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8 Nov 2025
Volume 14
Sony FE 100mm f2.8 Macro GM OSS Lens
Panasonic Lumix S 100-500mm f5-7.1 Zoom
Three Canon PIXMA All-in-One Printers
M.Zuiko Digital ED 50-200mm f2.8 IS Pro
Hasselblad 100-Mp Flagship Camera, Standard Zoom Lens
Sigma 17-40mm f1.8 DC Art Zoom
Fujifilm X-E5 Mirrorless Camera
Fujifilm 23mm f2.8 Pancake Lens
Sony 400-800mm f6.3-8 G OSS Zoom
Sony 16mm f1.8 G Full-Frame Prime
Sigma 300-600mm f4 DG OS | Sports
Sigma 16-300mm f3.5-6.7 DC OS | Contemporary
Photoshop's Generative Upscale
International Holocaust Remembrance Day
Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance
The Garden Prepares For Spring
Minor White: Memorable Fancies
The Charles (Teenie) Harris Archive
Around a Fjord on Rollerskates
Platon's Dialogies: Obaid-Chinoy
Photo Chats with Stephen Johnson
Photoshoots for Workday Sports
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DxO FilmPack 8
Touching Earth
Indigo's Night Mode
Homage to Basil
You Know the Drill
Pizza Night
Sugarloaf
DxO's AI Masking
Labor Day
Crossing the Tracks
Truth in Advertising
Sonoma 1999
Dinner One Night
The Last Scone
The Garossa
Generative Upscale
Civic Models
HP's Instant Ink
Another Indigo Telephoto
National Carousel Day
Arrivals, Departures
The Fish Tank
Ladies of the Roof
Utility Boxes
Hanging It Up
A Fourth We Never Imagined
Point Bonita
Summer Reading
An Indigo Interior
Rosalind Fox Solomon
Twin Peaks in Summer
Marcia Resnick
Summer Arrives
The Exam Room
Happy Juneteenth
German Pancakes
The Great Highway
The Light Pole
Herbert Migdoll
Doré's Vase
Memorial Day
Sebastião Salgado
Blown Glass
Smogged
Apple Blossoms
A Timepiece
American Women Quarters
Esmeralda
Inside Alcatraz
Concours d'Elegance
Eggs For Easter
Two Crews
Wear a Helmet
Cherry Blossoms
Amulets
Bryan Peterson
The Music Makers
This Old (Purple) House
Worry Dolls
Herb Greene
Eucalyptus
The Garden at Spring
Happy St. Patrick's Day
Netsuke
White's 'Memorable Fancies'
Mr. Head Again
Flo Fox
End of the Show
Knockash Hill Trees
The Horizon
An Absence in the Air
An Arcade in Stonestown
Free Ink
Presidents' Day
The Merry Wanderer
A Valentine
Hugh Holland
Roped Into It
The Shuttle Stop
The Folding Corona
Old Men
George Tice
The Rumbalino Returns
Dining Alone
Tricks of the Evening
Holocaust Remembrance Day
Empty Vases
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
George Kalinsky
The Rumbalino
Welcome, Newbie!
Oliviero Toscani
Two Redcoats at Fort Point
The Trouble With Sunsets
Constantine Manos
A Coalport Top Hat
Charging the Battery
DxO FilmPack 8 Adds Time Warp, Photoshop Integration
30 September 2025
DxO has released FilmPack 8 featuring a new Time Warp mode, full integration with Photoshop, 15 new analog film simulations, a new Film Scan Optimizer, 19 new Time Machine images, themed Webview browsing, four digital camera-inspired profiles and high-resolution upgrades for its creative effects.
Sony Announces FE 100mm f2.8 Macro GM OSS Lens
30 September 2025
Sony has announced its FE 100mm f2.8 Macro GM OSS, a new medium telephoto macro lens in the G Master series, compatible with Alpha E-mount cameras, that features 1.4x magnification, advanced stabilization and intuitive handling.
Around The Horn
30 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 Reuters Pictures, Lee Miller, Sally Mann, AI-generated headshot, image file formats, Adobe Premiere on iOS and BigPicture Exhibits.
The Nook Hosts 'How To Thrive As A Creative'
29 September 2025
The Nook, Rocky Nock's new platform for creative people,is hosting How To Thrive As A Creative, a free webinar on Oct. 9 at 11 a.m. PST, with David DuChemin and Sean Tucker.
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.
Matinee: 'Covered California'
27 September 2025
Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?
Around The Horn
27 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 Reuters' week, The Ryder Cup, Tim Considine, Specs and Claudia Cardinale.
Friday Slide Show: Touching Earth
26 September 2025
Every six months we take advantage of our tire guy's offer to balance and rotate our tires at no charge. He swears it prolongs the life of your tires and two years into our initial purchase of a set of four, we can't argue.
Around The Horn
26 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 AP's week, Reuters in Milan, Bryan Sansivero, Mark Rammers, Generative Fill's partner models and Dianne Ebertt Beeaff.
Panasonic Announces Lumix S 100-500mm f5-7.1 Zoom
25 September 2025
Panasonic has announced its Lumix S 100-500mm F5-7.1 O.I.S. for the L-Mount system. Its teleconverter support enables focal lengths to 1000mm.
Around The Horn
25 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 Ancient Forests, mutts, Sally Mann, Lisette Model, moonscapes and photo collections.
Around The Horn
24 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 U.N. General Assembly, sinkholes, fall foliage, Photoshop updates, moon photography and the New York Times.
Indigo's Night Mode
23 September 2025
Last night we stopped babying ourselves over our latest head wound and got out of our easy chair to take a walk around the neighborhood. By the time we resolved to do that, though, the sun had set and darkness had fallen.
Around The Horn
23 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 Super Typhoon Ragasa, San Francisco's lowrider parade, Nikon lens terminology and sunrise/sunset shots.
Around The Horn
22 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 World Athletics Championships, eye recognition, Print Matters, a Carbon Cub EX kit and Thom Hogan.
Matinee: 'Lee'
20 September 2025
Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?
Around The Horn
20 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 World Athletics Championships, Austin Mann on the iPhone 17, Truth in Photography, The Nook and The Online Photographer.
Friday Slide Show: Homage to Basil
19 September 2025
We watered the basil yesterday morning, leaving it in the kitchen sink to drain and get a little light from the overcast sky. Then, as we made a cup of coffee, we admired the soft light and bright color.
Around The Horn
19 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 Reuters' week, Rodrigo Abd, an immigration court in New York, Ocean Photographer of the Year and new iPhone's camera problem.
Canon Announces Three PIXMA All-in-One Printers
18 September 2025
Canon has announced three new PIXMA desktop all-in-one printers: the PIXMA TS4320, TS6520 and TR7120. Intentionally designed for the needs of home users, the compact devices feature print speed and text quality improvements in comparison to their predecessors.
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.
Around The Horn
17 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 Kinship & Community, the World's Best Pizza Restaurant, wildlife photography, Excire Search 2026 and a Christie's auction.
Around The Horn
16 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 AP's photos of the day, ways to miss a shot, learning photography, words and images and Robert Redford.
You Know the Drill
15 September 2025
We took this shot two weeks ago and just kept thinking about it. It was taken in the almost complete darkness of a tool cabinet with only the ambient light of dusk filtering in from a small window in the garage.
Around The Horn
15 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 Emmys, the World Athletics Championships, Chinatown Pretty and Embracing Manual Photography.
Matinee: 'National Park Posters'
13 September 2025
Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?
Around The Horn
13 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 Lake Tahoe, The Window Project, Erika Pino, solar flares and photography's next generation.
Friday Slide Show: Pizza Night
12 September 2025
Friday seems to be pizza night around here. But it's been years since we ordered a pizza for delivery. And frankly we never found one we liked since we moved into this neighborhood 22 years ago. We tried, but.
Around The Horn
12 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 AP's week, Reuters's week, Astronomy Photographer of the Year, Tim Flach, Harold Davis and Phil Davis.
Around The Horn
11 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 9/11, Jamel Shabazz, Mark Steinmetz, Andrei Duman's X-Rays, iPhone Air vs. Pro, Andy Katz, The Online Photographer and macOS 26 Tahoe.
OM System Announces the M.Zuiko Digital ED 50-200mm f2.8 IS Pro
10 September 2025
OM Digital Solutions Corp. has announced the M.Zuiko Digital ED 50-200mm f2.8 IS Pro for the Micro Four Thirds system, "offering unmatched range, speed and portability across a vast array of photographic genres," the company said.
Around The Horn
10 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 D.C. protests, Javier Ortiz, flower photography, Apple announcements and a special Leica M-A.
Harvey Posts ExifTool 13.36 Production Release
9 September 2025
Phil Harvey has posted ExifTool v13.36, the first production release since v13.35 on Sept. 6. The release is available in three formats, including a Windows executable and macOS package.
Canon Reintroduces Its PowerShot Elph 360
9 September 2025
Canon has revived its PowerShot Elph 360 HS A in black or silver with slight tweaks, including a move to microSD cards from SD cards.
Sigma Announces Three Full-Frame Lenses for Sony, L-Mount
9 September 2025
Sigma has announced two primes and one zoom full-frame lenses in Sony E and L-Mount mounts. Details follow...
Around The Horn
9 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 Hildegard Rosenthal, Jan Erik Waider, Sally Mann, wireless technology in photography and The Online Photographer.
Around The Horn
8 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 a rare Blood Moon, Visa pour l'Image, a Split Rock flower, AI-interpreted voice commands and working on a commercial set.
Matinee: 'The Charles (Teenie) Harris Archive'
6 September 2025
Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?
Harvey Posts ExifTool 13.35 Production Release
6 September 2025
Phil Harvey has posted ExifTool v13.35, the first production release since v13.30 on May 22. The release is available in three formats, including a Windows executable and macOS package.
Around The Horn
6 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 Romania's air show, Viltrox, photographer trading cards, a "modern" photographer, color banding and Art Seitz.
Friday Slide Show: Sugarloaf
5 September 2025
One of the attractions of visiting Sonoma is Sugarloaf, a state park just north of Highway 12 with 25 miles of hiking trails. We'd go up for the day, hike around, or camp for the weekend trying to conjure up meals.
Nikon 'Temporarily Suspends' Its Authenticity Service
5 September 2025
In a brief notification on the Nikon Imaging Cloud site today, Nikon announced it was temporarily suspending it Authenticity Service after confirming an issue with it.
Around The Horn
5 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 AP's week, Reuter's week, Ansel Adams's Stanford photos, Peakto for PhotoLab 9 and Armani.
Nikon Announces Silver Z f, New Color Exteriors, Film Grain Feature
4 September 2025
Nikon has announced a new silver edition of it full-frame/FX-format Nikon Z f mirrorless camera with six color options and a future firmware upgrade implementing a Film Grain feature.
Around The Horn
4 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 Michael Shaw, the World Tango Championships, Todd Weaver, Stephen Wilkes and bird photographs.
