James Calder, Author at Exposed DC

Featured Instagrammers: April 17, 2016

April 17, 2016 By James Calder

First-timers mixing it up with regulars. Complementary colors contrasting with bold black-and-whites. And a giraffe. It’s business as usual for this week’s smorgasbord of Featured Instragrammers.

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@smarangella

@najidamas [Read more…]

Friday Links: April 15, 2016

April 15, 2016 By James Calder

Stop and photograph the flowers by Andrew Pasko-Reader

A new photo exhibit, For the Record: Changing D.C., featuring work by 30 local artists including Exposed alums Victoria Pickering, Mark Alan Andre and Shamila Chaudhary, opened yesterday at the Historical Society of Washington D.C.
We featured a gallery last week, but now read the story behind those jaw-dropping photos of the collections at the Natural History Museum.
Save the date! Thursday, June 2, 2016, 6pm-9pm: “BREAK THE FRAME” — Critical Exposure‘s Annual Youth Photography Exhibition. More details soon.
The National Park Service is starting a cool Then & Now project in the Shenandoah.
Have an idea to better connect people to photography? Apply for a $10,000 Crusade Engagement Grant to make it happen. Deadline, April 19.
We love an airplane landing/takeoff close-up shot as much as anyone, but this tourist got more than he bargained for near a small Caribbean airport. Darwin just flinched.
Talking of close-ups, check out these gorgeous photos of feathers.
31-year-old American, Kris Hernandez, became the first foreigner to train from scratch and work her way up into Japanese women’s pro wrestling.
The Japanese village where human inhabitants are outnumbered by life-sized “scarecrow” dolls. Caution: will absolutely cause nightmares.
Beautiful toilets from around the world, courtesy of Lonely Planet.
I Looked Up and There You Were — an unusual angle on rescued dogs.
And back to Japan (where else) for a hedgehog cafe.

Featured Instagrammers: April 10, 2016

April 10, 2016 By James Calder

Architectural and geometric vibes are strong in this week’s beatific bunch of Featured Instagrammers.

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@functionalstate

@jarrett.hendrix [Read more…]

Featured Instagrammers: April 3, 2016

April 3, 2016 By James Calder

Dashes of spring are sprinkled among this week’s eye-catching ensemble of Featured Instagrammers.

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@john_saiqa

@circadian_street [Read more…]

Friday Links: April 1, 2016

April 1, 2016 By James Calder

Photo by Loren Southard, via his Instagram @transplantedindc

Tonight at 7 p.m., go to the opening of “A Day in the Life of Miles Davis,” with photography by Glen Craig at the Leica Store DC.
See Jo Ann Tooley’s beautiful black and white images in a new exhibit at the Torpedo Factory through April 24.
Frequent Exposed alum Joe Flood wrote a lovely retrospective after our 10th anniversary exhibit.
Gaze into the heart of the Milky Way in the Hubble’s latest mind-boggling image.
Petapixel has a round up of photography April Fools jokes.
A column in Aperture Magazine asks if photographers have done enough to depict “the enormity and the suffering of the current refugee crisis.”
Mum of English bloke who had photo taken with Egyptair hijacker is very angry that people are calling it a “selfie”.
Getty Images and D&AD present their Next Photographer Award shortlist, featuring eighteen up-and-coming photographers from around the world.
After a two year study, the American Press Institute finds general patterns in what works to attract and hold the attention of digital readers. “Overall, photos (or audio or video clips) boost engagement by 19 percent — but the effect is selective.”
An island in the Bahamas where tourists and pigs play together on the sand and in the water.
The most memorable presidential pets in recent years have been dogs and cats, but looking back a little further in time turns up some unusual critters lurking around the White House grounds.
Chief Official White House photographer Pete Souza took this brilliant portrait of the Easter Bunny.