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“Prints” with Eva Lanyi Title: Portfolio Excerpts A member of NVPS since 2015, Eva Lanyi has been interested in photography since her first blurry black and white photos of the neighbor’s dog, taken with her Kodak Brownie Starmatic (which she still has).  School, work, and life in general created other priorities for many years. Since retiring from a 32-year federal career as an analyst, she’s been able to concentrate more on photography and plans to make it a big part…

Prints with Fran Bastress Fran Bastress Fran will entertain us on January 28 with a collection of the beautiful photographic images she’s created in recent years. Fran has been involved in photography for decades, and sees it as a way to connect with the extraordinary in the world. She captures and creates her images because of their beauty, uniqueness, and elements of design. Inspired by the North American landscape, she has traveled its highways and byways to discover limitless possibilities…

Shape and Texture By Ginger Werz-Petricka   Ginger joined NVPS in 2009 at a point in her life when she really needed to find a creative outlet. Over the years she has been involved with Members Gallery and Education and Training, but her special interest has always been the Portfolio Project.    She has been interested in photography since high school and while studying for a fine arts degree in college concentrated on printmaking and photography as her media.  Looking back at…

JUDY GUENTHER, photographer, enjoys capturing scenes from her world travels in a variety of styles from storytelling to discovering small details in ordinary scenes. Capturing the beauty and art in nature and the people of the world is a special joy for her. Judy also enjoys photographing details in architecture and looking for abstracts. She shoots with an Olympus OMD-EM1 Mark II with a variety of lenses and is also enjoying her new Apple 11 Pro Max. Judy enjoys the…

Prints (Virtually):Passages with Fred Krebs Fred Krebs Fred’s “Passages Portfolio” began more than 15 years ago on a business trip to Veracruz, Mexico.  The walkway under the walls of San Juan de Ulúa, an old Spanish fort, immediately caught his eye—something about its colors and symmetry drew him in.  He stopped and simply stared down its long expanse.  The repetition reminded him of what you see when you hold a mirror up to a mirror.  Since then he has looked…

Prints (Virtually): Mandala - From Ordinary to Extraordinary with Kirk Johnson Kirk Johnson is an seasoned photographer who has been taking digital photos for the past decade.  A Nikon shooter, Kirk is interested in a variety of subjects to include wildlife (in November 2019 he did a photo shoot in South Africa and Zimbabwe), architecture, street and urban, portrait, black-and-white, floral and abstract.  Kirk uses an array of post-processing tools to create his final product including Photoshop CS6, Topaz Studio,…

Prints (Virtually): Bears of Brook Falls with Jerri McDermott Given a blank sheet of paper in elementary school with an assignment to draw something terrified Jerri as she could never come up with something original. Then in seventh grade she took the art elective which opened composition, rule of thirds, perspective, color wheels, light, shadow, and how to make something uniquely mine.  Since her teenage years she explored various forms of needlework and quilting playing with patterns and color combinations.…