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September Archived
1 October 2025
We've just archived Volume 14, Number 9 of Photo Corners on the Archive page with 10 Features, 11 commented News stories, 26 Editor's Notes (which included 138 items of interest), 2 reviews and 1 site note for a total of 50 stories.
YES, IT'S TRUE, we managed two software reviews in September. And actually, if you count our pieces on Adobe's Project Indigo camera app, there were three reviews.
We've greatly enjoyed using Indigo on our iPhone 15 Pro Max. It's been more impressive than the raves about the 8x zoom on the iPhone 17, frankly. Bravo, Adobe!
(That was probably our shortest review.)
Ten features is nothing to brag about, given that the slide show and matinee appear each week and there are four weeks in a month (that would make a total of eight by default).
But our head injury at the end of August did throw us off stride. We work in the morning as usual. Drive over to the skilled nursing facility for a few hours midday as usual. And return to do a very little work in the late afternoon but nothing at night, which was when we usually caught up.
We simply needed the rest. And logging 10 hours in bed at night has helped.
READERSHIP NUMBERS are buried in bot activity that surged around mid-month. Nothing we did blocked the offenders. One of them, a wayward Vietnamese bot, consumed our allocation in a day. Here's the graph:
We remain grateful to Sonic, our Web hosting company, for not charging us for that bandwidth. We logged over 1,256.45-GB last month on an account that tops out at 150-GB and usually only sees 50-GB of legitimate use.
That's how insane it's been.
But just for fun, advertisers should know we had 3,166,500 unique site visitors and served 15,687,346 pages in September.
WE CAN STILL RANK our top stories, though. They all counted about 10x more than usual, although none of them topped 0.00 pct. of the hits.
Our top stories were the PhotoLab 9 review, followed by an ExifTool story and a story about three new Sigma lenses. That was followed by the Nikon's authenticity service notice before a Horn finally broke through. The sixth and seventh place stories were Horns followed by our Labor Day piece and two more Horns. Our Harris matinee came in 11th, the Nikon Z f update in 12th, and our Sugarloaf slide show 13th before two Horns rounded out the top 15.
That's a nice distribution for a month that was short of features.