PetaPixel Friday December 6, 2024
Optics and artificial intelligence have converged to create a new imaging system that could transform photography, notes PetaPixel, which reports that researchers have overcome the long-standing challenges of miniaturizing lenses while maintaining image quality by integrating AI-driven corrections with metalenses—flat, nanoscale lenses. The flat, lightweight design of metalenses make them ideal for compact devices, but they have struggled with chromatic aberrations and poor image quality in varied lighting. Now that problem seems to have been solved.
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Wildlife Photographer of the Year Friday December 6, 2024
A prowling puma, a hunting polar bear cub, and a ghostly barn owl are among the 25 shortlisted images for the Wildlife Photographer of the Year People’s Choice Award 2024, notes CNN. The overall winner will be chosen by a public vote. Go to the website of London’s Natural History Museum (hit the link) to pick your favorite. A winner and four runners up will be announced in February 2025. Those images will be showcased online and on the digital screens at the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition museum (through June 29, 2025.)
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The Jewish Weekly News of Northern California Friday December 6, 2024
Joe Rosenthal, the photographer who shot the iconic World War II image of Marines raising the US flag over Iwo Jima, was born in Washington, D.C., but in 1932 he moved to San Francisco, where he worked for local newspapers in the decade prior to the war, Now, reports The Jewish Weekly News of Northern California, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors has approved a resolution to add a commemorative street name — Joe Rosenthal Way — to the 600 block of Sutter Street to honor both Rosenthal’s wartime and local photojournalism.
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The Guardian Friday December 6, 2024
The Manhattan photographer Fred McDarrah came to prominence documenting the Beat movement that overtook Greenwich Village in the 1950s. But, notes The Guardian, he later began to photograph an entirely new movement sweeping over the Village. McDarrah was there for the 1969 incident at the Stonewall Inn, which sparked a six-day uprising that is widely seen as the major pivot point in the battle for LGBTQ+ rights in the US. His images are on view at the New York Historical Society exhibition “Fred McDarrah: Pride and Protest.”
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