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Friday Links: July 2, 2015 (Special Thursday Edition)

July 2, 2015 By Heather Goss

Watching the fireworks in Arlington, VA by Kevin Wolf

Since we have a long weekend ahead of us, we’ve got a special Thursday edition of Friday Links for you. Don’t forget to join us next Wednesday for our July happy hour at The Brixton on U Street.

Yes, of course there’s a Google “Sheep” view.
The incredible Tuesday night storm woke most of us up around the D.C. area. Here’s what the non-stop lightning looked like in this 5-minute timelapse by Kaitlin Walsh.
Selfie enthusiasts rejoice: The White House has lifted its photography ban.
New York Times staff photographer Ruth Fremson takes a look back at the women — and men — who helped open the door for female photographers.
What happened to the 9-year-old girl smoking in Mary Ellen Mark’s photo? NPR found out.
Australia’s Great Barrier Reef gets a health check-up from UNESCO.
Enter your best street photography into this new contest by Acuity Press. Deadline August 11.
Exposed pal Brian Mosley, whose spectacular fireworks photographs have won our annual contest more than once (including last year), gives his advice on how to take your own.
From Tornado Alley to the Midwest, photographer Jody Miler races across America chasing supercell storms that spawn tornadoes.
Wedding photographer slips and falls, still snaps shot on the way down. The range of reactions in the subjects’ faces is priceless.
A Phoenix man creepily hacked into a security camera in an unknown town to create a photo series called “The New Town.”
Primordial Landscapes: Iceland Revealed is a collaborative exhibit by a photographer and geophysicist/poet opening at National Museum of Natural History this week, and looks awesome.
We’re big fans of the beautiful birds (and beautiful photos) at @AvianRecon. Inspired by the World Cup, they’re having an #InstaBirdBracket right now. Go follow along and vote for your favorite owl or raptor. (Psst: It’s this one.)

Friday Links: April 17, 2015

April 17, 2015 By Heather Goss

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Don’t get out of the Jeep on safari, even if you might get a great photo.
LIFE Magazine’s photo essay of a working mother in the 1950s.
Alison Nastasi had published a compilation of photos of famous artists and their cats.
“Through the African American Lens,” culled from a Smithsonian collection, shows how photography — and black photographers — reshaped a people’s image.
NY family loses legal battle against photographer who secretly shot them through the windows of their apartment and then put them in an exhibit.
For three years, photographer Michael Soluri had exclusive access to the astronaut crew, labor force and tools of the shuttle mission that saved and extended the life of the Hubble Space Telescope.
These photos could be better, but the idea and subjects here are interesting: Where did John Wilkes Booth run after he shot Lincoln? Nate Larson shows in his series “Escape Routes” that the path Booth took is a mix of truck stops, suburbs, highways, and back roads.
The Atlantic’s CityLab writes about citizens’ rights to photograph and videotape the police, discussing some of the same cases covered in this National Press Club panel with local officials we reported on in 2013.
“When I photograph my subjects, I do not set out to construct a narrative, though each photograph ends up marking moments and landmarks from my life.” A photo essay by Texan photographer Armando Alvarez.
Local Craigslist ad seeks mustachioed individual to pose with turtles. I hope this is real, and that we get to see the resulting images.
Pete Souza tweets that this is last term in the White House.
It’s that time of year again — the Aaron Siskind Foundation is accepting applications for their Photographer’s Fellowship program. Grants up to $10,000 are up for grabs.
Imagine yourself decidedly out of town with these Icelandic mountain peaks in blue by Andy Lee.
Sony and the Sea Life Aquarium in New Zealand trained the world’s first Octographer because they’re good with animals and cameras but now how words work, I guess.

Exposed Interview: Katie Fielding

February 10, 2015 By Keith Lane

A few years back I happen to be working Holland around the same time as D.C. photographer Katie Fielding was passing through, so we met up and I interviewed her for InstantDC. A self-described turophile, Fielding spends her work days as a teacher in Virginia. The rest of her time is spent traveling and taking photographs, both around the U.S. and overseas. I sat down with Fielding again, this time at a local coffee shop in D.C. to hear about her recent travels, her thoughts on Instagram, and the value of a photograph in a sea of images.

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Friday Links

June 13, 2014 By Meaghan Gay

Another Friday, another awesome assemblage of photo-related fascination, including a stunning history of underwater photography, some extra-hot wedding shots, Chris Suspect’s impending punk show photo book, and fund-raising for a scammed photographer. Have at it!

Photographer Kamaran Najm Ibrahim was killed in Iraq on Thursday.
Reiner Riedler photographs archived film reels, capturing the beauty of the object while evoking the memory of that movie.
For World Oceans Day, National Geographic compiled a brief history of underwater photography.
The Leica Store DC announced their newest Oskar Barnack Wall winning photo. Congrats to Chris Suspect, whose photo was also one of our In Frame selections last month.
Speaking of Chris Suspect, he has a new photo book showcasing his 30 years of photographing punk rock show available for pre-sale.
An Oregon couple had to relocate their wedding because of a wildfire, but managed to get some smoking photos. They were taken by photographer Josh Newton.
“Both Sides Of is a photography project that juxtaposes side-by-side portraits of models whose faces have been photoshopped to be mirror images of the left and right sides of their faces.”
The BBC has a selection of photos taken by a very young Stanley Kubrick.
Al Satterwhite spent several weeks following Muhammed Ali at the Fifth Street Gym in Miami Beach in the early 1970’s, and is trying to raise money via Kickstarter to create a book of the photos.
The terrain of Iceland is always awe inspiring, but these infrared photographs by Andy Lee make the landscape look otherworldly.
“When Anzalee and Kristain Rhodes look back at their daughter’s first year of life, they won’t be examining blurry, red-eyed camera phone photos. Each month, a team of professional photographers shoots them as they go about their daily lives at home and around New York City.”
Austin-based photographer Polly Chandler was scammed by a fake buyer, and Wells Fargo is holding her accountable for the cashier’s check they later decided was fake. She’s having a print sale through Friday to help her recoup the losses.
And finally, in tiger news, researchers in the Primorye region of Russia are using camera traps to document the Amur tiger. They “developed pattern-recognition software that could be used to match tiger skins traded on the black market with images in the database to help identify where poachers killed the animal.”