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Friday Links: December 18, 2015

December 18, 2015 By Heather Goss

Untitled by Christopher Chen
Untitled by Christopher Chen

Some of you like to put your work together at the end of the year to look back at where you’ve been and what you’ve seen. We’ll use our editorial privilege to highlight our pal Sanjay Suchak, a multiple time Exposed winner before he came to volunteer with our team briefly, and then heading down to Charlottesville to be UVa’s official photographer. Have you put together a highlight reel from 2015? Show us and we’ll link to some more throughout December. Oh and look, now you have your selections ready to enter into the 10th annual Exposed DC photography contest. How convenient!

  • Nobody knows Bao Bao or Bei Bei better than Juan Rodriguez, the former National Zoo volunteer turned veteran panda-keeper. He shares what it’s like to spend a day with Washington’s most obsessed-over animals. (Which made us nostalgic for a similar story our own James Calder shot for DCist four years ago, A Day In The Life: National Zoo Animal Keeper.)
  • Wired magazine has The Grisly, Fascinating History of Crime Photography.
  • “I’ve never seen anything like this, and in such perfect symmetry.” Capital Weather Gang has an incredible photo of Kelvin-Hemlholtz wave clouds taken by Brad Peterson.
  • In Sight takes a look at what John McDonnell, a Washington Post staff photographer, shoots on the periphery while on assignment.
  • Dronestagr.am announces the winners of its “Small Drones, Big Changes” climate themed drone photography contest.
  • Slate’s Behold photo blog offers up its 10 Best Photography Books of 2015.
  • The House Armed Services committee has banned photographers from in front of the witness table because of the loud camera shutters.
  • “My biggest fear is the Corcoran turning into a hub for people to do their creative minors.” A year later, the Corcoran is still figuring out its new place.
  • A chance encounter with several Chinese girls being raised in Montana led Meng Han to explore the world of Chinese adoptees in the United States.
  • Print that baby! Classic contact sheets from 1960 to now. MoMa let the Guardian into its cavernous vaults, sharing everything from Stephen Shore’s shots of a vintage car stranded in the desert to Lorna Simpson’s candid 1950s African American pinups.
  • Apply to be a photo editing intern this summer at NPR.
  • The Comedy Wildlife Awards will ease you through the rest of your workday.

 

 

 

Filed Under: Friday Links Tagged With: baby animals, Bao Bao, best of 2015, Chinese adoptees, clouds, Corcoran, crime photography, drones, MOMA, national zoo, panda, weather, wildlife

In Frame: First Snow of 2015 (Gallery)

January 6, 2015 By James Calder

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The first snow of the season usually provides some wonderful photo opportunities, and this winter was no exception. Here are some of our favorites, including a couple from the photographers at the Smithsonian National Zoo. You can see more of the zoo’s animals enjoying the snow in this Flickr album.

And don’t forget to post your best photos in the Exposed DC Flickr pool for a chance to give them a wider audience!

Filed Under: In Frame Tagged With: gallery, in frame, national zoo, Smithsonian National Zoo, snow, weather

Friday Links: January 2, 2015

January 2, 2015 By Heather Goss

2015 Winter Classic - Hats by JRichkus
2015 Winter Classic – Hats by JRichkus

It’s a new year, so we got a new website design! How do you like our new digs?? Poke around and tell us what you love, or what could still be tweaked, or if anything is still buggy in the comments or by email.

Photographers, this is the LAST WEEKEND to submit your D.C.-area images to the 9th annual Exposed DC photography contest! About 40 images that tell the story of the DMV we know and love will go on display at the Capital Fringe headquarters next March in our blow-out exhibition. The deadline for entries is next Wednesday, January 7 at midnight. We’ll announce the winners the following Tuesday, January 13, and have a celebration for everyone at our monthly happy hour at Meridian Pint that evening. Alright, let’s get to the links.

  • Look at these crazy, crazy trees. Almost as crazy as the platinum/palladium process Beth Moon uses to photograph them.
  • White House photographer Pete Souza talks about the stories behind the shots.
  • The Capital Weather Gang collected D.C.’s best weather shots from 2014 — (we count six former Exposed winners!).
  • Meanwhile, the Washington Post‘s In Sight photo blog features a selection of snowy winter scenes from Washington’s past.
  • Politico does what it does best, and collected the 10 Best Washington Photos from 2014.
  • Last week we had the top 10 photos from the Department of Interior’s incredible Instagram account; Huffington Post did a step better and dug up its top 10 animal photos.
  • How do all these Best Of lists get made? The New York Times‘ Lens blog writes about how they choose 100 photos for their 2014 Year in Pictures.
  • The annual Sony World Photography competition is still accepting entries, but see what you’re up against with these 15 contenders.
  • Photographer Jill Waterman has been documenting New Year’s Eve celebrations in a different city every year since 1983, bouncing from Bethlehem to Prague, Shanghai to Montreal, Miami to San Francisco.
  • Photojournalist Lucas Jackson, embedded with American soldiers in Afghanistan, shares intimate and up-close photographs documenting the daily life, training, and camaraderie of troops counting down their final days in the region.
  • David Kasnic documents the people and practices that make up the controversial, annual Sweetwater Rattlesnake Roundup in Texas.
  • Maxine Helfman’s “Historical Correction” photo series places black subjects in historical Flemish-style portraits.
  • The Washington Post has a slideshow of tigers held in captivity in the Heilongjiang Siberian Tiger Park in Harbin, in China’s Heilongjiang province. Chinese demand for tiger rugs and wine made from tiger bones is putting the wild cats in peril.

Filed Under: Friday Links Tagged With: animals, contest, end of year, new year's eve, photo lists, rattlesnakes, tigers, weather, white house

In Frame: September 3, 2014

September 3, 2014 By James Calder

DC Lightning by Richard Barnhill
DC Lightning by Richard Barnhill

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.

Filed Under: In Frame Tagged With: in frame, lightning, Richard Barnhill, weather

In Frame: January 29, 2014

January 29, 2014 By James Calder

Snow news by Victoria Pickering
Snow news by Victoria Pickering

As you might have noticed, the weather has consistently been a top story in the national news of late. Victoria Pickering‘s angular shot outside the Newseum would make an excellent lead photo for a story about the media and it’s meteorological obsession.

Filed Under: In Frame Tagged With: media, news, Newseum, snow, Victoria Pickering, weather

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