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SUMMARY:Programs: Make the Ordinary Extraordinary with Joe Rossbach
DESCRIPTION:In this presentation\, Joseph Rossbach will present one image only and take us on a deep dive into the production of the image. From planning and travel to scouting on location\, Joe will discuss how he found a shot like this\, what it takes to get there and how you can use tools like the Photographers Ephemeris and google maps to help you be in the right place at the right time. \nThen Joe will discuss what he did in the field to achieve the best composition\, light and selection of equipment to make the image. The shot he will be presenting required focus stacking to achieve an angle of view not available through traditional means. Joe will walk you through the process of how to properly focus stack the image in camera. \nAfter we get the shot\, we will be discussing processing in both Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop. Joe will explain how he preps the images in the raw convert\, making changes to exposure\, color and sharpening\, before bringing the images into Photoshop to the focus stack the image. Also in Photoshop\, Joe will talk about how he uses luminosity masks and a variety of techniques including dodging and burning\, painting with light and filters to polish the image to perfection. \nBio: \nJoseph Rossbach’s quest as a landscape and nature photographer is to showcase wild\, beautiful and unique natural locations and to use his creative vision to capture those landscapes in high quality and evocative images which inspire awe in the viewer\, respect for the natural world and ultimately a greater appreciation of wilderness and wilderness preservation. \nJoe’s images have been published hundreds of times and he has co-authored two books on nature photography: The Ultimate Guide to Digital Nature Photography (Mountain Trail Press) and 50 Amazing Things You Must See and Do in the Greater D.C. Area: The Ultimate Outdoor Adventure Guide (Mountain Trail Press). \nEven though Joe lives in the Metro DC area\, he spends an average of 180 days a year in the field chasing the light and leading photography workshops and tours in the US and abroad. He also teaches online classes on the art of nature and landscape photography through ShutterMonkeys. \nJoseph Rossbach offers personal instruction\, workshops\, online classes and more on the art of nature and landscape photography. For information\, visit Joe’s website at https://www.josephrossbach.com/ and https://www.shuttermonkeys.com/. \n 
URL:https://nvps.org/home/event/programs-make-the-ordinary-extraordinary-with-joe-rossbach/
CATEGORIES:Activities,Programs
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SUMMARY:February 2\, 2021: Programs: The Joy of the Little Things: Macro Photography with Colleen Miniuk
DESCRIPTION:Close-up detail of a yellow salsify seed head\nColleen Miniuk will present The Joy of the Little Things: Macro Photography at NVPS’s February 2nd program meeting. \nColleen Miniuk is an ex-software engineer who fled Intel Corporation in 2007 to pursue a meaningful life as a full-time outdoor photographer\, writer\, publisher\, instructor\, and speaker. \nHer credits include National Geographic calendars\, Arizona Highways\, AAA Via\, National Parks Traveler\, On Landscape\, and a broad variety of other publications. She has served three times as an Artist-in-Residence with Acadia National Park. She authored the award-winning guidebooks\, Photographing Acadia National Park: The Essential Guide to When\, Where\, and How and Wild in Arizona: Photographing Arizona’s Wildflowers\, A Guide to When\, Where\, & How (1st and 2nd editions) as well as the instructional ebook\, Seeing the Light in Outdoor Photography (1st and 2nd editions). She also writes a weekly advice column called “Dear Bubbles.” \nColleen leads photography workshops and all-women photography workshops (called “Sheography™”) through her own company\, CMS Photography\, as well as for numerous camera clubs\, national-level organizations\, conferences\, and private clients. \nAdditional information can be found on her website at www.colleenminiuk.com \n  \nBubbles and seaweed intermingling in a tide pool along Eben’s Head Trail in Acadia National Park\, Isle au Haut\, Maine\, USA\nCurled patterns on the top of a sego lily flower
URL:https://nvps.org/home/event/february-2-2021-programs-the-joy-of-the-little-things-macro-photography-with-colleen-miniuk/
