REMINDER to all members signed up for the January 23rd, 2010 Portfolio critique.

The critique will take place at the Joe Miller Center for Photography, 4811 Catharpnin Rd., Gainesville. Directions below. There are two big stone pillars at the entrance road to Joe's Center.

We will start at 1:30 PM and go to 4:30 PM. Each portfolio will have about 10 minutes for critique and discussion.

VERY IMPORTANT - Please have your portfolio uploaded to the website or emailed to Scott Musson by January 19th. Any changes you make to the website after this date will not be included in the critique. Having the images uploaded by this date will allow Joe time to review your images prior to the critique and to get the laptop set up for the critique.

If you are emailing the images to Scott, please:

• Title the email "Portfolio Project."
• Size images no larger than 1024 pixels horizontal and 768 pixels vertical.
• Use a naming convention: last name-blank-image number from 01 to total.)
• Email images to smusson@nospam!#*&^#)type address - don't copy spam protection(*@.@nospammindspring.com

Currently there are 14 people signed up for the critique. Of those 14 people as of today there are 7 portfolios that have been uploaded, that's great progress! 

You are free to review other members images and you can comment on their portfolio using the image gallery software. This can be especially helpful to those who are not able to attend the critique.

Bill and I offer our thanks to Joseph Miller for the generous offering of his time, his facility "the Joseph Miller Center for Photographic Arts" and his expertise in critiquing our portfolios.

Start address: Tysons Corner, VA
End address: 4811 Catharpin Rd Gainesville, VA 20155

Start at: Tysons Corner, VA

1. Head northwest on Leesburg Pike toward Pinnacle Dr - 0.5 mi
2. Make a U-turn at Westpark Dr - 1.2 mi
3. Merge onto Capital Beltway/I-495 S via the ramp to Richmond/Alexandrla - 1.7 mi
4. Take exit 49 to merge onto I-66 W toward Manassas/Front Royal - 17.4 mi
5. Take exit 47B to merge onto Sudley Rd/VA-234 N toward Manassas National Battlefield Park - 6.3 mi
6. Turn left at Catharpin Rd Destination will be on the left - 0.5 mi

Arrive at: 4811 Catharpin Rd Gainesville, VA 20155

Link to Map from Tysons Corner

To get access to the NVPS Portfolio Gallery send your NVPS Gallery user id  to Scott Musson smusson@nospam!#*&^#)type address - don't copy spam protection(*@.@nospammindspring.com (I don't need your password).  When you do, I'll give you access to see the other portfolios and create a place for your portfolio to be uploaded. I'll also provide you rights to comment on others portfolios and  send you instructions on how to upload images to your new folder. 

If you don't have a user id, it's very simple to register, just go to http://nvps.org/gallery and click "Register".

If you need help in any way, just let me know. I would also be happy to upload your images for you, just email them to me and name them including a number so I know what order you would like them to appear.

Your first image in your gallery should be your artist statement, just paste the text of your artist statement into an empty image. This is very important since people will be critiquing your portfolio based on your artist statement. This is one of the reasons why it's important to develop your artist statement first.

Remember you can send your artist statement to Bill or Scott for feed back if you like.