my camera and, sometimes, you can hear it in the pictures you take."
- In Let's Get Real: A Smartphone-Only in Alaska Is Ridiculous, Derrick Story explains why he was glad to have a Nikon Z f and 28-400mm Nikkor along with him. Over half the people on the photo excursions he attended, only shot with smartphones. He took 140 shots with his own smartphone "but they're the stuff you would imagine: selfies, meals, signs and grab shots. I wouldn't want to come home with only those images."
- In iOS 18, Photos Brings Collections to the Fore, Jason Snell reports, "I've spent the summer working on a new edition of my book about Photos and so I've had a lot of time to think about what Apple's trying to do here," he writes.
- Joe McNally takes A Walk With Light -- in Poland. "I was invited to SwiatloSila Festival of Light in Gdansk, a wonderful celebration of photography staged and offered by Cyfrowe_pl, a tremendously popular camera store in Poland," he writes.
- In A Celestial Trifecta: What to Know About Tuesday's Lunar Eclipse, Chandelis Duster writes, "September's harvest moon will not only coincide with a supermoon, but also with a blood moon and partial lunar eclipse."
- Annie Aguiar reports Gallery Owner Sentenced in Fine Art Photography Swindle (gift link). Wendy Halsted Beard "was sentenced last week to five years and three months in prison for defrauding photography collectors out of $1.6 million worth of fine art photos, in what the FBI has called a criminal scheme to swindle older collectors." Beard kept the profits from over 100 fine art photographs by Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon and Ansel Adams, among others owned by the collectors.
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