Union Leader Tuesday January 2, 2024
A New Hampshire-based photographer has sued a small South Carolina church for using one of his photos without permission, reports New Hampshire’s Union Leader newspaper. The photographer, Erin Paul Donovan, filed the lawsuit in federal court against Wightman United Methodist Church of Prosperity, SC, a town of some 1,000 people in Newberry County. The lawsuit, which has been widely reported on, centers on a photo of the White Mountains in New Hampshire that the church used as the thumbnail image for a video of a sermon that took place in June 2021.
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Mashable Tuesday January 2, 2024
The new year gets off to a start with the Quadrantid meteor shower, which will peak the night of Jan. 3 and the early morning of Jan. 4. As astrophotographers know, the brighter the moon in the sky, the less detail you're going to see. This year a bright last quarter moon will make viewing good but not great, notes Mashable. (Last year, by contrast, the moon was almost full during the peak of the Quadrantids — bad news for stargazers.) The Quadrantid shower is one of four major meteor showers each year with a sharp peak—the other three are the Lyrids, Leonids, and Ursids, adds EarthSky.
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Bored Panda Tuesday January 2, 2024
“If you thought your camouflage co-ord was good at keeping you hidden, just wait until you see the snow leopard in this photo,” declares Unilad. Wildlife photographer Saurabh Desai’s image of a very well hidden snow leopard in the Spiti Valley of Northern India recently went viral at Reddit, with people saying they’re “losing their minds” trying to spot the animal. Bored Panda offers a hint: Despite what you might think, snow leopards aren’t white.
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CNN Tuesday January 2, 2024
In the 1980s and ’90s, Winona Ryder was a dark-haired waif against a sea of preppy blondes. Pale, a brooding and enigmatic presence in films like Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands and Girl, Interrupted. Now, notes CNN, a new photography book by Robert Rich, former Vice President of public relations for fashion designer Marc Jacobs’ eponymous label, reveals a “softer, more intimate side” to Ryder. “I knew Winona before the camera-phones, so once we had camera-phones, forget it,” Rich tells Variety.
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