Happy Earth Day! Remember to turn off a light or recycle your water bottle or whatever silly thing your HR department encouraged you to do for one single day a year.

• Rest in peace, Prince. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, Prince’s hometown paper, has a photo gallery of the superstar’s incredible life. Last night, the world mourned by turning purple.
• Go to the opening of Mirror to the World, including work by Exposed alum Michele Egan, at Glen Echo Photoworks Gallery tonight from 6 to 8 p.m.
• Congrats to Alexandria photographer Cindy Dyer, whose image of a waterlily from Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens was one of 16 selected to go on the U.S. Postal Service’s Forever Stamp to commemorate the National Park Service’s 100th anniversary.
• New at National Museum of Women in the Arts, She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World.
• Impending entomological photo op? You may need to go slightly west.
• A selection of this year’s Pulitzer Prize winning photographs.
• A French photographer is being prosecuted for taking a photo of a man fatally injured in November’s terrorist attacks in Paris. The controversial “Guigou law” bans the publication of photos of victims on the grounds that it violates their rights to human dignity.
• Photographer Kate Warren does an excellent job illustrating Amanda Whiting’s story on D.C.’s “maddening” pot laws in the Washingtonian.
• Ghost photobombs guest at hotel that inspired “The Shining”.
• Astronaut photography from space helped “discover” Earth.
• The Crusade for Art grant deadlines are due at midnight tonight.
• “A hairy beast walking wouldn’t bother anybody too much here, as long as it minded its own business.”

• A new photo exhibit, For the Record: Changing D.C., featuring work by 30 local artists including Exposed alums Victoria Pickering, Mark Alan Andre and Shamila Chaudhary, opened yesterday at the Historical Society of Washington D.C.
• We featured a gallery last week, but now read the story behind those jaw-dropping photos of the collections at the Natural History Museum.
• Save the date! Thursday, June 2, 2016, 6pm-9pm: “BREAK THE FRAME” — Critical Exposure‘s Annual Youth Photography Exhibition. More details soon.
• The National Park Service is starting a cool Then & Now project in the Shenandoah.
• Have an idea to better connect people to photography? Apply for a $10,000 Crusade Engagement Grant to make it happen. Deadline, April 19.
• We love an airplane landing/takeoff close-up shot as much as anyone, but this tourist got more than he bargained for near a small Caribbean airport. Darwin just flinched.
• Talking of close-ups, check out these gorgeous photos of feathers.
• 31-year-old American, Kris Hernandez, became the first foreigner to train from scratch and work her way up into Japanese women’s pro wrestling.
• The Japanese village where human inhabitants are outnumbered by life-sized “scarecrow” dolls. Caution: will absolutely cause nightmares.
• Beautiful toilets from around the world, courtesy of Lonely Planet.
• I Looked Up and There You Were — an unusual angle on rescued dogs.
• And back to Japan (where else) for a hedgehog cafe.

• Donate your camera to the photographers at Street Sense, which offers the homeless economic opportunities through its bi-weekly newspaper.
• Carl Strüwe’s images find the beautiful and curious through a microscope.
• An incredible photo gallery showing the curators of Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History with their collections.
• We rely on photos to convey stories from around the world. What’s at stake when so few of those stories are told by women?
• Photographer Peter van Agtmael, on assignment for a European magazine, headed to Tennessee and Maryland in 2015 to photograph America’s most well-known hate group, including a wedding.
• American photographer Kevin Dawes, who disappeared in Syria three years ago, was released today by Syrian authorities. Exposed pal Bill Putnam, who has embedded with troops in Afghanistan, disputes the media categorizing him as a “photojournalist.”
• National Geographic Traveler magazine writes about why they featured the Instagram sensation #FollowMeTo on their latest cover.
• Today’s Astronomy Picture of the Day includes a vibrant aurora.
• “In the future, we will photograph everything and look at nothing,” says the New Yorker in a stuffy headline for a thoughtful article.
• Bei Bei or Chow Chow?
• Cheeky monkey!

Don’t forget you can check out the 10th Anniversary Exposed DC Photography Show for free this evening from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Carnegie Library. The Historical Society of Washington D.C. will provide a cash bar, and we’ll be offering a range of Exposed items for sale. If you can’t make it out tonight, you have one more week to plan your visit — gallery hours are Saturday and Monday-Thursday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., then we’ll close this year’s show next Friday, March 25, from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m., with a cash bar (and perhaps some celebratory cake? Mmm cake.). Now, onto this week’s links:

• Dig In is a new, local news site serving up longform journalism. Photojournalist and Exposed alum Andy DelGiudice is one of its creators.
• Tickets are now on sale for the LOOK3 photography festival in Charlottesville in June.
• IGDC announced a contest for photographers to have their photos of the Dupont Circle neighborhood used in a walking tour guide. Deadline: March 25.
• These two photo frames show how close a boy came to getting a bat in the face during a Pirates v. Braves spring training game — and the man next to him with serious Jedi movies.
• The internet can’t get enough of this woman’s angry Splash Mountain photo.
• Staff at Harvard College Observatory will spend the next year trying to salvage century-old photographic plates, taken by astronomers at Harvard and around the world, that were submerged in water when a pipe burst in January.
• It’s that time of year again — the Aaron Siskind Foundation is accepting applications for its 2016 Individual Photographer’s Fellowships program. Grants of up to $10,000 each will be awarded to artists working in photography and photo-based art.
• These photos of sand art around the world are gorgeous.
• You have plenty of time to book your flight to London to see more than 150 images from Elton John’s enviable photography collection when they go on exhibit at the Tate Modern in November.
• Instagram is switching its feed from chronological to best posts first. #filteredgram
• WIRED on why Flickr’s latest announcement signals the death of the longstanding photo-sharing service.
• In Senegal, wrestlers are more famous and earn more than footballers, using rituals, potions and amulets to secure victory.
• A sea turtle eating a jellyfish and so many more great images by the Underwater Photographers of the Year.