- The National Building Museum knows what photographers like. After the success of the Beach and the Maze, they’re opening their latest installation, ICEBERGS, this Saturday, July 2. We swung by the press preview Thursday and can attest it’s a worthy photo op. (Plus there’s a shaved ice booth, so get out of the summer heat!)
- Want to learn how to photograph bonsai? Register for this free lecture by Stephen Voss at the Japan Information and Culture Center, July 14, 6:30 p.m.
- Legendary New York Times fashion photographer Bill Cunningham has died at the age of 87. For forty years, Cunningham practiced his own iconic brand of cultural anthropology from his bicycle, photographing the most stylish, flamboyant, and “interestingly” dressed people he could find on the busy streets of New York. Celebrate his life by watching the excellent documentary from 2011, available for free on Hulu, and for rent on iTunes and Amazon.
- Get 6 tips for photographing fireworks, from the Capital Photography Center.
- Call for entries: the 2016 APA Awards submission deadline has been extended. (The new deadline is not specified.)
- Apple now has a patent for turning iPhone cameras off. There are many questionable ways this could be used, including by law enforcement.
- The 2016 Crusade Engagement Grant winning project is The Trade of Art, Bruce McKaig’s Baltimore-based photo bartering concept.
- A gruesome attack on the Istanbul airport in Turkey killed dozens and injured hundreds more on Tuesday. The New York Times follows the aftermath.
- As our own Meaghan Gay aptly said, “I audibly gasped at this photo and now I want to crawl out of my skin.”
- More on emus fleeing wildfires in Southern California.
- On this Independence Day, a spacecraft will enter a dangerous Jupiter orbit. NASA is seeking help from amateur astrophotographers for the mission. Maybe they’ll see something like this spectacular aurora on the giant planet.
- Find out how small claims court for copyright infringement might be a godsend for photographers.
- Some spectacular photographs accompany this NatGeo story about why the white-tailed eagle comeback in Europe might not be all conservationists hoped.
- You can support local photographer Frank Day complete production of his photobook of Bangkok phone booths by donating to his Kickstarter.
- One of the happiest sea otter photos we have ever seen, offsetting a disturbing story about increasing attacks on the furry mammals by juvenile sharks.
