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Around The Horn
3 July 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 International Aerial Photographer of the Year, Picture Post, Reno's Arabian Horse Show, LA's immigration protests, black and white photos, 20-mp sensors, travel photography dreams and work with joy.
- Grace Ebert showcases a few of the 101 winning images from the International Aerial Photographer of the Year contest, which garnered 1,549 entries.
- The Guardian presents images from Picture Post, the groundbreaking photo-magazine of the 1930s-1950s on exhibit at the National Museum Cardiff, Wales, until Nov. 9.
- Suzanne Sease features Arabian Horse Show, the personal project of Neil DaCosta. "I decided that I wanted to focus on the participants of the event and keep the space it was being held in nebulous," he says.
- Michael Shaw asks, What if They Gave a War and Nobody Came? "The media coverage of LA's immigration protests has suffered from a fundamental visual bias: it's been heavily skewed toward violence when the overwhelming public response has been adamantly peaceful," he writes.
- Dahlia Ambrose presents 25 Black and White Photos That Evoke Emotions. "Shooting in black and white is not so easy as it seems -- it is not just about removing the colors from the image, but about having a range of tones that will make the subject stand out and make the image very compelling or effective," she writes.
- Hilary Grigonis asks OM Sytem why it sticks with its 20-Mp Sensors despite other Micro Four Thirds sensors with higher pixel counts.
- Russ Burden explains How to Turn Your Travel Photography Dreams Into Reality. "Once you establish a love relationship with your cherished site, you'll never run out of photographic material," he suggests. "The more deeply you immerse yourself, the deeper in love you may fall."
- Jim Kasson points out that In Photography and in Life, Work and Joy Can and Should, Coexist. "One of the things that I love about photography forums is discussing things with people with whom I disagree," he begins.
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