Members Gallery on Nov 25th will include Prints by Dale Williams & Digital Projection by Bob and Willa Friedman. Join us for their presentations immediately followed by November's Forum Presentation. The following are the biographies of the members presenting on Nov 25th:

Dale Williams

Dale Williams was introduced to photography in the mid-1940s by his grandfather who, with his Kodak folding camera, tripod, light meter and black cloth, took those reversed images from the frosted glass and made black and white prints. Other than some experimentation with "drugstore cameras" during the early teen years, Dale's interest in photography lay dormant until he entered the military after college and was stationed on Europe. Photographing military sites was part of his duties and the desire to record the beautiful scenery, culture and architecture reawakened his interest.
 
In his spare time, Dale has worked as a freelance writer and photographer with articles and photos published in numerous technical and travel magazines. In his later years, subject matter has varied, but is mostly concentrated on nature, scenery and images that tell a story, as seen by the photographer/artist. Many of his photos can be seen on his website at www.fdwphotoart.com.

Bob and Willa Friedman

Bob and Willa Friedman have been actively photographing for the last three years.  Bob had a darkroom when he was growing up, while Willa came to photography very suddenly after they were married.  After graduating from college, Willa was an instructor at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.  She was given a choice of several assignments as a summer project.  These included cleaning small animal cages and filing old paperwork.  One choice was photographing wildlife in city parks.  She chose the photography and was handed an SLR camera and a light meter.  Over the following weekend, Bob taught her enough to have a photo published in a fourth grade social studies textbook.
 
Bob continued to pursue his hobby with a dark room in their home, and supported the hobby by photographing weddings and Bar Mitzvahs.  Eventually with pressures of work and children, the darkroom became a storage closet.

As they approached retirement, they both drifted back into photography and have taken courses in the basics of photography as well as several workshops, most recently in Kingston, New Brunswick with Freeman Patterson and Andre Gallant.  They continue to study Photoshop with Eliot Cohen.  Willa and Bob are both shooting digitally and use Nikon equipment.  They do their own printing on an Epson photographic printer.

Both have had photographs juried into the Meadowlark Photo Expo.  They have also exhibited at Hendry House in Arlington, VA and the Fairfax County Government Center.  Willa has a photograph in the permanent collection of the Joseph Miller Center for the Photographic Arts and won second place in a contest run by the JCRC to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Israel.  Bob has a photo in the 2009 Burke and Herbert Bank calendar.  They will have a show of some of these photos at Temple Rodef Shalom in January 2009.

Bob shoots scenery, wildlife and the grandchildren.  Willa tends to include architecture, city life and wild flowers as well.  A selection of their images may be seen on their website, www.willaandbobphotography.com.