On Tuesday May 18th, 2010, we will hold our ninth and final monthly competition for the 2009/10 club year with David Luria as our judge. This will be the third themed competition of the season. The theme will be "Monuments, Memorials, Statues" .  The competition requires that the dominant element(s) of all entries consist of monuments, memorials or statues.

E. David Luria is a Washington DC-based photographer specializing in architecture, art/still life, restaurant/ food,  editorial/event, commercial, and landmark photography.  His images appear in over 100 publications, including TIME Magazine, Travel and Leisure Magazine, Prevention,  Italian Cooking and Dining,  Food and Wine,  and Cuccina Italiana, in the Washington Post, the  Hamburger Abendblatt,  and the Tokyo Shinbum newspapers. David's images have also appeared on the covers of  30 publications. Over 80 of his photographs of DC landmarks appear on postcards, guidebooks and posters sold throughout the area and 25 of his DC images appear in a coffee-table book entitled "Washington DC Visions,"  authored by Austin Kiplinger. 

David describes himself as a photographer of "places and faces." Trained in Paris, France, at the Parsons School of Design by a protégé of famed French photographer Henri Cartier Bresson,  David places a great deal of emphasis on strong, clear composition lines in his photography and believes that good pictures can be made with any camera.  He has traveled and photographed  extensively in Latin America for CARE, Inc. and  the Partners of the Americas organization, and he also served as photographer to the City of Hamburg, Germany, his birthplace. 

David is founder and director of the Washington Photo Safari  (www.WashingtonPhotoSafari.com),  through which he and his team of nine professional photographers have trained over 18,000 clients on 2,500+  "photo safaris"  since 1999 in the techniques of travel, landmark, portrait,  and nature photography.  This program is now one of  the country's largest providers of photography training field excursions, offering 4-5 photo safaris every week, with special workshops in nighttime photography, interior museum photography, beginner and advanced digital photography, pet photography, nature photography,  outdoor portraiture, child photography,  and architectural, abstract/still life, event, and real estate photography. This program also  offers photo safaris in   Prague,  Amsterdam,  Kenya, Annapolis, and New York City.

His Washington Photo Safari has received extensive press coverage in the Washington Post, the Baltimore Sun,  WTOP Radio, AAA Magazine, USA Today, on the Discovery Channel, and  on the NBC "Today" Show.

David also serves as a photography instructor for the Smithsonian Resident Associates, Penn Camera, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Kreeger Museum, the staffs  of National Public Radio and the Embassy of the United Kingdom,  and  contestants of the  National Spelling Bee.  

David can be reached at 202-537-0937 or at nospam!#*&^#)type address - don't copy spam protection(*@.@nospamjuno.com">edavidluria@nospam!#*&^#)type address - don't copy spam protection(*@.@nospamjuno.com. His work  can be viewed on his website at www.edavidluriaphotography.com 

Please join our judge, David Luria for our pre-competition dinner at Chili's at 5:45 on Tuesday, May 18th, 2010. Please RSVP to Gerry at gerry.abbott@nospam!#*&^#)type address - don't copy spam protection(*@.@nospamcox.net . Hope to see you there.

Gerry Abbott

Co-VP Competition

703-967-9677 

Brian Payne 

Co-VP Competition

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Chili's Bar and Grille

8051 Leesburg Pike

Vienna, VA

703-734-9512

From I-495/CAPITAL BELTWAY

1: Take the VA-7 W/LEESBURG PIKE exit number 47B-A toward TYSONS CORNER

2: Merge onto LEESBURG PIKE/VA-7 W toward TYSONS CORNER and move to left lane 

   You will see Chili's almost immediately on the left. 

3: Take a left at the first light "Fashion Square" (Tiffany's will be on the left and Tyson's

   Corner Shopping Center will be on the right) and an immediate left onto service road in

   front of Tiffany's, take your first right into Chili's parking lot.