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Around The Horn
18 September 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 Audubon Photography Awards, Palestinians on the road, the Bowness Photography Prize, Light Stalking contest winners, Andy Goodwin and a used Leica Noctilux 50mm f0.95 lens.
- Kate Mothes presents the winners of the Audubon Photography Awards. "The 2025 contest comprises two groupings emphasizing migration, with submissions welcome from Canada and the U.S., along with Chile and Colombia," she explains. "From there, entries are categorized into themed awards like the Youth, Conservation, Birds Without Borders, and Birds in Landscape prizes."
- The Road (gift link) by Saher Alghorra is a photo of Palestinians on the road out of Gaza City. Ravi Mattu takes a close look at what it tells us.
- Anna Higgins has won the 2025 Bowness Photography Prize for her images Two Horizons. "It is composed of two frames from a 16mm film, forming a mirrored diptych. The frames are layered with in-camera double exposures as well as repeated white screenprints on the print's surface, using freeze-frames from 8mm film."
- Rob Wood posts the Light Stalking August Photo Contest winners on the theme "The Art of Reflection."
- Suzanne Sease features MashUps: Messy on Purpose, the personal project of Andy Goodwin, which he composites "late at night on my phone with images I’ve shot, drawn over and combined," he says. "MashUps have become my way of loosening up, stepping away from perfection, and letting the work just be what it is."å
- Harold Davis shoots a fern Wide-Open at f0.95 with a used Leica Noctilux 50mm f0.95 lens. "To my mind, at f0.95 the lens behaves somewhat like a Lensbaby ought to behave: essentially a 'sweet spot' that is in focus is created and glowing out-of-focus areas are everywhere else," he writes.
More to come! Even if, this week, we've been catching up on our health care with a flurry of appointments after our annual wellness visit (sports injury clinic, ophthalmologist, MRI of the noggin) and apparently annual ER trip (this time for seven stitches). Remarkably healthy for a geezer, we hasten to report (just onerous to demonstrate). So things have been a bit slow her this week. Apologies. Meanwhile, here's a look back. And please support our efforts...