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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.
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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.
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