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SUMMARY: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/programs-the-joy-of-the-little-things-macro-photography-with-colleen-miniuk/
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SUMMARY:Education & Training – Portfolio Project: 1st Preliminary Review
DESCRIPTION:First Preliminary Review\, Portfolio Project – Details coming…
URL:https://nvps.org/home/event/education-training-portfolio-project-1st-preliminary-review/
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SUMMARY:Competition with Judge Max Waugh – No Theme
DESCRIPTION:For nearly two decades\, Max has been photographing wildlife\, travel and sports professionally. He has received honors in the last two Wildlife Photographer of the Year competitions (including a win in the Black and White category in 2019)\, has received multiple commendations in the Nature’s Best/Windland Smith Rice Awards\, and is a two-time winner of the MalaMala Photographer of the Year competition. Max’s work has appeared in such publications as Africa Geographic and ESPN the Magazine\, and has been displayed at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington\, D.C.\, and the Natural History Museum in London. \nMax leads photo tours in the Pacific Northwest\, Yellowstone and overseas\, with a heavy emphasis on biodiversity and destinations that offer a variety of subject matter. \nAdditional information can be found on his website at www.maxwaugh.com.
URL:https://nvps.org/home/event/competition-with-judge-max-waugh-no-theme-4/
CATEGORIES:Activities,Competitions
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SUMMARY:Member’s Gallery – Prints (Virtually): Canadian Rockies with Jack Ledgerwood & Digital: Abandoned Places\, Abandoned Spaces with Karol and John Murray
DESCRIPTION:Gems of the Canadian Rockies\nPhoto Credit: Rena Schild\nOver 20 years ago\, Jack had watched a PBS show on some of the great lodges from around the world where he first saw images of the beauty surrounding Chateau Lake Louise\, thus creating an entry to his world travels bucket list. So\, in 2019\, he and his wife Susy made plans to stay at the Chateau and to further explore the Canadian Rockies. Their plans centered around bus tour to the great resorts of the Canadian Rockies which included stays at the Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge\, the Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise\, and the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel\, also known as the “Castle of the Rockies”. What he learned on the trip was that the beauty around Chateau Lake Louise that first attracted him to the area extended throughout the entire Canadian Rockies. The pictures shown tonight are just a small sample of the widespread mountain beauty that they experienced on their journey. \nJack’s photography journey began with his first 35mm film camera\, a Minolta X-370\, back in the 1980s. He enjoyed his photography for several years\, mostly while traveling\, until his interest waned in the early 2000s as the digital transition began. His interest in photography was renewed when he picked up his first digital camera\, a Nikon P610 in 2015\, in anticipation of a European River Cruise. He enjoyed the freedom of the digital medium and certainly all the auto features on his point-and-shoot bridge camera. \nAfter Jack retired from his years in the software engineering industry in late 2018\, he needed to find something to pass his time so he thought about photography. His searching for photography clubs brought him to his first NVPS club meeting in September 2019. Since then\, it has been a good whirlwind of activity. He was fortunate enough to have an image juried into NatureVision and  has received a couple of ribbons in the NVPS monthly competitions. The club has been very encouraging\, and he believes he has grown his skills by upgrading his camera to a Nikon D7500 with an 18-300mm zoom lens. moving fully onto manual\, learning better composition\, and venturing into post-processing. He is enjoying all the benefits of the club and learning from all of the extraordinary talent in it. \nJack is still trying to figure out what he likes to photograph\, but he certainly likes taking pictures of big landscape vistas and capturing his travels from around the world. \n   \n  \nAbandoned Places\, Abandoned Spaces – with Karol and John Murray\nKarol in the Woods!\nKarol finds herself drawn to abandoned places. She’s not sure why\, but finds herself wondering what it was like when they were functioning\, who lived or worked there\, and why they were abandoned.  She began dragging John along on fieldtrips and he caught her fascination with such empty spaces.  