There’s still room in our exclusive Gargoyles and Gutters tour on the eaves of the National Cathedral on September 10. Sign up, get your $15 ticket for the concert plus local beer, and enjoy an Exposed exhibit of music themed photographs in the concert hall.

• The incredible discovery of a galaxy that’s made of 99.9% dark matter was made by the Dragonfly array–which is just a bunch of 400mm Canon telephoto cameras strapped together to function like a dragonfly’s compound eye. Nautilus had a nice feature from January on how the team came up with idea to study objects that the big, multi-million dollar observatories couldn’t see well.
• Follow the new Instagram account for Air & Space / Smithsonian magazine, @airspacemag, run by our own Heather Goss at her day job. Right now you’ll find the best entries from last year’s photo contest; soon it’ll feature take-overs by some of the best aviation and astro photographers out there.
• Tonight, see work by Exposed alum Lisa Allen along with other photographers and artists at the First Friday reception at Studio Gallery, 6 to 8 p.m.
• “Previously, the only method to enlarge images was moving the phone closer to your face.” Instagram finally adds a zoom feature.
• Woman offers media more flattering photo to replace mugshots after Sydney jailbreak.
• If the lead photo doesn’t suck you into reading this interview with photographer Randy Olsen, we don’t even know what to tell you.
• Dream job alerts: The New York Times is looking for photo editors in their London and Hong Kong offices.
• The Leipzig apartment featured in Robert Capa’s gruesome and unforgettable war photographs has been restored to its former glory.
• Photo Ops: You no longer have to travel all the way out to Shenandoah to get your engagement pics (or whatever) taken at Foamhenge. The artist who built and maintained the parody site moved it this week right to our D.C. suburbs on a hillside in Centreville.
• Photos of “a flood of Venezuelans” taking to the streets to demand a recall election of President Nicolas Maduro amidst the collapsing economy.
• Sorry photographers: We loved your images of the infamous “SEX BARBERSHOP” sign on H street as much as you’ve like taking them for the last five years, but an outgoing Councilmember has decided to ruin our fun.

 

Don’t forget to nab your tickets for the exciting event we’re hosting with the National Cathedral on September 10! First sign up here for our exclusive tour around the roof eaves of the building, offering stunning views of the city as well as unique close-up opportunities with gargoyles. After signing up for the tour, you need to buy a ticket for the concert that evening featuring singer-songwriter Sarah Borges & The Broken Singles. Tickets are $15 each (no added fees!) and include a free beer from Right Proper Brewing and Port City. It’s going to be a fab evening, so don’t miss out!

PLUS we’re curating a music-themed photo exhibit in the Cathedral’s concert hall! If you have appropriate images from around the D.C. metro area–concerts, audience members dancing, buskers, still-lifes of instruments–please tag them with #ExposedMusic and put them in our Flickr group or on Instagram by tomorrow! We’ll let you know if your photo has been selected, and we’ll print it and hang it in the National Cathedral. Then you can take it home after the exhibit!

Now it’s link time:

• There are only two weeks left to visit our 10-year retrospective of 148 photographs on display throughout the Crystal City Underground photo walk.
• Come to the September 8 opening of the Community Collective Photography Showcase, featuring nearly 50 works by local photographers. The exhibit was juried by members of several area photography groups including our own James Calder.
• We found our next Exposed DC happy hour location: Borderstan reports that a bar with a “working darkroom” is coming to 207 Florida Ave NW.
• The National Park Service celebrated 100 years this week, but it’s the American people who get the gifts. Celebrate every day by following the spectacular Instagram account of the U.S. Department of the Interior.
• The Harvard Art Museums in Cambridge are looking for a photography curator.
• An iceberg flipped over near Antarctica, and photographer Alex Cornell captured its gem-like gleaming underside.
• A stunning photo by Noah Berger of a smoldering wildfire in California.
• Toronto-based artist Rose-Ann M. Bailey has been photographing Barbie dolls as a part of a series she calls the “BLK Ken and Barbie Project.”
• Researchers analyzed people’s photo galleries on Instagram, then asked about their mental health. People who favored darker, grayer photos and filters were more likely to be depressed.
• It’s the last Friday in August, so quit working and scroll though all the great puppers people are posting for #NationalDogDay.
• The last tiger in what has been called the “worst zoo in the world” has left Gaza for his new home in South Africa. Here are two beautiful photos of Laziz by AFP photographer Safodien Mujahid.

 

We’re hosting a fantastic event with the National Cathedral on September 10. Sign up here to get an exclusive tour around the roof eaves of the building, with an incredible view of the city and a close-up look at the gargoyles. You’ll need to buy a ticket for the concert that evening with singer-songwriter Sarah Borges & The Broken Singles for $15, which includes a free beer from Port City and Right Proper Brewing. It’s going to be a super fun night, so we hope you’ll join us.

Want to be a part of the exhibit we’re curating for the concert hall? If you have any music-themed photographs from around the D.C. metro area–concerts, street buskers, an amazing still-life of your guitar collection–tag them with #ExposedMusic and put them in our Flickr group or on Instagram by August 27 (it’s rolling, so the sooner the better). We’ll let you know if we pick your photo, we’ll print it and hang it in the National Cathedral, and you can take it home when the exhibit is over.

