Thank you to everyone who joined us for happy hour on Wednesday night and to 801 Restaurant & Bar for having us. We had a great time connecting with new folks and reconnecting with long-timers as well. Congratulations once again to the winners of this year’s contest; we look forward to celebrating local photography with you all at the 17th annual Exposed DC show later this year. Stay tuned for updates.

• “Variety Show: A Photo Ensemble” by Creative Platform, a photography group featuring nine photographers, will open at Gallery B in Bethesda soon. Join them for an opening reception on March 11 from 4-6 p.m.
• Photoworks has released its full list of spring and summer classes.
• Astronomers have released a gargantuan survey of the Milky Way, using data from the Dark Energy Camera Plane Survey taken at optical and near-infrared wavelengths.
• Shortlisted entries and finalists in the annual Sony World Photography Awards’ 10 professional categories have been announced.
• Multiple Exposures Gallery’s monthly photography critique is this Sunday from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
• The top prize for the National Geographic “Pictures of the Year” contest captured a bald eagle swooping in to steal a perch on a tree log in Alaska.
• The northern lights seem to be putting on quite the display this year, according to photographers on the Isle of Man and these two pilots who incorporated an extra loop into their flight path to make sure passengers on both sides of the planes got a view.
• The Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize has just announced the four shortlisted photographers that will appear in the 2023 exhibition.
• The winners of the Washington Gardener Magazine’s 2023 Garden Photo Contest were announced last month.

We’ll be announcing the winners of our annual contest next week! Check back for the official announcement and then join us on Wednesday, March 1 for a celebratory happy hour at 801 Restaurant & Bar from 6-8 p.m. We’ll catch up in person (finally!) and toast to the winners. Looking forward to seeing everyone and sharing our love for local photography!

• Tomorrow is the last day to catch the DC Street Photography Collective’s “Hiding in Plain Sight” exhibit at Project Create Arts Center. Join them for a closing party and see the winners of their open call on display along with members’ work.
• Reserve a spot to join Exposed alum Messay Shoakena at Photoworks tomorrow from 2:00-4:00 p.m. for an artist talk and demonstration.
• Kieth Kozloff’s “Veiled Memories” exhibit opens at the Park View Gallery at Glen Echo with a reception on February 25, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
• The National Gallery of Art exhibit “This is Britain” consists of about 45 recently acquired prints and some photo magazines from the 1970s and 1980s.
• Cheryl Miller filed a copyright infringement claim against an artist who allegedly replicated her 1980 photograph as a painting.
• The Plants for Birds entries in the 2022 Audubon Photography Awards show the connection between birds and native plants.
• Reserve a spot to join Shedrick Pelt at the DC History Center to celebrate the release of his new book “District Postcard Views” on February 24, 5:00-7:00 p.m., free.
• The 16 largest photography companies in the world have just been revealed with Sony overtaking Canon and a few other surprises.
• An art gallery owner is under investigation for defrauding clients, with $1.6 million worth of photos vanishing.

Thank you to everyone who submitted to our annual photography contest! We love this amazing photography community and are glad you are part of it. Check back later this month for the winners’ announcement. In the meantime, remember you can always share your images with us and each other by submitting to our group on Flickr and tagging #exposeddc on Instagram. Now onto our usual weekly round-up, including lots of great photography events happening this weekend.

• Leica Store DC is hosting a modeling photography demo with a studio setup and cameras to try tomorrow from 11:00 a.m. to 1 p.m., free.
• The DC Street Photography Collective is hosting a conversation with their member (and Exposed alum) Sofia Sebastian tomorrow at Project Create Arts Space at 2:30 p.m. in conjunction with their “Hiding in Plain Sight” exhibition that runs through Feb. 18.
• Also tomorrow, head to Gallery Y for the Waves of Joy artist talk from 3:00-5:00 p.m. which will includes photographers from the “Dap Is A Love Language” exhibit.
• A bear discovered a camera used to monitor wildlife in Boulder, Colorado and proceeded to pose for about 400 selfies.
• Chronophoto is a free online game that has you guess the year five random photos were taken.
• Joyce Dopkeen, the first woman hired by The New York Times to be a full-time staff photographer in 1973, died this week. She devoted her entire career to photojournalism.
• Since 2017, Women Photograph has been recording the bylines of lead photos on the front pages of eight international newspapers, noting fewer women and nonbinary photographers appeared in 2022 than the year before.
• A photograph of the Milky Way above the ruins of a Tudor mansion won the top prize in an astrophotography competition.