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Member's Gallery and Forum
February 28th, 2012 - Members Gallery: Digital Projection by Mike Whalen, Prints by Dan Ward
Members Gallery on February 28th, 2012 will include a digital presentation by Mike Whalen and prints by Dan Ward. Join us for their presentations immediately followed by February's forum presentations.
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![]() ![]() Mike joined NVPS in 2009 which has had a significant positive impact on his picture taking ability. "Joining NVPS has given me access to a wealth of creative ideas and resources as well as meeting some very interesting and talented people." Last year he won NVPS's "Versatile Photographer of the Year" award. For the last two years, he has also won Washington Gardener Magazine's photo contest that included cover photos on their spring edition magazines (see left image). Also, a number of his photos placed in the juried "Nature Visions Expo" for the last 2 years. Mike has also assisted Scott Musson this past year with managing the club's website. This digital presentation will include European travel photos taken over the last 4 years. Countries will include Italy, France, Belgium and the Netherlands. Highlights will include Lake Como (IT), Cinque Terre (IT), Venice (IT), the Amalfi Coast (IT), Paris (FR), The Alsace (FR) Wine Route, Strasbourg (FR), Bruges (BE), and the windmills and tulip blooms in the Netherlands. Color, B&W as well as textured and painted-on images will be displayed. A few examples are shown below. Please come and see some interesting views of European landscape, architecture, culture and people at the February 28, Member's Gallery presentation.
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As a kid in a small town in East Texas, Dan Ward experimented with holding a magnifying glass in front of the family brownie for macro shots and holding an instamatic up to the eyepiece of a telescope for telephotos. He learned the hard way that baggies were not the same as waterproof housings, and got his first 35mm camera by swapping an old guitar for it at a flea market. Dan shot medium format and 35mm until he began the migration to digital in 2001. His first love is street photography, although he also enjoys nature photography. He is a confirmed Nikonoholic and uses a D7000 as his primary camera, although he occasionally uses a Holga "to keep from becoming too dependent on technology." ![]() Dan photography shows include the Ellipse Gallery's Best Photos of the Last 75 Years, Claude Moore Nature Photo Expos, Nature's Vision 2010 & 2011, several Meadowlark Nature Photo Expos (Kodak Sponsor's Choice award 2006), On Your Own Time art shows in Dallas (People's Choice Awards in 2004 and 2006) and various community art shows in Virginia, Texas, Connecticut and Arizona. His astrophotos have been published in Sky & Telescope and Astronomy magazines as well as in David Levy's bestseller, The Sky. For the past five years, Dan has been advocating the emerging art form of "phoetry" - a process of combining photos with poetry in a way that integrates the two mediums so that the end result is greater than the sum of the parts. The key should be more than just an annotated photo or illustrated poem. In collaboration with the poet, Dr. Catherine Sweeney Burton, he created two phoetry collections published by Blurb books: Emerge and Plane of Life. The Atrium Gallery in McLean featured a show of Plane of Life in the fall of 2010. Samples of his work are available on line at: http://danlward.imagekind.com/store/default.aspx ![]() Dan's presentation tonight is a collection of phoety prints, including images with traditional poetry and photohaiku prints. Photohaiku is a type of phoetry that uses the traditional haiku of poems with a 5 - 7 - 5 syllable pattern. Some of tonight's images use Dan's photos with poetry created by Dr. Burton, while others use his poetry.
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