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Friday Links

February 28, 2014 By Meaghan Gay

As February comes to a close we wrap up the week with animals taking over an abandoned home, more photojournalists being laid off, scientists going sci-fi, and someone using a tiger as their drinking buddy. Enjoy!

Finnish photographer Kai Fagerström photographed animals taking over an abandoned house, and the results are beautiful.
Interview with David Burnett about photographing his 10th Olympics.
The apocalypsticle? Some interesting commentary on Politico about the obsession with disaster photos that don’t come with more of the story.
More bad news for photojournalists, the Orlando Sentinel is eliminating their photography staff.
Andrew Whtye documented the extensive travels of a very small person with a specialty, adapted tiny camera.
Robert Shults, an Austin based photographer, portrayed scientists in the lab in the format of a sci-fi B-movie.
The Wall Street Journal asks if the change happening at the Corcoran is a symbol of bad non-profit governance happening at many institutions.
Fighting fair use violations can be difficult, which is why several photography associations are banding together to fight for photographer’s rights in court.
Speaking of photographer’s rights, PDN posted a video for photographers on the first amendment and how to deal with police intimidation.
New website The Image delves deeper into the story behind photos.
The long-awaited Garry Winogrand exhibit opens this weekend at the National Gallery.
A New Jersey moving company changed out the stock photos on their website with “real” photos and has seen a dramatic increase in revenue. Remember this study next time a client wants to buy a $2 photo off Shutterstock.
It’s pothole season, but photographers Davide Luciano and Claudia Ficca have re-imagined the possibilities of the bumps in the road.
So, a baby tiger walks into a bar…No, really.

Exposed Interview: Paulo Ordoveza of @PicPedant

January 28, 2014 By Meaghan Gay

Photo by Cameron Davidson/Corbis Images used with permission. This photo was posted by @EarthPics without attribution or payment. It was removed from Twitter after @PicPedant posted the name of the photographer. — Photo by Cameron Davidson/Corbis Images, used with permission. This photograph was posted by @EarthPics on Twitter without attribution or payment. It was removed from Twitter after @PicPedant posted the name of the photographer.

If you use Twitter, you have probably seen one of the dozens of feeds that post photos without giving proper credit to the original photographer. Some accounts, like @HistoryInPics and @Earthpix, have millions of followers who retweet and share the uncredited images thousands of times. Those accounts recently sparked debate after the teenagers who manage them were interviewed by Alexis Madrigal for the Atlantic. While not crediting the photographers is bad enough, sometimes these accounts post historical photos with inaccurate captions, bad science, or images that are photoshopped and passed off as unaltered.

But as the number of accounts sharing uncredited photos grows, so does the backlash. A few Twitter accounts are dedicated to exposing the truth about the images. One of them is run by Paulo Ordoveza, a local who posts as @PicPedant. Ordoveza started his account just five days ago, and already has over 1,300 followers. He responds to tweets from the offending accounts, providing the photographer’s name or the correct scientific or historical information. Ordoveza’s work caught our attention, so we asked him a few questions about his uphill battle exposing uncredited or false images.

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Friday Links

December 13, 2013 By Meaghan Gay

1600 Connecticut Avenue by Chris McDaniel

This week we have a follow up story to the D.C. photojournalist knocked to the ground at the Smithsonian, D.C. family portraits at Bread for the City, The Virginia State Police declaring photography suspicious, and much more.