Around The Horn
3 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 Afghan quake, Chinese Camp wildfire, Magnus Laupa, bird photography, ON1 Photo Raw 2026 and Female in Focus.
DxO Releases PhotoLab 9 with AI Masking, PureRaw 5.3, New Modules +
2 September 2025
DxO has released PhotoLab 9 with AI masking as well as PureRaw 5.3 and more camera and lens modules.
Around The Horn
2 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 Christy Lee Rogers, a dust storm, Acadia, contact sheets, the Fujifilm GFX 100RF, market share, pain and PhotoPXL.
Labor Day
1 September 2025
Whoever we are celebrating today, it isn't the fraternity of people who have accomplished nothing in their lives (unless you count bankruptcies, divorces and law suits as accomplishments) trying to rid the country of the people who harvest our crops, nurse our elders, care for our children and do all the dirty work the rest of us don't do.
August Archived
1 September 2025
We've just archived Volume 14, Number 8 of Photo Corners on the Archive page with 12 Features, 5 commented News stories, 26 Editor's Notes (which included 152 items of interest), 1 review and 1 site note for a total of 45 stories.
Matinee: 'Breath of the Sea'
30 August 2025
Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?
Around The Horn
30 August 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 Nigerian students, New York's immigration courts, wildlife, a Sword Fern frond, Pro-Res Zoom and the new TOP.
Friday Slide Show: Crossing the Tracks
29 August 2025
Yesterday was atypical. The medical appointment wasn't for Joyce but for us. And it nothing to with our emergency room visit on Monday. It was our annual wellness visit.
Around The Horn
29 August 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 AP's week, Venice red carpet, Adobe's Project Indigo, leaf shutter bokeh and relaunching The Online Photographer.
Around The Horn
28 August 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 U.S. Open, David Bailey, Lauren Grabelle, lighting and ISO for Raw files.
Nikon Updates Z6 III Firmware
27 August 2025
Nikon has released firmware version 2 for the Nikon Z6 III, introducing several features found in the company's most advanced models, the Nikon Z9 and Z8.
Around The Horn
27 August 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 Wildlife Photographer of the Year, Crafting Sanctuaries, the film era, the Ricoh GR IV, natural light macros and the Great Digital Divide.
Hasselblad Announces 100-Mp Flagship Camera, Standard Zoom Lens
26 August 2025
Hasselblad has announced the X2D 100C, a new medium format flagship, along with the XCD 2,8-4/35-100E wide-angle to medium telephoto zoom lens.
Around The Horn
26 August 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 troops with guns, migrants in small boats, stories in hiding, your first camera and Harry Nyquist.
Truth in Advertising
25 August 2025
There are some long traffic lights in our daily commute. We turn the engine off to conserve fuel and watch the traffic to anticipate when we'll get the green light.
Around The Horn
25 August 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 Mariam Dagga, the Pickett Fire, a U.S. Open photographer, Gazania and Joel Meyerowitz.
Matinee: 'All Strings Attached'
23 August 2025
Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?
Around The Horn
23 August 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 Gaza aerials, Greek fires, Vietnam, portraits and Parachute.
Friday Slide Show: Sonoma 1999
22 August 2025
We happened to find some old photos we took of Sonoma on an overcast day in 1999 with a Nikon 900. How much has changed since then.
Around The Horn
22 August 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 AP's week, Reuters oddities, wildlife's week, courthouse arrests and Darktable vs. Lightroom vs. Rawtherapee.
Nikon Announces Nikkor Z 24-70mm f2.8 S II
21 August 2025
Nikon has announced the Nikkor Z 24-70mm f/2.8 S II, the second-generation of its standard zoom lens featuring enhancements to image quality, speed and handling.
Ricoh Announces the Ricoh GR IV
21 August 2025
Ricoh has announced the Ricoh GR IV, the latest model of its GR-series of compact cameras featuring "a complete range of newly-developed main components, including lens, image sensor and imaging engine," the company said. A new APS-C-size image sensor pairs with a new lens to improve image quality while reducing overall body depth while a new battery improves battery life.
Around The Horn
21 August 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 coca leaf, Michael Lundgren, Paintings, raids on the farm, the Killip Conundrum, EOS Webcam Utility Pro, deepfakes and patterns in art.
Dinner One Night
20 August 2025
Fatigue visits us as soon as we get home from visiting Joyce at the nursing home. We turn on the TV, find the nightly news and take a nap. We know what the news is. But we don’t want to lose track of our dreams.
Around The Horn
20 August 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 Texas, Post-Brexit Britain, the Nikon Z5II, the Canon Hack Development Kit, Prints for Wildlife and decorum in churches.
Other World Computing Announces Express 1M2 80-GB Portable SSD
19 August 2025
Other World Computing has announced its Express 1M2 80-GB/s as "an evolutionary leap forward in portable SSD performance for creators in the field, mobile performance enthusiasts and gamers."
Around The Horn
19 August 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 World Photography Day, tasty food shots, Isaac Wasserman, a tariff update, social media and medium format.
Around The Horn
18 August 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 Players' Weekend, Reuters' day, Margate, Mars, Scott Rossi, six Kodak cameras and workouts for photographers.
Matinee: 'The Rapatronic Camera'
16 August 2025
Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?
Around The Horn
16 August 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 AP's week, Reuters' week, Peter Robinson and 2019's mirrorless cameras.
Friday Slide Show: The Last Scone
15 August 2025
Hardly a week goes by that we don't read somewhere some photographer claiming to be a story teller. So we thought we'd try it. Show, for once, instead of tell.
Around The Horn
15 August 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 Iceland, +Australian National Photographic Portrait Prize, Cade Martin, an orange filter, LensRentals and Margaret Boden.
Around The Horn
14 August 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 World Photography Week, the International Space Station, D.C. occupied, the Tahiti Pro, Textures and Layers, camera-carrying hygiene, film, nano-texture displays and Kodak.
Around The Horn
13 August 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 Washington, D.C., Greece, Santa Barbara Hives, 2015's best cameras and searching images in Spotlight.
Around The Horn
12 August 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 Europe on fire, NCAA Photos interns, a Vermont trip, beginnings, Intermodal and ExpressScan.
Around The Horn
11 August 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 Sturgeon Moon, Amy Horowitz, Outside Lands, backing up iCloud photos and trade-in experiences.
Matinee: 'Around a Fjord on Rollerskates'
9 August 2025
Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?
Around The Horn
9 August 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 Istanbul, odd photos, Outside Lands and AI in commercial photography.
Friday Slide Show: The Garossa
8 August 2025
Among the treasures of Mom and Dad's home was a large floral painting that hung prominently in their living room for 58 years.
Around The Horn
8 August 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 AP's week, the International Balloon Fiesta, Midwestern Nights, kudzu in infrared and a pole vaulter.
Around The Horn
7 August 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 Hiroshima, multinational airdrops, a robot store, Stef King, Portland Japanese Garden, water, exposure metering and opening photos.
Around The Horn
6 August 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 Texas, Canadian wildfire smoke, Siri Kaur, software solutions, a big contract and authenticity provenance.
Photoshop's Generative Upscale
5 August 2025
Last week's slide show revisited Nikon 900 images, which are 1280x960-pixel captures. Pretty small by today's standards. And yet we cropped a few to focus on some details of the laser-cut models. We thought those crops might profit from Photoshop beta's new Generative Upscale.
Around The Horn
5 August 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 U.S. Track and Field Championships, the Gifford Fire, Surrealist photography, RealityScan 2.0 and Lightroom tips.
Around The Horn
4 August 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 Grateful Dead, an ICE arrest, the Crosstown Classic, Governors Island, a garden spiral, Raw exposure and measles outbreak in one shot.
Matinee: 'Platon's Dialogies: Obaid-Chinoy'
2 August 2025
Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?
Around The Horn
2 August 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 LensCulture awards, Gaza, Martin Parr on board, the Grateful Dead's 60th anniversary and Millennials and Gen Z cameras.
Friday Slide Show: Civic Models
1 August 2025
On one of our 1999 tours of the city with visitors, we went to City Hall. There was a fascinating display of wooden models of some of the city's famed sites. So we uncapped our Nikon 900 and took a few shots.
Around The Horn
1 August 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 AP's week, Reuter's week, wildlife's week, World Oceans winners, Chef Redbeard, comeback gear and Senate photographer job listing.
July Archived
1 August 2025
We've just archived Volume 14, Number 7 of Photo Corners on the Archive page with 14 Features, 5 commented News stories, 26 Editor's Notes (which included 141 items of interest), 1 review and 3 site notes for a total of 49 stories.
Ten Years of HP's Instant Ink
31 July 2025
We first wrote about HP's Instant Ink program when it was announced in September 2005. In May 2018, we bought an HP Envy 5055 all-in-one device. And signed up for the Instant Ink program.
Around The Horn
31 July 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 World Aquatics championships, Gaza, the Royal Photographic Society exhibition, five techniques and 13 tutorials.
Around The Horn
30 July 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 Frederick Rüegger, Alex Turner, Niranjan Shrestha and auto polo.
Photoshop Adds Harmonize, Generative Upscale, More
29 July 2025
In a blog post today Adobe announced a new version of Photoshop that adds several impressive new tools for manipulating bitmapped images. They include Harmonize, which expands on Perfect Blend, Generative Upscale, an improved Remove tool, Projects file management and a Picker for Generative AI fill and expand options. Most of them tap into Firefly for intelligent image manipulation.
Around The Horn
29 July 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 Yancey Richardson Gallery, quincaillerie, Lightroom mobile, photography fails and a Lensbaby Velvet 28 webinar.
Another Indigo Telephoto
28 July 2025
We prefer shooting telephoto because that's how we look at the world. Wide angle introduces a distortion we can't countenance. And normal focal lengths merely catalog all the things we tend to ignore.
Around The Horn
28 July 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 AP's day, the SFO Museum, the Tamron 50-400mm, the most desirable camera, image dates/times and a confrontation.
Matinee: 'Frames of Morocco'
26 July 2025
Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?
Around The Horn
26 July 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 Jehad Alshrafi, a medieval castle, Comic-Con and sensor technology.
Friday Slide Show: National Carousel Day
25 July 2025
We awoke this morning to the news on NPR Morning Edition that it is National Carousel Day (or National Merry-Go-Round Day, if you prefer).
Around The Horn
25 July 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 Mexican border, AP's week, Reuter's week, Julie Hrudová, Bill Cunningham's archive and ethics.
Around The Horn
24 July 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 Ayda Gragossian, the World Aquatics Championships, life upside down and the Art of In-Between.
Around The Horn
23 July 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 a wet wedding, Reuters's day, Arles Photo Festival, shooting flowers and John Paul Caponigro.
Site Tweak: Battling the Bots
22 July 2025
It didn't occur to us that the same issue that killed our bandwidth check on the Sonic server would also affect the cron that updated our site map. That issue was Sonic's cessation of shell services.
