Every desk has one ugly corner: the gray knot of chargers and power bricks that no cable management ever truly tames. The Anker Nano Power Strip (10-in-1, 70W, Clamp) clamps to your desk edge and swallows that knot whole, and after a month running my entire charging setup off it, I'm not going back. 

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Camera gear discounts move fast, and this week has a strong spread of them: a do-everything Tamron superzoom, three phone gimbals and two wireless mic kits from DJI, a pocketable Panasonic full frame body, a compact Canon vlogging camera, and a two-pack of GaN chargers to keep it all running. Here's what's worth your attention right now. 

The Tamron 50-400mm f/4.5-6.3 Di III VC VXD is down to $1,044.95 for Sony E-mount, $254 off its $1,299 list price.

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Landscape photography in the summer can be frustrating, especially when shooting woodlands and forests. The forest is thick with green foliage, and parts of the bright blue sky shine through the canopy, creating hotspots in your image. But surely landscape photographers don't stow their cameras away for six months every year, so there must be an alternative?

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There's a fairly common way to begin a piece about two photographers: describing when they met. This isn't that kind of story. Between Luigi Ghirri and Claude Nori, there's no iconic image shared together, no textbook foundational episode, not even the certainty that they ever needed to truly define their relationship.

And yet, between Italy and France, between silent suburbs and summer memories, something rarer than a collaboration was built: a similarity of gaze. It's as if two people, without speaking much, had decided to answer the same question.

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Photoshop's Camera Raw keeps getting features that Lightroom users have been waiting years for, and the gap between the two is worth watching. If you organize in one program and edit in another, the question of whether you should mix them has a clear answer. 

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The pixel stretch effect looks like something out of a high-end ad campaign, yet it comes down to a handful of clicks in Photoshop. If you've ever wanted to add motion, energy, or a graphic edge to a portrait or product shot, this technique gets you there in minutes. 

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