- 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.
