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Friday Links: August 5, 2016

August 5, 2016 By James Calder

Red panda by Linda Glisson
Red panda by Linda Glisson

 

  • If you’re a 500px member, get D.C. added to the list for their September 17th Global Photo Walk by applying to host one in the nation’s capital.
  • Win APhotoADay’s Backyard Storytelling $4,000 grant, awarded to a visual storyteller for a project within 500 miles of the photographer’s home.
  • In the Groove: Jazz Portraits by Herman Leonard opens today at the National Portrait Gallery.
  • Get to this “Best of the Best” 20-year retrospective of nature’s finest moments at National Museum of Natural History before it closes this month.
  • Planning a visit to the Newseum to see their superb Pulitzer Prize Photographs Gallery? That section is currently closed for updates, reopening September 16, 2016.
  • Every day outside the U.S. Capitol, DC Moms & Dads for Rational Gun Safety Legislation is documenting the total gun deaths since Congress went on recess.
  • L.A. Times photographer Jay L. Clendenin goes behind the scenes with 2016 Summer Olympians.
  • These eight women athletes, photographed in extreme settings around the world, are headed to Rio for their first Olympic Games.
  • Hillary Clinton is full of expression and physicality and Donald Trump loves the camera — the 2016 campaign through a photographer’s lens.
  • Instagram is the new Snapchat?
  • Enjoy the beauty of the Milky Way reflected onto the largest salt flat in the world.
  • The New York Times is revisiting some of the more than 200,000 obituaries it has published Since 1851. Among them, Henri Cartier-Bresson, whose “Decisive Moment” shaped modern photography.
  • A photographer, who also happens to be an expert climber, recounts a deadly rockfall on Mount Kilimanjaro and warns inexperienced mountaineers to stay on the standard routes.
  • Deep in the Mojave Desert lies a secret memorial to fallen motorcycle riders.
  • Travel 3,000 miles by train through China’s wondrous wild west.
  • Warren Kirk’s new photography book captures the suburbs of Melbourne suspended in time.
  • Interested in how the human eye perceives birds in flight, Spanish photographer Xavi Bou sought to examine this motion by turning to chronophotography.
  • This crazy bird photo would make for an excellent but maddening jigsaw puzzle.
  • A bear took a five mile ride atop a garbage truck in New Mexico. (Video)

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