CATEGORIES:Activities,Programs
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201107T130000
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SUMMARY:Mid-Atlantic Photo Visions - Presentations and Awards
DESCRIPTION:Mid-Atlantic Photo Visions (formerly “Nature Visions”) will be virtual this year to protect you from the risk of COVID-19. Although there will be no live show\, there will be two presentations and competition award presentations you can watch from the comfort of your home. “We have our fingers crossed that by Fall of 2021 Mid-Atlantic Photo Visions will be held in-person again. Thanks for your continued loyalty and we hope you enjoy our free virtual events this Saturday starting at 1:00 PM”. \nWe are excited to announce that the renowned photographer and educator Rick Sammon and Nikon Ambassador Kristi Odom are the speakers for the virtual Mid-Atlantic Photo Visions on Saturday November 7\, 2020. You can register to attend the FREE online presentations now by clicking Register here. Sign up for either or both sessions and also enjoy the photo competitions award ceremony.  \n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Website\nTime\nTitle\nDescription\n\n\nRick Sammon\n1:00 – 2:00 PM\nHOW TO GET MOTIVATED & STAY INSPIRED\nRick Sammon shares his “Top Ten” list of how to get inspired and how to stay motivated.  Rick will discuss and expand upon a variety of simple ideas\, including:  Steal\, Search\, Share\, Join\, Learn\, Change\, Travel\, Enjoy\, Look\, and Walk.\n\n\n \n4:30 PM\nAward Ceremony\nKristi’s session starts with the MAPV Photo Contest Awards Ceremony!\n\n\nKristi Odom\n4:30 – 6:30 PM\nPHOTOGRAPHING LOCAL BIODIVERSITY\nNorthern Virginia is a hotspot for insect and bird life — not only is it on a major migration route\, but it has a unique location between two diverse Atlantic ecosystems. Learn a few tricks and techniques on how local Nikon Ambassador\, Kristi Odom\, uses her camera to capture local wildlife.  You can use these tips and techniques anywhere\, but you really don’t need to travel far.   Kristi’s session starts with the MAPV Photo Contest Awards Ceremony!\n\n\n\n\n  \nSaturday’s Speakers \n\n\n\nRick Sammon\n\n  \n\n\n\nKristi Odom\n\n  \n\n\nWe’ll miss seeing your smiling faces in-person this year and hope you enjoy our virtual sessions and online photo competitions this year.
URL:https://nvps.org/home/event/mid-atlantic-photo-visions-presentations-and-awards/
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SUMMARY:Education & Training - Anonymous Critique: Kathryn Mohrman and Stan Bysshe
DESCRIPTION:Kathryn Mohrman\nOur November E&T Tuesday will be an Anonymous Critique conducted by Kathryn Mohrman and Stan Bysshe. Take this opportunity to get feedback on your images. Submit images you are using new software to process; images you like but feel need just a little help\, or images you may consider for a competition. The sole purpose of anonymous critique is to help you grow as a photographer. You will not be identified unless you choose to make comments or ask questions about your images. \nThe firm deadline for image submission is 6 p.m. on Monday\, November 2\, 2020\, to allow time for our computer team to anonymize the images and for Kathryn and Stan to review them before the November 10 meeting. \nYou can submit up to three images. Please prioritize them by naming them as follows: number title\, where number is 1\, 2\, or 3\, followed by an underscore and anything you’d like for a title. For example\, “1_Red House on the Prairie.” Putting the number first will allow us to sort the images so that at least one image from every photographer is critiqued. Beyond that\, Kathryn and Stan will critique as many images as time allows. \nPlease submit your images to critique-2020@nvps.org\,  sized the same as for competition: jpeg images with a maximum of 1400 pixels wide and 1050 pixels high (vertical shots have the same 1050 pixel height requirement)\, sRGB workspace. We recommend your jpeg images be 127 pixels per inch (PPI\, sometimes called dots per inch or DPI) or less (e.g.\, 127\, 96 or 72 PPI)  for best results on Zoom. If you send the images from Mac mail\, please select the “actual size” option from the “image size” menu in the upper right corner. \nQuestions? Please contact the Education and Training Coordinator\, Eva Lanyi. Her contact information can be found at Board Contacts.
