Meaghan Gay, Author at Exposed DC

In Frame: February 24, 2014

February 24, 2014 By Meaghan Gay

Some Mondays just call for a cute dog photo. Thankfully Chris Chen was able to supply us with a portrait of this sweet pup to get the week started.

Friday Links

February 21, 2014 By Meaghan Gay

Happy Friday everyone! This week we have the not-so-happy breakup of the Corcoran, a video about a National Geographic archivist, the Leica Store DC’s latest winner, and much more. Enjoy!

Local photographer Jim Darling photographed the home of the founders of Sweetgreen for GQ.
A legal dispute over a photo taken by Maxwell Jackson and used by The Color Run was disputed, and finally settled without going to court. Lesson for everyone, have a contract whenever you license your images.
Photography from Ben Shahn & Marion Post Wolcott of African Americans living in Appalachia.
If you haven’t seen the Faces of Olympic Figure Skating yet, some of the looks are priceless.
The Leica Store DC announced their March Oskar Barnak Wall winner.
“Mainardis estimates that Getty lay down some 22 kilometers of ethernet cable so that most of its 37 photographers could be directly wired in.” Gizmodo breaks down the Olympic effort it takes to produce great images at the Games.
Dado Ruvic, a Reuters photographer, captured the abandoned Olympic venues in Sarajevo.
In case you missed it, the Corcoran is being taken over by GWU and the National Gallery of Art. Philip Kennicott is calling it “cultural euthanasia.”
National Geographic just released a very cool mini-documentary about their photograph archivist, Bill Bonner.
Incredible and horrendous images from the protests in the Ukraine. Be warned that many of those photos are not suitable for everyone.
Check out a sampling of astronaut Don Pettit’s photographs from space.
And finally, in tiger news, the Los Angeles Zoo will be hosting Snow Days this weekend. Their Sumatran tiger will have his pen transformed into a winter wonderland.

In Frame: February 20, 2014

February 20, 2014 By Meaghan Gay

Ernest Baroni captured this intimate moment with an African Grey Parrot. The soft tones of this photo make this scene much more personal.

Last week, we issued a D.C. area Snow Photo Challenge and you delivered. There were many great photos tagged with #snowexposed in our Flickr pool, but there can only be one winner. Congratulations to Victoria Pickering for her winning photograph, Snow in the Capital. Pickering will be taking home a pair of tickets to the opening of our Exposed DC Photography Show on March 19 at Long View Gallery. Thanks to everyone who entered!

Snow in the Capital by Victoria Pickering

Here are four more excellent photographs that our Exposed team picked as finalists.

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Friday Links

February 14, 2014 By Meaghan Gay

This is what tiger cubs call "playing" by Caroline Angelo — This is what tiger cubs call “playing” by Caroline Angelo

Happy Valentine’s Day! This week stock photos of women are finally getting some love, a wildlife photographer found the love of a family of foxes in her yard, a photographer looks back on a lifetime of loving his wife, and baby tigers find love in some unusual places.

Don’t forget our snow photo challenge! Tag your best ones from yesterday or any storm in the last year with “snowexposed” and get them into our Flickr pool by Monday for a chance to win a pair of tickets to the Exposed DC Photography Show in March.
Stock photos of women are finally getting updated. LeanIn.org and Getty have partnered to show the diverse reality of women’s lives in photographs. “The new library of photos shows professional women as surgeons, painters, bakers, soldiers and hunters. There are girls riding skateboards, women lifting weights and fathers changing babies’ diapers.”
In related news, active female athletes have only appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated five times in the last five years.
The Magazine has a great story on photographer Michael Shindler who is creating tintype portraits in his San Francisco studio.
Wildlife photographer Melissa Groo found work in her own backyard when she discovered a family of foxes made a den in her shed.
Vanity Fair took a look back at Olympic photos from the early days of the Games.
The Baltimore Museum of Art received a major donation of contemporary art photography.
Hassan Hajjaj has captured interesting photographs of women in Moroccan motorbike gangs.
This is what 100,000 gallons of coal look like in a West Virginia river.
Not all babies are human or animal. Davin Haukebo-Bol has created a funny newborn session with his new computer baby.
Gizmodo has images of the world’s largest solar plant, which starting creating energy in California this week.
Photographer Art Shay created a stunning gallery of images from his 67 year marriage to his wife Florence. You might want to grab the tissues.
And finally, Discovery News has a cute Valentine’s Day roundup of unusual animal pairs, including an orphaned Sumatran tiger cub and an orangutan, and several more tiger pairings.