There’s still room in our exclusive Gargoyles and Gutters tour on the eaves of the National Cathedral on September 10. Sign up, get your $15 ticket for the concert plus local beer, and enjoy an Exposed exhibit of music themed photographs in the concert hall.

• The incredible discovery of a galaxy that’s made of 99.9% dark matter was made by the Dragonfly array–which is just a bunch of 400mm Canon telephoto cameras strapped together to function like a dragonfly’s compound eye. Nautilus had a nice feature from January on how the team came up with idea to study objects that the big, multi-million dollar observatories couldn’t see well.
• Follow the new Instagram account for Air & Space / Smithsonian magazine, @airspacemag, run by our own Heather Goss at her day job. Right now you’ll find the best entries from last year’s photo contest; soon it’ll feature take-overs by some of the best aviation and astro photographers out there.
• Tonight, see work by Exposed alum Lisa Allen along with other photographers and artists at the First Friday reception at Studio Gallery, 6 to 8 p.m.
• “Previously, the only method to enlarge images was moving the phone closer to your face.” Instagram finally adds a zoom feature.
• Woman offers media more flattering photo to replace mugshots after Sydney jailbreak.
• If the lead photo doesn’t suck you into reading this interview with photographer Randy Olsen, we don’t even know what to tell you.
• Dream job alerts: The New York Times is looking for photo editors in their London and Hong Kong offices.
• The Leipzig apartment featured in Robert Capa’s gruesome and unforgettable war photographs has been restored to its former glory.
• Photo Ops: You no longer have to travel all the way out to Shenandoah to get your engagement pics (or whatever) taken at Foamhenge. The artist who built and maintained the parody site moved it this week right to our D.C. suburbs on a hillside in Centreville.
• Photos of “a flood of Venezuelans” taking to the streets to demand a recall election of President Nicolas Maduro amidst the collapsing economy.
• Sorry photographers: We loved your images of the infamous “SEX BARBERSHOP” sign on H street as much as you’ve like taking them for the last five years, but an outgoing Councilmember has decided to ruin our fun.

We’re hosting a fantastic event with the National Cathedral on September 10. Sign up here to get an exclusive tour around the roof eaves of the building, with an incredible view of the city and a close-up look at the gargoyles. You’ll need to buy a ticket for the concert that evening with singer-songwriter Sarah Borges & The Broken Singles for $15, which includes a free beer from Port City and Right Proper Brewing. It’s going to be a super fun night, so we hope you’ll join us.

Want to be a part of the exhibit we’re curating for the concert hall? If you have any music-themed photographs from around the D.C. metro area–concerts, street buskers, an amazing still-life of your guitar collection–tag them with #ExposedMusic and put them in our Flickr group or on Instagram by August 27 (it’s rolling, so the sooner the better). We’ll let you know if we pick your photo, we’ll print it and hang it in the National Cathedral, and you can take it home when the exhibit is over.

On to Friday Links!

• Submit your aviation and space photos to Air & Space / Smithsonian magazine’s annual photo contest by November 1. Entry is free and winners get cash prizes and their photo in the print issue.
• Toyko is getting Hitchcockian with all these birds.
• “Only white people can resolve the problem of their own prejudice” The New York Times Lens blog discusses race and photography.
• Nikon just filed a patent for this four-eyed monster.
• If you tweet an emoji to this bot created by the New York Public Library, it’ll respond with a photograph or other image from its archives.
• The New York Times has before and after photos of the historic flooding in Louisiana. (The devastation is real: Consider supporting these local charities that are helping victims.)
• Get your best foodie photography into PDN’s Taste competition, open to all skill levels, by August 31.
• A photo of an injured boy sitting in shock in an ambulance after being pulled out of building hit by an airstrike is bringing home the violence Syrians are living with every day.
• Miss the Perseid meteor shower last week? Here’s a great shot of the space rocks coming down over Yosemite.
• Getty photographer Cameron Spencer nailed it when he caught one of Usain Bolt’s epic smiles as he took a light jog down the track during his 100-meter semi-final heat.
• It’s not the first brush fire for the brave photographers at the Los Angeles Times to cover, and it won’t be the last (in fact, it’s one of four raging concurrently in California right now), but the level of destruction by the Blue Cut fire is impossible to deny. After igniting Tuesday, it’s spread out to burn nearly 40,000 acres already.
• A little joy nearby though: The Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach has new penguins!

