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Around The Horn
21 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 the Chelsea Flower Show, World Food Photography Awards, Climate Visuals, Creative Cloud Pro, Ctein's dye transfer print sale, camera technology and checking actuations.
- In Chelsea Flower Show Blooms With Royals, Celebrities and Florals, Reuters showcases 25 photos of the five-day event organized by the Royal Horticultural Society.
- Winners of the World Food Photography Awards have been announced. "With something for everyone, we celebrate food stories from around the world, told through landscape, portrait, travel, wedding, photojournalistic and every other style of photography," the organization notes. There are, in fact, a lot of categories in the awards.
- Heidi Volpe interviews Alastair Johnstone-Hack about his Climate Visuals. "At Climate Visuals we are predominantly working with photojournalistic imagery, prioritizing photography that tells real stories and engages, educates and informs audiences," he says. "In the most obvious sense, photography can powerfully highlight what is going on, raising awareness and driving public concern."
- In Creative Cloud Pro Brings New Tools and Creative Controls, Adobe explains its new Creative Cloud options and pricing. "Creative Cloud Pro includes all the core applications and new AI capabilities that power the way people create today and its price reflects that innovation, as well as our ongoing commitment to deliver the future of creative tools," the company said. Annual Creative Cloud Pro plans billed monthly for individuals are $69.99, for students $39.99 and teams $99.99, all of which begin June 17. "You also have the option to switch to Creative Cloud Standard, which includes desktop apps like Photoshop, Illustrator, Lightroom and Premiere Pro as well as 100-GB of cloud storage and many of the services and benefits you enjoy today, but with limited access to our generative AI features and our Web and mobile apps," the company said.
- In What's Going On, Mike Johnston mentions an upcoming sale of Ctein's dye transfer print sale. He can't take them with him so Johnston is selling them. "It will happen in mere weeks," he writes.
- Jason Row wonders Has Camera Technology Peaked -- for Now? "It seems that at the moment, we are on a treadmill of yearly camera updates, each with incremental improvements but no revolutionary new features," he writes.
- A Reddit poster Bought a "Near Mint" Nikon Z6 on eBay only to discover it has "299,165 actuations, which is about 150 percent over the rated shutter life of this model." They have a few options, commenters point out.
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