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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.
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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.
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