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Photo of the Day: March 4, 2009

Big thanks to the nearly 70 people who made it out last night for Emerge Exposed, our panel discussion for the DCist Exposed Photography Show. Brian Knight Photography took this wide angle shot as people filtered in to Flashpoint's Mead Theater Lab to take their seats (and also gave his own live-tweet of the discussion, cut and pasted to his Flickr caption). You can see our four panelists waiting to share their knowledge about all things photography, and I, for one, can say I learned a ton this year. Thanks to the Pink Line Project and the Cultural Development Corporation for organizing this event again for us.

The 2008 DCist Exposed Photography Show has been quite a ride this year. We started with nearly 600 fantastic entries, giving our judges the tough job of picking only 47 winning images. We watched people line up down the street to get into our packed opening reception. The folks at Civilian Art Projects have watched a constant stream of visitors come into the gallery during their regular opening hours. Wednesday night we teamed with Civilian and The Pink Line Project, who put together a fascinating panel to discuss what it means to become a collector to a standing-room only audience. And this year we've received a humbling amount of mainstream press about the show (with only a little bit of old school balking at the notion of one of those things on the intertubes curating an art show).

We hope you RSVP'd early to tonight's Emerge Exposed panel, because it's gonna be a packed house. Philippa Hughes and the Pink Line Project, in conjunction with Civilian Art Projects, have set up a fantastic line up for the panel discussion tonight, starting promptly at 7 p.m. Our four panelists will discuss the ins-and-outs of becoming an art collector and what you really need to know to make that first purchase.

We're left with only a few short hours until the second annual DCist Exposed Photography Show opens to the public. Yesterday a few of us went to Civilian Art Projects to hang the 47 winning entries, and were blown away seeing them all professionally framed and on a gallery wall. We're so used to seeing the talents of our photography contributors on our monitors while surfing the Flickr pool, it's almost hard to believe how great these photos look in person.

We know you all have March 7 circled in red on your calendar for the opening reception of DCist Exposed, from 7 to 9 p.m. at Civilian Art Projects. But get out your red pen again, because we want you to add another date: Wednesday, March 13 12.

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