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Around The Horn
29 January 2025
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 Year of the Snake, food, James Clifford Kent and upgrading.
- Associated Press photographer Dita Alangkara captures the action as Indonesia Welcomes the Year of the Snake. "In Indonesia, where millions of people have Chinese ancestry, crowds gathered in the city of Bohor to watch as drummers interspersed around puppet performers display the traditional dragon and lion puppets, which stretched up to 65 feet (20 meters) long in interconnected segments held by about a dozen people walking beneath," she writes.
- Food Holds Special Meaning on the Lunar New Year and NPR shares a few photos of reader favorites.
- Charlotte Jansen interviews James Clifford Kent about Troubled Times, his best photograph. "My portrait of this 65-year-old woman, her goose Axiuli and her cat Haytoo, was taken at her home where Cary now lives with her animals," he says. "It was only after taking the picture that I noticed other details: an empty egg carton balanced on a chair, an unfilled bottle of cooking oil and decades-old children's toys."
- Thom Hogan wonders, Are You Going Forward, Backwards or Sideways? He's talking about your decision to continue using, upgrading or going back to some older gear. "I'll just say upfront what I've been saying for years now: most of you should probably just Continue. It costs money to do anything else and it's highly likely that just study and practice will make your images better and that costs only time," he writes.
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