URL:https://nvps.org/home/event/education-training-anonymous-critique-kathryn-mohrman-and-stan-bysshe/
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SUMMARY:Field Trips: Great Falls\, MD
DESCRIPTION:Please join us in applying what we learned from September’s Education and Training session with Lynn Cates as we explore Great Falls\, Maryland. \nWhat:  \nThe C&O tow path between the visitor center and the path to the Great Falls overlooks offer opportunities to capture wildlife\, color\, reflections\, and more.  Landscapes\, details\, abstracts\, and more opportunities are available for what we hope will be peak Fall season subjects. \nWe’ll meet and greet outside the Great Falls Tavern Visitor Center restrooms.  From there\, we’ll head South towards Washington DC along the C&O tow path.  There are several trails that branch off the tow path that you’re welcome to explore as you practice your social distancing.  About 0.3 miles from the Visitor’s center is the Olmstead Island Trail that bridges the tow path to the primary overlook.  Beware the bridge will bob up and down as pedestrians cross.  It’s also narrow so take care if you decide put a tripod down on the bridge.  Anything you drop is instantly donated to the rocks and rapids below.  Additional photographic opportunities are also available within another mile down the path towards Washington.  Feel free to explore.  Please anticipate hiking on a compact gravelly path for about 1 mile or more.  Bring comfortable hiking shoes and anticipate the cooler weather. \nFor those unfamiliar with the area\, please be advised that sections of the Billy Goat Trail should not be traversed (especially with expensive camera gear) unless you’re willing to accept the risks including steep drops and large rock scrambling.  Parts of that trail can be considered strenuous and people frequently injure themselves.  Also\, as of July 3\, 2020\, this trail has also been designated one way going downstream towards Washington. \nTripods are widely accepted.  Please be mindful when staking your spot and maintain your social distancing. \nSunrise is anticipated at 6:50 a.m. \nHere are some equipment recommendations: \n\nA sturdy tripod\nAny and all glass will be useful\, however if you want to pick out details of the falls\, consider a 200mm or longer lens with optional teleconverter. The estimated distance from the overlook to the middle of the falls is about 40 yards.\nFilters optional\, though a polarizer to eliminate glare may come in handy since you’ll be shooting perpendicular to the sunrise.\n\nWhen: \nSaturday\,  November 14\, 2020 from 7 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.\nRain date on Sunday\, November 15\, 2020 from 7 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. \nWhere: \nWe’ll assemble briefly at the Great Falls Tavern Visitor Center / restrooms adjacent to the parking lot.  If you don’t see us there\, head South towards Washington DC until you reach the overlook trailhead.  You’re certain to run into other members. \n  \nEntrance fees have increased in January 2020.  The current rate per car is $20.  If you walk into the park\, the cost is $10.  The fee buys you a permit allowing you to reenter both sides of Great Falls (Maryland and Virginia side) for up to seven days from the date issued.  America the Beautiful and Great Falls Annual pass holders gain free entry.  If you’re on the fence about getting an America the Beautiful pass\, know that the cost of the Great Falls Annual pass can be put towards upgrading to the America the Beautiful pass. \nCarpools are recommended to save you cash provided you can travel with others in your extended “bubble”.  Please remember to bring a mask and anticipate wearing the mask while around others.  Please also be patient and remain the recommended six feet away from other visitors. \nWe hope you can join us! \nTammy Tideswell and Steven Glintz\nField Trip Coordinators 2020-2021 \n* Photographs courtesy Stan Bysshe.  Additional examples and inspiration available on NVPS gallery. Great Falls Gallery \n 
URL:https://nvps.org/home/event/field-trips-great-falls-md/
CATEGORIES:Activities,Field Trips
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SUMMARY:Competition with Judge Mollie Isaacs – No Theme
