• 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.

Are you joining us Saturday evening at the National Cathedral? There are still a few spots left in our exclusive Gargoyles and Gutters tour on the eaves of the building! So sign up, get your $15 ticket for the concert (includes a free, local beer) and enjoy an Exposed exhibit of music-themed images in the concert hall.

• Tonight: Be part of Susana Raab’s (Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum photographer and one of last year’s Exposed jurors) new public photography project Love and Fears. Enjoy lots of art and music and refreshments 6 to 9 p.m. at 2208 Martin Luther King Jr Avenue SE.
• FotoWeekDC has launched their 2016 competition. There are three categories — photojournalism, fine art and photographer’s choice — and the current deadline for entries is October 7.
• Talk about the end of an era. The Claude Taylor Gallery in Dupont has closed. Read our 2013 interview with Taylor about his many travels. He says he’ll continue to sell his work at festivals and online.
• Street Studio DC will set up a mobile professional photography studio during the H Street Festival and will give away free portraits.
• If you’ve visited Wikipedia, you’ve probably already seen this call for entries. “Wiki Loves Monuments: The world’s largest photography competition is now open! Photograph a historic site, learn more about our history, and win prizes.”
• Nick Ut’s iconic 1972 photograph of terrified Vietnamese children fleeing a napalm attack was removed from Facebook because of nudity.
• After nearly two years of searching, the Philae lander’s shadowy grave on Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko has been found in images from the Rosetta orbiter (which will end its mission by crashing on the comet on September 30). Meanwhile, the Juno spacecraft has sent back the first ever images of Jupiter’s north and south poles, and they are astounding.
• Jae S. Lee at the Dallas Morning News caught this perfectly bizarre sports photo at this high school football game in Texas.
• Alexandria is starting a CSA for Art.
• Check out Lorenzo Montezemolo’s stunning, long-exposure photo of Marin County bathed in fog, lit by a full moon.

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!