Arrivals, Departures
22 July 2025
It's that time of year again. Graduations. For us, this season brought one high school graduation and two college graduations, which we've come to think of as arrivals and departures.
Around The Horn
22 July 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 Gaza, Noah Kalina, Russell Newell, Rosie Brock, Snapseed and the European Union's AI Act.
Around The Horn
21 July 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 Texas, Ukraine, the British Open, sharks and the macOS Sequoia picture.
Matinee: Surrounded By Sea
19 July 2025
Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?
Around The Horn
19 July 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 Good Trouble Protests, Summer Sip and Stroll, Jacquelyn Martin and primary coding languages.
Friday Slide Show: The Fish Tank
18 July 2025
The skilled nursing facility we visit six days a week has a number of amusements other than its patients. There's the gym (where you can also find jigsaw puzzles) and the recreation room where people can sometimes be found painting and coloring.
Around The Horn
18 July 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 AP's week, Reuter's week, immense icebergs, Japanese playgrounds, Democracy under siege, Sony's size fetish, a QR code and the Nomad Pentax.
Canon Releases Firmware Updates for Cameras, Lenses
17 July 2025
Canon has announced a series of firmware updates for select EOS cameras, introducing features to" enhance performance, authenticity and creative flexibility for photographers and videographers, the company said.
Around The Horn
17 July 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 Tour De France, Wellcome Photography Prize, Oaxaca, Mexico, Minimalism and Simplicity, bike jumping and old favorites.
An Indigo Telephoto: Ladies of the Roof
16 July 2025
We were walking up Montgomery St. the other day when, coming to California St. and its cable cars, we looked up trying to find another San Francisco landmark. That would be the Ladies of the Roof on Philip Johnson's 23-story office tower at 580 California St.
HBCUs to Digitize Photographic Archives
16 July 2025
Tens of thousands of historical images at America's Historically Black Colleges and Universities will be digitized thanks to a $500,000 grant program initiated by Getty Images, with crucial support from Epson, Denny's and other organizations.
Around The Horn
16 July 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 Cuban nail art, Gustavo Hernandez at the Roxie, dogs, fixating and image corruption.
Sony Introduces the RX1R III Flagship Full-Frame Compact
15 July 2025
Sony has announced the RX1R III, its next-generation premium compact camera featuring a high-resolution 61.0-megapixel full-frame Exmor R CMOS sensor, the latest BIONZ XR processing engine and a fixed Zeiss Sonnar T* 35mm f2 lens. The camera also touts blackout-free shooting and a body of durable magnesium alloy.
Around The Horn
15 July 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 Boys & Girls Clubs, the Grand Canyon wildfire, Daniel Postaer, the Perseids Meteor Shower, Roam Media Core, backing up iCloud Drive and an excellent depiction.
Around The Horn
14 July 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 Wimbledon, drones, satellite images of Texas flooding and Chinese solar farms.
Matinee: 'People Powered'
12 July 2025
Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?
Around The Horn
12 July 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 Australian Life, the Tour de France, Compact Flash cards and two big printers.
Friday Slide Show: Utility Boxes
11 July 2025
Not to be outdone by Redwood City, our little neighborhood village in San Francisco has had its utility boxes painted with original art.
Around The Horn
11 July 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 confrontation on a farm, photos of the week, a Srebrenica widow, wildlife and AOP student awards.
Around The Horn
10 July 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 Kyiv, a nuclear explosion, Reuters, Coney Island, Harold's garden, Amanda Lopez, Oskar Barnack shortlist, Andras Zoltai and wedding photos.
Hanging It Up
9 July 2025
We have been looking at these towels for over two decades. We intended them to be decorative because we didn't want to remove the towel bar installed by the previous owner (so we wouldn't have to paint the bathroom).
Around The Horn
9 July 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 Haute Couture week, Wonsan Kalma, smartphone camera as a tool and the dark side.
The Bots Are Back
8 July 2025
We were alarmed this morning to see our Web site usage report show a 21.11-GB daily tally. Our limit is 150-GB a month, so we investigated. And, sure enough, the bots are back.
Around The Horn
8 July 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 an astronomy shortlist, Kourtney Roy, Covid photography at the Getty, LensRentals' most popular rentals and MANGO.
Around The Horn
7 July 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 Pamplona, Texas, filter play, Michelle Jackson, Johnston's camera, a refrigerator review and the Dalai Lama at 90.
Matinee: 'Chromatic Exploration'
5 July 2025
Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?
Around The Horn
5 July 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 AP's week, Crete wildfire, cameras vs. phones, lens aberration simulators and pricing digital downloads.
A Fourth We Never Imagined
4 July 2025
It's a ridiculous time to be an American. From ICE raids based on nothing more than skin color to Republicans capitulating to the Trump's infantile desire for "a win," to Hegseth's reversion of base names to Confederates using the names of soldiers with the same last names as the Confederates, you'd have to be an idiot to celebrate this pike of garbage with fireworks.
Friday Slide Show: Point Bonita
4 July 2025
The last time we visited the Point Bonita lighthouse in the Marin headlands just west of the Golden Gate bridge, was in 1999 with some visitors. It's certainly not your typical tourist attraction. It's terrifying.
Around The Horn
3 July 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 International Aerial Photographer of the Year, Picture Post, Reno's Arabian Horse Show, LA's immigration protests, black and white photos, 20-mp sensors, travel photography dreams and work with joy.
Around The Horn
2 July 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 Recontres D'Arles, the Saguaro fruit harvest, hiding From ICE, Morganne Boulden, People in Focus winners and Kodak.
Summer Reading
1 July 2025
The idea behind summer reading is really about that break in the school year during which kids tend to regress. Unless they keep reading.
Tamron Announces 16-30mm f2.8 Zoom
1 July 2025
Tamron has announced its 16-30mm f2.8 Di III VXD G2 ultra wide-angle lens featuring a compact, lightweight design and compatibiliy with the Tamron Lens Utility.
Around The Horn
1 July 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 Wimbledon heat, urban black-and-white photography, Irys and that Z 8 firmware update.
June Archived
1 July 2025
We've just archived Volume 14, Number 6 of Photo Corners on the Archive page with 15 Features, 12 commented News stories, 24 Editor's Notes (which included 138 items of interest), no reviews and one site note for a total of 52 stories.
An Indigo Interior
30 June 2025
A 58-year-old interior can only have one positive adjective to describe it: original. Otherwise, it's not going to impress anyone with its threadbare, faded textiles and warmly-illuminated instrument panel.
Around The Horn
30 June 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 extreme heat, Budapest Pride, high-magnification macrophotography and RapidRAW.
Remembering Rosalind Fox Solomon
28 June 2025
Rosalind Fox Solomon died on Monday in Manhattan. She was 95.
Matinee: 'Léonard Misonne '
28 June 2025
Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?
Around The Horn
28 June 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 Glastonbury Festival, a Russian drone, makers' marks and Vivid-Pix's giveaway.
Friday Slide Show: Twin Peaks in Summer
27 June 2025
Summer had just arrived so we thought we'd persuade ourselves to climb Twin Peaks with our Nikon D200 before we had too much time to think about it. We had the 18-200mm Nikkor we did not repair mounted on the Nikon just in case someone tried to relieve us of it.
Around The Horn
27 June 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 Associated Press's week, Reuters's week, trees, photojournalism and coaching and A Street Photography Manifesto.
Khattab and Jones Win the 40th Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards
26 June 2025
The Kraszna-Krausz Foundation has announced the winners of its 40th anniversary Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards. In the Stills category, Mahmoud Khattab won for his self-published title The Dog Sat Where We Parted. In the Moving Image category, Ellen E. Jones wone for Screen Deep: How film and TV Can Solve Racism and Save the World published by Faber.
Sony Releases Camera Verify Beta
26 June 2025
Sony has announced the beta release of Camera Verify, a new feature of its Camera Authenticity Solution that "enables external sharing of image authenticity information via a dedicated URL," the company said. "This has been developed to help news organizations address the growing challenge of verifying the authenticity of digital images in the age of generative artificial intelligence."
Around The Horn
26 June 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 a Swiss glacier, a selfie in the Uffizi, Peach Fuzz, Project Indigo, Apple's image sensor, Leica at 100, Darktable and a free macro webinar.
Remembering Marcia Resnick
25 June 2025
Marcia Resnick died on Wednesday in Manhattan at a hospice facility where she was suffering from lung cancer. She was 74.
Around The Horn
25 June 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 AP's photos of the day, the Belfast Photo Festival, simulated lens abberations on fabric and Mike and Milly.
Around The Horn
24 June 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 Versailles' Great Masked Ball, Reuters' day, lens aberrations and VSCO Capture.
Summer Arrives
23 June 2025
With the fog swirling around the house this morning, we entertained no doubt summer has arrived in San Francisco. A few days ago, in fact. Which, fooled us for a while, because they were uncharacteristically sunny. If very windy.
Around The Horn
23 June 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 NBA Finals, Greece's Chios, the Vietnamese diaspora, the Black Panthers, the Vera Rubin Observatory, self portraits and advance directives.
Matinee: The Guild of Photographers
21 June 2025
Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?
Around The Horn
21 June 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 Stonehenge, No Kings in San Francisco, B&H's BILD Show and Fujifilm.
Friday Slide Show: The Exam Room
20 June 2025
You can get quite bored left alone waiting. Unless, of course, you have a camera with you. Exactly our situation the other day in an exam room.
Around The Horn
20 June 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 Juneteenth, Reuters' week, storytelling, Starship Flight 9, Vietnamese street food, Double Takes, total light, world photo production, prices and AI images.
Happy Juneteenth
19 June 2025
As national holidays go, Juneteenth is an outlier. There are no Juneteenth Sales. And this year there isn't even a presidential proclamation. Even last year's by President Biden was wiped from the White House Web site (but you can read it in the archives).
Around The Horn
18 June 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 Royal Ascot, missile attacks, OpenWalls Spotlight Award, that new Sigma, anything "new" and Unicorns in the Oakland Coliseum.
OM System Announces the OM-5 Mark II
17 June 2025
OM Digital Solutions Corp. has announced the OM System OM-5 Mark II. Compact, lightweight and featuring splash and dust proof construction, it's designed for the outdoors no matter the conditions. In addition it offers some built-in computational photography options.
Around The Horn
17 June 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 Le Mans, Earth Photo, Reuters' day, removing distractions and Mountain Gazette.
Sigma Announces 17-40mm f1.8 DC Art Zoom
17 June 2025
Sigma has announced its 17-40mm f1.8 DC Art zoom lens for mirrorless cameras including Canon RF, Fujifilm X, L Mount and Sony E mounts. In addition to its fast f1.8 maximum aperture, the new zoom features fast and quiet autofocus, an inner zoom mechanism and minimal focus breathing.
Adobe Releases June Creative Cloud Updates
17 June 2025
In a blog post today, Adobe announced updates to its Creative Cloud suite "designed to help you move from idea to final delivery faster than ever." Updates to Lightroom, Photoshop, Illustrator and Adobe Firefly are now available through the Creative Cloud app.
