PetaPixel Wednesday April 23, 2025
Fujifilm has confirmed to PetaPixel that it has paused some shipments due to trade instability. “In the U.S. market, we have temporarily suspended orders for some digital camera products in order to assess various changes including tariffs,” a Fujifilm North America spokesperson said. This week B&H Photo updated its GFX100RF, X-M5 (black), and X100VI pages to show “Temporarily Out of Stock” with no option to place an order of any kind. B&H tells PP that it turned off order placement because it couldn’t get a firm ship date for new units.
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David Schonauer Wednesday April 23, 2025
Spring is busting out and the wedding season is about to get underway, so wedding photographers may want to contemplate how weddings and wedding photography are changing. Among the defining trends
today, notes photographer and YouTuber Luke Cleland in a new video, is a growing preference for portrait-oriented photos. Such images make up 50 percent of delivered wedding images, he notes, citing
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Kovels Antique Trader Tuesday April 22, 2025
A rare photograph of Abraham Lincoln — described by one person as “perhaps the most vivid and lifelike photographic likeness of Lincoln ever produced—is expected to sell for as much as $1 million when it goes up for auction tomorrow. The image, which is being offered by University Archives as part of a collection of Lincoln material, was printed by photographer George B. Ayers between 1895 and 1900 from an original negative taken by Alexander Hesler in 1860 for Lincoln’s first presidential campaign, notes Kovels Antique Trader.
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npr Tuesday April 22, 2025
The croquet teams from St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, and the neighboring U.S. Naval Academy held their annual matchup on Saturday, April 5. Thousands attended the gritty contedt, many in fancy dress, bowler hats and sporting large "Beat Navy" or "Beat the Johnnies" pins, note NPR, which features images from Tyrone Turner, a visual storyteller and editor with WAMU in Washington, D.C. The competition between the small liberal arts college and the Naval Academy began in the early 1980s.
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