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16 July 2026
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 wildfire smoke, capturing smoky skies, Peter Marlow, color inkjet printing and old-school digicams.
- Reuters presents six images of Wildfire Smoke draping Toronto in an orange haze as the city's air quality ranked among the worst among major cities globally.
- In Natural Disaster, Mike Johnston tries to capture a photo of the wildfire smoke in upstate New York. "I tried taking pictures of it with my Micro 4/3 camera, but the Olympus wants to jazz up the color a bit and it missed the look of the atmosphere," he writes. His phone did better.
- Kate Mothes features images from The English Cathedral, a project of British photographer Peter Marlow (1952-2016) in which he shot r2 cathedrals in England. An exhibition of te project runs from July 21 to August 31 at Southwark Cathedral.
- In Color Printing With Inkjet Printers, Jim Kasson expands on his inkjet printing tutorial by explaining how color works in modern inkjet printers. It's tricky.
- In Old-School Digicams Are Everywhere Why?, Alina Selyukh points out, "People who weren't yet alive in the 1990s and early 2000s are buying up old-school point-and-shoot cameras. For some, it's a trendy retro vibe; for other, a rebellion against the smartphone era."
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