Tomorrow is the anniversary of the massacre at Sandyhook Elementary School in Newtown, CT. Shannon Hicks shares the story behind her photo from that day with PDN.
“The White House-based press corps was prohibited from photographing Mr. Obama on his first day at work in January 2009. Instead, a set of carefully vetted images was released. Since then the press has been allowed to photograph him alone in the Oval Office only twice: in 2009 and in 2010, both times when he was speaking on the phone. Pictures of him at work with his staff in the Oval Office — activities to which previous administrations routinely granted access — have never been allowed.” New York Times Op-Ed on President Obama’s Orwellian image control policies.
We mentioned last week that photojournalist Kristoffer Tipplaar was brought to the ground by security guards at the Smithsonian. Petapixel got the full story, and it appears that the guards made more than one error.
TIME chose Muhammed Muheisen as their Best Wire Photographer of the Year.
Tips from Elliott Erwitt on how to make great photos.
Oh ThinkGeek you are killing us! Why would anyone want an oversized camera lens pillow? Isn’t the camera lens mug bad enough? Add that to the list of things that won’t make our gift guide.
Taking photographs can ruin your memory of an event. To avoid the “photo-taking impairment effect” we suggest hiring a professional to take your photos for you. Wedding photographers, use science as your reason to tell Uncle with the nice camera to get out of your way.
Here we go. The Virginia State Police have a new “crime fighting” app that allows users to report suspicious activity directly to the police. What type of activity? “Suspicious photography, vehicles or people in places that just look ‘out of place’.”
Lovely photos of Environmental Art on the My Modern Met blog. The eggs on the pavement are very cool.
The folks at the Smithsonian American Art Museum spoke to Muriel Hasbun about some of her work in the current exhibitions A Democracy of Images: Photographs from the Smithsonian American Art Museum and Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art.
We can be royals! Photographer Alison Jackson made images of the Royal Family at home for the Christmas Holiday. Her fantastical, made up photographs made Sandringham look like a very exciting place to spend the holiday.
The New York Times article on homelessness this week gathered a lot of attention. If you haven’t seen the accompanying photographs, they are worth spending some time on.
Bread for the City recently celebrated 5 years of helping D.C. families get a Holiday Portrait.
And finally, Kristin Harper created stunning images of a Bengal tiger diving for food in a pool of water.

Friday Links

December 6, 2013 By Meaghan Gay

Tree on a Hill II bu ep_jhu — Tree on a Hill II by ep_jhu

Our links today include a D.C. photojournalist being knocked down by security guards at the Smithsonian, the story behind a popular street photo, some very creepy Victorian baby photos and much more.

The New Yorker has a nice collection of images of the life of Nelson Mandela.
Photojournalist Kristoffer Tripplaar was knocked to the ground yesterday by guards at the National Air and Space Museum. Fellow photojournalist Charles Dharapak shared the images on Instagram, and stated that guards were trying to “stop him from photographing a protest about the minimum wage at a McDonald’s restaurant” inside the museum.
While demonstrating “how the pros” change their camera lenses a man drops his Canon L series lens on the ground. The best part is that he uploaded the video to YouTube for all of us to enjoy.
Photographer Mikhail Mordasov’s images of the people of Sochi show the city as it is, not as seen through the Olympic glow.
Over 10 years ago Zoe Strauss took an image of a boy doing a flip on the street in Philadelphia. The image went on to be published around the world, but the story behind it is just being revealed by his friends and family.
Jason Kottke is compiling a list of this year’s best of photo lists.
Coal production, and its impact on communities in Appalachia is the focus of Justin Kaneps new work. The images are reminiscent of Walker Evans’s work for the Farm Security Administration 75 years ago.
We found a baby photo trend you will never find on facebook. Victorian parents, mostly mothers, used to hide in plan site to get their babies to behave while getting photographed. The result is the stuff of nightmares.
Dirds. Birds look much better with dog heads.
CoEdit Collection is a new site selling photography prints. The curated selections include work from D.C. photographer Melissa Golden.
Here’s a story and photos of a rich white lady going to China in the 1940s and stealing baby pandas, which she kept in her apartment for a while. China’s panda protection and breeding program makes so much more sense now.
And finally, a baby lion, tiger and bear walk into an animal sanctuary…

National Park Photography Rules Are Changing

September 10, 2013 By Meaghan Gay

If there’s one thing D.C. area photographers deal with more than most others throughout the country, it’s the onerous rules governing federal lands. They do change those rules on occasion, and if you care about photographers’ rights, you can be a part of it.

The National Park Service, the Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Department of the Interior published new, tentative rules on August 22 regarding commercial filming and still photography. They’ll go into effect September 23, 2013, but before then, you can voice your opinion during the Request for Public Comment, which can be done online. The last time the rules changed, in 2007, the NPS received only 30 comments, so if you are interested in commenting, you’re likely to be heard.

What are the new rules? The full list can be found on the Federal Register, and they affect news gathering, commercial filming, audio recording and still photography. For still photography, the new rules for permitting are more lenient. They state:
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