BigPicture Award Winners Announced
16 June 2025
The California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco has announced the winners of the 12th annual BigPicture: Natural World Photography Competition. Photographers representing nearly 60 countries submitted over 8,000 images to this year's competition, to this year's competition.
Around The Horn
16 June 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 Associated Press over the weekend, Pride Month, NYC's elevated waterfront, Lucas Foglia, Tanaka on the Fujifilm GFX100RF, selling the Fujifilm GFX100RF, iCloud Photos storage and a found SD card.
Matinee: 'Slide-O-Matic'
14 June 2025
Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?
Around The Horn
14 June 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 Associated Press photos of the week, Reuters photos of the week, Russell Ord, the Fujifilm GFX100RF and Excire's AI photo contest judge.
Friday Slide Show: German Pancakes
13 June 2025
We always make the same thing for Sunday brunch. Scrambled eggs with green scallions and smoke salmon. We have blueberry scones (either baked from a box of from Sconehenge) or croissants with them. And half a bottle of prosecco as we listen to classical music from KDFC.
Around The Horn
13 June 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 Iran, Jae C. Hong, Alice Austen, the Z 9 falling behind and monochrome.
Fujifilm Introduces X-E5 Mirrorless Camera
12 June 2025
Fujifilm has announced its X-E5 rangefinder-style mirrorless digital camera featuring a customizable Film Simulation dial, in-body image stabilization and enhanced viewfinder capabilities.
Fujifilm Announces 23mm f2.8 Pancake Lens
12 June 2025
Fujifilm has announces its Fujinon XF23mmF2.8 R WR lens designed to be thin and unobtrusive while delivering powerful resolution and autofocus performance, the company said.
Leica Announces 28-70 f2.8 Compact Zoom
12 June 2025
Leica has announced its Leica Vario-Elmarit-SL 28-70 f2.8 ASPH., "the most compact and lightweight zoom lens for the SL-System," the company said. The L-Mount lens features a constant f2.8 aperture across its wide-angle to moderate telephoto focal range with fast autofocus.
Around The Horn
12 June 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 a parade, Salt Flats, LensCulture portrait awards, AI data licensing and Brian Wilson.
Around The Horn
11 June 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 immigration raid protests, Marjolein Martinot, Europe's subway stations, hybrid shooting lessons, Nikon Z 8 3.0 Firmware, monitors and Liquid Glass.
DxO Releases New Modules For Two Cameras, Nine Lenses
10 June 2025
DxO Labs has announced immediate support for the newest cameras and lenses from many of the industry's leading manufacturers. DxO Modules are now available for Canon's latest vlogging camera, the EOS R50 V and Nikon's newest full-frame mirrorless camera, the Z5 II.
Around The Horn
10 June 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 Los Angeles, Mars, Death of a Fantastic Machine, amazing digital frames and iOS 26.
Around The Horn
9 June 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 World Oceans Day, World Pride, the Tony Awards, the Olive Cotton Awards, Ryo Minemizu, Jordon Conway, Karl Mondon, Bernini, Colorsuite and Bill Atkinson.
Matinee: 'Endless Stories'
7 June 2025
Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?
Around The Horn
7 June 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 French Open, Eid Al-Adha, a modest proposal and food photography errors.
Friday Slide Show: The Great Highway
6 June 2025
On the western edge of San Francisco, the four lanes of the Great Highway have run alongside Ocean Beach for several miles since 1929. It's built on a berm that once hosted a railroad to the California Midwinter International Exposition of 1894, providing an elevated view of the ocean.
Around The Horn
6 June 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 AP's photos of the week, Raw converter use of embedded JPEGs, a dog resting, wind, framing dye transfer prints and using Lightroom's Lens Blur.
Shortlist for the Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards Announced
5 June 2025
Six titles have been shortlisted for the 40th edition of the Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards, three in the stills category and three in the moving images category. The winner of each category, sharing a 10,000 prize fund, will be announced at the end of June.
Around The Horn
5 June 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 Ralph Gibson, hitchhikers, the Chinese lens industry, James Evangelista and a Lensbaby webinar.
The Light Pole
4 June 2025
We had walked by this charming building without noticing it because we were focused on something in the opposite direction. But when we made a second pass by it, we were looking at the updated, modern houses alongside it and stopped to admire its tenacious hold on the past. It was built in 1941.
Around The Horn
4 June 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 Reuters's Day, flying foxes, Joanne Leonard and Diane Arbus.
Remembering Herbert Migdoll
3 June 2025
Herbert Migdoll, the official photographer and designer of the Joffrey Ballet for about a half-century, passed away in April at the age of 90.
Around The Horn
3 June 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 an airstrike, two medium format options, Generate Image examples, composition, podcasting, RawTherapee, Photoshop on Android and inherting an archive.
Spain Honors Graciela Iturbide With Princess of Asturias Award
2 June 2025
Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide has been awarded the 2025 Princess of Asturias Award for the Arts. The honor recognizes her five-decade career capturing Mexico's cultural essence and global human experiences through a lens that jurors called "a profound, respectful and evocative gaze." Jurors also praised Iturbide's "innovative perspective" and "hypnotic world" blending harsh realities with "spontaneous magic."
Around The Horn
2 June 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 cicadas, Reuters, the Milky Way, Japan and more Ctein images.
May Archived
2 June 2025
We've just archived Volume 14, Number 5 of Photo Corners on the Archive page with 15 Features, 10 commented News stories, 26 Editor's Notes (which included 159 items of interest) and one site note for a total of 52 stories.
Matinee: 'Morandi's Books'
31 May 2025
Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?
Around The Horn
31 May 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 Alan Taylor's picks, Ctein dye transfer sale, read noise comparison, Tamara Lanier's photos and a funeral session.
Friday Slide Show: Doré's Vase
30 May 2025
We have long admired Le Poème de la Vigne (The Vintage) by Gustave Doré. We would sit next to it outside the de Young museum to admire the hilarious theatrics of its 58 cherubs wrestling with various insects assaulting the 11-foot tall vase, which happens to be a generous 22 feet in circumference.
Around The Horn
30 May 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 AP's photos of the week, that Swiss village, Michael Shaw, a MacBook Air M4 and ChatGPT.
Ninth Annual Toyo Tires Photo Contest Opens
29 May 2025
Toyo Tires is now accepting entries to its Ninth Annual Toyo Tires Shutter Space Automotive Photo Contest. The automotive photography theme this year must showcase a rolling vehicle shot, "capturing those dynamic moments in time that convey speed and energcs," the company said.
Around The Horn
29 May 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 two apple trees, Mount Everest, Stefan Falke, Abhishek Khedekar, the rainy season, Natacha Pisarenko, Manhattanhenge, Google Photos, portfolios and a Masters in Photograph.
Sony Introduces the FX2 Hybrid Camera
28 May 2025
Sony has announced the FX2, the latest addition to its Cinema Line family, featuring a full-frame 33-megapixel, back-illuminated Exmor R sensor with up to 15+ stops of wide latitude using S-Log3.
Around The Horn
28 May 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 Scripps National Spelling Bee, Gaza, the Hapa Project, David Burnett on Nick Ut, Harvard returns Tamara Lanier's family photos and Nikon price adjustments.
Around The Horn
27 May 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 American Music Awards, Stephen Shames, Carnaval, Neil Leifer, Death Valley, Sacha Stejko, Ctein's print sale, failure, film photography and Fotospeed papers.
Memorial Day
26 May 2025
A few years ago we ran into a family friend at her father's funeral. She charmingly introduced us to her children as "Mr. Mike," following the family custom for addressing adults.
Remembering Sebastião Salgado
24 May 2025
Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado, known for his images the introduced the world to the Amazon rainforest among others depicting social injustice, died on Friday in Paris from leukemia. He was 81.
Matinee: 'Memories of Love Returned'
24 May 2025
Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?
Around The Horn
24 May 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 Alan Taylor's photos of the week, a family photo, lidar and Sebastião Salgado.
Friday Slide Show: Blown Glass
23 May 2025
We look at this glass vase every day. It seems to have always been there on the little table above the heater vent in the dining room. But we can't recall how we came by it.
Nikon to Raise Prices
23 May 2025
In a brief notice on its Web site, Nikon announced a price increase "due to the recent tariffs." The price increase will take effect June 23.
Around The Horn
23 May 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 Associated Press, Reuters, Gui Christ, light painting, digitizing at the Internet Archive and Norm's connection to photo history.
Harvey Posts ExifTool 13.30 Production Release
22 May 2025
Phil Harvey has posted ExifTool v13.30, the first production release since v13.25 on Mar. 13, 2025. The release is available in three formats, including a Windows executable and macOS package.
Fujifilm Announces X Half Digicam
22 May 2025
Fujifilm has announced the X Half, the latest model in its X series, a half-frame camera featuring a body weighing only 8.5 oz. with a Frame Advance Lever and film-like photographic emulations.
Around The Horn
22 May 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 black holes, Katherine Hubbard, Lucas Foglia and Ricoh GR IV.
Around The Horn
21 May 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 Chelsea Flower Show, World Food Photography Awards, Climate Visuals, Creative Cloud Pro, Ctein's dye transfer print sale, camera technology and checking actuations.
Around The Horn
20 May 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 Constance Jaeggi, a beer bath, recent enhancements to Photoshop, movement and a rolling backpack.
Smogged
19 May 2025
Today's accounts payable included vehicle registration renewal for the Honda, which has had the distinction lately of being the oldest vehicle in several funeral processions. Implying, perhaps, that we're next.
Around The Horn
19 May 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 recent storm damage, Bay to Breakers, Cannes Red Carpet, Reuters' photos of the weekend, Japanese stone works and JPEGs.
Matinee: 'Barbara Thollot's Revêrie'
17 May 2025
Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?
Around The Horn
17 May 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 Associated Press, Reuters, Skander Khlif and the Valkyries.
Friday Slide Show: Apple Blossoms
16 May 2025
We've been overwhelmed lately. Just too many loose ends threatening to form themselves into nooses. So now and then something we had planned to do gets lost in the dust raised by the shuffle.
Around The Horn
16 May 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 USAID cuts, SOS Richmond, odd photos, Satan's Barrel, emerging photographers, Zed Nelson, calculating reach and an industry survey.
A Timepiece
15 May 2025
It took us quite a while to decipher this watch dial. What time is it displaying?
Around The Horn
15 May 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 Reuters, Simonopetra, Photo London, power houses, Don Pettit and AFP storage.
Around The Horn
14 May 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 Eurovision, Baldwin Lee, Waterworks, Lee Miller and more on the wrong camera.
Around The Horn
13 May 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 Vesak Day, Engetsukyu, sensor noise, Lightroom catalog settings, Karen Williams, the Foto app and tripod heads.
