• Remember how great the WWII warbirds flyover of the Mall was a couple years ago? Enjoy a mini-version TODAY  (click on Potomac Flight) when a formation of T-6 Texans and a B-25 bomber will take off from Culpeper about 11:30 a.m. and fly along the Potomac River above the Pentagon and Arlington National Cemetery.
• Head to the DC Skate/Photo Jam at the bowl behind Union Market this Saturday. DJ Baby Alcatraz jams during the skate session, 3 to 6 p.m., with a photo slideshow sponsored by Burn and Thrasher magazines at 7 p.m.
• A 27,256 square-foot property (yeah, you read that right) has been transformed by 23 designers as part of D.C. Design House, the ultimate in home design inspiration and, more likely, straight-up envy. You can see it for yourself through Oct. 29 for $35. Proceeds go to Children’s National.
• D.C.’s latest concert venue, Anthem, was christened this week by the Foo Fighters. Washingtonian wondered whether any photographers would be able to cover it given the band’s strict contract terms.
• Lee Friedlander’s book “The American Monument” takes a look at how monuments hide in plain site and is being reissued with some coincidental timing.
• The hold of cable news on Americans is disturbing, as photographer Michael Amato shows in his series “Fear Culture, USA.”
• For those who use Lightroom and want to edit in fullscreen mode, there’s an app that turns your phone into an external control panel.
• The Monarchs are migrating! Click the dots for sightings and upload your own images as they head south.
• California is burning.
• Storytellers wanted: Get a grant from National Geographic, or this residency with the New York Times.
• Wild, a new exhibit at National Geographic, opens today with glorious animal photography by Michael Nichols. $15.

• The annual FotoweekDC competition ends tonight. Get your images in Fine Art, Photojournalism, and a catch-all category submitted before midnight for a chance to be in the November exhibit.
• The City Paper’s Louis Jacobson reviews the new show at Leica Store DC by Sara B. May on the aftermath of the Ebola crisis. “May’s work reminds us how worthwhile such a pursuit can be.“
• Head to Glen Echo Photoworks on Sunday to see their exhibit “Foodies” and attend the next installment of their lecture series on food photography, which will include some (presumably very pretty) snacks from local chefs. $30, 4 p.m.
• The Community Collective is hosting a happy hour next Thursday, October 5 at Sospeso.
• Robert Delpire, known for publishing and designing influential photobooks of the 20th century, passed away this week. Magnum shares some of his great accomplishments in memoriam.
• Get a sneak peek of some entries in the Sony World Photography Awards 2018 competition.
• Catherine Leroy’s photos and letters share her experience as a photojournalist covering the Vietnam War.
• October is almost here. Get in the mood with Misty Keasler’s new photobook on haunted houses.
• Let’s all click our heels and wish together that we’re riding horses through the Icelandic countryside.

Join us for our next monthly happy hour, Wednesday, September 27 at Jack Rose Dining Saloon.

• Tonight, head to the opening reception at Leica Store DC for “After the Crisis,” featuring the work of photojournalist Sara May documenting people of Sierra Leone rebuilding after Ebola swept through their communities. 7 to 9 p.m.
• Learn the skills of portrait photography with Exposed DC alum Amanda Archibald during a Portrait Photography workshop with a live model in Adams Morgan this Saturday, 10 a.m., $25.
• The exhibit DC LIQUOR features 66 photographs of liquor stores taken by Flore de Préneuf between June 2015 and July 2017 in Washington DC. Opening reception: Saturday, 6 to 9 p.m.
• Tomorrow at 2:30 p.m., Washington Photo Safari will be hosting a benefit photo safari to raise money for victims of Hurricane Harvey.
• Mic talks to director of photography Ava Berkofsky of HBO’s hit series Insecure about how she mastered the cinematic lighting of black faces, including some discussion of Kodak’s old Shirley cards that used white women as “standard.”
• If someone in the Nikon marketing department needs help being introduced to female photographers, give us–or literally anyone else on the planet–a call so we can usher you into 2017.
• Check out the winners of the 2017 APA awards in advertising, editorial, photojournalism and more.
• Serene squirrels and hitchhiking seahorses–In Focus has the finalists of the 2017 Wildlife Photographer of the Year contest.

Hello September! Have you had a chance to see our exhibit in Crystal City? Take a left when you get off the metro and stroll down the long hallway (keep going past the theater) to view the work of 88 local photographers.

• You only have until Monday, September 4 to submit your eclipse images to the Focus on the Story contest. Our own Heather Goss is on the jury panel, and winners get cash and publication in their upcoming book (which you can pre-order here).
• The City Paper’s Louis Jacobson reviews the latest juried show at Leica Store DC, which runs through September 13.
• Spotted by @TheX2BusDC Twitter feed: H Street Custom Framing & Photo Lab has opened up near the Atlas theater.
• At DCist, Pablo Iglesias Maurer has made an incredible set of gifs that combine vintage postcards of idyllic scenes with photographs of the abandoned sites today.
• Can you have a little fun with stock photography? Antonio Guillem, the photographer behind the “distracted boyfriend” meme seemed to think so.
• Turkish photographer Yonca Karakas creates eerily picture-perfect images she describes as an exposé of human greed.
• The Washington Post has a harrowing and very well done multimedia story on the victims of Hurricane Harvey.
• The world’s largest tomato fight happens, for some reason, in the small town of Bunol, Spain. The Atlantic has all the best images from the messy jam.
• Some color-sapped flamingo chicks took home the grand prize: See all the 2017 Bird Photographer of the Year Award winners here.

This week we announced that Noe Todorovich is taking over as the new Executive Director of Exposed DC, so we hope to see you at our monthly happy hour to celebrate and start gearing up for another great year of local photography. We’ll see you at Right Proper Brewing, Tuesday, August 29 at 6 p.m. On to Friday Links!

• It’s been a difficult week for everyone in Charlottesville, and many of us could only watch it all go down through the eyes of photographers on the scene. The Women Photographers of Washington asked Evelyn Hockstein to take over its Instagram account for the week to document the events. Sanjay Suchak, the University of Virginia’s photographer, posted his work here and here, and the school published his inspiring images of people from the community taking back the lawn with a peaceful vigil Wednesday night.
• If you don’t know there’s a total solar eclipse crossing the U.S. on Monday, you probably aren’t on the planet. NASA has a guide for smartphone photography and Space.com goes through the history of eclipse photography.
• Once you have that perfect eclipse photo, enter it into Focus on the Story’s photo contest. Winners get cash and published in the group’s second photography book, and Exposed DC’s own Heather Goss is on the jury panel. Deadline is September 4.
• This is what happens when you take a 104-year-old Graflex and take it to a Formula 1 race.
• fovi8 is a new magazine made by photographers, for photographers. Submit your photos by August 31 for consideration in their inaugural issue.
• Enjoy this photographic trip through Denali in Alaska by Kris Cheng.
• In Agence France-Presse, photographer Timothy A. Clary explains in words and pictures his passion for documenting dancers.
• A top-secret U.S. Army base in the Utah desert gets a visit from Getty photographer George Frey for the Atlantic.
• Louisiana State University takes its mascot situation seriously, apparently, housing an entire tiger habitat for Mike(s). The latest tiger, 11-month-old Mike VII, arrived on campus this week, where handlers will see if he adjusts well.