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Around The Horn
4 November 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 campaign, Quincy Jones, Halloween, Calabria, a symposium, the Hahnel Cube Charger, a backup camera, a book review, wildlife cameras and Storyglory.
- Reuters has 36 photos depicting Scenes From the Campaign's Final Weekend.
- The Guardian celebrates the life of Quincy Jones in pictures. The composer, arranger and producer who worked with stars from Frank Sinatra to Michael Jackson has died at the age of 91.
- Amanda Andrade-Rhoades and Emily Steinberger captured The Halloween Haunting of San Francisco.
- In Un Luogo Bello, Alessandro Mallamaci finds Calabria "a beautiful place" whose reality he expresses poetically, capturing all the charm of the strength and fragility of the landscape. "I simply took pictures of what I have in front of me every day," he says.
- Looking at Key Images From Campaign 2024 id s 1:37:53 video from a Reading the Pictures Salon of leading experts gathered to decode an edit of powerful images from the historic 2024 presidential campaign.
- Mike Johnston praises the Hahnel Cube Charger. "It’s a third-party charger base that takes interchangeable plates for different kinds of batteries," he writes.
- "Are you really comfortable with having your backup being different?" Thom Hogan asks in Two Cameras or One?.
- Harold Davis reviews A Brief History of Photography. "I learned a great deal from this book about all kinds of things, from chemistry to optics to the business and politics of camera and lens manufacturing," he writes.
- Abigail Ferguson suggests the Best Cameras for Wildlife Photography.
- Storyglory has retired its iOS app as it transitions to "a fully Web-based service that works in any browser." Meanwhile "your photos and audio recordings are safe on our server." Just visit the site and enter your email to get started.
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