On Tuesday September 21st, we will kick off our first competition of the 2010-2011 season with Steve Passman as our judge. Prior to the competition, please review the competition rules posted on the NVPS website under "Competition". Last year the membership voted new categories for competition.

Again, please go to the "Competition" section on the website to review the new categories. In this section, you will also find information regarding eligibility requirements, number of images, types of images, sizes, deadlines and instructions for uploading digital images, etc. Also, please recall that the image capture date will need to be included on the image sign-in sheet.

There is no theme for the September Competition. The first themed competition of the season will be "Power of 3" and will be held in October. The 2010-2011, Competition Themes are posted in the "Competition" section of the NVPS website.

On competition night, please plan to join us and Steve Passman for dinner at Chili's at 5:30pm prior to the competition.

Steve has been photographing since he was eleven years old. (He is now over 40.) His first camera was an Agfa Isolette, probably brought back from Germany by a GI after WW2, and today it is still in pretty decent working condition. Though most of his photographs have people in them, he is not a specialist in the sense of subject material, and seldom uses special techniques to produce or modify photographs. He most often carries one camera and two prime lenses. He believes in personal vision: for the most part photographs are not "taken", rather, photographs "make themselves known to me". When he is not photographing or writing, he is a university professor of mathematics and an enthusiastic cook.

Willa and Bob Friedman

Co-VPs 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.