Fortieth Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards Long List Announced
12 May 2025
On its 40th anniversay, the Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards for moving images and stills has released its long list for the 2025 edition. It announced 10 titles in the Still Image category and another 10 in the Moving Image category.
Around The Horn
12 May 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 gold, the Bealtaine Fire Festival, poppies, the Kraszna-Krausz Photography Book Awards, B&W conversions, Kristin Schnell, CMOS read noise, tariff updates and AI training.
Matinee: 'Stefano Santucci'
10 May 2025
Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?
Around The Horn
10 May 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 Reuters' week, Isabel Mateos, Ugreen's smart tracker and a 16th St. alley.
Friday Slide Show: American Women Quarters
9 May 2025
We got into the habit of hoarding quarters when we used to carry our towering basket of laundry around the corner to the laundromat to do three loads in the time it takes to do one at home these days. The dryers, which didn't offer the same efficiency, also took quarters. So you could never have enough of them.
Around The Horn
9 May 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 AP's week, the ADM awards, an MS-Optics ISM 50mm f1.0, dancers and black point errors.
Capture One Update Adds New Logo, AI Portrait Retouching +
8 May 2025
While we did attend the online briefing, we found it impossible to actually access the press materials (including the beta) on Capture One's site.
Around The Horn
8 May 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 white smoke, VE Day tributes, Phil Buehler and camera storage.
Esmeralda and the Blown Glass
7 May 2025
When we moved into this place in 2003, we found a Disney character on top of the garage fluorescent fixture. It was Esmeralda) from The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
Around The Horn
7 May 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 prisoners of war, more Alcatraz, Hong Kong, iPhone = Leica, Harold Davis, the 16-bit fallacy, Muybridge and Apple Silicon.
Sigma Announces Tariff-Based Price Increases
6 May 2025
In a letter to customers today, Sigma America president Mark Amir-Hamzeh announced the company is obliged to raise prices effective June 2. "Due to the recent implementation of government-imposed tariffs, our costs at Sigma America have increased substantially," he explained.
DxO Introduces Nik Collection 8
6 May 2025
With the theme "Live in Color; Dream in Black and White," DxO Labs has released Nik Collection 8 with some welcome user interface improvements and the ability to share masks with Photoshop, piggy-backing on Adobe's AI masking to add a more intelligent local focus to the suite's image editing.
Around The Horn
6 May 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 Met Gala, the Valdez Trail, Chris Donovan and Bernat Armangué.
Around The Horn
5 May 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 Calais, Sovereignty, Sanket Khuntale, bamboo, the wrong camera, Blurb, NAS suggestions and Alcatraz.
Matinee: 'Michael Kenna's Venice'
3 May 2025
Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?
Around The Horn
3 May 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 hats at the Derby, Green Day, the Aurora Borealis, a 108-billion-pixel scan, dogs and Leica price increases.
Friday Slide Show: Inside Alcatraz
2 May 2025
We've never understood the fascination visitors to San Francisco display for Alcatraz. The prison, not the island. Everybody who visits us always wants to go there. We used to go along with them, out of politeness, but we now plead poverty and stay onshore.
Herminio RodrÌguez's 'Osamenta' Opens
2 May 2025
Oliva Gallery in Chicago presents Osamenta, a photographic exhibition by Herminio RodrÌguez that explores the landscapes of decay and resilience across Puerto Rico. RodrÌguez's work focuses on socioeconomic hardship in the aftermath of economic recession, governmental debt and natural disasters on the island.
Around The Horn
2 May 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 May Day, Lagos negatives, travel tripods, point-and-shoot cameras, compartmentalizing, Apple tariffs and backup omissions.
Around The Horn
1 May 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 Underground Railroad to Canada, Jerusalem wildfires, West River, Chris Leventis, dSLRs and a price increase.
April Archived
1 May 2025
We've just archived Volume 14, Number 4 of Photo Corners on the Archive page with 13 Features, 8 commented News stories, 26 Editor's Notes (which included 154 items of interest) and 2 site notes for a total of 49 stories.
Around The Horn
30 April 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 Color Photography Contest, Marai Photo Grant, GDT Nature Photographer of the Year, Pictures of the Month, dogs and deprecated Nikon software.
Around The Horn +
29 April 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 Vietnam War photography, photographic Haiku, European power outage, Nikon's May rebates, gear in the weather and Nixplay.
Adobe Launches Adobe Content Authenticity Public Beta
28 April 2025
In a blog post, Andy Parsons has announced a public beta of Adobe Content Authority, a free app requiring only a free Adobe account, to allow you to apply Content Credentials to your digital work.
Around The Horn
28 April 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 Roxie, Rania Matar, Themba Hadebe, Harold Davis and Nikon dSLR/Nikkor production.
Matinee: 'Stanley Cup Playoffs'
26 April 2025
Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?
Around The Horn
26 April 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 funeral of Pope Francis, a TED talk, Michel Kharoubi, birding and nature photography.
Friday Slide Show: Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance
25 April 2025
One of the problems of being enamored of cutting edge technology is that what you do with it often ends up being orphaned, forgotten and lost. So it is with our Kodak PhotoCD images, captured with a Nikon film camera (the FM2 and FE2) and converted to Kodak's proprietary format for CDs.
Around The Horn
25 April 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 AP's photos of the week, Reuter's top pictures, the Pure Street Photography Competition, Mississippi Remembers, LensCulture New Discoveries, Select Landscape masking and ChatGPT integration.
Around The Horn
24 April 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 Mark Cohen, Pope Francis, Scott Lowden, print sales, tariffs and fake news.
Epson Announces Two Wide-Format SureColor Printers
23 April 2025
Epson has announced the addition of two new models to its SureColor P-Series line: the 24-inch SureColor P7370 and 44-inch SureColor P9370. Designed for professional photography, fine art and graphic design, the new wide-format printers feature an advanced printhead design and extended color gamut at speeds over two times faster than the previous generation.
Around The Horn
23 April 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 Pope Francis, the Kyotographie Festival, Slot Canyons tutorial, Harold Davis, satiation and Aidan Klimenko.
Sony Announces FE 50-150mm f2 GM Zoom
22 April 2025
Sony has introduced its FE 50-150mm f2 GM as "the world's first telephoto zoom lens with a maximum focal length of 150mm and f2 aperture," the company said. With 50mm at the wide end and a constant aperture of f2 through its telephoto reach, it "offers an exceptional combination of high resolution and stunning bokeh, enhancing the imaging results for professionals using the Sony Alpha camera system."
Around The Horn
22 April 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 early American photography, Magnum's Square Print sale, Esteban Felix, night and twilight photography, off-season photography, communication, slow app launches and WD's new HDD recycling.
Around The Horn
21 April 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 Pope Francis, Bob's Birds, the Aura Aspen frame, Mac to iPad and Diglloyd.
Eggs For Easter
20 April 2025
Last year we colorized a black-and-white image for Easter, imagining we might do that every year from then on just as once upon a time we colored eggs. Who knew we'd be in such a colorless world only a year later?
Matinee: 'Food Photographer Alex Lau'
19 April 2025
Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?
Around The Horn
19 April 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 AP's week, Lexington Minute Men, Ankit Ghosh and the 1906 Earthquake Commemoration.
Friday Slide Show: Two Crews
18 April 2025
One of our regular urban hikes is to go see the bees. There are a couple dozen hives maintained near the Laguna Honda Reservoir on Seventh Ave. And it's a good hike down the hill (and back up after).
Around The Horn
18 April 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 Education Day of Action, Holy Week, Tom Leighton, Paloma Dooley and detecting AI art.
Around The Horn
17 April 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 Sony World Photography awards, World Press Photo awards, Andrew Burr, Jill Connelly, spring in bloom, Cristina Mittermeier, local newsrooms, Proof Portal, Text Substitutions and Memory of the World Register.
Wear a Helmet
16 April 2025
We ran into this squadron of ducks in their helmets the same place we observed the amusing Amulets recently. Commuter parking.
Around The Horn
16 April 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 a butterfly migration route, Juliette Pavy, a non-profit contract, Which Year game and Raber memorial.
Around The Horn
15 April 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 Coachella, Harold Davis, Arches National Park and a parade.
Around The Horn
14 April 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 Palm Sunday, the Songkran Water Festival, the Masters, f1.2, Chatbooks and an ATA Carnet.
Matinee: 'Photo Chats with Stephen Johnson'
12 April 2025
Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?
Around The Horn
12 April 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 fake images, a missed departure, the Annapolis Cup and Petros Giannakouris.
Friday Slide Show: Neighborhood Cherry Blossoms
11 April 2025
Last week when we marched around the neighborhood looking for cherry blossoms, we were disappointed. The rains, apparently, had delayed things.
Around The Horn
11 April 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 AP's week, Reuter's week, Martin Parr, new archives, a camping platform and Ken Griffey Jr.
Weather Photographer of the Year Contest Opens
10 April 2025
The Standard Chartered Weather Photographer of the Year competition 2025 has launched with the goal of showcasing the world's most striking weather and climate photography.
AFP Launches New Verification Course
10 April 2025
Agence France-Presse is launching an online course for journalists to explain how to use its Verification Plug-in for online investigations, also known as InVID-WeVerify, at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia, Italy.
Site Tweak: Squashing Another Bot
10 April 2025
At the end of last month we were alarmed to see our daily bandwidth jump as high as 15-GB. With Sonic's bandwidth protection to avoid extra charges for more bandwidth, that would shut us down for a month in 10 days. So we lept into action early this month.
Around The Horn
10 April 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 Wilton-Steer, Dylan Hausthor, Teatro Ridicolo, the Museum of Oddities and AppexIndexer.
Amulets
9 April 2025
We happened to pass this intriguing collection of auto amulets on a walk by the reservoir yesterday. It was on a stretch of roadway that commuters park to take the streetcar downtown to work, avoiding the monthly parking fees of the downtown garages.
Around The Horn
9 April 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 Hoo Lee Gans, fill flash, Z Nikkors, Learning Light, medium format and old lenses.
Remembering Bryan Peterson
8 April 2025
Bryan Peterson, a professional photographer for three decades and photography instructor for over 20 years who shared his expertise in books like Understanding Exposure, which sold more than one-million copies world-wide, workshops held all over the world and his Bryan Peterson School of Photography.
Around The Horn
8 April 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 Ukraine's bomb shelters, conflict images, Badwater Basin, Perrin James, more on tariffs and Micron.
Around The Horn
7 April 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 nationwide protests, 47 protest signs, car photographs and SFSU's greenhouse.
Matinee: 'Finding Photography'
5 April 2025
Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?
Around The Horn
5 April 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 AP's week, Uganda's Rwenzori mountains, Istanbul, the Nikon Z5II and AI bots attack Wikimedia.
Friday Slide Show: The Music Makers +
4 April 2025
We noticed a new mural appear on the green wall surrounding Laguna Honda Hospital. But it was a puzzle.
Around The Horn
4 April 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 Reuters, wildlife, waterfalls, Haley Van Lith, sharpness, tariffs, cropping's effect on dynamic range and proprietary Raw formats.
