Events
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Competition: (Zoom) No Theme with Judge Mary Louise Ravese
CompetitionsBio Mary Louise is a fine art photographer who draws inspiration from a variety of visual arts to produce photographs often described as “painterly”. For the past 25 years, she has traveled the world in search of her favorite subjects - landscapes, nature close-ups, interesting architectural details and abstracts. Mary Louise’s photography is in private, […]
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Field Trip: B&O Railroad Museum
Field TripsWe’re starting the new year with a visit to one of the most iconic rail history destinations in the country: the B&O Railroad Museum in Baltimore. Housed in the historic 1884 Roundhouse, the museum features beautifully restored locomotives, vintage railcars, historic platforms, and industrial-era details that make for outstanding photographic opportunities. From sweeping architectural lines […]
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Member’s Gallery (Print) (In Person) – Memories from More Than 25 Years of Photography with Patricia Deege
Member's GalleryBio Patricia has been a member of NVPS since the late 1990’s. Before then, she had a good Nikon film camera but little knowledge of the “how to’s” of photography. F-stops, shutter speed, depth of field, etc. --what did that mean? Starting as a total beginner, she learned much of her photography craft through attendance […]
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Member’s Gallery (Virtual): (In Person) Birds of the World with Bill Millhouser
Member's GalleryBio Bill Millhouser and his wife Fran Millhouser have enjoyed birdwatching since the mid 1960s when they took a Smithsonian course on birds and local birdwatching. Bill is also an avid bird photographer, and their trips overseas have often combined birdwatching and photography. Over the years they have visited Costa Rica (multiple times), Ecuador, Patagonia, […]
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Member’s Forum (In Person) – Japan (and Hong Kong and Taipei) by Boat with Jim and Jerri McDermott
Member's ForumBio Jerri and Jim McDermott have been active members of NVPS for over 10 years. Jerri was a librarian in the Fairfax County schools, and Jim an economist in the federal government. Both credit their friends at NVPS with encouraging their learning and development as photographers. They’ve both migrated to using mirrorless Nikon cameras. Description […]
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Programs – (Zoom): Seeing More Creatively with Lyn Morton
ProgramsHave you ever been in a great location and thought,“There’s nothing interesting to photograph here…”— only to later see someone else’s images from the same place and wonder how they saw so much more? In The Art & Science of Seeing More Creatively, photographer and educator Lyn Morton explores how creativity in photography isn’t just […]
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Education & Training: (In Person) Preliminary Portfolio Review with Ginger Werz-Petricka, Willa Friedman and George Hogeman
Portfolio ProjectDuring this review, the portfolio co–chairs, Ginger Werz–Petricka, Willa Friedman and George Hogeman, will offer suggestions on the draft copies of portfolios for half of this year’s participants. They will look at the Artist Statements and images to see how they fit and represent the premise as laid out in the Artist Statement. Self–analysis is […]
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Competition: (Zoom) Theme – Simplicity with Judge Deborah Loeb Bohren
CompetitionsRaised on film and in a darkroom, Deb believes the essence of photography is the art and science of painting with light. She likes to use her camera like a paintbrush and thinks of her work as visual alchemy: a transformation not of matter into gold but rather of light, color and line into art. Minimalism, […]
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Member’s Gallery (Print) (In Person) – Mostly Birds with Clark Barker
Member's GalleryBio Clark’s first real camera was a used 35mm fixed lens Voigtlander, followed by a Minolta SRT101 after college and gainful employment. After a couple more Minoltas, a digital 8 megapixel Olympus and several Canons, he went mirrorless with a Canon R5 the first day it was available. Most of the pre-digital photos were 35mm slides. Clark’s […]
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Member’s Gallery (Virtual): (In Person) The Places I Visited in 2024 with Kieulan Nguyen
Member's GalleryBio Kieulan Nguyen has been a photographer for a long time, and her work consists of macro, landscapes, travel, street photography and black & white photography. Her approach to photography is using her camera to find beauty in the things and people around her. She uses different techniques such as high key, intentional camera movement (ICM), long […]