• Sign up for two photo walks this weekend with the Historical Society of Washington, D.C. in the neighborhoods of Burleith and Congress Heights, two of the places that will be featured in their For the Record photo contest.
• Register now for Artomatic 2016. This, the eighth iteration of the local, unjuried show opens November 3 and takes place in Potomac Park in Maryland. The cost is $140 and requires volunteer hours.
• Check out the schedule at the Leica Store for the next few months, including a Monthly Group Critique this Sunday at 2pm, a print exchange, a cosplay photoshoot, and more.
• If you’re an independent female photographer, send your info to Danielle Zalcman by the end of the weekend to go into a database she’s putting together.
• An investigation by the ACLU revealed that data marketing company Geofeedia has been sifting through Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram in order to provide data to police departments. In one case, the Baltimore Police Department was able to make real-time maps and use facial recognition software to find and arrest protestors after the death of Freddie Gray. All three social media services have since terminated access to Geofeedia.
• The Washington Post profiles Wayne Sherwin, who has been photographing Washington, D.C. for 70 years.
• “The deserts of Rajasthan in northwestern India are expansive, but the photographs of Gauri Gill go narrow and deep.” WCP’s Louis Jacobson reviews the new Sackler and Freer Galleries exhibit.
• Astrophotographers: Would you be interested in a celestial object finder/tracker for your DSLR, and if so, what would it be like? Help a senior from the Rochester Institute of Technology develop one by filling out her survey by the end of the weekend.
• Go inside an underground amusement park in Syria built by volunteers.
• Two critically endangered eastern black rhinos that were bred in England have given birth to two babies in Tanzania. Only 700 of the rhinos are thought to remain.
• Don’t worry. This poor bald eagle that got stuck in a car’s grill during Hurricane Matthew is totally fine and in no way a metaphor for our nation right now.

• This is how you build a grand photography collection for a new African-American museum.
• Photo op: The next two Saturdays, October 8 and 15, 11:30am-2pm, head to the Kogod Courtyard to watch The Dana Tai Soon Burgess Dance Company (Burgess is the National Portrait Gallery’s first choreographer-in-residence) rehearse for their upcoming performance “Margin,” which will also be in the Courtyard on October 28.
• America’s Test Kitchen’s Director of Photography discusses the behind-the-scenes shooting of 1,000+ photos for Bread Illustrated.
• Go see Adrienne Moumin‘s hand-printed silver gelatin photographs at Hill Center Galleries. The exhibit opened October 6; attend a reception October 19.
• A golf photo? Yes, a golf photo.
• More in the Darwin Photographer awards: “Tourists in Indonesia ignored instructions to flee an erupting volcano so they could continue taking photos, the country’s disaster agency has said.” Friends, please know there is a special place in hell for people who put emergency services personnel in danger so that they can post the perfect Instagram.
• The deadline for the FotoWeekDC 2016 competition is tomorrow.
• Sean Graesser’s vivid bird portraits imitate life in the style of John James Audubon.

Rain or shine, join us Thursday evening for our October happy hour up on the terrace at Jack Rose in Adams Morgan. Have a drink, chat about about cameras, camera phones, new museums, temperaments, and whatever else is on your mind!

• Go to a discussion with photographer Vince Lupo at Leica Store DC to hear what ‘Spirit of the West’ means to him, Sunday, October 2, 2 p.m.
• Saturday afternoon at Capital Fringe, attend the closing reception for the Community Collective show, which we helped judge.
• Sign up now for APA|DC’s first annual portfolio review at Union Station on Wednesday, October 5, 6:30 p.m.
• The Historical Society of Washington D.C.’s is holding street photography classes in the neighborhoods that will feature in their For The Record exhibit next spring.
• Cool local job alerts! Smithsonian Magazine is hiring an Associate Photography Editor, and the National Museum of Natural History has a vacancy for a Photographer. Both are full-time positions.
• Pulitzer Prize winning D.C. photographer Lucian Perkins (a previous Exposed judge) has created his first full-length documentary. The Messengers follows the patients and caregivers at Joseph’s House, a hospice in Adams Morgan for homeless men and women dying from AIDS.
• Time magazine interviews AP photographer Evan Vucci (also a previous Exposed judge) about his Year on the Campaign Trail with Donald Trump.
• Leica announced the winners of this year’s Oskar Barnack awards. French photographer Scarlett Coten took the top prize for her series of images challenging the archetypes of masculinity in the Arab world, while fellow countrywoman Clémentine Schneidermann won best newcomer for her work documenting the town of Abertillery in South Wales.
• The incredible story of Joao Maia, a visually impaired photographer capturing the Paralympic Games in Rio (video).
• LensCulture picks their top 100 street photographers, including many time Exposed winner Messay Shoakena.
• “Behind many Instagram accounts featuring filtered selfies and sun-kissed beaches is a second account reserved for close friends and full of willfully unattractive shots.” The story behind neologisms Rinstagram and Finstagram.
• Nature photographer Doug Giles captured an incredible and rare interspecies adoption, while an amateur Scottish shutterbug snapped this amazing shot of starlings “dancing”.

