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This week’s collection includes using your mouth as a pinhole camera, the 45th anniversary of Earthrise, a series of photos taken from a kite, and of course several Best of 2013 galleries. Have at it.

If you saw video footage of the blizzard-bound first half of the Lions-Eagles game last Sunday, you can imagine what a nightmare it must have been for a still photographer. Kyle Grantham explains how he took the unthinkable step of switching off his auto-focus.
Some good insight from the “Masters in Motion” conference on getting your work seen by clients.
Time does for photographers what the Academy does for movie-makers. In Memoriam: Remembering the Photographers We Lost in 2013.
Leica Store DC has announced that Vince Lupo is this month’s Oskar Barnack Wall winner.
Wait, Facebook might actually be starting to care about photographers?
Newseum to open “Pictures of the Year” in April 2014. The display will spotlight the best news images from Pictures of the Year International (POYi), the oldest photojournalism contest in the world.
Gorgeous, painting-like images, taken from a kite. Catch a short film by the photographer, Gerco de Ruijter, at the Hirshhorn through this Sunday, December 22.
The Washington Post has a gallery of the most eye-catching news photos of the year.
Boggle your mind at the most amazing science images of 2013. Some of them move, but we’re ok with that.
You know the tapir they used to have at the National Zoo? Well, it wasn’t this kind.
Because stealth photography wasn’t already creepy enough.
Alright, now open wide and say aaahhAAARRGGHH!!
The Smithsonian American Art Museum is looking for a photography curator.
Today marks the 45th anniversary of Earthrise, and NASA will celebrate with a Google+ Hangout at 3 p.m.
“Professional photographers are vital. Without them, the world’s conscience will wither. They bear witness for all of us.” Pictures That Change History: Why the World Needs Photojournalists.
People, places and nature. The 2013 National Geographic Photography Contest Winners.
Say bye-bye to MOCA DC.
National Geographic photographers expound on the power of photography in this video.
And finally, here’s your tiger link. Whoever decided glass was a good material for zoo enclosures must have known what they were setting people up for.

Photographer Daniel Patrick Lilley is capturing the UK’s disappearing wrestling culture and his work was featured on NPR’s the picture show.
Our friends at the STRATA Collective are offering a street photography workshop. Discounts are available if you sign up before October 20.
Also STRATA related, member Joshua Yospyn was interviewed about his work. “The challenge is to photograph the commonplace in such a way that’s provocative, revealing and being mindful of what’s considered ‘contemporary.’ It often involves taking risks.”
NASA’s satellite images may be inaccessible during the government shutdown, but the European Space Agency has plenty of beautiful images of the Earth.
PDN’s PhotoPlus Expo & Conference is around the corner. This year is the 30th Anniversary, and there will be a large variety of exhibitors this year.
Félix Tournachon, also known as Nadar, was the world’s first aerial photographer and not all of his attempts to be airborne were successful.
Washington School of Photography is offering discounts on four upcoming workshops.
The Copyright office maybe closed, but that doesn’t mean you can’t learn about how to protect your images. The Columbia Visuals website, from the Columbia Journalism School is a great resource.
Oy. It’s bad enough when a photographer steals an image, but now we have to worry about some big names plagiarizing their social media updates. Life lessons people, don’t steal.
The graytones in this photograph from Dayanita Singh are beautiful.
Photographer Ben Marcin is documenting lone standing row houses that have outlasted their neighbors. The images are best seen while humming “The Cheese Stands Alone.” Well, maybe not, but I can’t stop.
Great interview with Ami Vitale and Elizabeth Dalziel about staying safe while shooting abroad.
A handy map from Casey Trees to find the best places in the District for fall foliage. Plan your photo shoots accordingly.
We can’t get enough of the images that merge the past and the present, and neither can the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam. They have merged many historic images with current photos that you can explore in their app as you walk around the city.
And finally, the most important question of the day, do two lions make a tiger? If so, Steve Winter explains how he captured a photo of a Mountain Lion in LA’s Griffith Park. And the most ferocious lion roar you will ever hear.

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