On to Friday Links!

• Submit your aviation and space photos to Air & Space / Smithsonian magazine’s annual photo contest by November 1. Entry is free and winners get cash prizes and their photo in the print issue.
• Toyko is getting Hitchcockian with all these birds.
• “Only white people can resolve the problem of their own prejudice” The New York Times Lens blog discusses race and photography.
• Nikon just filed a patent for this four-eyed monster.
• If you tweet an emoji to this bot created by the New York Public Library, it’ll respond with a photograph or other image from its archives.
• The New York Times has before and after photos of the historic flooding in Louisiana. (The devastation is real: Consider supporting these local charities that are helping victims.)
• Get your best foodie photography into PDN’s Taste competition, open to all skill levels, by August 31.
• A photo of an injured boy sitting in shock in an ambulance after being pulled out of building hit by an airstrike is bringing home the violence Syrians are living with every day.
• Miss the Perseid meteor shower last week? Here’s a great shot of the space rocks coming down over Yosemite.
• Getty photographer Cameron Spencer nailed it when he caught one of Usain Bolt’s epic smiles as he took a light jog down the track during his 100-meter semi-final heat.
• It’s not the first brush fire for the brave photographers at the Los Angeles Times to cover, and it won’t be the last (in fact, it’s one of four raging concurrently in California right now), but the level of destruction by the Blue Cut fire is impossible to deny. After igniting Tuesday, it’s spread out to burn nearly 40,000 acres already.
• A little joy nearby though: The Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach has new penguins!

• Tonight: Go to the Leica Store DC for the opening of My American Southwest with photographs by Louis Foubare. 7pm.
• If you haven’t already found them, here are the photographers that the National Press Photographers Association recommends following during the Olympics.
• This is how Getty photographers get Olympics images out to the world within minutes.
• The Perseid meteor shower peaks tonight. Here’s some advice from the American Meteor Society about how to photograph them.
• Bishop Edward Daly became famous when he appeared waving a handkerchief as bystanders carried away a body on January 30, 1972, a day that became known as Bloody Sunday after 13 civilians were killed by the British Parachute Regiment during a civil rights march in Northern Ireland. Daly died this week, so BBC spoke with the photojournalist, Fulvio Grimaldi, who took the iconic image about that day.
• Sign up to join NPS by the Washington Monument on August 25 at 9am to celebrate its centennial by joining a giant formation of their emblem with green, brown, and white umbrellas, which they’ll photograph from above. You can also get in to all the National Parks for free August 25-28. Before you go, read these photographers’ tips on the best way to take images in the parks.
• If you’re not following National Geographic photographer Ami Vitale, you’re missing all the sexy panda shots. (And the panda babies! The panda babies!)
• The Historical Society of Washington, D.C. will open its annual “For the Record” photography competition on September 6, and this year is focusing on eight specific neighborhoods. Get to work.
• Photographers are roaming around Europe trying to find landscapes that inspired Picasso paintings.
• Lots of animal rescue stories this week: A California Highway Patrol officer rescues a pelican and then takes a photo as they leave the scene that’s even better than the story. A young eagle made a full recovery after being rescued from thick coastal sludge by a nature photographer.

 

• If you’re a 500px member, get D.C. added to the list for their September 17th Global Photo Walk by applying to host one in the nation’s capital.
• Win APhotoADay’s Backyard Storytelling $4,000 grant, awarded to a visual storyteller for a project within 500 miles of the photographer’s home.
• In the Groove: Jazz Portraits by Herman Leonard opens today at the National Portrait Gallery.
• Get to this “Best of the Best” 20-year retrospective of nature’s finest moments at National Museum of Natural History before it closes this month.
• Planning a visit to the Newseum to see their superb Pulitzer Prize Photographs Gallery? That section is currently closed for updates, reopening September 16, 2016.
• Every day outside the U.S. Capitol, DC Moms & Dads for Rational Gun Safety Legislation is documenting the total gun deaths since Congress went on recess.
• L.A. Times photographer Jay L. Clendenin goes behind the scenes with 2016 Summer Olympians.
• These eight women athletes, photographed in extreme settings around the world, are headed to Rio for their first Olympic Games.
• Hillary Clinton is full of expression and physicality and Donald Trump loves the camera — the 2016 campaign through a photographer’s lens.
• Instagram is the new Snapchat?
• Enjoy the beauty of the Milky Way reflected onto the largest salt flat in the world.
• The New York Times is revisiting some of the more than 200,000 obituaries it has published Since 1851. Among them, Henri Cartier-Bresson, whose “Decisive Moment” shaped modern photography.
• A photographer, who also happens to be an expert climber, recounts a deadly rockfall on Mount Kilimanjaro and warns inexperienced mountaineers to stay on the standard routes.
• Deep in the Mojave Desert lies a secret memorial to fallen motorcycle riders.
• Travel 3,000 miles by train through China’s wondrous wild west.
• Warren Kirk’s new photography book captures the suburbs of Melbourne suspended in time.
• Interested in how the human eye perceives birds in flight, Spanish photographer Xavi Bou sought to examine this motion by turning to chronophotography.
• This crazy bird photo would make for an excellent but maddening jigsaw puzzle.
• A bear took a five mile ride atop a garbage truck in New Mexico. (Video)