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.

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.