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Friday Links: March 27, 2015

March 26, 2015 By James Calder

Early Bloomers at the Washington Monument on 3/24/2015 by John Sonderman

You still have a couple of opportunities to visit the Exposed DC Photography Show at Capital Fringe, the next being tomorrow, Saturday, March 28, from 6 to 8 p.m. Your final chance is our closing reception on Saturday, April 11, 4 to 8 p.m. If you’d like to buy any of the photos in the show, they’re all available in our online marketplace. You can also get the 2015 exhibition magazine for $10, including a free downloadable version.

We now present this week’s linkage:

The Guardian has highlighted some of their favorite urban Instagram photographers in the US. Their selections include a couple of our fair city taken by InstantDC 2014 winner James Jackson. The Guardian’s @guardiancities Instagram feed showcases urban photography from around the world — tag your photographs #guardiancities to be considered.
Photos of 5-year-old Lily Bushelle dressed up as heroines of African-American history have gone viral. Her family is finding new icons to continue their series.
Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Vincent Laforet took nighttime aerial photos of San Francisco, “a city that never seems to end.”
Danish photographer Ken Hermann makes starkly stunning portraits of individual vendors in the Malik Ghat Flower Market in Kolkata, India for his series “Flower Man.”
Photographer Laura Novak, CEO of Little Nest Portraits, saw giving up equity as a negative. Now she sees it as a strategic move for business growth.
Nine composition tips featuring examples by “Afghan Girl” photographer Steve McCurry.
How NASA colorizes Hubble photographs, with bonus National Geographic video. Eat your heart out Ted Turner.
After digital technology upended Kodak’s analog film world, employees ponder how the once-iconic company can prosper and remain technologically relevant.
Paper Magazine complied 16 images from an unofficial Tumblr “Vintage National Geographic.”
Master printer Chuck Kelton says most printers can get 90 percent of an image right. But that final 10 percent is where a printer’s darkroom skills will draw out the photo’s magnificence.
The newly launched Pivot app uses your device’s camera and location to offer you a look at a particular spot “from a specific vantage point through the tunnel of time.”
A couple of incredible cloud photos: an example of the wonderfully named Undulatus Asperatus and this lonely cloud that could.
Lawrence Schwartzwald offers photographic proof that New Yorkers will read books absolutely anywhere.
Danish photojournalist Lasse Bak Mejlvang traveled to Sisimiut, Greenland in 2014 to document the rise in the number of young people there. The town represents the economic hope of this country of just 56,000 people.
Russian photographer Fox Grom photographs adorable Siberian Huskies playing around on frozen lakes and in snow banks. D’awwww.

Friday Links: March 20, 2015

March 20, 2015 By Heather Goss

Composite image by James U., courtesy Heather Miracle — Composite image by Jason U., courtesy Heather Miracle

This awesome photo was sent to us by Heather Miracle, who helped her cousin, Jason U., an 11th grader at Fairfax Baptist Temple Academy, make the image for a school contest. Using a Canon EOS 60D on a tripod, they sat at Gravelly Point – on a day with a gale force wind warning – and took 663 images over three hours. Using Photoshop, he made the final image as a composite with 100 layers. Great job, Jason, it’s gotta be a shoo-in for that contest! Remember you can submit photos to us through our Flickr group or by dropping us a link via our contact form. (Hat tip to Exposed pal Leo for directing Heather to us.)

Don’t forget there’s still a few opportunities to visit the Exposed DC Photography Show at Capital Fringe, including tonight from 6 to 8 p.m. You can also see it Saturday, March 28, 6 to 8 p.m., and join us for our closing reception on Saturday, April 11, 4 to 8 p.m. Fringe has a bar so stop by to grab a beer and see the show without the crowds before you head to dinner on H Street. If you’d like to buy any of the photos in the show, you can do so easily at our online marketplace. You can also get the 2015 exhibition magazine for $10, which comes with a free digital copy.

And now, your Friday Links:

A huge G4 class (the scale goes to 5) solar storm delivered spectacular aurora photo opportunities into unexpected latitudes of both hemispheres.
The New York Times launched a new Instagram feed, @nytimes: “Rather than breaking news on the platform, we will focus on our strongest images and offer some insights into how they were made. We’re going to be looking at both the work of our own photographers — on assignment and off — and that of the wider Instagram community.”
David Williams’ series “Bowling: The Midwest” celebrates the few remaining bowling alleys still standing in Middle America, and the dedicated owners who want to keep them going.
India Today posted an image showing parents scaling multistory buildings to help their kids cheat on exams.
Ilana Panich-Linsman was forced to question her ideas about youth and beauty as she followed one contestant in the world of children’s beauty pageants.
Michele Crowe captures the diversity of 21st century families in her ambitious series “The Universal Family”.
The European Space Agency collaborated with photographer Edgar Martins for these unique images of space equipment.
Scientists recently got another peek of the ridiculously cute Ili pika in China after they first discovered it 20 years earlier.

