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13 February 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 Mount Etna, girlhood, Atlanta, Adaptive Profiles and more Interesting Things.
- Reuters presents 10 photos in Lava and Ash Spew From Italy's Mount Etna Volcano.
- In Girlhood in the Smartphone Era, Philippa James creates a photo series inspired by her daughter that "questions the complexities of girlhood, all born at the start of the smartphone generation."
- In The Makeshift City, Joshua Dudley Greer captures Atlanta during the pandemic, the rise of Black Lives Matter, struggles for abortion rights, increased income inequality and the Stop Cop City movement.
- Julieanne Kost demonstrates the new Adaptive Profiles (they aren't global but use AI to target various subjects in an image) in Lightroom Classic, Lightroom and Camera Raw:
- Thom Hogan adds three items with his Interesting Things Written on the Internet (Volume 26), the last a look at OM. "I'll also double down on my claim that Olympus/OMDS has missed a significant opportunity, a m4/3 compact camera to take on Ricoh's GR and Fujifilm's X100. And a Tough m4/3, too," he writes.
More to come! Meanwhile, here's a look back. And please support our efforts...