Nikon Announces its Z5II Full-Frame Mirrorless
3 April 2025
Nikon has announced its full-frame/ Z5II featuring "the latest high-end features into a lightweight camera body" with "intelligent autofocus, excellent low-light performance, one-touch film-inspired color presets and the brightest viewfinder of any competing camera," the company said.
Around The Horn
3 April 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 Gaza, Elger Esser, Gustav Schmiege, tariffs effect on camera costs, AI's effect on photo licensing and studying the art.
Bob & Diane Fund Raffle: Win a Fujifilm X-T50
2 April 2025
Gina Martin, the founder of the Bob and Diane Fund, has announced that Fujfilm has donated a X-T50 to help raise money for the organization that awards grants for visual storytelling about Alzheimer's and dementia.
Around The Horn
2 April 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 Sarah Mei Herman, anti-Musk protests, Brutalist architecture, New Visions awards, ETTR, monochrome sensors, TKO Suzuki and a contract.
Smith Fund Awards Ceremony Live Streams on April 8
1 April 2025
The W. Eugene Smith Fund has announced it will honor its 2024 grant recipients during a live awards ceremony on Tuesday, April 8, at 10 a.m. EDT.
This Old (Purple) House
1 April 2025
We'd taken the Honda to Paul's on Geary St. for its six-month free tire balancing and rotation so we were back in our old neighborhood. To amuse ourselves while we waited, we took a walk between downpours hoping to find one or two things to photograph.
Around The Horn
1 April 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 cherry blossoms, Rose Finn-Kelcey, Concrete in Life, Mesquite Dunes tutorial, Candy Clark's Polaroids, timely tech innovations, the Fujifilm GFX 100RF and Overlai.
March Archived
1 April 2025
We've just archived Volume 14, Number 3 of Photo Corners on the Archive page with 16 Features, 7 commented News stories, 27 Editor's Notes (which included 144 items of interest), 1 review and 1 site note for a total of 52 stories.
Around The Horn
31 March 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 Eid celebrations, Stan Squirewell, new cameras, subjectivity in engineering, an unlucky idea and Sally Mann.
Matinee: 'Liquid Lens'
29 March 2025
Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?
Around The Horn
29 March 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 Reuters' photos of the week, a partial solar eclipse, a masked protester, the shopper-photographer scale and the Homestead.
Friday Slide Show: Worry Dolls
28 March 2025
If you have a problem, the legend goes, share it with a worry doll. Tell one worry to a doll, then put them under your pillow when you go to bed. While you sleep, the dolls will carry your worries away.
Around The Horn
28 March 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 Myanmar quake, Reuters' week in pictures, wildlife and Kevin Raber.
Remembering Herb Greene
27 March 2025
Herb Greene, who photographed the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Led Zeppelin and Janis Joplin in the mid-1960s, died from pancreatic cancer on March 3 at his home in Maynard, Mass. He was 82.
Around The Horn
27 March 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 World Press Photo winners, DC cherry blossom, Hawaii's erupting volcano, dancing spirits, the poor focus problem, Colorsuite and clothing photography.
Around The Horn
26 March 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 Northern Lights, a dragon boat paddler, sketching, a product photography contract and AI illustrations.
Eucalyptus
25 March 2025
We interrupted our usual evening reverie to admire the canopy of inflamed clouds over a stand of eucalyptus trees that have not been cut down on Edgehill Mountain.
AFP Demands Release of Photojournalist Yasin Akgül
25 March 2025
Agence France-Presse has demanded the immediate release of its photojournalist Yasin Akgül, who has been detained along with nine other journalists by Turkish authorities after covering protests over the arrest of Istanbul's Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu.
Around The Horn
25 March 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 South Korea's wildfires, Nick Hannes, photobooks by women, a revealing question, GIMP 3.0.2 and Raw camera settings.
ICP To Present 'Edward Burtynsky: The Great Acceleration'
24 March 2025
The International Center of Photography has announced The Great Acceleration, the first solo institutional exhibition of photographer Edward Burtynsky's work in New York City in over twenty years. "The exhibition will reveal the depth of his investigation into the human alteration of natural landscapes around the world, showing their present fragility and enduring beauty in equal measure," ICP noted.
Around The Horn
24 March 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 José Luis Ledesma, Turkey, a controversial copper mine, the GFX100RF, image stabilization and lighting kits.
Matinee: 'Nutrient Concentration'
22 March 2025
Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?
Around The Horn
22 March 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 anti-Trump/Musk protests, the swirling green Chicago River, a DJ and bomboloni.
Friday Slide Show: The Garden Prepares For Spring
21 March 2025
Thursday is garbage night so we take our green bin or yellow bucket, depending on the damage, and go around the garden cleaning things up. A bit. This week, though, we noticed a few signs of spring. Subtle but spring.
Around The Horn
21 March 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 AP's week, Heathrow, British Wildlife Photography Awards, more wildlife, visual metaphors, the Fujifilm GFX100RF, AI and copyright, 1960s San Francisco and the worst digital cameras.
Fujifilm Announces Fixed-Lens Medium Format GFX Camera
20 March 2025
Fujifilm has announced its Fujifilm GFX100RF mirrorless digital camera, Fujififilm's first GFX camera with a fixed lens. It features a large-format image sensor, "approximately 1.7 times larger than a typical 35mm full-frame sensor," the company said.
Around The Horn
20 March 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 International Day of Happiness, Dona Ann McAdams, family-owned farms and ranches, new Camera Raw enhancements and high-speed flash photography.
Around The Horn
19 March 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 Reuters, scanning backs, the niftiest 50, a perpetual usage contract and Group f.64 at SFMOMA.
Around The Horn
18 March 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 St. Patrick's Day, Format 2025, Joseph Seif, Dima Markov and Walker Pro Series backpacks.
Cyme Releases Peakto 2.3 With Peakto Connect
18 March 2025
Cyme has released Peakto 2.3 with a compelling new feature for the macOS media manager: secure remote access. With the new Peakto Connect, you can access your remote media from anywhere, across multiple devices, without uploading your content to the Cloud.
Around The Horn
17 March 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 Jon Tonks, Toby Binder, an industry problem, #MeToo in photography, SSD issues and AI image generators.
Happy St. Patrick's Day
17 March 2025
We have such a small inventory of Irish-themed images that this year we resorted to collaborating with an acquaintance who works as a Lephrechaun Investigator. We'll let him take it from here...
Matinee: 'Photoshoots for Workday Sports'
15 March 2025
Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?
Around The Horn
15 March 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 Festival of Colors, Canberra Balloon Spectacular, the Global Ability Photography Challenge, a pole vaulter, three young men, unconventional lenses and a contract.
Friday Slide Show: Netsuke
14 March 2025
We have always been besotted by scrimshaw and netsuke. Scrimshaw is not easily enjoyed or acquired these days but affordable netsuke reproductions can sometimes be found in art museums and gift shops around here. That's where this one came from.
Around The Horn
14 March 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 AP's week, Reuters' week, Mahé Elipe and Ariana Drehsler.
Harvey Posts ExifTool 13.25 Production Release
13 March 2025
Phil Harvey has posted ExifTool v13.25, an update to several recent releases this month and the first production release since v13.10 on Dec.20, 2024. The release is available in three formats, including a Windows executable and macOS package.
Book Bag: Minor White's 'Memorable Fancies'
13 March 2025
We have usually read through the whole book before we review it. But after a few weeks paging through Minor White's Memorable Fancies, we decided we'd rather stretch our pleasure out a bit and make it last, as Harvey Mudrick used to say at UCSB about deliciously long books.
Around The Horn
13 March 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 deportees, Covid lockdown revisited, Glen McClure, normal lenses and a backyard garden.
Mr. Head Again
13 March 2025
Our neurologist has been sending us to the Imaging Lab for CT scans of our brain every six weeks (or so) to monitor the brain bleed we mentioned Aug. 22 last year.
Around The Horn
12 March 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 Sony World Photography Awards, Maria, Murray Fredericks, photo book services and the blood worm moon.
Around The Horn
11 March 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 International Women's Day, Florian Schulz, making a print a day, swings and misses and more interesting things.
Remembering Flo Fox
10 March 2025
Flo Fox, who captured the "ironic reality" of New York City in 180,000 photos, died on March 2 from complications from pneumonia in her apartment in Manhattan. She was 79.
End of the Show
10 March 2025
All our TVs (we have two flat screen LCD TVs) are older than our cameras. The remotes are balky but the pictures are still clear. And there's no way we'd ever be able to connect our peripherals to a modern, port-challenged one.
Around The Horn
10 March 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 Holi, a wedding, a refrigerator, small lens performance, step sizes for macro photography and cruise ship photography.
Spring Forward
8 March 2025
Public service is in our blood. Twice a year, anyway, when we feel the urge to remind you that Daylight Saving Time (for those of us who observe it) takes effect at 2 a.m. tomorrow. Which instantly becomes 3 a.m.
Matinee: 'Echoes of the Palisades'
8 March 2025
Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?
Around The Horn
8 March 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 International Women's Day, AP's week, Bloody Sunday 1965, Can Manap, black-and-white emulsions, filters and Karen Russell.
Friday Slide Show: Knockash Hill Trees
7 March 2025
We've had a few atmospheric rivers flow through San Francisco this winter. Part of the cleanup was to cut down a few of the Eucalyptus trees on Knockash Hill. We suspect they were threatening the homes below them on Kensington Way.
Around The Horn
7 March 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 Syrian refugees, Vienna's Ball Season, the Congo rainforest, sled dogs, gels in studio and DEI photo purge.
Historian Reveals Identity of 'Miss Atomic Bomb'
6 March 2025
It took him 25 years but historian and founding Atomic Museum member Robert Friedrichs has revealed the identity of the woman wearing the mushroom cloud outfit at the dawn of the Atomic Age. She was Anna Lee Mahoney from the Bronx.
Around The Horn
6 March 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 re-photography, Carnival, Greenlanders, Beth Galton and favorite normal lenses.
Around The Horn
5 March 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 Reuters, cotton mills, Eric Meola, a food images contract, new Macs and internal SSD size.
Around The Horn
4 March 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 sound barrier, PhotoVogue, the Nature Photography contest, fairytale homes and minimalism.
The Horizon
3 March 2025
The horizon as a concept is no mystery. It's "the apparent junction of the earth and sky," as Webster's puts it. Tell anyone to look at the horizon and they'll know just what to do.
Around The Horn
3 March 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 Oscars, Ramadan, compact travel cameras, normal lenses, CP+ and Ctein.
Female in Focus Award Winners Announced
1 March 2025
The British Journal of Photography, in conjunction with Nikon, has announced the winners of the 2024 Female in Focus award, dedicated to championing the work of women photographers.
Matinee: 'Photographers of Paris -- VuThéara Kham'
1 March 2025
Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?
Around The Horn
1 March 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 pictures of the month, Tracy Barbutes, Pradiptamoy Paul and big normals.
