James Calder, Author at Exposed DC

Featured Instagrammers: August 18, 2016

August 18, 2016 By James Calder

Portraits of all kinds provide the backbone of this week’s formidable roster of Featured Instagrammers.

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@thatpma

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Friday Links: August 5, 2016

August 5, 2016 By James Calder

If you’re a 500px member, get D.C. added to the list for their September 17th Global Photo Walk by applying to host one in the nation’s capital.
Win APhotoADay’s Backyard Storytelling $4,000 grant, awarded to a visual storyteller for a project within 500 miles of the photographer’s home.
In the Groove: Jazz Portraits by Herman Leonard opens today at the National Portrait Gallery.
Get to this “Best of the Best” 20-year retrospective of nature’s finest moments at National Museum of Natural History before it closes this month.
Planning a visit to the Newseum to see their superb Pulitzer Prize Photographs Gallery? That section is currently closed for updates, reopening September 16, 2016.
Every day outside the U.S. Capitol, DC Moms & Dads for Rational Gun Safety Legislation is documenting the total gun deaths since Congress went on recess.
L.A. Times photographer Jay L. Clendenin goes behind the scenes with 2016 Summer Olympians.
These eight women athletes, photographed in extreme settings around the world, are headed to Rio for their first Olympic Games.
Hillary Clinton is full of expression and physicality and Donald Trump loves the camera — the 2016 campaign through a photographer’s lens.
Instagram is the new Snapchat?
Enjoy the beauty of the Milky Way reflected onto the largest salt flat in the world.
The New York Times is revisiting some of the more than 200,000 obituaries it has published Since 1851. Among them, Henri Cartier-Bresson, whose “Decisive Moment” shaped modern photography.
A photographer, who also happens to be an expert climber, recounts a deadly rockfall on Mount Kilimanjaro and warns inexperienced mountaineers to stay on the standard routes.
Deep in the Mojave Desert lies a secret memorial to fallen motorcycle riders.
Travel 3,000 miles by train through China’s wondrous wild west.
Warren Kirk’s new photography book captures the suburbs of Melbourne suspended in time.
Interested in how the human eye perceives birds in flight, Spanish photographer Xavi Bou sought to examine this motion by turning to chronophotography.
This crazy bird photo would make for an excellent but maddening jigsaw puzzle.
A bear took a five mile ride atop a garbage truck in New Mexico. (Video)

Featured Instagrammers: August 4, 2016

August 4, 2016 By James Calder

Snaking taxis, bubbly crabs and a hidden duck in this week’s menagerie of Featured Instagrammers.

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@thisisjamesj

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Friday Links: July 29, 2016

July 29, 2016 By James Calder

On an historic night for America Tuesday, Hillary Clinton became the first woman to be nominated for president by a major political party. Most newspapers however ran images of her husband or Bernie Sanders, as evidenced by the front page display outside the Newseum.
Meanwhile, NBC has compiled an excellent photo gallery: “The long arc of Hillary Clinton’s political life has taken her from first lady to first female candidate on a major party ticket.”
Attend the opening reception of an exhibition by Critical Exposure students from Anacostia High School. The photos on display were used to wage their Food Justice for School Lunches campaign. Thursday, August 4, 5:30pm at the Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum.
This weekend is your last chance to see photographs from the 1974 Kansas Documentary Survey at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Local photographer Bill Putnam took the skills he learned while serving as an Army photojournalist and used them to start his own business.
Six war photographers are featured in Conflict, a new Netflix show that documents the riskiest freelance job in the world.
Photographer Nicole Bengiveno, who is leaving The New York Times, feels duty-bound to stay with her subjects so long that they trust her enough to let her capture authentic, intimate moments.
Iceland Coast Guard helicopter photobombs wedding photo shoot.
Gratuitous baby animal photo link.