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Around The Horn
28 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 the week in pictures, World Nature Photography Awards, Martin Parr, Gorton, a white camellia blossom, Kost on Photoshop on the iPhone and unwanted system updates.
- The Associated Press presents its Week in Pictures curated by photo editor Subramoney Iyer. Reuters adds 23 of its own Pictures of the Week.
- Winners of the World Nature Photography Awards have been announced. Maruša Puhek was recognized as World Nature Photographer of the Year for her image Run. "It was a snowy day and I only had a wide-angle lens with me when I spotted two deer running through the snowy vineyard," she says.
- Gemma Sherlock looks back at the images Martin Parr took of New Brighton more than 40 years ago in The 1980s Seaside Snaps That Sparked a Controversy. "It was meant to be about capturing a moment in time and challenging people's perceptions of social classes," she writes.
- Marcin Wichary photographed The Hardest Working Font in Manhattan. "In 2007, on my first trip to New York City, I grabbed a brand-new dSLR camera and photographed all the fonts I was supposed to love," he writes. "Last year in New York, I walked over 100 miles and took thousands of photos of one and one font only." It was Gorton.
- In White on White, Harold Davis photographs a white camellia blossom in a white dish on a black background in color. He explains why he chose to shoot it in color.
- Julieanne Kost posts her own introduction to Photoshop on the iPhone in 23:13:
- In How Your Mac Can Update macOS When You Don't Want It To, Howard Oakley hunts through his logs to discover how an unwanted update was installed on his iMac Pro. "The overall effect is that macOS enforces updates on the user against their express settings, without giving them the opportunity to postpone or abort the update," he concludes.
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