April 2020
Programs: Being a NASA Photographer with Aubrey Gemignani
Bio: Aubrey Gemignani is a Documentary, Reportage, and Event Photographer. She is currently a full-time photographer and photo archivist at NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) in Washington, DC., where she has had the opportunity to photograph a diverse range of events at the White House, the Vice President’s residence, Capitol Hill, Kennedy Space Center, Wallops Flight Facility, and the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan (to cover manned launches to the International Space Station). Her documentary and reportage work has been…
Find out more »Education & Training – Portfolio Project: First Final Review
April 14, 2020: Education & Training - Portfolio Project: First Final Review
Find out more »Themed Competition with Judge Don Becker
Theme: Through Rain, Snow, Sleet or Hail: Get outside with your camera in bad weather! Be sure to protect your equipment well as you venture out in bad weather to capture images in Rain, Snow, Sleet or Hail! For those less adventurous, the image may be captured from inside a building or vehicle, etc. However, falling rain, snow, sleet or hail must be a clearly visible and important part of the image. Don Becker started his photography business in 1976…
Find out more »Education & Training: Review My Image
Review My Image: Ron Taylor
Find out more »Members Gallery: Prints: Shape and Texture By Ginger Werz-Petricka
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…
Find out more »May 2020
Programs: Creative Camera Techniques for Storytelling with Kristi Odom
Learn from Nikon Ambassador, Kristi Odom, different creative camera techniques that will improve your narrative. She will teach how she uses techniques like multiple exposure, slow motion video, macro, and infrared photography to tell different stories. Bio: Kristi Odom is an internationally acclaimed photographer, a Nikon Ambassador, and a motivational speaker. She makes her home in the Washington DC area and travels the world shooting, teaching, and sharing her insights so she can help make our planet a better, more…
Find out more »Competition: “Oldies” Theme (Images older than 2 years) with Judge Lawrence Jackson
Book author and photographer Lawrence Jackson outside his home in Arlington, Va., No. 1, 2018. (Photo by Lawrence Jackson) Lawrence Jackson is a photo-journalist and former White House photographer for the Obama Administration. Prior to that, he spent 18 years working for The Virginian-Pilot and The Associated Press – in Boston and Washington, DC. Since leaving the White House in 2017, Lawrence has been building his editorial photography business telling/documenting stories for news organizations, corporations, families and political events. He…
Find out more »Education & Training – Portfolio Project: Second Final Review
May 19, 2020: Education & Training - Portfolio Project: Second Final Review
Find out more »Member’s Gallery: Digital – Heat Wave in Europe with Judy Guenther
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…
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