Are you joining us Saturday evening at the National Cathedral? There are still a few spots left in our exclusive Gargoyles and Gutters tour on the eaves of the building! So sign up, get your $15 ticket for the concert (includes a free, local beer) and enjoy an Exposed exhibit of music-themed images in the concert hall.

• Tonight: Be part of Susana Raab’s (Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum photographer and one of last year’s Exposed jurors) new public photography project Love and Fears. Enjoy lots of art and music and refreshments 6 to 9 p.m. at 2208 Martin Luther King Jr Avenue SE.
• FotoWeekDC has launched their 2016 competition. There are three categories — photojournalism, fine art and photographer’s choice — and the current deadline for entries is October 7.
• Talk about the end of an era. The Claude Taylor Gallery in Dupont has closed. Read our 2013 interview with Taylor about his many travels. He says he’ll continue to sell his work at festivals and online.
• Street Studio DC will set up a mobile professional photography studio during the H Street Festival and will give away free portraits.
• If you’ve visited Wikipedia, you’ve probably already seen this call for entries. “Wiki Loves Monuments: The world’s largest photography competition is now open! Photograph a historic site, learn more about our history, and win prizes.”
• Nick Ut’s iconic 1972 photograph of terrified Vietnamese children fleeing a napalm attack was removed from Facebook because of nudity.
• After nearly two years of searching, the Philae lander’s shadowy grave on Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko has been found in images from the Rosetta orbiter (which will end its mission by crashing on the comet on September 30). Meanwhile, the Juno spacecraft has sent back the first ever images of Jupiter’s north and south poles, and they are astounding.
• Jae S. Lee at the Dallas Morning News caught this perfectly bizarre sports photo at this high school football game in Texas.
• Alexandria is starting a CSA for Art.
• Check out Lorenzo Montezemolo’s stunning, long-exposure photo of Marin County bathed in fog, lit by a full moon.

 

Don’t forget to nab your tickets for the exciting event we’re hosting with the National Cathedral on September 10! First sign up here for our exclusive tour around the roof eaves of the building, offering stunning views of the city as well as unique close-up opportunities with gargoyles. After signing up for the tour, you need to buy a ticket for the concert that evening featuring singer-songwriter Sarah Borges & The Broken Singles. Tickets are $15 each (no added fees!) and include a free beer from Right Proper Brewing and Port City. It’s going to be a fab evening, so don’t miss out!

PLUS we’re curating a music-themed photo exhibit in the Cathedral’s concert hall! If you have appropriate images from around the D.C. metro area–concerts, audience members dancing, buskers, still-lifes of instruments–please tag them with #ExposedMusic and put them in our Flickr group or on Instagram by tomorrow! We’ll let you know if your photo has been selected, and we’ll print it and hang it in the National Cathedral. Then you can take it home after the exhibit!

Now it’s link time:

• There are only two weeks left to visit our 10-year retrospective of 148 photographs on display throughout the Crystal City Underground photo walk.
• Come to the September 8 opening of the Community Collective Photography Showcase, featuring nearly 50 works by local photographers. The exhibit was juried by members of several area photography groups including our own James Calder.
• We found our next Exposed DC happy hour location: Borderstan reports that a bar with a “working darkroom” is coming to 207 Florida Ave NW.
• The National Park Service celebrated 100 years this week, but it’s the American people who get the gifts. Celebrate every day by following the spectacular Instagram account of the U.S. Department of the Interior.
• The Harvard Art Museums in Cambridge are looking for a photography curator.
• An iceberg flipped over near Antarctica, and photographer Alex Cornell captured its gem-like gleaming underside.
• A stunning photo by Noah Berger of a smoldering wildfire in California.
• Toronto-based artist Rose-Ann M. Bailey has been photographing Barbie dolls as a part of a series she calls the “BLK Ken and Barbie Project.”
• Researchers analyzed people’s photo galleries on Instagram, then asked about their mental health. People who favored darker, grayer photos and filters were more likely to be depressed.
• It’s the last Friday in August, so quit working and scroll though all the great puppers people are posting for #NationalDogDay.
• The last tiger in what has been called the “worst zoo in the world” has left Gaza for his new home in South Africa. Here are two beautiful photos of Laziz by AFP photographer Safodien Mujahid.