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Around The Horn
16 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 Cuban nail art, Gustavo Hernandez at the Roxie, dogs, fixating and image corruption.
- Associated Press photographer Ramon Espinosa captures the Nail Art Cuban women are using to make an elaborate fashion statement.
- Gustavo Hernandez photographs projectionist Minnie Clocombe in Reel Life at the Roxie Theater. She likes working with 35mm film. "You're holding what you're working with. You can see it, thread it, feel it. With digital, it's all numbers and buttons," she tells him.
- Mike Johnston has published his Baker's Dozen of Dogs without comment (but with "Notes and details to come.").
- Jim Kasson warns, Don't Fixate on the Bad Stuff Don't Fixate on the Bad Stuff "Instead, it helps to hold in mind what you do want. Focus on the light that drew you in. The emotion in a face. The shape or rhythm that made you raise the camera," he writes.
- Thom Hogan returns from Botswana to wrestle with The Image Corruption Problem. "I want to be clear here: whenever you see the bottom half of a NEF image is purple or has colored streaks through it, 99 percent of the time it is not the camera causing the problem," he writes. He explains how to tell.
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