DESCRIPTION:Mollie is a professional photographer specializing in nature and wildlife\, abstracts\, and flowers. She runs Awake The Light Photo Workshops and Tours\, and leads educational and inspirational photo workshops across the country and around the world. She loves sharing her passion for photography with others. \nEarly in her career she studied with Ansel Adams and Joyce Tenneson. Her work is in the Permanent Collection of the International Photography Hall of Fame\, and has been exhibited at Epcot Center in Disney World\, and Grand Central Station in New York City. She is a 15-time winner of the Kodak Gallery Award\, considered by some to be the “Oscar” of photography. \nIn addition to photographing nature and wildlife\, she is also a portrait photographer. She is honored to have photographed many famous faces including actress Meryl Streep\, jazz musician Wynton Marsalis\, and the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. \nShe has authored a coffee table photography book\, plus educational photography e-books. She lives at the Outer Banks of North Carolina and enjoys all things beachy. \nAdditional information can be found on her website at www.awakethelight.com/.
URL:https://nvps.org/home/event/competition-with-judge-mollie-isaacs-no-theme/
CATEGORIES:Activities,Competitions
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SUMMARY:Member’s Gallery – Prints (Virtually): Bears of Brook Falls with Jerri McDermott & Digital: America the Beautiful with Lynn Cates
DESCRIPTION:Prints (Virtually): Bears of Brook Falls with Jerri McDermott\nGiven a blank sheet of paper in elementary school with an assignment to draw something terrified Jerri as she could never come up with something original. Then in seventh grade she took the art elective which opened composition\, rule of thirds\, perspective\, color wheels\, light\, shadow\, and how to make something uniquely mine.  Since her teenage years she explored various forms of needlework and quilting playing with patterns and color combinations. All of this helped her as she took up photography seriously as she approached my retirement from teaching and work as a school librarian. \nJerri attended college at East Stroudsburg State University and worked in the Poconos but never really had the time or money to vacation or explore the area. When a friend found a John Barkley trip to the Poconos\, she signed up hoping to learn the basics of using a digital camera.  Though the camera she borrowed for the class had a broken metal piece in the view finder she was able to capture some interesting images\, learn the essentials of a digital camera and had a blast meeting fellow photographer.  John suggested she deserved a better camera so she purchased her first digital camera\, a Nikon D7000 and started visiting local parks and historical sites shooting whatever caught my eye.   Most years her family visited Williamsburg at least once a year to get away from this century. That year she decided not to take traditional shots but ended up shooting fences\, locks\, historic tools and small details that mean so much but are often overlooked.  Jerri was hooked. \n  \nAs she neared retirement from teaching and being a school librarian\, she wanted a hobby that her husband Jim and she could share.  Joining NVPS gave her inspiration and allowed her to take photography to the next level learning processing skills\, and other camera techniques. Jerri has since enjoyed varied field trips that pushed her beyond family and landscape shooting\, to shooting seasonal flowers\, birds\, old cars\, trains\, abstract images. \nInspired by all the beautiful bird images in competitions she took a class with Jim Clark in Chincoteague on shooting shore birds. Now Jim and Jerri visit several local parks getting up earlier than the birds to capture these wonderful creatures and other local wildlife. Moving to wildlife photography has inspired some of their favorite vacations to Yellowstone\, both in summer and winter\, to the Canadian Northwest\, to Alaska\, Maine and the Great Smokies. \nJerri currently shoots with a Nikon D500 with either an 18 to 200 lens or a Tamron 150 to 600 lens. She recently purchased a Nikon Z50 mirrorless camera with a 15 to 50 mm and 50 to 200 mm lenses and is trying to master mirrorless shooting.  