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Around The Horn
3 December 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 Northern Lights, London's Festive Lights, the Biden White House Christmas decorations, musical skiers, Workbooks, Fan Expo and hit rates.
- Capture the Atlas has published 25 of the most extraordinary Northern Lights images captured across the globe during the last year for its Northern Lights Photographer of the Year contest.
- Jason Hawkes captures London's Festive Lights From Above. Landmarks, shopping streets, markets and a fairground are all illuminated for the season.
- Sofia Seidel photographs A Season of Peace and Light, the Biden White House Christmas decorations. More than 300 volunteers spent the past week decorating the White House's public spaces and its 83 Christmas trees with nearly 10,000 feet of ribbon, more than 28,000 ornaments, over 2,200 paper doves and some 165,000 lights used on wreaths, garlands and other displays, according to the Associated Press.
- Jason Kottke features Icelandic photographer Haukur Sigurdsson's Musical Skiers, an aerial image of Nordic skiers in a musical formation, which you can actually play (once anyway):
- Sophie Wright reviews Workbooks by fashion photographer Nigel Shafran. The book "is about life; the process of navigating different cities and their mutations, the realities of becoming/being an artist and the joys of building a family," she writes.
- Fan Expo at Moscone Center is San Francisco's answer to Comic-Con. Photographs by Jason Henry.
- In It's Not the Camera That's the Problem, Thom Hogan takes on the "hit rate" of autofocus systems. "Every one of the top pro cameras I've used benefits from some user control of the focus system," he writes.
More to come! Meanwhile, here's a look five years back. And please support our efforts...