October 25th, 2011 - Members Gallery: Prints - Bill Prosser and Digital - Bob & Willa Friedman

Members Gallery on October 25th,2011 will include Prints by Bill Prosser and Digital Projection by Bob & Willa Friedman . Join us for their presentations immediately followed by Octobers Forum Presentation

Prints - Bill Prosser

Has lived in McLean for 40 years. He has been a serious amateur photographer for over 35 years. Beginning in the early 1970's he studied under a number of Northern Virginia teachers and mentors and more recently Canadian, Freeman Patterson. Between 1995 and 2000 he gave up film and the chemical darkroom for the digital chip and computer after learning Photoshop and working photographic images in his digital darkroom. Also in 1995 he began his current volunteer work at McLean High School where he teaches Photoshop, photography, and mentors students in visual design. He served as a teaching assistant for several Smithsonian Institution Photoshop Classes. He is a founding member, and past-president, of the McLean Photography Club and a 20 year member and board member of the Northern Virginia Photographic Society (NVPS). In recent years he has earned numerous NVPS Photographer-of-the-Year and Image-of-the -Year awards. He has exhibited his photographic images at University of Wisconsin-Madison and several Fairfax County Virginia venues, including the McLean Project for the Arts. Georgetown University purchased several of his Washington, DC images to hang in its Graduate Public Policy Institute offices. His work has been published in the National Geographic Traveler Magazine and the AAA World Magazine.

Digital Bob & Willa Friedman

Bob Friedman

As a teenager I had a darkroom in the basement of my house. No color in those days but I did "photoshop" my images in the darkroom just like Ansel Adams. He did a much better job. When we bought our house the first thing I did was build a darkroom. Then the kids came and photography took a back seat. After retiring I started back up with photography. I joined the Northern Virginia Photographic Society to enhance my skills. I took workshops with Freeman Patterson and Andre Gallant, Adam Jones, Corey Hilz, and Photoshop classes with Eliot Cohen.

Willa Friedman

I discovered photography right after college when I was an instructor at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. I was given a choice of several summer projects including cleaning small animal cages, filing old forms or sorting owl pellets. One choice was photographing wildlife in city parks. I chose the photography because my new husband knew about such things. I was handed an SLR camera and light meter. Over the following weekend, Bob taught me enough that the result was published!

For about forty years I did nothing photographic--I raised children and worked in management and sales.

As I approached retirement, I drifted back into photography and have taken several workshops, including one with Freeman Patterson and Andre Gallant and have studied Photoshop with Eliot Cohen. I have, most recently, taken courses at Photoworks with Karen Keating and John Borstel I shoot digitally with Nikon equipment and do my own printing on an Epson 3800 Photographic printer.

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