February Archived
1 March 2025
We've just archived Volume 14, Number 2 of Photo Corners on the Archive page with 15 Features, 19 commented News stories, 24 Editor's Notes (which included 131 items of interest) and 3 site notes for a total of 61 stories.
Friday Slide Show: An Absence in the Air
28 February 2025
The other day we scrolled through all the thumbnails of the slide shows we've produced for Photo Corners. That would be 581 thumbnails (but it went fast).
ICP Announces 41st Annual Infinity Awards
28 February 2025
The International Center of Photography has announced the award recipients for the 41st Annual Infinity Awards Gala to be held April 1 at Tisch Skylights at The Shed.
Around The Horn
28 February 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 week in pictures, World Nature Photography Awards, Martin Parr, Gorton, a white camellia blossom, Kost on Photoshop on the iPhone and unwanted system updates.
Around The Horn
27 February 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 Milan Fashion Week, Antarctica, a modern dancer, impending motherhood and the AirTag Camera Plate.
DxO Announces PureRaw 5
27 February 2025
DxO has announced DxO PureRaw 5, the latest evolution of its Raw pre-processing software. Available from April 15, this version sets "a new benchmark for image quality," the company said, "combining groundbreaking noise reduction, enhanced optical corrections and a streamlined workflow."
Sony Unveils 400-800mm f6.3-8 G OSS Super Telephoto Zoom
26 February 2025
Sony has introduced its 400-800mm f6.3-8 G OSS zoom, its longest-range full-frame E-Mount lens. With an internal zoom mechanism to ensure stable handling, its advanced optical design delivers creamy bokeh and sharp, detailed images. Its fast and accurate autofocus system combines with a durable, versatile build.
Sony Announces 16mm f1.8 G Full-Frame Prime
26 February 2025
Sony has introduced its 16mm f1.8 G, a full-frame E-Mount lens that packages an ultra-wide 16mm focal length in a compact, lightweight build. The new prime features high-resolution image quality, smooth bokeh, precise autofocus and a bright f1.8 aperture.
Around The Horn
26 February 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 house in the Tenderloin, Mark Laita, Photoshop on iPhone, shooting a wedding, springtime for photographers and the creative spark.
Zeiss Continues Otus Optics for Mirrorless With ML Line
25 February 2025
Zeiss has announced the Otus ML family, a new series of lenses designed to bring the Otus brand to the mirrorless world. The first of the Otus ML lenses will be available in two focal lengths: a 50mm lens and an 85mm lens, both with an f1.4 maximum aperture. Mirrorless mounts will include the Sony E, Canon RF and Nikon Z.
Panasonic Announces Lumix S1RII Full-Frame Mirrorless Camera
25 February 2025
Panasonic has announced the Lumix S1RII, the latest high-resolution model of its full-frame mirrorless Lumix S Series. The Lumix S1RII features a newly-developed 44.3-megapixel BSI CMOS sensor and high-performance engine with L2 technology.
Around The Horn
25 February 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 Reuters, Paolo Pellegrin, Sony World Photography Awards, Walker Evans and Retrospective bags deal.
Datacolor Introduces the LightColor Meter
25 February 2025
Datacolor has announced its Datacolor LightColor Meter, a multi-functional device to measure both the light and color temperature of any light source, including changing outdoor light, tungsten, LED, HMI, fluorescent, strobe and more.
Adobe Releases Photoshop on the iPhone
25 February 2025
Adobe has released a free version of Photoshop that runs on the iPhone, with an Android version "coming soon."
Sigma 300-600mm f4 DG OS | Sports Lens Announced
24 February 2025
Sigma has announced its 300-600mm f4 DG OS | Sports lens, which it calls "a revolutionary large-aperture ultra-telephoto zoom lens that delivers all the convenience and versatility of a zoom lens with the superior optical performance of an ultra-telephoto prime lens."
Sigma 16-300mm f3.5-6.7 DC OS | Contemporary Announced
24 February 2025
Sigma has announced what it calls "the world's first mirrorless lens with an approximate zoom ratio of 18.8x." The 16-300mm f3.5-6.7 DC OS | Contemporary features a maximum magnification ratio of 1:2 with a High-response Linear Actuator motor providing fast, smooth and accurate autofocus.
Sigma Announces 'Radically Simple' Sigma BF Camera
24 February 2025
Sigma has announced it BF camera with a unique user interface designed to provide "a new sense of connection between the photographer and the camera" in an aluminum unibody with pressure-sensitive haptic buttons and dial. It includes a 24-megapixel full-frame sensor and a dual autofocus system as well.
Sigma Announces I Series Lens Updates
24 February 2025
Sigma has announced its plans for releasing updates to its I series of lenses for full-frame mirrorless cameras.
Around The Horn
24 February 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 Ukraine, Ukrainian Soldiers, Women in Trees, the SAG Awards and Aïda Muluneh.
Matinee: 'Capturing the Modern Prairie'
22 February 2025
Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?
Around The Horn
22 February 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 Barbara Ramos, Sutro Tower, Richard Chambury, national park employees and AP Sues White House.
Friday Slide Show: An Arcade in Stonestown
21 February 2025
A friend was early for her Apple Genius appointment to reset her iPad, which had locked her out after she forgot her password. So she showed me the new arcade and bowling alley at Stonestown Galleria.
Site Tweak: OpenAI, ChatGPT
21 February 2025
We were more than a little shocked this morning to see the site has been hit with seven times the traffic by OpenAI and ChapGPT. Fortunately the software we wrote to monitor traffic warned us about the intrusion before our bandwidth allocation was threatened.
Around The Horn
21 February 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 Nations Face-Off Final, Greenland, Underwater Photographer of the Year, Ariana Gomez, file organization, a wooden camera and Visual Intelligence.
Epson Releases Free Videos on Epson Media Installer
20 February 2025
Epson recently released version 2.0 of Epson Media Installer, its configuration software for SureColor P-Series and SureColor T-Series printers, and has now released three short videos on its Epson Print Academy YouTube channel to help explain the new features...
Leica Updates Its Summilux-M 50mm f1.4
20 February 2025
Leica has announced a new silver version of its Summilux-M 50mm f1.4, originally launched in 1959 as the first "maximum light" Summilux lens. This is only the second version of the 50mm Summilux.
Around The Horn
20 February 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 Reuters, Hugh Holland, Kenya, Guittard Chocolate and Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall.
Around The Horn
19 February 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 Photoshop at 35, Face Magazine, Eric Kogan, Maggie Shannon, a Super Bowl image, a camera question, a contract and an NEA protest.
Free Ink
18 February 2025
HP's Instant Ink program, once upon a time, promised free ink in return for a per page print charge on its printers. And if you printed no more than 10 pages a month, you could even avoid that.
Around The Horn
18 February 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 Venice Carnival, ancient Baobab Trees, restoring family photos, the Turkish Highlands, the Chinese New Year Parade and Colin Sussingham.
Presidents' Day
17 February 2025
It's pushing it to celebrate Presidents' Day with a felon in the White House. And let's be honest, he hasn't shown any new-found respect for the Constitution since he moved back in. In fact he seems to be wielding the Supreme Court's immunity grant as a Constitutional condom.
Matinee: 'The Time Thief'
15 February 2025
Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?
Around The Horn
15 February 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 Valentine's Day, Mary Ellen Matthews, a sunflower garden, Pixelmator, McClymonds High and the Optimizing Impulse.
Friday Slide Show: The Merry Wanderer
14 February 2025
After graduating from high school, we found ourselves among a group of about nine fellow grads shepherded by one adult on a trip through Europe in a VW van. To express our appreciation, we brought a Hummel home for our parents.
A Valentine
14 February 2025
This heart can be found at French Hospital in San Francisco's Richmond District. The hospital is now a Kaiser campus with its own pharmacy and various services, including Kaiser's Memory Care Clinic.
Around The Horn
14 February 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 AP's week, Reuters's week, Lachlan Turczan, a platinum palladium print, Joshua Rothman and photography's path to survival.
Nikon Introduces Nikkor Z 28-135mm f4 PZ
13 February 2025
Nikon has announced the Nikkor Z 28-135mm f4 PZ, a full-frame power zoom lens for the Nikon Z mount, featuring a versatile focal range, customizable power zoom function, precise manual controls and agile handling.
Remembering Hugh Holland
13 February 2025
Hugh Holland, whose photographs defined the golden era of skateboarding in Los Angeles, has died. He was 82.
Wacom Redesigns Intuos Pro Tablet
13 February 2025
Wacom has redesigned its Intuos Pro tablet with tactile controls and the new Pro Pen 3, the same pen technology in the Cintiq Pro displays.
Around The Horn
13 February 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 Mount Etna, girlhood, Atlanta, Adaptive Profiles and more Interesting Things.
Roped Into It
12 February 2025
Suddenly we find ourselves immersed in the estates of three people, only one of whom we can actually discuss matters with. And even then that would entail talking to ourself.
Around The Horn
12 February 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 Westminster Dog Show, Farmer Guðjón, American Photography, chess carving in India, the OM-3, calibrating an Apple display, scanning old photos and AP on Oval Office access.
Around The Horn
11 February 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 New York Fashion Week, Lumberjills, shooting film again and the Python Imagining Library.
The Shuttle Stop
10 February 2025
Here's a tip for you if you ever find yourself taking Muni and SamTrans to get from San Francisco to Daly City and back (no one? just me?). SamTrans gives you a two-hour free transfer window from when you first board. So if it can get somewhere in half an hour and you can do what you have to do in an hour and half, you can get a free return trip.
Around The Horn
10 February 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 Super Bowl LIX stills, Super Bowl Commercials, the OM-3, software and tillman crane.
Matinee: 'A Lens on London's Wildlife'
8 February 2025
Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?
Around The Horn
8 February 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 Critics Choice Awards Red Carpet, Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe, down time and creative blocks.
Friday Slide Show: The Folding Corona
7 February 2025
Among the things we are now in charge of dusting is Joyce's folding Corona portable typewriter. Its patents are listed from 1913 to 1917, making it a Corona 2 or 3, we suppose with no authority.
Around The Horn
7 February 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 AP's week, Reuters' week, Arthur Tress, ice fishing, Karan Kapoor, Superb Owl, AI Detector and an old photo.
OM Announces OM-3 Camera, Three Lenses
6 February 2025
OM Digital Solutions has announced the OM System OM-3 Micro Four Thirds camera, its M.Zuiko 100-400mm f5.0-6.3 IS II and two primes: the M.Zuiko Digital 17mm f1.8 II and 25mm f1.8 II. Details follow.
Around The Horn
6 February 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 Lone Cypress, Larry Clark, Mexican troops and the Unpro camera app.
Nikon Announces the Coolpix P1100 With 125x Optical Zoom
5 February 2025
Nikon has announced the Coolpix P1100, a compact digital camera featuring a 125x optical super-telephoto zoom, which can be pushed digitally to 250x. The camera also features Dual Detect Optical VR for a 4.0-stop improvement at the center of the frame and 4K UHD/30p and superlapse movie recordings.
