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August Archived
1 September 2025
We've just archived Volume 14, Number 8 of Photo Corners on the Archive page with 12 Features, 5 commented News stories, 26 Editor's Notes (which included 152 items of interest), 1 review and 1 site note for a total of 45 stories.
Of those, 12 stories contained 100 images and 4 contained gear specification tables.
Compared to a year ago, there were three fewer news stories in August and 24 fewer items of interest. Which suggests the sector is still contracting.
UNFORTUNATELY, we had a few days in the middle of the month during which the site was bombarded by bots again. So our readership numbers are inflated. This year, April, July and August have been off the charts with unique site visits 10 times higher than normal. Here's a graph of the traffic:
We have reestablished our site map so responsible indexers can get only the new stuff shortly after we release it. And we assiduously block bad actors the way Apache recommends, although they don't pay much attention, of course.
We are able, nonetheless, to rank the new stories we published last month.
THE TOP TEN STORIES included seven Around The Horn columns (nothing unusual about that). But in third place was our July Archived story, in sixth was the matinee about British portrait photographer Platon and in ninth was our slide show of laser-cut models of San Francisco.
A WEEK AGO we found ourselves in the hospital again. We had a coughing fit Monday evening that ended when we hit a table with our forehead. We couldn't stop the blood from pouring out so we called 911 and a few hours later we had seven stitches patching us together. The CT scan of our brain was inconclusive so we were admitted to the hospital from the emergency room to be rescanned in the morning.
Which showed the same thing as the previous scan, indicating no new damage. So we were sent home in a cab. After we cleaned up the blood from the crime scene, we put a couple of stories up on Photo Corners.
Oddly enough we had our annual wellness visit with our primary on Thursday and we discussed the coughing, the double vision and an annoying trigger finger. She made arrangements to address all those impediments. Fortuitous timing during an unfortunate week.
But one that didn't prevent us from publishing here every day.