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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 24, 2015

April 24, 2015 By James Calder

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This year’s Washington Post Squirrel Week Photo Contest was won by Exposed regular and animal photographer extraordinaire, Angela Napili. Bravo Angela!
Excellent photography non-profit Critical Exposure has launched a Kickstarter to create a mobile digital gallery that will showcase social justice photography created by D.C. youth.
Capital Weather Gang highlighted some striking photos of Monday’s huge lightning storm. Kevin Ambrose stacked 42 different lightning shots into one image that seems to portray the end of days for D.C., while Exposed alum Gary Silverstein used the lightning to frame the Iwo Jima memorial beautifully.
The Pulitzer Prizes were announced on Monday. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch photography staff won the Breaking News Photography award for their “powerful images of the despair and anger in Ferguson, MO”, while New York Times freelancer Daniel Berehulak took Feature Photography “for his gripping, courageous photographs of the Ebola epidemic in West Africa.”
With this week’s presentation of the World Press photo awards, the New York Times Lens blog presents a conversation with photographers, curators and photo editors on the struggle between photojournalistic ethics and evolving visual storytelling strategies.
The Hubble Space Telescope turned 25 this week. NASA celebrated by releasing a gorgeous image of a 3,000 star cluster. Over at Air & Space magazine, Exposed’s Heather Goss interviewed 10 scientists about the Hubble images they worked with and how each one helped usher in a new age of astronomy. The New York Times also jumped on the bandwagon.
The 27th annual National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest opened this month with some tremendous prizes up for grabs. Submit your best travel photos in any of four categories, and check back weekly to see galleries of the top entries.
Chile’s Calbuco volcano erupted Wednesday without warning. The first imagery to do the rounds was a time-lapse of the eruption. Then came a series of incredible individual photos followed most recently by striking shots of the ash fall.
Davide Monteleone’s “In the Russian East” is a tribute both to Richard Avedon’s “In the American West” and to the lure of the Trans-Siberian Railway.
In the remote village of Mawlynnong in northeast India, the Khasi tribe follows a rare tradition of women running the show.
Two friends sent each other selfies every day for a year, and only communicated through those photos (no calls or texts).
Artsy, ad-free social network Ello recently launched its own photography community – @ellophotography
A rare and gorgeous quadruple rainbow was spotted in Long Island.

Better late than never, right? July and August lacked the D.C. summer standard: daily, oppressive heat and humidity broken briefly by afternoon/evening thunderstorms. September has changed all that, and Richard Barnhill caught this splendid lightning shot on Tuesday night as proof.