Friday Links: March 6, 2015

March 6, 2015 By James Calder

Adaptation by Noe Todorovich of her winning "Morning Paper" image — Adaptation by Noe Todorovich of her winning photograph “Morning Paper“

The snow has had its last hurrah (right?), the sun is out, and the forecast for Thursday’s Exposed DC Photography Show opening is sunny and mild! So get your tickets now and get ready to enjoy your free Bluejacket beer in the courtyard at 1358 NE! After you’ve done that, treat yourself to this week’s pile of links:

Suspect Device opens tonight at Leica Store DC. We’re pretty excited about it after getting a sneak peak at the show’s video earlier this week.
Hamiltonian is extending its call for artists for its fellowship program to March 14.
Four Chicago Sun-Times photographers were among 15 staffers who took buyouts last Friday. They had been rehired in March this year after being laid off in 2013 along with the rest of the Sun-Times photography department.
World Press Photo announced that, based on new evidence, they’ve revoked a controversial First Place award.
We’ve been forced to endure our share of slush around here lately, but these photos of “Slurpee waves” off Nantucket are beautiful.
“Mediocre forces good out of the market place and great all but disappears” – Kenneth Jarecke opines on the demise of photojournalism as art.
Ukrainian photojournalist Serhiy Nikolayev was killed in shelling in eastern Ukraine on Saturday. His newspaper says he wasn’t there on assignment.
Peter Lik’s artistic merits may be debatable, but the supercilious photographer – who claims to have sold the world’s most expensive photograph last year – has built a terrifyingly successful market for his work.
A weasel catches a ride on the back of woodpecker and a photographer catches it. No, really.
An octopus has figured out how to work a camera. We advise sheltering in place during the great cephalopod uprising.
The final episode of Invisible Photograph video series explains how particle physicists are using photography at the Large Hadron Collider.
Smithsonian Magazine just announced the finalists of its 12th annual photo contest. Readers can vote for their favorite
Meanwhile Smithsonian tells visitors they’re still welcome to take selfies but “leave the sticks in your bags“.
Chilean volcano Villarrica erupted beautifully on Tuesday.
Serious Eats has put together an excellent beginners guide to food photography.
The Financial Times writes at length on “Why photobooks are booming in digital age“.
Along the tiger’s trail: where are the cats found and why? Field surveys are performed on foot for months across vast areas of India. New word alert: pugmark!

Friday Links: February 27, 2015

February 27, 2015 By Heather Goss

Have you gotten tickets to our Exposed DC Photography Show opening yet? Pick yours up before they’re all gone!

RIP the great Leonard Nimoy, who died this morning. Known to most of us as Spock, Nimoy was also a lifelong photographer.
When “photoshop” became a verb: The interesting history of software manipulation.
An interview with Ronald K. Fierstein, author of the new book, “A Triumph of Genius: Edwin Land, Polaroid, and the Kodak Patent War.”
Why your photograph in a National Park may be illegal.
Hollywood food stylists explain how they get that Cubano sandwich picture perfect.
“I want to introduce white America to people who they might never have met, and I want them to fall in love too.” An interview with photographer Ruddy Roye.
Photos of, and by, America’s first lady photojournalist.
Portraits of men with their cats. Real men.
From ending violence to commemorating the past, Holly Falconer documents the reasons women march.
French photographer Aurélien Chauvaud documents the eccentric riders of Shanghai’s motorcycle sidecar subculture.
It takes more than just an Instagram filter to recreate that eighties high school portrait style.
“I’ve come to learn that photographing a person looking away from the lens can convey thoughtfulness, even deep emotion.” New York Times staff photographer Nicole Bengiveno finds herself shooting instinctively from her subjects’ point of view.
Eduardo Leal ventured to El Alto to better understand the sisterhood behind the spectacle of Bolivia’s famous cholitas luchadoras.
A pair of squirrels with insanely adorable ears “build” a snowman together. Some creative prop-work by Russian photographer Vadim Trunov.
Indonesian man sleeps, eats, plays and even fights with his best buddy, a seven-year-old, 400 pound Bengal tiger.

Friday Links: February 20, 2015

February 20, 2015 By James Calder

Electric Blue (no filter) by number7cloud

Advance tickets ($14) are still available for the big opening reception of our 9th annual Exposed DC Photography Show on March 12! You won’t want to miss it – two floors of amazing local photography, a first look at Capital Fringe‘s fantastic new home, and delicious, complimentary craft brews from Bluejacket. Get your tickets now before they’re all gone!

There’s a new photo collective in town! Contrario Collective launched this week, and is comprised of local photographers Katie Fielding, Emma McAlary, Victoria Milko, Farrah Skeiky, and Noe Todorovich.
The DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities today launched their 2015 Art Bank Call.
In the wake of the disqualification of a large number of images from this year’s World Press Photo contest due to excessive post-processing, the New York Times’ Lens Blog asked several participants from the competition, along with other photographers, to kick off a debate on the rules and ethics of digital photojournalism.
A splendid addition to the “unusual animal friends pairing” files – Ingo the shepherd dog and Poldi the little owl, beautifully photographed by Tanja Brandt.
It’s so freaking cold that Niagara Falls has frozen over for the second time in a month. But it does make for some rather excellent photographs.
While it may feel like we’re living within 35 miles of the Arctic Circle right about now, all the people in these portraits by Cristian Barnett actually do.
The first Instagram photograph ever was of a stray dog near a taco stand in Mexico. Just one fun fact learned from this Marketplace interview with Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom.
The new book “The Family Acid” showcases work by photographer Roger Steffens. Best known for his iconic shots of rock and roll legends, his collection of personal snapshots of life in the 1970s has found new life thanks to social media.
In the future, the traditional Mongolian nomadic lifestyle may only exist in museum. Photographer Daesung Lee brings light to the country’s challenge in his unique series of photographs of real-life dioramas, “Futuristic Archaeology.”
Photographer Joshua Nowicki stumbled upon these beautifully bizarre sand formations on a beach in Saint Joseph, Michigan.
Eric Fischer used geotag information to create a series of fascinating maps comparing the places in cities where tourists and locals take photos.
“I hope the work brings up questions about our landscape, our place within it, and the collective roles and responsibilities in how and why we shape it the way we do.” Victoria Sambunaris on her recent, epic photo book Taxonomy of a Landscape.
When tirades between Russians and Ukrainians overwhelmed photographer Oksana Yushko’s Facebook feed, she issued a plea for understanding. Soon, love followed.
Extraordinary new video footage this week captured the first ever Amur (Siberian) tigers to be filmed in China.