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Around The Horn
18 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 World Cup favorite photos, equipment trouble, the Roxie's Isabel Fondevila and the best compliment.
- Associated Press photographers pick their favorite World Cup photos with a brief quote and short video from the photographer accompanying each.
- In I'm in Equipment Trouble Again, Mike Johnston is pressented with an opportunity for which he doesn't have a camera. And he is "almost constitutionally resistant to the idea of investing many thousands of dollars from my emergency fund into a high-quality digital semi-pro camera of the sort that would be good for doing occasional jobs of work." Readers suggest renting or buying used.
- Zoe Malen photographs Isabel Fondevila, the Roxie Theater's programming director, working at the Mission District movie theater. "If you're making a movie and you need to see it on DCP*, you can come in during the day and check it, because you cannot check that at home on your computer," Fondevila says.
- A photographer on Reddit tells about receiving The Best Compliment a photographer can get. A speaker had failed to introduce them with the rest of the team and apologized, "You're very good at being invisible."
More to come! Meanwhile, here's a look back. And please support our efforts...