Nikon Announces the Nikkor Z 35mm f1.2 S
5 February 2025
Nikon has announced the Nikkor Z 35mm f1.2 S, a medium wide-angle prime lens with a fast f1.2 maximum aperture.
Around The Horn
5 February 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 Santorini, Uncanny, London's Square Mile and real photography.
Old Men
4 February 2025
We rode the 28R up 19th Avenue to Park Presidio and Geary Blvd. where we caught a 38R down to 40th Avenue for a tour of a room-and-board for people who need 24-hour care. We were a bit early for our 4 p.m. appointment.
Around The Horn
4 February 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 A Day Without Immigrants, Rebecca Norris Webb, Oded Balilty at Auschwitz, 1970s England, prime lenses, photo gamut mapping, film photography and 1960s San Francisco.
Remembering George Tice
3 February 2025
George Tice, the "Bard of New Jersey" died in ary at his New Jersey home from complications of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. He was 86.
Around The Horn
3 February 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 Grammys, Alexander Gronsky, Black photographers and Nikkor telephotos.
Matinee: 'Deborah Turbeville: Photocollage'
1 February 2025
Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?
Around The Horn
1 February 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 AP's Photos of the Month, the immigration crackdown, Reginald Kofi Boateng, free benches, off-season photography and shooting film.
Site Tweak: Highlights
1 February 2025
We've been a little concerned about the size of our Highlights indices. Each month we add about nine thumbnails to the collection, so over 12 years, that's a lot of thumbnails to download.
January Archived
1 February 2025
We've just archived Volume 14, Number 1 of Photo Corners on the Archive page with 19 Features, 5 commented News stories, 26 Editor's Notes (which included 156 items of interest), no reviews and one site note for a total of 51 stories.
Friday Slide Show: The Rumbalino Returns
31 January 2025
We don't like to repeat ourselves but sometimes life feels life Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered. An epic poem, that is, "filled with themes of valor, divine intervention and the struggle between good and evil."
Around The Horn
31 January 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 AP's week, Reuters' week, Photo Brussels 2025 and RawTherapee or DarkTable.
Dining Alone
30 January 2025
These days, with Joyce marooned in a nursing home, we are dining alone. So we've picked up a trick or two we thought we'd pass along.
Around The Horn
30 January 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 50 Years Ago, Pictures of the Day, the Year of the Snake, Wim Wenders, Flowers, Lia Darjes, Smithfield Market, Fulvio Bonavia, the Frame tool and Thunderbolt 5 SSDs.
Around The Horn
29 January 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 Year of the Snake, food, James Clifford Kent and upgrading.
Tricks of the Evening
28 January 2025
When we came into the living room the other day we did a double take. Who had turned on the old brass lamp?
Around The Horn
28 January 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 Chromotherapia, Ukraine, a ZfII and Sequoia 15.3.
Cyme Releases Peakto Search 1.3
27 January 2025
Cyme has released Peakto Search 1.3, its Mac-only plug-in for Lightroom Classic and Capture One, with two new locally AI-powered features that expand its Search capabilities.
Around The Horn
27 January 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 Holocaust Remembrance Day, Auschwitz, Venice in Winter, the state of play and Pixelfed.
International Holocaust Remembrance Day
27 January 2025
Today marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the German concentration camp in Poland where 1.1 million people were exterminated during World War II. The day of liberation by Soviet troops has been commemorated since 2005 as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Matinee: 'Vittorio'
25 January 2025
Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?
Around The Horn
25 January 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 Ocean Art Contest, McAwhy, pandas and old age.
Friday Slide Show: Empty Vases
24 January 2025
The days this January have been long and stressful, dealing with problems that have no solutions while trying to keep our head above water. When we get home, we collapse, falling asleep on the couch. But it doesn't help. Yesterday, almost in a fit, we jumped up, grabbed the old Olympus and picked a subject to photograph. It was restorative.
Around The Horn
24 January 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 AP's week in pictures, Reuter's pictures of the week, Truth in Photography, Iceland, Close-Up Photographer of the Year, obsolete electronics, Blu-Ray media and lost photos.
Canon Announces RF16-28mm f2.8 IS STM Lens
23 January 2025
Canon has announced its new RF16-28mm f2.8 IS STM lens, joining the Canon RF28-70mm f2.8 STM as a more affordable f2.8 zoom option for Canon mirrorless users. Its compact, durable design makes it at home in both urban environments and remote locations.
Michele Sons Wins OM System Photography Contest
23 January 2025
OM System has announced Michele Sons of Roanoke, Va., is the grand prize winner of its recent Creativity. It's in our nature photo contest. Her photograph Fairy Forest is "a mesmerizing image of fireflies illuminating a serene forest, praised by the selection jury for its magical and natural composition," the company said.
Around The Horn
23 January 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 Richard Sharum, Postcards From the Border, Ethan Swope, fluorescing foliage, Aaron Anderson, American Job: 1940-2011, 2025 innovations and the Fediverse for photographers.
Around The Horn
22 January 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 Gaza today, Arlene Gottfried, Henry Roy, murals by Harold Davis and energy.
Around The Horn
21 January 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 Inauguration Day, the Israel-Hamas ceasefire, Los Angeles, MPIX, Rocky Nook, still life photography, Ashok Sinha, darkroom printing and abandoned file systems.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
20 January 2025
Well, it's ironic, to say the least. This year Martin Luther King, Jr. Day happens also to be Inauguration Day. You'd be hard pressed to find two more different people than MLK and the new president. "More different" puts it rather mildly. There couldn't be a greater contrast.
Remembering George Kalinsky
20 January 2025
George Kalinksy, for many years the official photographer of Madison Square Garden, died last week at a senior living facility in Manhattan from complications of Parkinson's disease. He was 88.
Matinee: 'The Silent Agreements'
18 January 2025
Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?
Around The Horn
18 January 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 AP's week in pictures, Reuters' week, Susan Berger, Keerthana Kunnath, Jan Schölzel, live co-editing and the EU's Article 17.
Friday Slide Show: The Rumbalino
17 January 2025
If you were reading us in the early days of our digital photography career, you might recall a piece or two mentioning the Rumbalino and may even recall a few digicam sample shots of it. We often tested macro mode on the interior and challenged sensors to capture its red paint.
Around The Horn
17 January 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 odd photos, Assad's prisons, Loli Kantor, Mike Johnston, calendars and adventure tips.
Leica Announces SL3-S Hybrid Camera
16 January 2025
The Leica SL3-S integrates state-of-the-art technology to provide speed, flexibility and versatility, the company said. The SL3-S is also the first camera in the SL system to be equipped with content credentials technology in accordance with the Content Authenticity Initiative for photos.
Around The Horn
16 January 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 a cease fire, the Infrared Photography Contest, Zoë Law and Camera Control.
Around The Horn
15 January 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 Southern California pets, amateur astronomers, Reflection Removal, Jay L. Clendenin and r/PhotoshopRequest.
Welcome to Digital Photography, Newbie!
14 January 2025
The first tool you need to make a photograph is, of course, a camera with some sort of lens on it. But for many newbies, that's where the investigation stops. They've been misinformed by their experience taking pictures with phones.
Around The Horn
14 January 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 devastation, Trumpland, the "What", a Z9 generation table and a cat photo controversy.
Remembering Oliviero Toscani
13 January 2025
Italian photographer and art director Oliviero Toscani has died after a two-year battle with amyloidosis. He was 82.
Around The Horn
13 January 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 people reading, a ski jumper, tulips, APS-C, Goldilocks, Advice for Young Artists, Teju Cole and Moneta Sleet, Jr.
Matinee: 'Sarah Arnett's Creative World'
11 January 2025
Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?
Around The Horn
11 January 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 enhanced northern lights captures, wildfire victims, the Dakar Rally, Ömer F Kuranli, ideaphoria, Picture Controls and a People's Choice award.
Friday Slide Show: Two Redcoats at Fort Point
10 January 2025
We confess we've begun the new year housebound with a head cold that has persisted more than a few days. We're getting better with the help of a midday break that involves lying down on the bed. And now that we're feeling better, we sometimes indulge in a midday movie.
Around The Horn
10 January 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 Jimmy Carter's funeral, a yellow cardinal, a Ring camera watches the fire, LA fires and SanDisk SD card corruption.
Around The Horn
9 January 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 World Sports Photography Awards, Letizia Battaglia, Harbin Ice and Snow World, Greenland, 35mm film scanner and the LA fires.
Around The Horn
8 January 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 th Palisades Fire, the Shutterstock-Getty Images merger, the Pebble Flow, Joe McNally and Meta.
Getty Images, Shutterstock to Merge
7 January 2025
In an email to its customers today, Getty Images CEO Craig Peters announced plans to merge with Shutterstock under the name Getty Images Holdings, Inc.
Around The Horn
7 January 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 Reuters, Richard Sharum, migrating birds, hallucinating Web sites, social media for photographers and Gen Z's Christmas haul.
The Trouble With Sunsets +
6 January 2025
We were lying on the couch Saturday evening pondering the possibilities for dinner when we saw the sun reveal itself as it was setting on the horizon. It had been overcast but there was just enough cloud cover to make the sunset interesting.
Around The Horn
6 January 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 week in photos, the Golden Globes Red Carpet, Marilyn Monroe, Irene Poon, camera wars, more interesting things, an M4 MacBook Pro vs. a Dell Tower, Alan Adler, state net neutrality laws and January 6.
Matinee: 'Ice Memories'
4 January 2025
Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?
Remembering Constantine Manos
4 January 2025
Greek-American photographer Constantine Manos has died at the age of 90.
Around The Horn
4 January 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 winners, extras, 13 film images and net neutrality.
Friday Slide Show: A Coalport Top Hat
3 January 2025
One used to dress to the nines for New Year's Eve. Top hat and tails. Furs and high heels. What else would you wear to clink glasses of champagne held by their thin stems and kiss the New Year hello?
Around The Horn
3 January 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 2025 celebrations, Bourbon Street, a moment of joy, photographing cancer and printing.
Charging the Battery
2 January 2025
So, as it turned out, we didn't drive our 2001 Honda Civic HX after Aug. 12 last year. We did put a charge on the battery a couple of times but that was the extent of our automotive ambitions.
Around The Horn
2 January 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 Gaza, Naples, Public Domain Day, Apple Photos privacy, NPR photographers, your goldmine, 2025 by month, new lens sets, Creative January and macOS trends.
December Archived
1 January 2025
We've just archived Volume 13, Number 12 of Photo Corners on the Archive page with 15 Features, 8 commented News stories, 25 Editor's Notes (which included 146 items of interest), no reviews and two site notes for a total of 51 stories.
It's 2025!
1 January 2025
Once again, we mark the obsolescence of last year's calendars despite their beautiful prints celebrating each month and herald the new year's promise of images yet unseen.
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