Andrew Lanxon writes that the iPhone 18 Pro may reignite his love of phone photography. While I'm quite certain it won't ever replace my Sony A1, it might just do the same for me. I plan to buy one.

I couldn't help but think of how I use the iNaturalist app when I don't know what kind of plant or insect I'm looking at. It identifies the plant and saves my image to an archive. I can see all of the different plants and species I was curious about. It's real value, to me, however, is in the moment. I didn't know what a thing was, and it helped me know.

This app from graphic designer David McGillivray is different. It's, as he described it, a bit like a digital rock collection. Except, I think most people know what the object is they are taking a picture of. Afterall, they are "everyday" objects. I wish him luck.

I don't frequent Twitter any longer, but this video is worth watching and you can do it from the MacRumors post. This "Earthset" is simply amazing to watch.

After reading this review, I ordered one. We'll see if it lives up to the review. As the article concludes, "It’s nice for photographers to have a choice in the 35mm segment that doesn’t compromise autofocus capabilities or a fast aperture while simultaneously being affordable and compact."

Adobe has agreed to buy Topaz Labs, and that makes me happy. Both sit in my daily workflow. Adobe on one side, Topaz on the other, almost every day.

The "Open In" options in Lightroom already do the job, and I've got no complaint there. What gets to me is the step before it. I have to convert every RAW file to TIFF before I can hand it to the Topaz tools I love. If this deal does what it should, that step disappears.

The part of this deal worth watching is Neurostream. Topaz built it to run their big AI models on your own machine instead of in the cloud. Topaz says a model that used to need a data-center GPU with 30GB of memory now runs on a consumer card with 6GB, same output, only a hair slower. No cloud. No per-use cost. No file leaving your desk.

Adobe has spent years moving everything to the cloud and metering it. Now it's buying the company whose whole pitch was that you don't need the cloud at all. I'd like to believe Adobe honors that idea instead of folding Neurostream into another subscription line. We'll see.

Now buy Luminar too, Adobe. Then I'll be ecstatic.

Look at these images of the center of the Milky Way, the most detailed ever taken. Then allow yourself to contemplate the vastness of the universe. There is an astounding amount we don't know about the universe. An astounding amount.