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Around The Horn
29 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 Venezuelans, Ukraine, the Siena Awards Festival, Dogs (again) and signal-to-noise ratio.
- Associated Press photographer Ariana Cubillos captures the Abandonment Venezuelans Are Feeling in a photo along the shore in Cumana. "When I saw the boat sitting stranded at the shore, it gave me right away the sensation of what Venezuela has been going through in the last decade -- the sensation of what was once prosperous country, full of life, has now turned into scenarios of abandonment," she writes. "The two young men in the back trying to catch something to eat and the old man alone in front of the picture that earlier was cleaning his bike with ocean water -- all lit by the sunset -- gave me the loneliest sensation that reflects the situation in the country."
- Reuters features 27 photos of Russia's Mass Weekend Attacks on Ukraine. "Russia launched hundreds of drones and missiles at Kyiv and other parts of Ukraine early on Sunday, killing at least four people and injuring dozens, in one of the most sustained attacks on the capital since the full-scale war began."
- Matt Fidler showcases a few of the images on display at the 11th edition of the Siena Awards Festival in Italy.
- Mike Johnston reprises his The Dogs! Baker's Dozen "this time with the information supplied by the photographers."
- In Noise, Dynamic Range and Print Size, Jim Kasson remarks, "What matters to a viewer is not the signal-to-noise ratio of a pixel, but how noise and dynamic range appear in a finished image, at the size and distance it is seen." He provides the formula developed by Bill Cliff to find the threshold signal-to-noise ratio based on print size. "This scaling approach turns a fixed engineering definition into something that reflects perception," he writes.
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