This evening will be an NVPS first: a Group Member’s Gallery featuring three of our newer and new to gallery presentation members. Susan Blalock, Suzy McIntire and Terri Lannigan present three mini Member’s Galleries.
Susan Blalock
Susan got her love of photography from her grandfather and helped him develop photos for family holiday cards in his home darkroom which was located a closet under the stairs. She purchased a digital camera several years ago and the pandemic gave her the opportunity to spend more time taking photos. Finding NVPS was quite the happy accident for Susan when she started to look for a local camera club to join. NVPS’ weekly meetings, variety of speakers, field trips, and the mentor program were all interesting and last winter she decided to join the Club. Since the Fall Susan has been working with mentor Will Friedman and so far their focus has been working on black and white images. Willa’s guidance has helped Susan to improve how she sees images and improved the tonal range of her images. Susan is still very much a “newbie” and she enjoys nature photography, long exposure, and macro, but is not opposed to giving any genre a try.
Suzy McIntire
Suzy has had two wonderful mentors since she joined NVPS in 2019: Willa Friedman and Stan Bysshe. She can’t thank them enough for help to learn her Fuji, how to shoot in RAW and use HDR and LightRoom, how to choose a picture for competition, and the importance of “knowing her bird.” There was excellent discussion of issues around street photography, and some pictures even got competition awards, although not when she didn’t listen to Willa.
Terri Lannigan
Terri was introduced to photography by her father, an avid photographer of nature, trains and automobiles. They spent many hours hiking and capturing photos, mostly landscape, with her trusty Pentax K1000. The cost of film was prohibitive during college and early professional years, and photography fell by the wayside. With the advent of digital photography, and with young children, Terri again picked up the camera for family events and vacations. As the kids got older, and time was more available to return to hiking and to devote to the craft of photography, Terri was lucky to be encouraged by Georgette Grossman to join NVPS. She hasn’t looked back! Originally, thinking that she would focus on mammals and landscape, she found that vision difficult to realize for short weekend jaunts and ended up developing a love of birds, insects and tree frogs. NVPS has been a huge contributor to her growth as a photographer and she is looking forward to continuing to learn and grow through the many resources available here.