Members Gallery proceeds this months Forum presentation.  Members Andrew Savino will display Prints prior to the meeting and at the break.  Rick French will have a Digital presentation at the start of the meeting after announcements.

Andrew Savino: Prints – Bio

A junior at The Howard Gardner School in Alexandria, Andrew Savino has been a member of NVPS since 2013. He first became interested in photography in 5th grade after he saw a red-tail hawk in his backyard and ran to get his mother’s camera. His teacher encouraged him to submit that photo to the Connection Newspapers, where it was published in the annual Student Art section.

Andrew considers himself an amateur and enjoys winning some NVPS Class 1 monthly competitions. His images have been juried into the 2015 Nature Visions Photo Expo, the 5th Annual Joseph Miller Abstract Photography Exhibit, and the 2014 and 2015 Nora School Photo Festivals. He has sold photographs to family members, friends, and neighbors.

NVPS meetings and the internet are the main sources of Andrew’s photographic knowledge because he has not taken any formal photography classes. Some of his favorite subjects include nature, wildlife, birds, landscapes, abandoned buildings, and macro.

His first DSLR camera was a Christmas present when he was in 8th grade. Andrew still shoots with that Canon Rebel T3i DSLR, using various lenses including macro, wide angle, and super telephoto.

Andrew will probably take photography classes in college and would like to continue photography as either a hobby or a business.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rick French: Digital – Bio

Rick French A member of NVPS since 2014, Rick has been shooting since junior high. He was a career Field Artillery Army officer who retired in 2006 and subsequently began R2K2 Photography, specializing in Sports and Action Photography. He has shot youth sports through college and professional. While in North Carolina, he was the staff photographer for an ESPN radio station allowing him the ability to cover a wide variety of sporting events. He is well versed in both Photoshop and Lightroom and uses way too much Canon equipment. He loves teaching new photographers how to get their cameras off automatic and also teaching other photographers about using off camera flash.

He has been married to Kristin, who also recently retired from the Army after almost 30 years’ service, for 29 years and they have two kids Ryan, a high school senior, and Katherine, a high school sophomore. Rick has enjoyed meeting the many talented photographers in NVPS and expanding his photographic knowledge and skills. He currently lives in Clifton, VA.

This presentation was developed as a result of his deployment to Iraq in 2003-2004 as a battalion commander with the 4th Infantry Division. He wanted to show primarily to his son, who is thinking of an Army career, the different aspects of what it means to go to war and fight. In addition, his wife was deployed to Iraq as well at the same time so their kids stayed with their grandparents for 15 months. These images are from various locations and events that occurred during his deployment using a camera approximately the size of a credit card.