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April Archived
1 May 2025
We've just archived Volume 14, Number 4 of Photo Corners on the Archive page with 13 Features, 8 commented News stories, 26 Editor's Notes (which included 154 items of interest) and 2 site notes for a total of 49 stories.
Of those, 13 stories included 89 images, three stories had gear specifications, we celebrated one holiday and marked one obituary.
A year ago, we published 50 stories, including 16 Features, 7 News stories, 26 Editor's Notes and one site note. If you're feeling (as we are) that this year is a bit sparser it may be because our Editor's Notes dropped from 166 items to 154. Sites that were publishing daily seem to have dropped down to a token once a week.
WE HAD A BOT ATTACK at the end of last month and the beginning of this one that perverts our stats. But we're happy to say we identified the culprit, blocked it after a week and made it through the whole month within our bandwidth allocation.
That's business as usual on the Web these days.
AMONG OUR LEADING STORIES were eight Around The Horn columns, our daily curation of interesting photography-related links that passes as our front page.
Breaking into that list was our matinee on dance photographer Jennifer Girard and our obituary for Bryan Peterson.
WE'RE HAPPY to report our typing has improved significantly even if our double vision has not. We still have moments when we stumble across the keyboard but we can get from one side of a window to the other now with our usual alarming speed. A great relief.
WE'RE NOT HAPPY about the state of affairs otherwise, though. Or the affairs of state, for that matter. How did it happen that a generation known for the Summer of Love made the name "American" so quickly despicable around the world?
By voting for a convicted felon as president, apparently.
Now we're waiting to see how much more expensive our foreign-made cameras and lenses and film will be. And if we'll be able to afford a new computer or a printer. And how we'll manage when our car starts costing more to repair than it's worth.
So we don't expect to see any more editorial activity in the photography sector for a while. The eyeballs are down, the products are few and far between, and the money ain't changing hands any more.
But it's always been up to those of us who love the art to keep it breathing. We still love it; it's still breathing.