The New York Times Thursday October 3, 2024
When you have a good day photographing birds, “you can enter a state of zen-like efficiency that lets the horrors of modern life melt away into snippets of photons that trigger the receptors in your eyes to perceive visions of ecstatic natural beauty.” So notes Paul Ryan of The New York Times’s Wirecutter advice column, who recently got bird-photography tips from three experts: Wildlife photographer, writer, and conservationist Melissa Groo; photographer and blogger Melissa Hafting; and biologist, freelance conservation photographer, and Wild Bird Research Group co-founder Sean Graesser.
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BBC Thursday October 3, 2024
Traveling nearly 10,000 miles by train, British photographer Katie Edwards crossed the United States and captured the country’s vast landscape through a window. The journey, from New York to San Francisco, via Chicago, Los Angeles and Seattle, resulted in 20,000 photographs taken over the course 180 hours, notes the BBC. "I had assumed that the world was going to be full of exquisite moments and my job was simply to surrender to the train, its speed, direction and frame," Edwards says. But the reality was often more challenging.
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The Hollywood Reporter Thursday October 3, 2024
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed into law two bills restricting the use of AI digital replicas of actors, notes The Hollywood Reporter. One bill, AB 2602, bars contract provisions that facilitate the use of a digital replica of a performer in a project instead of an in-person performance from that human being. The other, AB 1836, requires entertainment employers to gain the consent of a deceased performer’s estate before using a digital replica of that person. Both bills, which were passed by the California state Senate in August, were supported by the SAG-AFTRA actors union.
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Nikon Thursday October 3, 2024
Get ready to get small: Dr. Bruno Vellutini of the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics is the top winner of the 2024 Nikon Small World in Motion competition, which spotlights video or timelapse photography taken through a microscope. Vellutini’s winning entry is a video of mitotic waves in the embryo of a fruit fly. Entries were judged by authorities in the area of photomicrography and photography, on the basis of originality, informational content, technical proficiency and visual impact.
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