Heather Goss, Author at Exposed DC

In Frame: Postcards from D.C.

August 17, 2015 By Heather Goss

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If you take a quick scan through our Flickr pool, it looks like a bunch of photographers got together over the weekend to create a postcard series from the Nation’s capital. Enjoy these classic D.C. scenes for today’s In Frame.

Friday Links: August 14, 2015

August 14, 2015 By Heather Goss

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Italian photographer Stefano Cerio documents Chinese amusement parks in hibernation in his upcoming book “Chinese Fun.”
See Wayne Levin’s gorgeous pictures of schools of Hawaiian fish in hypnotizing shapes at D.C.’s National Academy of Sciences.
Outside magazine has a slideshow of awful scenes from the wildfires raging in California.
For decades, nobody had explored the vast photo archives of Metronome Magazine, which closed in 1961, until Pierre Vudrag decided to take a look. His selections from the archives are now featured in a traveling exhibition, “The Metronome Jazz Photo Collection.”
Members of Uganda’s persecuted LGBT community celebrated Gay Pride this week in an undisclosed location near the capital Kampala.
There are a few galleries out there of the Perseid meteor shower, which peaked on Thursday, but this one by the Guardian is quite nice.
Lachryphagy is the practice of drinking tears for nutrients. It’s what these butterflies are doing to a pair of turtles in Ecuador.
In the mid-1970s a young engineer invented the digital photographic process. Some of his bosses were not impressed. His employer? Eastman Kodak.
96 million black polythene “shade balls” fill a reservoir in drought-hit Los Angeles to protect against evaporation.
Envious of the endless barrage of friends’ gorgeous vacation photos on social media? Guardian readers share their soggy British holiday pictures.
A fox decided to take a nap and be adorable on this second story window in London.

Friday Links: July 31, 2015

July 31, 2015 By Heather Goss

The director of photography for New York magazine shares the story behind the cover image of the 35 women accusing Bill Cosby of assault and rape.
There’s an opening for a curator of photographs at the National Portrait Gallery.
Professional photographers explain why you should pursue personal projects, not just assignments.
CBRE Urban Photographer of the Year contest is looking for images that fit the theme ‘Cities at Work’. Deadline is TODAY, July 31.
Vanessa Marsh’s photograms look like gorgeous starry nights.
ASMP has been lobbying hard for copyright reform, and last week submitted their response that makes the argument for, among other issues, remedies that better address the proliferation of online aggregators that reproduce images without credit or permission. Read the rest at their website.
PetaPixel lists some rangefinders good for the beginner photographer.
If you haven’t yet seen the #FindTheGirlsOnTheNegatives hashtag, click through and see if you can help identify the women in these beautiful found medium format negatives.
Death of the Dead Sea: As its waters vanish, hundreds of sinkholes are devouring the shoreline.
Hungover? Prints not greasy enough? Get this KFC bucket that prints instant photos and solve all your problems.
Tonkey the bear coat sharpei is your adorable Instagram follow for the week.

In Frame: July 20, 2015

July 20, 2015 By Heather Goss

How many of you sympathized with this little girl while trying to relieve yourself from this horrendously hot weekend? Photographer Cheik.Ra took a perfect portrait here, with equal parts technical excellence and adorable cuteness.

Friday Links: July 17, 2015

July 17, 2015 By Heather Goss

The photos that NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft took of Pluto this week were the latest in a long line of first up-close shots taken of the planets in our solar system.
Speaking of first shots: When Clyde Tombaugh announced that he discovered Pluto in 1930, astronomers rushed to see if they’d imaged it unknowingly. This 1909 photograph might be the first picture ever taken of the dwarf planet.
Thursday marked the anniversary of the 1979 uranium mill accident in Church Rock, New Mexico – the largest of its kind in US history. DC-based photographer Keith Lane reports on the incident and the legacy of uranium mining on the Navajo Nation.
Sustainable DC closed its Climate Photo contest last week, and now they’re asking you to vote for the winner.
Here’s the Leica Store DC’s Oskar Barnack Wall winning photograph for July, shot by Vania Arhipkin.
Newspaper sends cartoonist to Foo Fighters Concert to protest photo contract.
Paolo Pellizzari doesn’t make images like other sports photographers. Rather than strive to get as close as possible to the action, he tries to capture what he calls “human landscapes.”
In February and July of 2015, the National Museum of African American History and Culture released the first three parts in a multi-volume collection of books featuring some of the most definitive photographs that chronicle the black American experience for more than a century as part of its “Double Exposure” series.
While cities expand and encroach on the surrounding countryside, nature is being pushed back. These bridges, ladders and byways have been built to enable wildlife to travel safely and freely in an urbanising world.
The zoo in Tacoma, Washington has a quadruplet of ridiculous cute clouded leopard cubs.