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Around The Horn
14 April 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 Palm Sunday, the Songkran Water Festival, the Masters, f1.2, Chatbooks and an ATA Carnet.
- Michael Williams compiles images of Palm Sunday Around the World.
- Reuters features 27 photos of Thailand's Songkran Water Festival, a New Year celebration that "washes away bad luck."
- In Birdies, Jumpers and Green Jackets, Steven Bloor presents images from the Masters.
- Thom Hogan suggests f1.2 Is the New f1.4. "This new f1.2 era is partly the result of Canon and Nikon fully committing to a mirrorless future in 2018," he writes.
- Dan Havlik reviews Chatbooks, a custom photo printing service. "While ease of use and convenience are paramount to the Chatbooks experience, so is overall print and production quality, which could open this service up to an even larger audience than its preferred target," he writes.
- In Never Had to Worry About Tariffs Before; Advice for Airport, a Reddit poster worries about returning to the U.S. after shooting a wedding in Mexico. The advice? Get an ATA Carnet, "document most widely used by the business community for international operations involving temporary admission of goods."
More to come! Meanwhile, here's a look five years back. And please support our efforts...