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Around The Horn
12 May 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 gold, the Bealtaine Fire Festival, poppies, the Kraszna-Krausz Photography Book Awards, B&W conversions, Kristin Schnell, CMOS read noise, tariff updates and AI training.
- In Soaring Gold Prices Create a Frenzy, Associated Press photographer Jae C. Hong documents the "hundreds of thousands of U.S. dollars' worth of gold" circulating through the St. Vincent Jewelry Center in downtown Los Angeles on any given day.
- Reuters features images from Ireland's Bealtaine Fire Festival which "marks summer's arrival with blazing bonfires, captivating performances and ancient atmosphere."
- Harold Davis laments his trip to Japan means its Poppies Sayonara at home. But he still has a few a few of his favorites to share now.
- The longlist for the Kraszna-Krausz Photography Book Awards has been announced and The Guardian shares images of some of the themes evident in the contest this year.
- Mark D Segal presents another approach to Black and White From Color Negatives on PhotoPXL with a nod to "Debra Fadely and the whole Raber family at this difficult time."
- Jim Casper reviews Of Cages and Feathers by Kristin Schnell. "First, the photos are like nothing I’ve seen before," he begins. "They are pictures of birds inside a theater-stage-like aviary that is well-lit and carefully arranged with colorful props."
- Jim Kasson illuminates the Sources of Read Noise in CMOS Sensors. "There are several kinds of noise involved: read noise, photon or shot noise and pixel response nonuniformity," he begins.
- In The Tariff Changes Update, Thom Hogan updates plans by Canon, Fujifilm, Leia, Sigma, Sony and Tamron for pricing at the end of the month. "Curiously, Nikon has been silent on tariffs," he writes.
- Lauren Edmonds reports The U.S. Copyright Office Has Thoughts on How AI Is Trained; Big Tech May Not Like It. A day after the office released the report, President Donald Trump fired its director, Shira Perlmutter.
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