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Around The Horn
7 August 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 Hiroshima, multinational airdrops, a robot store, Stef King, Portland Japanese Garden, water, exposure metering and opening photos.
- Aya Fujioka set out to shake the weight of history from her home city of Hiroshima but she couldn't help picking up echoes from the past. "A person descending into the river, for example, is quietly reminiscent of the thousands who rushed to the water after the atomic bomb was dropped on 6 August 1945 -- desperately seeking relief from thirst and burned skin."
- In 22 photos, Reuters documents the Multinational Airdrops in Gaza hoping to target the hunger crisis.
- The Associated Press visits China's New Robot Store. "From plucking boxes off a pharmacy shelf to serving drinks from behind a bar, robots at the government-run facility showcase how far humanoid robot development has come -- and how far it has to go."
- Suzanne Sease features Reflection of Beauty, the personal project of Stef King. "It began as a series called Five Minutes With which was essentially five minutes with a model in front of the camera," King says.
- Harold Davis visits the Portland Japanese Garden in Oregon and takes a photo. If you use a tripod, the garden charges $10 and special permission is required for commercial and video shoots.
- Dahlia Ambrose presents 25 examples of Long Exposure Water Features. "Water features look magical when captured using long exposure techniques during certain times of the day under the right light conditions," she writes.
- Jim Kasson revisits the history of Exposure Metering from the beginning. "Over nearly a century, exposure metering has moved from indirect judgment to direct measurement, from external gadgets to internal logic and from passive observation to predictive automation," he writes.
- A Reddit poster complains My Client Hasn't Been Able to Figure Out How to Open the Photos. Responses include not just a Post Office solution but amusing explanations for the problem.
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