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23 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 Pope Francis, the Kyotographie Festival, Slot Canyons tutorial, Harold Davis, satiation and Aidan Klimenko.
- The Associated Press documents the procession as Body of Pope Francis Arrives at St. Peter's Basilica. It also captures People Around the World Reacting to Pope Francis' Death. Reuters posts photos as Pope Francis Lies in State.
- Fiona Shields visits Japan's Kyotographie Festival where "all life is here," starting with monumental mural featuring more than 500 individual portraits of local residents.
- Julieanne Kost continues her Snap Happy series with Slot Canyons Full Tutorial demonstrating how to create images with more impact using Lightroom"
- Harold Davis shares Scenes From My Garden, which he recently rennovated.
- In The New Problem: Satiation, Thom Hogan suggests most of us are happy to stand pat. "If you're satiated, as I sort of am, you're just going to go out and use the gear you've got," he writes. "Double that if you're also being hit economically."
- Heidi Volpe talks to Aidan Klimenko about 'Wins' Or 'Successes' Stemming From Work Personal. "I've always believed that leaning into finding and establishing your own voice as an artist will eventually lead to an identity that's more uniquely yours rather than a style that looks like everyone else's following whatever the latest trend," Klimenko says. "And on top of that the work that is the most fun to make often is the often strongest."
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