Fortunately\, Karol hasn’t abandoned him on any of these trips – yet. \nFor this collection\, we wanted to share photos from some of our favorite haunts in this genre\, including images from the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum\, Eastern State Penitentiary\, Ellis Island\, A. Hoen & Co. Lithograph Building\, and other abandoned places and abandoned spaces. \nKarol and John Murray have been involved in photography in one form or another since the early 1970s but did not get “serious” until more recently.  John started with a Mamiya Sekor and shot friends\, family\, sunsets\, and travels when he was in the Navy.  He even had a darkroom in the basement.  Karol shot mostly our children but has a good eye\, won several photo contests\, and even got a picture on a magazine cover. \nAfter a long pause from photography\, Karol joined NVPS in 2013 and became enthralled by her ability to see things differently and capture her vision digitally\, using a Nikon D7200.  John eventually got tired of being her Sherpa and began taking pictures about five years ago – first with a Nikon point and shoot that Karol bought him for Christmas and now with a mirrorless Fujifilm.  Together they have travelled far and wide taking pictures to satisfy creative urges and document their adventures.  They mostly shoot landscapes and architecture but will stop along the side of the road if something catches their eye. \n 
URL:https://nvps.org/home/event/members-gallery-prints-canadian-rockies-with-jack-ledgerwood-digital-abandoned-places-abandoned-spaces-with-karol-and-john-murray/
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SUMMARY:Member’s Forum –Planning Travel for Photography with Wayne & Judy Guenther
DESCRIPTION:Travel Planning\nWayne and Judy Guenther found their love of travel when stationed in Germany with the Army in the early 1980’s and subsequently squeezed in trips around work requirement and singing engagements.  In 2009 Judy retired and joined the already-retired Wayne\, and since then they have visited 47 countries\, Antarctica\, and have taken three trans-USA and one Canadian Maritimes road trips. In 2019 they travelled a total of 22 weeks.  Their favorite destination is a toss-up between New Zealand and South Georgia Island\, but their favorite country\, visited numerous times\, is France. \nTheir trips fall into two broad categories: (1) Group trips and (2) Self-Planned trips. Both categories require planning\, and they have found a variety of resources which have made their trips rewarding.  The tools and resources they use are applicable to all the planning types\, varying in their importance.  Regardless of the category or destination. they always look for photographic interest and have a camera handy.  This Member’s Forum will talk about decisions of where\, when\, and how to travel\, and tools and resources that they have found useful to that end. \n  \nBios for Wayne and Judy Guenther\nWayne Guenther began his photography avocation in the late 1960s but became increasingly involved with Art Photography in the mid-1990s. Membership in Gallery West and the Art League (both in Alexandria\, VA) nudged him to regularly create new work and develop a style.  In 2009 he was a charter member and President of the Workhouse Photography Group (Lorton\, VA) and remained active there until 2012 when he fully retired. Wayne sang in local performing ensembles for many years\, one of which rehearsed on Tuesday nights\, so he didn’t join NVPS until 2015. He was awarded the Class 3 Digital Photographer of the Year designation for 2016-2017 and was judged Best in Show for his landscape photo in the 2018 Nature Visions exposition. \nJudy Guenther shared her love of travel and adventure with Wayne\, but her latent interest in photography didn’t begin to blossom until 2009 when she moved from her point-and-shoot to a Nikon D90 and enthusiastically embraced both retirement travel and the enjoyment of finding interesting subjects.  Wayne obligingly passed along more equipment and advice (why does the aperture get smaller when the number get bigger was never satisfactorily answered)\, and near-constant practice and two Allison Shaw week-long classes and one with Nevada Wier quickly honed her skills.  Her latent artistic esthetics came into their own with even more travel that introduced new subjects like wildlife\, landscapes\, abstracts\, and architecture.  Like Wayne\, she retired from the singing group that conflicted and joined NVPS in 2015. She has received awards both in Nature Visions and NVPS\, is an active member of The Art League in Alexandria\, Maryland Federation of Art in Annapolis\, and the F11 Women’s Photography group. \nBoth Wayne and Judy converted to the Micro Four-thirds system in 2014 and use Olympus E-M1 cameras with a variety of Olympus\, Lumix\, and Sigma lenses. \nWinterthur\, Delaware 
URL:https://nvps.org/home/event/members-forum-planning-travel-for-photography-with-wayne-judy-guenther/
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