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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.

From White House press photographers objecting to their lack of access in the Obama White House, to AFP and Getty stealing photos, to photos of indigenous cultures, and Tom Turkey fighting for his life, we have a bit of everything for you this week. Enjoy.

The aerial photos of the tornado destruction in the mid-west are incredible.
A book of 1500 mugshots from the early 20th Century sold at auction for $10,000. The images are fascinating.
A mysterious woman at a grave site is one of many recently rediscovered images from the Jordan Valley.
“But anyone who has followed the case can have no doubt: the behaviour of AFP and Getty has been both willful and reckless, not to mention thuggish and comically incompetent.” Add Getty and AFP to the long list of of people, agencies, and companies stealing photos.
Leica Store DC has announced their second Oskar Barnack Wall winning photograph by Dick Pitini.
Nine Inch Nails dedicated a song to ailing photographer and fan, Andrew Youssef.
Photographer Jimmy Nelson has spent the last several years photographing indigenous cultures. The results are stunning.
The Torpedo Factory in Alexandria is holding a workshop for photographers looking to show their work.
Sorry luddites, Fujifilm is discontinuing their 3×4 Instant black and white film.
The newest edition of the local magazine Worn is online. It’s filled with images by local photographers, so check it out.
PROOF interviewed Maggie Steber and Lynn Johnson about how being women has impacted their photography career, in both positive and negative ways.
Photographer Francois Brunelle created portraits of unrelated people who look nearly identical. We promise they look more alike than Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito.
Old photos from the 1930s & 40s of turkeys getting ready to be a Thanksgiving meal. Let’s hope the turkey wearing a protest sign made it.
Balthazar Korab was working for Eero Saarinen when he created these stunning images of the architect’s work including shots of Dulles Airport under construction.
Cecil Stoughton was the official White House photographer working during the Kennedy assassination. Stoughton took the iconic photographs of Johnson being sworn in on Air Force One.
Speaking of White House photographers, Pete Souza’s images sure are pretty, but they aren’t proper news coverage. Journalists have been protesting what they believe is the White House creating their own Soviet-style news service, by barring journalists from Presidential events. The White House this morning provided this photographic retort.
And finally, we will end on a happy note the Little Rock Zoo announced the birth of two new tiger cubs.

Friday Links

November 8, 2013 By James Calder

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Among this week’s lip-smacking links: cats wearing tights; a concert photography controversy; the end of a photo service you’ve never heard of; and a glimpse inside Arthur C. Clarke’s house. So what are you waiting for? Go ahead sink your teeth in.

Photographer Noriko Hayahi spent months visiting villages in Kyrgyzstan to document the horrifying practice of bride kidnapping.
If you’re ever thinking of shooting a rodeo, here’s how not to do it.
Vast quantities of images from an abandoned psychiatric facility in New York? Don’t mind if I do.
I don’t really understand how or why, but I don’t care: Cats wearing tights.
In 1948, the building that is now home to the 9:30 Club was called Duke Ellington’s and it looked basically the same.
Had you ever heard of photo service Everpix? Nor had we, so the story of its demise is interesting and perhaps unsurprising.
Malls haven’t changed much since the eighties. But the hair sure has. Thank goodness.
There are two sides to every story: Concert Photographer Openly Ridiculed for His Technique, Band Comes to His Defense.
Ever wondered what it would be like to date yourself? Photographer Penelope Koliopoulou decided to explore exactly that concept in her series “Self Portraits” where she posed as both halves of various couples.
A guy walks up to the closed gate of the late Arthur C. Clarke’s house in Sri Lanka, ends up being invited inside and takes tons of cool photos. True story!
When old black and white photographs are colorized tastefully, the results can be pretty amazing.
Finally, congrats to our tiger cubs, Bandar and Sukacita, who this week not only acquired their new names but also passed their swim test.

Friday Links

November 1, 2013 By Meaghan Gay

This week we have street photography in the virtual world, rising local waters and the communities affected, teens wanting to be fashion models and lots and lots of creepy. Go ahead and click, if you dare…

A photographer mom dressed up her daughter as famous women from history, and photographed the results. The 5-year-old Coco Chanel is fabulous.
Halloween may be over, but that doesn’t mean we can’t enjoy these creepy photos of creepy people in the past behaving creepily. Our ancestors were nuts.
D.C. Photographer Greg Kahn has been documenting the rapid sea level rise in the Chesapeake Bay since 2012. His documentation of the changes to the coastal communities appeared in the Washington Post Magazine last weekend.
Also in the Washington Post is an article about the dramatic changes to Senior Portrait photography in the region. The very glamorous photo shoots that teens are demanding, along with the high sticker prices, are great for photographers. While the fashion style shoots may be too over the top to some, we still think it is much better than teens taking selfies at funerals.
Can’t get enough creepy OG Halloween photos? Check out the work of photographer Ralph Eugene Meatyard. He was destined for creepy with a name like that.
Photographer Fernando Gomes takes beautiful street images of New York City. Gomes also captures daily life on the streets of Los Santos, the fictional city in Grand Theft Auto V.
While not new, the George Mason University Archives’ photostream on Flickr is worth a look.
If newer creepy photos are your jam, these images of doll faces switched with kids faces ought to do the trick.
In tiger news this week, don’t stick your arm in a tiger’s cage. It never ends well.
And finally, ghosts are real! There are photos. Mwahahahaha.

Friday Links

October 25, 2013 By Meaghan Gay

From the Super Smog in China, to photographs of women in Nepal, to new species in the Amazon, and finally some happy tiger news, we have a little bit of everything this week. Dive right in.

Pay the photographer. Baltimore photographer and Strobist guru David Hobby experienced an all too common request for free photography. But when that request came from the multi-million dollar National Association of Realtors, he took to his blog to share his thoughts.
Lovely images that a father captured of his young, autistic son.
The photos of the Super Smog is China this week are terrifying. They sadly reminded us of the Edward Burtynsky film Manufactured Landscapes, which you can watch on Netflix.
Photographer Marie Dorigny documented the victimization of women in Nepal. Her work was funded by the International Photo Reporter Festival, which is using a new model of private and community money to sponsor photojournalism.
iPad photography may be gaining more acceptance, but that doesn’t make people look less ridiculous when they are doing it.
In related iPad photography news, Canon has “cut its annual profit forecast and predicted its first drop in sales of models with an interchangeable lens as consumers switch to smartphones to take photos.“
Photographer Lisa Shires, whose work from Cuba we featured in August, has new work on her website from Nicaragua.
The prints, collages, and bleached polaroids of artist Robert Rauschenberg will be at the Pace/MacGill Gallery in New York at the beginning of November. While the artist may be known for the many types of art he produced, his photography was a central part of his career.
Over 400 new species of animals have been discovered in the Amazon rain forest since 2010. The Guardian has a gallery of pictures of these “new” members of the planet. Look at them now, because their habitat is so endangered, many may not be around long.
Photographer Richard Renaldi and the Aperture Foundation raised money for his series, Touching Strangers. The work has been getting some press attention, for good reason.
Fotoweek DC is right around the corner. Check out our preview of must see exhibits and events.
And finally, to counterbalance last week’s terrible tiger news, the Australia zoo released photos and video of their twin Sumatran Tiger cubs.