• You can now go see the new baby orangutan at the National Zoo. Redd, born to mom Batang and dad Kyle last week, is “thriving.” We look forward to your family portraits!
• Feeling inspired by the change in seasons? Sign up for one of the many classes offered by the Capital Photography Center. Street, sports, night, and family photography classes start as early as this Saturday — even winery photography!
• This Saturday, see work by six distinguished members of the Exposure Group African American Photographers Association (event isn’t listed) in Brookland at the new Tolbert & Bing Gallery, 716 Monroe St NE, 6 to 9 p.m.
• Spend some time this weekend with the New York Times Magazine’s stunning Voyages issue. Six photographers take you on journeys through Ethiopia, Albania, Australia, Finland, Peru, and Spain.
• Photos and links no longer count in Twitter’s 140 character limit. Make your five extra words count! Or not. It is Twitter after all. (Follow us here!)
• On Monday night a disgusting tweet by Donald Trump’s son comparing Syrian refugees to a bowl of Skittles went viral. Among Junior’s many and varied insults here, the photo is copyrighted and was used without permission from the photographer: a Turkish refugee who’s now a British citizen.
• With an inaugural gift of $400,000 from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, NPR has established a fund for “equipment, training and support for international coverage and video journalism at NPR” dedicated to David Gilkey and Zabihullah Tamanna, the photo journalist and interpreter who were killed while on assignment in Afghanistan in June.
• The New Yorker has a story about “a medical secretary in Paris who persuaded scores of renowned photographers to take her picture.”
• More police shootings are now being caught on camera, but they aren’t being released to the public.
• Photographer Gerrard Gethings takes these satisfying portraits of “Ordinary Creatures” and discusses how he does it (extremely amusingly) at the Guardian.

• Our event at the Washington National Cathedral last Saturday evening was a great success. In case you missed it, we posted a gallery of some of the crazy gargoyles and gorgeous sunsets captured by the photographers who joined us.
• Tomorrow, take part in the 4th annual 500px Red Bull Photography Global Photo Walk. Sign up for free, then meet at Union Station at 10am. The theme is “Action and adventure, and you could even win a prize!
• Enter your photos now to the Historical Society of Washington, D.C.’s annual For the Record contest. This year they’re focusing on eight specific neighborhoods. You have until October 31 to submit photos for the early bird $25 for two images. Final deadline is January 3.
• “Today I look at that image and see myself as I was 15 years ago. A young photographer, turning towards a scene of terrible destruction. Snatching 1/200th of a second of clarity from the chaos to come.” Suzanne Plunkett reflects on her image of people running as the South Tower collapsed on 9/11.
• Facebook backed down from their censorship of Nick Ut’s “napalm girl” photo.
• Apple’s new iPhone 7 models hit the streets today, boasting several enhancements to their photographic features, including a second, “normal” focal length lens on the Plus version. The dual lens 7 Plus was recently put through its paces by Sports Illustrated photographer David E. Klutho at an NFL game.
• Greta Friedman, the woman in white kissed by a sailor in New York’s Times Square in the photograph that symbolized the end of the second world war, has died aged 92.
• Inspired by the release last week of Stanford rapist Brock Turner after serving his three month sentence, Ithaca College student Yana Mazurkevich’s created this powerful and jarring photo series about sexual assault. The series, “It Happens,” warns: “The following images may be triggering to survivors.”
• Spectacular views of the universe from the Insight Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2016 awards ceremony, held at London’s Royal Greenwich Observatory.
• Claustrophobic bird’s-eye images released by Hong Kong’s Society for Community Organisation show how underprivileged residents of one of world’s richest cities squeeze their lives into tiny apartments.
• And finally, a caiman with its head covered in butterflies.