Jerri has been fortunate to have some of her images juried into Nature Visions and honored at the Waterford Fair. \nIn 2018 Jim and Jerri were lucky enough to travel to Brooks Falls National Park in Alaska to shoot the annual Brown bears salmon run.  It was an awesome adventure being so close to these magnificent creatures.   The first thing upon reaching camp the rangers gave a safety lesson on interacting in bear territory.  It is approximately a mile hike from camp to the viewing platforms by the falls. Trails are not just for people\, and part of the adventure is encountering them on the trail.  My presentation images feature bears of various ages\, fishing\, fighting\, playing and even relaxing. I hope you enjoy her work.  These photos were shot with the Nikon D500 and the Tamron 150 to 600 mm lens.  Most\, but not all\, were shot with a tripod. \n  \n  \nDigital: American the Beautiful with Lynn Cates\nLynn became serious about photography in June 2015. That month she began shooting RAW at a workshop in Acadia National Park\, and she took Corey Hilz’ class “Lightroom in a Day” and started processing her images. She is passionate about combining her photography with her cross-country road trips. She loves her Nikon D850. You can view her work at rdtrpr.com. \nFor the November 2020 Member’s Gallery Lynn will share grand and intimate landscape images from her road trips across America. She will include the national parks\, coastlines\, forests\, mountains\, and tiny natural jewels she encountered along the way. \n  \n   \n 
URL:https://nvps.org/home/event/members-gallery-bears-with-jerri-mcdermott-and-america-with-lynn-cates/
CATEGORIES:Activities,Member's Gallery
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SUMMARY:Member’s Forum – Go West Roadtrip with Sid Stone
DESCRIPTION:As the walls of their apartment closed in on Joanna and Sidney\, with Joanna working from home and Sidney wondering the streets in search of photographic opportunities\, they decided the time was ripe for a trip to visit Jo’s brother and sister-in-law in Whitefish\, Montana. They weren’t going to fly. They didn’t want to stay in hotels or motels. And using campground facilities was not appealing. Taking a cue from Alan Goldstein they decided to rent an RV and as Horace Greeley said “Go West”. \nWith the concept the planning began and quickly more than a visit and stay in Whitefish was hatched. Jo and Sidney laid out a six-week odyssey west with plans to visit National Parks along the way. The plan took them through 13 states including stops at National Parks in North Dakota\, Montana\, Wyoming\, and Utah. \nJoin Sidney on November 24th as he explains the planning process\, the good and not-so-good aspects of “RV’ing it” along with a show of images made along the way. \nSidney has been photographing seriously since about the age of 9 starting as many did with a Kodak Brownie. Although he recalls taking some pictures with his father’s Kodak Bantam camera that used 828 film. Sidney still has that camera. His love of darkroom work was triggered as he watched his father develop prints in a make shift kitchen darkroom. He thought it was magic to see an image appear on white paper placed in a tray of chemicals. This love of the darkroom led to countless hours spent in darkrooms at his high school\, college\, apartment with the window covered\, a kitchen\, a converted bathroom\, and basement darkrooms. \nOne of Sidney’s particular photography loves is shooting sports. In high school and college is was an official school sports photographer shooting football\, baseball\, swimming\, golf\, basketball (nothing better than sitting on the hardwood under the basket!). When his son Dan became his high school’s football manager Sidney spent Saturday afternoons walking the sidelines and end zones snapping action shots. After shooting about 20 rolls of Ektachrome each game\, getting it processed and scanned he went digital choosing Canon over Nikon. He still has his original Minolta SR-1 and has been recently shooting with it. \nToday Sidney enjoys all types of photography genres – macro\, flowers\, water\, action\, street\, portrait and more. If a picture can be made he likes to shoot it.
URL:https://nvps.org/home/event/members-forum-go-west-roadtrip-with-sid-stone/
CATEGORIES:Activities,Member's Forum
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