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May Archived
2 June 2025
We've just archived Volume 14, Number 5 of Photo Corners on the Archive page with 15 Features, 10 commented News stories, 26 Editor's Notes (which included 159 items of interest) and one site note for a total of 52 stories.
Among those were 15 stories with 121 images, one holiday and two stories with gear specifications. We also noted one obituary.
We're experiencing quite a drought when it comes to reviews of both products and books. The explanation is simple.
We had expected our vision to return to normal by January after suffering oculomotor nerve palsy from our fall in August last year that caused a large brain bleed. It still hasn't.
So while we continue to test new products (and read new books), we've elected to wait out the palsey before trying to write a review (except in the case of Minor White's Memorable Fancies_). Apologies.
May saw a significant increase in site visits, exceeding all by August's bot attack.
AFTER SPIKES in August, December and April that more than doubled and rose as high as five times normal usage, our daily bandwidth monitoring has successfully protected the site from the bots that scrape it for content.
We do that so legitimate visitors can enjoy what we publish here. And we think we have an enviable up-time record since 2012, when we started this venture.
BECAUSE THE FIRST of the month fell on a Sunday, we are just looking at the monthly Webalizer report now, getting a rare full-month view.
May saw a significant increase in site visits, exceeding all by August's bot attack. To put it in perspective it represented a 140 percent increase over April, which was more or less a normal month.
We delivered over a million stories to you in May, as a consequence.
Those two numbers show the level of interest you've maintained it what we produce here. And it should be encouraging to the industry in general, which has contracted in recent years.
OUR MOST POPULAR story was our news story on the release of ExifTool 13.30. In sixth place was our news story on the release of Capture One. The rest of the top ten were Around The Horn columns, our daily survey of photography stories.
We had to abort our usual review of a new release of Capture One when we were unable to use our usual credentials on the site to access the beta before it was released to the public.
We had been impressed at the briefing with the new portrait retouching tools and wanted to illustrate them. But the site suddenly required a Microsoft Teams login and despite setting one up (which was immediately hacked, BTW, and so consequently discontinued), we had to wait a few days before gaining access.
We linked to the Release Notes, which themselves illustrated the new tools, so anyone who might have seen the announcement on May 8 would have wanted to return to look at the Release Notes to get the whole picture.
Notification of Nikon and Sigma price increases also broke into the Horn listings. As with everything else, there is a great deal of anxiety about what photography is going to cost.
We hope to help ensure the benefits always outweigh the costs even as the costs escalate.