• We still have more than a week before the cherry blossoms reach peak bloom. Get inspired with some new ideas for how to capture them with this Capital Photography Center field class on Sunday.
• Head to Johns Hopkins SAIS on Tuesday for a special event about the sights, sounds, and stories of pre-war Syria, including documentary photography by Jason Hamacher from his travels between 2005 and 2010.
• The National Endowment of the Arts recently reported that photography and photo services contribute $10.2 billion to the U.S. economy.
• 25 artists have been shortlisted for the Contemporary African Photography Prize.
• Estevan Oriol started documenting L.A. street culture over 25 years ago, photographing communities he was part of and sides of the city often misrepresented.
• Photographer Bex Day has embarked on a project to make stock photography more inclusive of transgender persons.
• This U-2 pilot captured the Northern Lights from a new high. The results are nothing short of incredible.
• Make of this one what you will: Government photographers may get a few more jobs now that the “Ego Act” has been signed into law, banning government officials from using taxpayer dollars to get their oil portraits done.
• See the winners of Smithsonian Magazine’s 2018 photo contest.
• Enjoy these moody animal portraits by George Wheelhouse.

• Get your best bird pics into the Audubon Society contest by April 2. One winner will be featured on their magazine cover.
• National Geographic photographer Ami Vitale captured several moving images of the last moments of the last living male Northern White Rhino.
• The Momenta Workshop is offering big tuition awards—$1,000 and $500—to photographers who’d like to attend their Project Series: Working with Nonprofits. Apply here.
• This man took a photo with every mailbox in Seattle. (Because goals?)
• Bettina Rheims, best known for fashion and celebrity photography, sets up makeshift studios in female prisons to delve into another realm for her latest project.
• Looks like Google will acquire Lytro, creators of light-field technology cameras.
• Susan Ressler’s images of cookie-cutter corporate office life in 1970s America will be published in a new book next month.
• A timelapse of the solar eclipse from the cockpit of a U-2 is among the winners of Air & Space / Smithsonian magazine’s annual photo contest.
• Learn about FotoEvidence’s mission and co-founder, Svetlana Bachevanova, in this Q&A. She’ll be one of several photographers offering portfolio reviews during the photo festival in June. Sign up here.

In case you missed it, we announced the winning images from our 2018 photography contest earlier this week. Join us in congratulating the winners, and mark your calendars for the opening reception on Friday, May 11 when you can see all of the photos on display at Dupont Underground. Now, on to some links!

• See Renee Regan’s travel photography at the Wharf’s Martha Spak Gallery. Reception is tonight, 6-8 p.m.
• Then, head to the Leica Store DC for an opening reception of the new Metro Collective exhibit, “My Tears Will Stain,” 7-9 p.m. tonight.
• Speaking of Leica, a camera allegedly owned by Amelia Earhart is up for sale on eBay for approximately $70,000.
• WOMEN FOCUS is sponsoring free portfolio reviews on April 7 at the Newseum for women photography students and professionals with 5 years or less experience. Participation is limited to 80 registrants, and as of Thursday, they were still accepting applications for the waiting list. Reviews will be led by women editors and photographers from organizations such as National Geographic, NPR, The Washington Post, and The New York Times.
• A wonderful moment in social media happened earlier this week, when someone tweeted a photo from a 1971 science conference and asked for help identifying the sole woman and person of color—and the only scientist not identified in the caption. Many people converged to help, including archivists at the Smithsonian, and, well, you’ll never guess what happened next…
• Photographs of The Beatles at their first concerts in the U.S. taken by a teenager are finding their way from his basement to an auction where they are expected to fetch over $300,000.
• The Focus on the Story International Photo Festival has issued a call for entries. Submit your images that tell compelling stories in two categories by April 17. Discounted early bird registration is also still available if you haven’t signed up yet.
• Photobombing, selfie sticks, and other photography firsts may have happened sooner than you thought.

We’re looking forward to announcing the winners of our annual photography contest on Tuesday, March 13, and we hope to see you at our celebratory happy hour that evening at Meridian Pint!

• Bloomberg News takes a look at striking photography from women around the world.
• A fantastic opportunity for local teens: Apply for the “Investigating Where We Live” internship at the National Building Museum to develop skills in digital photography and exhibition design. Due March 25.
• An Australian tourist accidentally left his camera behind after visiting a penguin rookery, and the animals decided to take a selfie video.
• Photoworks Gallery is seeking entries for United/Divided, an upcoming public exhibition of photography aiming to initiate a visual dialog that explores the connections and divisions that currently exist in our nation, and in our nation’s capitol. Deadline for entries is April 13.
• Benjamin Von Wong teamed up with Dell to turn 4,100 pounds of electronic waste into art meant to inspire people to rethink and recycle.
• Sign up for one of the many upcoming classes or special events from the Capital Photography Center.
• Two photographers are cruising the waterways of Europe in houseboats that have been converted into photography studios.
• Because when don’t we need an excuse to look at beautiful Scottish landscape photography?
• Preview some of the gorgeous images in the running for British Bird Photographer of the Year.

We’re loving the entries that so many of you submitted to this year’s contest! Check back with us on March 13 when we announce the winners that will be showcased in our 12th annual Exposed DC Photography Show, and join us for happy hour that evening at Meridian Pint.

• Update: Reception postponed to March 8 from 6:30-8:30 p.m. See an exhibit of Everitt Clark’s large format photography in “Treasures of the Heart,” a study of the prized possessions of people with hoarding tendencies, at the Arts Club of Washington through March 30.
• The National Gallery of Art is opening “Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings” this Sunday, with her photographs that “explore the overarching themes of existence: memory, desire, death, the bonds of family, and nature’s magisterial indifference to human endeavor.”
• In “My Camera, My Voice” at Glen Echo Photoworks, Michael A. McCoy photographs the daily struggles and joys after soldiers return home from combat. Reception and gallery talk Sunday, 6 to 8 p.m.
• Get to Glen Echo earlier on Sunday for a panel on “Building a Successful Photography Career” with Sora DeVore and Rebecca Dobris. Arcade Room 202/203, 4 p.m., $15
• An amateur Argentinian astronomer accidentally photographed the moment a supernova exploded.
• Fund your next photojournalism story by applying before March 9 for the Howard G. Buffett Fund for Women Journalists. Awards are given out twice a year.
• Next Thursday, attend a discussion on using photography for “investigation and storytelling relating to the politics of land, landscape and environment.” 6:30 p.m., free.
• The “violence of flash photography” is a fascinating assertion in Aeon this week.
• American sociologist Lewis Hine’s photographs both documented and impacted the conditions of ordinary working people and migrants at the beginning of the 20th Century.
• Sometimes photography is a team effort. Leah Millis writes about how she got the photo of Hope Hicks that went viral this week.
• If beaches aren’t beautiful enough for you, how about ones aglow with bioluminescent creatures?
• Justyna Badach spent a year inventing a new developing process to incorporate gunpowder into images.
• Oh look, a yellow cardinal! (Thanks to a “one in a million” genetic mutation, not Photoshop.)