Warren Standley is a Massachusetts native who has been fascinated with photography since the age of 12. He started with a Kodak Brownie Hawkeye and moved to 35mm (Miranda, Ashai Pentax, Olympus, and Nikon) to document the world around him.  After years with film, including a home darkroom, he is now 100% digital and shooting with a Nikon D200 and a D70.  Warren is an eclectic photographer and enjoys shooting people and places. He especially enjoys roaming around new places and capturing unique patterns and lighting situations.

Over the years, he has been active in local photo clubs as a member, president, competitions chair, and field trips coordinator. Warren is currently the editor of the monthly newsletter for the Vienna Photographic Society. He has done several photographic projects with students in Northern Virginia, but is proudest of his involvement in the Columbia Heights West Teen Photo Project, an activity that used photography to motivate at-risk teens to be good citizens by documenting Arlington's rapidly-changing ethnic neighborhoods in photographs and oral history.  He "graduated" from full-time employment and, in January 2007, he and his wife Barb moved to their newly-constructed home in Bentonville (VA) to share the quiet of the Shenandoah Valley with the turkey, deer, coyote, bear, and an occasional cougar that were here long before they arrived.

Please plan on joining Warren for dinner at Chili's at 5:45 prior to the competition (Sandi will send out a separate dinner reminder closer to the date).

October's competition is a themed competition.  Please be sure to read information on how the competition will be judged and the definition of silhouettes by visiting the linked page.

Click here for information on silhouette themed competition