Every camera bag should have a lens cleaning cloth, an extra memory card and most important, an extra battery. Additionally, the accessories listed below might come in handy.

 A clear glass filter designed to protect your front lens element from scratches or other damage. Get one for each lens and leave it on, unless you're using a different filter. No stacking filters.

Sunglasses for your lenses. Use on a bright sunny day to help increase saturation and contrast. Also use to remove glare on water, windows and foliage.

When you need a slow shutter speed in daylight, this filter helps prevent overexposure.
Perfect for photographing waterfalls in daylight.

Shoot in the rain or snow and use a rain sleeve to protect your camera and lens.

If you struggle to see your LCD screen when you're shooing outdoors on a sunny day, try one of these loupes. 

Visit their website at
https://www.hoodmanusa.com/HoodLoupes-s/128.htm

Telephoto, wide angle, fish eye and macro are some of our favorites. They also have filters for smartphones.

Visit their website at
https://www.shopmoment.com/shop/categories/all?collection=photographer-collection

When your fingers are too big for editing on your phone, a stylus is a the way to go.

Visit their website at
https://tenonedesign.com/pogo.php

Permanant Exhibition

Photographers record the defining moments of our world and our time, capturing history through timeless images of fleeting moments. With the click of a button, vivid imagery documents the pain of poverty, the ecstasy of victory and the triumph of redemption.

This gallery features the most comprehensive collection of Pulitzer Prize-winning photographs ever assembled, including photographs from every Pulitzer Prize-winning entry since 1942, when the award was first presented. The gallery is updated each year when new winners are announced in April.

Newseum
555 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W.
Washington, DC, 20001
https://www.newseum.org/exhibits/current/pulitzer-prize-photographs-gallery/

June 7, 2019 — October 14, 2019

David Levinthal’s photographs reference iconic images and events that shaped postwar American society.  His images provide a lens through which to examine the myths and stereotypes lurking within our most beloved pastimes and enduring heroes.  Levinthal encourages us to consider the stories we tell about ourselves—what it means to be strong, beautiful, masculine, feminine, and ultimately, American.

Smithsonian American Art Museum
8th St NW & F St NW
Washington, DC 20004
https://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/levinthal

June 14, 2019 - May 31, 2020

In mid-nineteenth-century America, the growing presence of women in public life coincided with the rise of portrait photography. This exhibition of daguerreotypes and ambrotypes from the 1840s and 1850s features portraits of early feminist icons, women’s rights advocates Margaret Fuller and Lucy Stone, abolitionist Lucretia Mott and best-selling author Harriet Beecher Stowe. 

National Portrait Gallery
8th St NW & F St NW
Washington, DC 20001
https://www.si.edu/exhibitions/women-progress-early-camera-portraits-event-exhib-6351

June 22 - September 22, 2019

Through installations, videos, paintings, and documentary images, The Warmth of Other Suns  explores both real and imaginary geographies, reconstructing personal and collective tales of migration. Overlaying historical experiences of migration to and within the United States with the current plight of refugees around the world, the exhibition brings together a multitude of voices and exposes the universality of migration as an experience shared by many.

The Phillips Collection
1600 21st Street NW
Washington, DC 20009
https://www.phillipscollection.org/events/2019-06-22-exhibition-the-warmth-of-other-suns

July 14, 2019 – January 5, 2020

Photography played a significant role both in preparing for the mission and in shaping the cultural consciousness of the Apollo 11 moon landing. The exhibition will include a selection of photographs from the unmanned Ranger, Surveyor, and Lunar Orbiter missions that led up to Apollo 11. Additionally, a select survey of lunar photographs from the 19th and early 20th centuries will be featured.

National Gallery of Art - West Building, Ground Floor, Gallery 22
Constitution Ave NW
Washington, DC 20565
https://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2019/century-of-lunar-photographs-1850s-apollo-11.html

August 10, 2019–February 9, 2020

The artists featured in My Iran: Six Women Photographers explore the complexities of life within and outside their home country. From the dynamism of the street to the quiet corners of distant memories, the works highlight various ways in which artists use photography to respond to personal and political realities.

Smithsonian’s Freer and Sackler Galleries
1050 Independence Ave SW
Washington, DC 20560
https://www.freersackler.si.edu/exhibition/my-iran-six-women-photographers/

September 19, 2019–January 20, 2020

"Live Dangerously" reveals the bold and dynamic ways in which female bodies inhabit and activate the natural world. Twelve groundbreaking photographers, including Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Kirsten Justesen, Xaviera Simmons, and Rania Matar, use humor, drama, ambiguity, and innovative storytelling to illuminate the landscape as means of self-empowerment and personal expression.

National Museum of Women in the Arts
1250 New York Ave NW
Washington, D.C. 20005
https://nmwa.org/exhibitions/live-dangerously

Through September 2019

See the world’s natural wonders through a whole new lens. Sixty stunning images have been selected to showcase the extraordinary work of photographers from around the world. United by their creativity and technical skill with a camera, these artists of all ages and experience levels share their visions of nature to inspire future photographers and conservationists alike.

National Museum of Natural History
10th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW - 2nd floor
Washington, DC 20560
https://www.si.edu/exhibitions/23rd-annual-natures-best-photography-windland-smith-rice-international-awards-event-exhib-6384

September 8 – December 1, 2019

On the 180th anniversary of photography’s introduction to the world in 1839, an exhibition of some 170 photographs offers an in-depth look at the development of the medium throughout its first 50 years. The exhibition is organized chronologically and thematically, beginning with the earliest photographs in the collection by one of photography’s inventors, William Henry Fox Talbot, and several examples of daguerreotypes, and ending with photographs made in 1889 by the Kodak, the first snapshot camera.

National Gallery of Art - West Building, Ground Floor, Inner Tier
Constitution Ave NW
Washington, DC 20565
https://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2019/eye-sun-nineteenth-century-photos.html

Fall 2019

Any prominent work of architecture is likely to be seen more widely through photographs than in person. This exhibition will present a cross-section of Karchmer’s professional photographs, coupled with personal photos and artifacts that shed light on his work. While the exhibition will feature numerous large-format images of remarkable beauty, it will also include didactic displays examining the technical and creative processes underlying such images. It will thus illuminate why certain images are so successful in expressing both the physical and emotional aspects of architecture.

National Building Museum
401 F St NW
Washington, DC 20001
https://www.nbm.org/exhibition/alan-karchmer/

November 2019

The World Press Photo Exhibition represents the year's best visual journalism. The goal is simple, to tell the stories behind the photos and to encourage deeper undestanding and debate of current events in the community, the country and abroad. This is photojournalism at its best and most thought-provoking.

Dupont Underground
19 Dupont Circle, entrance on 19th Street
https://lightscapedc.org/

October 24 - 26, 2019

Javits Convention Center
655 W 34th St
New York, NY 10001
https://www.photoplusexpo.com

November 1 - 3, 2019

Hylton Performing Arts Center
10960 George Mason Circle
Manassas, VA 20110
http://naturevisions.org

January 16-21, 2020

Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center
2800 Opryland Drive
Nashville, Tennessee 37214
https://imagingusa.org