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.)

It’s the last weekend before our annual contest closes on Wednesday, February 28 at midnight. Don’t waste time… let’s see those entries! Also, save the date for our next monthly happy hour on March 13 at Meridian Pint.

Now, how about some links?

• Pretend spring has arrived with these winners of Washington Gardener magazine’s photo contest.
• Looking to learn more about how to use your camera? Exposed DC alum Amanda Archibald will be leading a DSLR and mirrorless camera workshop on March 3 at The Lemon Collective.
• Head to the District Architecture Center on Tuesday the 27th for an opening reception of the exhibition “Hoachlander Davis: Photographing Spaces,” 6:30 p.m., free.
• Max Desfor, a Pulitzer Prize winning war photographer who worked for the Associated Press for over 40 years, has passed away at 104.
• TIME shares some of their favorite images from the 2018 Winter Olympics.
• Or maybe you’re more interested in these multiple exposures that capture the movement of the athletes differently.
• Behind the scenes takes on a life of its own in Klaus Pichler’s “Skeletons in the Closet” series showing taxidermied creatures in hidden spaces of the Museum of Natural History in Vienna.
• War photographer James Nachtwey turns his camera to a battle raging on U.S. soil, the opioid crisis, for TIME’s new cover story.

Time’s running out to submit your photos of the D.C. metro area to our annual contest. The winners will get to show off their work at our blowout exhibition at Dupont Underground this May. See the rules and get them in by February 28!

• The new exhibit “The Ties that Bind: The church, identity, activism, & community in the African American experience” features several Exposed veterans. Register for the reception on Thursday, Feb. 22 from 5 to 7 p.m.
• See photography and other media works at Civilian Art Projects in “Alternative Evidence.” Reception this Saturday, 7 to 9 p.m.
• Exposed team member Julian Thomas is showing his work and giving a demo next Friday, Feb. 23, at Beyond Studios.
• A graduate student photographed a single atom in an ion trap. The image won a science photography competition organized by the U.K.’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.
• Maggie Steber is best known as a documentary photographer, but she will be sharing a more personal fine art project at the Focus on the Story International Photo Festival in June. Get a sneak peek in this interview.
• Aspiring photojournalists should get tickets now for the 2018 WPOW Seminar and Portfolio Review at the Corcoran on March 11.
• The White House refuses to release the photo showing President Trump signing House Joint Resolution 40, which made it easier for people with mental illness to buy guns and rolled back a rule President Obama pushed for after Sandy Hook. CBS News has made 12 requests for the photo.
• On that note: The New York Times is hiring a staff photographer to cover the White House and Capitol Hill.
• Photographers at Food & Wine magazine have a talk about the evolution of food photography, from Irving Penn to IG trends.
• Wired magazine makes the case that Rachel Morrison, the first woman to be nominated for an Oscar in cinematography (for the movie Mudbound), is a superhero in her field. See her work in Black Panther, which, of course, opens today.
• Hold your breath and enjoy this year’s winners for the Underwater Photographer of the Year.
• Stretch your skills with these cool sports photography classes held at local college games with Capital Photography Center.