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November 27, 2013 By Meaghan Gay

We are posting early this week so you can enjoy these tasty links over the long holiday weekend. Feel free to click for escape if one of your relatives starts talking about politics over the weekend.

Beautiful photos of individual snowflakes are possible with this cheap, home-made camera rig. Let it snow!
A photo series started in D.C. by E. Brady Robinson, is spreading across the East Coast. She is creating a book called Art Desks, the work spaces of of artists and curators, and is funding it via Indiegogo.
You can vote for your favorite finalists in the Air & Space Magazine photo contest until December 12.
Open now until December 20, the Pepco Edison Gallery is hosting Montgomery College Foundation’s Portraits of Life Exhibit. “The emphasis of Portraits of Life is tolerance, understanding, knowledge and the inherent value of the individual.”
Squinching is the new Duck Face.
You have until December 2 to get a great deal from Adobe on their subscription to Photoshop & Lightroom 5.
Epson has several great tutorials on printing available online. These black & white print videos are a highlight.
“We’re constantly tweeting and instagramming, and the media is always showing us exactly what’s happening when it’s happening, but it’s an illusion. Are we really so connected?” Washington Post review of Alex Prader’s new show at the Corcoran.
Need a job? Critical Exposure, the D.C. non-profit that teaches youth the power of photography, is hiring a Development & Communications Director.
Hotel guests across the country will no longer be greeted by propaganda first thing in the morning, since USA Today has announced it will no longer publish handout photos from the White House.
Do you have a lot of leaves to rake? Perhaps getting a baby lion to play in them will make your leaf piles more manageable.
Many images from space are amazing, but this collection is particularly stunning.
Umm, the following link is pretty gross, so perhaps you should click with care. But merging animals before cooking used to be a thing I guess. “There is a variation on this dish called the Helmeted Cock in which the bird is made to ride the pig in military regalia.”
Photojournalist ranks just below dishwasher as a career.
If you have some spare time this weekend, the Library of Congress uploaded their 20,000th photo to Flickr this week.
The Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation gave $3 million to the World Wildlife Fund to help grow the tiger population in Nepal. Leo, if you need photos of baby tigers taken, call me.

Have a great Thanksgiving! We will see you back here on Monday.

Friday Links

October 4, 2013 By Meaghan Gay

There are so many great links this week, let’s just jump right in.

Halloween is around the corner, so these images of petrified animals are appropriate and terrifying.
The National Gallery may be closed, but the NPR story on Charles Marville’s photographs of 19th Century Paris is online.
Yosemite National Park celebrated its 123rd birthday this week also by closing because of the government shutdown. In Focus ran a nice collection of historic images from the park.
After the battle between investors has been settled, the affordable art site 20×200 is returning.
The controversy surrounding the winning image of the World Press Photo Awards last year has prompted the photojournalism competition to change their rules about post processing.
Google street view can get personal. A man found a picture of his grandmother hanging out on her front porch, reading the newspaper. His grandmother died not long after that photo was taken.
A new photography blog launched this week, called FUSEVISUAL.
Need to learn how to network with other photographers? Start by being a nice person.
Having your work go viral can be a great experience for some, but a frightening experience for others. Read three very different perspectives on this modern phenomenon.
An unnamed woman in a photo from post-war New York, and what she can teach us about perception, race and class in mid-century and modern American culture.
No matter how much we love them it is a really terrible idea to keep tigers in your house.
Photo software giant Adobe was hacked last month, but revealed it this week. 2.9 million customers had their data exposed.
Edward Burtynsky’s new work is a series called Water, and documents how we are creating our own demise. So it’s light.
On an actual light note, photographer Elliott Erwitt is releasing some of his color work from his back catalog in a book appropriately named Kolor.
Photographer Jordan Matter has followed up his popular Dancers Among Us series with images of Athletes Among Us. No word yet on how many groups may be living among us.
An image of the mass burial of Titanic victims has been (please forgive me) brought back from the dead.
Let’s pretend we are the Daily Show for a minute, because this photo of Ted Cruz from photographer Jason Reed deserves a Moment of Zen.

It may have been a short work week, but we have lots of great links for you today. We have the work of two war photographers, discounted Adobe products, exploration of a Virginia island by a pair of local photographers, technological photography advances from the early 1900’s, and a possible step backwards technologically. We will let you decide that one.

Famed war photographer Don McCullin shared some of his thoughts and images with The Telegraph.
You will never get this reaction with via instant replay. Probably one of the funniest foul ball photos of all time.
Adobe announced a discounted introduction to their new Creative Cloud for photographers for only $9.99 per month. Users who buy in before the end of the year will be able to lock in that price.
Kodak is officially no longer a consumer photography company. We imagine Paul Simon is crying in a corner somewhere with his last box of Kodachrome.
The view inside the Maryland Statehouse dome is rarely seen by the public, so a Baltimore Sun photographer documented it for everyone’s benefit.
The Washington Post shared the story of another war photographer, Goran Tomasevic, about his recent work in Syria.
In Focus has a collection of the winners of the Red Bull Illume Photo Contest. This snowboarding photo particularly caught our attention, but they are all jaw dropping.
Guns and Fine Art Dog Photography. With a title like that, who needs an explanation.
Do you rent photo equipment from Calumet? If so, you can take an image of your gear in action, share it on Instagram, and possibly win $250 in free rental gear.
Ghosts of DC has a photo of Blagden Alley from 1923. The alley is located behind the current location of Long View Gallery, where we have held our Exposed photo exhibit for the last few years.
A nice collection of images from regular contributors John Ulaszek and Chris Suspect of Tangier Island, VA.
No kids, this is not a joke. Someone is trying to fund a project that would make a smartphone photo enlarger. No comment.
Interested in real technological advancement? Photographer Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky was making color images of the Russian Empire one hundred years ago.
If you don’t want to be seen looking like the village idiot, don’t smile like the village idiot. In what is being called censorship, Agence France Presse killed a photo of French President Francois Hollande making a silly face to French schoolchildren.
Ayu, a two year old Sumatran tiger has returned to her home at a zoo in Indonesia after surviving a poisoning attack. Another tiger and two lions were not as lucky, and died from the poisoning.