• Tonight: Go to the Leica Store DC for the opening of My American Southwest with photographs by Louis Foubare. 7pm.
• If you haven’t already found them, here are the photographers that the National Press Photographers Association recommends following during the Olympics.
• This is how Getty photographers get Olympics images out to the world within minutes.
• The Perseid meteor shower peaks tonight. Here’s some advice from the American Meteor Society about how to photograph them.
• Bishop Edward Daly became famous when he appeared waving a handkerchief as bystanders carried away a body on January 30, 1972, a day that became known as Bloody Sunday after 13 civilians were killed by the British Parachute Regiment during a civil rights march in Northern Ireland. Daly died this week, so BBC spoke with the photojournalist, Fulvio Grimaldi, who took the iconic image about that day.
• Sign up to join NPS by the Washington Monument on August 25 at 9am to celebrate its centennial by joining a giant formation of their emblem with green, brown, and white umbrellas, which they’ll photograph from above. You can also get in to all the National Parks for free August 25-28. Before you go, read these photographers’ tips on the best way to take images in the parks.
• If you’re not following National Geographic photographer Ami Vitale, you’re missing all the sexy panda shots. (And the panda babies! The panda babies!)
• The Historical Society of Washington, D.C. will open its annual “For the Record” photography competition on September 6, and this year is focusing on eight specific neighborhoods. Get to work.
• Photographers are roaming around Europe trying to find landscapes that inspired Picasso paintings.
• Lots of animal rescue stories this week: A California Highway Patrol officer rescues a pelican and then takes a photo as they leave the scene that’s even better than the story. A young eagle made a full recovery after being rescued from thick coastal sludge by a nature photographer.

It’s the last day to enter your photos into the Community Collective photo contest. Our own James Calder is one of the judges, and you know what he likes. Get them in by midnight for a chance to be in the exhibit at Capital Fringe later this fall.

• Head to Agence France-Presse for images and news on the attacks in Nice during Bastille Day last night.
• The photo of Iesha Evans standing still in the face of two Louisiana state troopers in riot gear has become instantly iconic, drawing comparisons to other historic protest images. Guardian Art critic Jonathan Jones assesses the image’s impact, while photographer Jonathan Bachman recalls how he captured the shot.
• In the wake of two high-profile police shootings and shootings of police, the North Carolina governor signed into law a bill that makes police cam footage no longer public record. “This shameful law will make it nearly impossible to achieve [transparency and accountability],” said a representative of the state’s ACLU chapter.
• Saturday, July 16, at the National Museum for Women in the Arts, take a workshop on how to be quick and creative with your smartphone camera at this workshop, for $25.
• Enjoy this photo essay that follows “the world’s most NSFW seafood from mud to plate.”
• The Smithsonian Archives celebrates 120 years of photography collecting at the Institution.
• “To be a photographer is to willingly enter the world of the lonely, because it is an artistic exercise in invisibility.”
• A close-up view of Jupiter and its moons from NASA Juno, which went into orbit around the giant planet on July 4.
• Worried about hackers accessing the camera on your internet connected devices but don’t want to use tape to cover them? Check out the well-backed Kickstarter campaign for Nope 2.0, a magnetic privacy cover for desktops, laptops, tablets and mobile phones.
• The International Photography Awards lists their top 10 Latin American photographers to watch.
• Moon photobombs Earth again.
• You’ve seen Michael Starghill’s outstanding sports photography in past Exposed DC exhibits. Now you can see it by picking up the current print issue of ESPN Magazine (beware NSFW cover) where he photographed Simone Biles, widely considered the best gymnast in the world, before she heads to the Olympics next month with the U.S. team.
• Tired of waiting for Google, Faroe Islanders have launched Sheep View 360, enlisting their ovine population to do the leg work.