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Around The Horn
20 June 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 Juneteenth, Reuters' week, storytelling, Starship Flight 9, Vietnamese street food, Double Takes, total light, world photo production, prices and AI images.
- The Associated Press features photos of Juneteenth celebrations commemorating the day in 1865 when enslaved Black people in Texas learned of their freedom.
- Reuters showcases 21 Photos of the Week from around the world.
- Rob Wood presents the winners of Light Stalking's May photo contest whose theme was Storytelling in a Single Frame.
- Mac Evans writes about photographing Starship Flight 9. "As a photographer, I wasn't just capturing another launch -- I was documenting a critical step toward humanity's multiplanetary future, an evolution of a rocket designed to outdo Apollo's legacy and carry us to Mars," he writes.
- Suzanne Sease features Robert A. Ripps's images of Vietnamese Street Food. "A recent trip to Vietnam allowed me to sample some of the most delicious, as well as most inexpensive, culinary treats, that were for the most part previously unavailable to me," he writes. "Food establishments are mainly on the sidewalks or in the streets, so pretty much every meal becomes street food."
- Michael Shaw inaugurates Double Takes, a new features from Reading the Pictures. "In an era when critical images flash by in milliseconds, I'm hitting the pause button on photos that deserve a longer look," he writes. "In this kick-off edition, I focus on policy. Or what passes for it."
- In Understanding Total Light on the Sensor, Jim Kasson suggests, "Understanding the difference between exposure and total light can clarify a lot of confusion about image quality, sensor size and noise performance." He explains what affects the total amount of light that lands on your sensor during an exposure, providing a simple equation to measure how much total light the sensor captures.
- Mike Johnston reports World Photograph Production Will Surpass Two Trillion for the First Time in 2025 "The percentage of images taken with smartphones has reached 94 percent, the highest ever," he writes. "People with iPhones take more pictures than people with Android phones."
- Thom Hogan notes it's the Last Weekend at Current Pricing. "This weekend is the last time you'll see the China-made Z lenses at their current pricing (though there may still be sales discounts in the future and, of course, the whole tariff thing triggering these increases is itself not predictable)," he writes.
- In The Line We Haven't Drawn: What Makes an Image AI-Generated?, Paul Melcher writes, "Today, AI not only enhances creative work. It generates, reshapes and even originates it. And we no longer know, with any certainty, when the hand of the human ends and the eye of the machine begins."
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