Weekend Reading.

After uploading approximately 21 photos of yourself, you can then “put yourself in different settings, with different outfits, doing different actions, with different expressions.” So...I guess we can all become influencers now. [Photo AI]

“Who’s Afraid of Open Calls?” [Picter]

Capturing Princeton University Classmates Then and Now [The New Yorker]

Photographer gets “shagged by a rare parrot.” [King Nation]

Hilarious remaking of Titanic with a cat. And bonus behind the scenes. [OwlKitty]

Is it a star or is it a SpaceX Satellite? Here’s how to photograph the latter, if you so desire. [Space.com]

Meanwhile, here are the winners of the “Milky Way Photographer of the Year”. All winning photographers list their gear. [Capture the Atlas]

“Ye Sued For 'Angry' Attack on Photog” [TMZ]

“Scientists want your plant photographs.” Especially the boring-looking plants that don’t get photographed much, if at all. [Australian Geographic]

Enjoy the weekend!