Octobers Members Gallery will be a display of prints by Melanie Marts & Digital Projection by Paul Simmons. This will be followed by a Forum presented by Joe Miller on Judging Famous Paintings by Camera Club Criteria. It's sure to be an entertaining evening of photography and good fellowship at NVPS.

Prints - Melanie Marts

Melanie became interested in photography as a hobby about 3 years ago, when she purchased a 7 -
megapixel point-and-shoot digital camera with a nice macro feature. She loves flowers and started out practicing on the ones in her garden. She quickly realized that camera's shortcomings, and two years ago purchased her first SLR, a Nikon D80, which she is still using.

She joined NVPS in April of 2007 in order to learn and is glad she did. She loves many types of photography, macro, landscape, architectural, flowers, design or subject based, but she especially loves to make photos with reflections in them. She especially likes water shots with reflections. Thanks to NVPS, and practice, practice, practice, she thinks she has become a better and more creative photographer and is looking forward to many more years of participation in the club.

Digital Projection - Paul Simmons

Paul will be displaying a digital slideshow of images collected at Brookside Gardens and the Washington Mall.   Paul enjoys all types of outdoor photography particularly flower photography. 

Paul has developed his photographic skills by shooting a lot of images, reading photographic magazines and books, and attending NVPS.  He feels his NVPS experience has been the biggest help in improving his images.

Forum - Judging Famous Paintings by Camera Club Criteria with Joe Miller

It is never pleasant when a judge is critical of our images when they are entered in a camera club competition, and we soon learn that judges have certain reasons to dislike images.  OUT is a dreaded word.  What would a camera club judge say if some famous paintings were entered in a camera club competition?  On the October 28 Forum night, Joe Miller will "judge" well known paintings from famous painters (from Cezanne to Wyeth and from Dali to da Vinci) using camera club criteria.  It will be a fun evening to hear OUT to a Rembrandt, a Picasso or a van Gogh when camera club criteria are used.