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SUMMARY:Programs: Artistic Expression through Smartphone Photography with Michael Koren
DESCRIPTION:Presentation Description: \nThis presentation will help you express your artistic vision through smartphone photography.  Learning to better use the camera that’s always with you\, you’ll be exposed to techniques which go beyond taking simple snapshots and allow you to start creating photographs which artistically express your unique vision. \nYou will learn the powerful features of the smart phone’s camera and the settings for optimal image capture including professional tips and techniques of adjusting exposure and focus which will help you produce the best results. \nThere are an overwhelming number of editing apps available. This presentation will demonstrate two “best of breed” editing apps used by smartphone photographers worldwide to help you achieve your own personal artistic vision. \n\nWhat you will learn:  Proper techniques for smart phone image capture.  Apps to edit towards your artistic expression.\nWho is this for:  All smartphone photographers\nWhat will you need: Smartphone with camera\n\nBio: \nMichael Koren is a free-lance sports and event photographer in the Baltimore Washington metro area specializing in youth sports game-time action and team portraits. \nMichael’s shares his passion for photography through his skill as a photography educator.  Michael teaches several classes at Capital Photography Center including Smartphone\, Street and Composition.  He also teaches at Montgomery College in Maryland on a variety of photographic topics from mobile photography to street photography.  Michael has led numerous seminars and workshops for local camera clubs with topics ranging from beginner photography to hands on advanced level workshops and classes.  Additionally\, he has served as President\, Director and Education Chair of the Silver Spring Camera Club in Maryland and is currently Vice President of the Maryland Photography Alliance. \nMichael Koren offers personal instruction and teaches several classes at Capital Photography Center including Smartphone\, Street and Composition. Visit Michael’s website to learn more. \nhttps://www.michaelkorenphotography.com/
URL:https://nvps.org/home/event/programs-artistic-expression-through-smartphone-photography-with-michael-koren/
CATEGORIES:Activities,Programs
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SUMMARY:Competition with Judge Nicol Hockett – Theme: Oldies
DESCRIPTION:Competition Theme: Oldies: Three-year time limit is waived. \n  \nNicol Hockett will be our May judge for an open competition. Nicol specializes in portrait photography with an approach that balances authenticity in studio craft with a refined finishing style to bring out and preserve the beauty of the subject’s character. \nHer photographs have been published in the Photographer’s Forum Best of Photography Annual\, The Journal of the Royal Photographic Society\, and numerous exhibition books. She has exhibited work at the National Geographic Museum and galleries in Washington\, DC\, Northern Virginia\, Maryland\, Pennsylvania\, Vermont\, and Minnesota. \nShe is a Certified Professional Photographer (CPP) with the Professional Photographers of America (PPA)\, a Licentiate of The Royal Photographic Society (LRPS)\, and a Professional Member of the American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP). \nNicol serves as a volunteer event photographer with the American Heart Association at Hearts Delight Wine Tasting and Auction and as a camera club judge. \nShe lives in Loudoun County with her husband and two children\, Lucy and Leo\, and loves to visit nearby wineries\, farms\, and historic places. \nhttps://www.nicolhockett.com/
URL:https://nvps.org/home/event/competition-with-judge-nicol-hockett-theme-oldies/
CATEGORIES:Activities,Competitions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210515T070000
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SUMMARY:Field Trip: Brookside Gardens
DESCRIPTION:Brookside Gardens is part of the Wheaton Regional Park and is operated by Montgomery Parks. This award-winning 50-acre public display garden has a wide array of subjects to satisfy the landscape and garden photographer. The location boasts excellent water features such as a small pond with reflection terrace and a Japanese tea house\, a brook connecting the pond to Pine Lake (further south)\, and an aquatic garden. May and early June are especially colorful months for Maryland and Virginia so we can expect many of the various gardens maintained by the park to be in full bloom. \nAdmission to the gardens is free and no permits are required for non-commercial photographers. Brookside Gardens asks that photographers not disturb the gardens\, block paths\, or interfere with other visitors’ enjoyment of the gardens.  (Brookside Gardens Photo Policy) \nWhat: \nThis outdoor venue will give us a very colorful way of keeping our social distancing up while we ride out the COVID variants. We’ll meet at the visitor’s center where we can say hello and get caught up. Groups can break off to start capturing wider landscape shots found by walking south of the visitor’s center (follow trails leading to your right). Or if you’re more inclined to start working the garden vignettes\, follow the trails east of the visitor’s center (generally trails that lead to the left). Either way\, you can’t lose. \nUnfortunately\, the conservatory building is closed. That means there will be no access to the greenhouse or the Wings of Fancy butterfly exhibit. When they reopen\, it is recommended you return and pay the small fee to enter. \nSunrise is expected at 5:56 a.m (EDT) \nEquipment: \n\nAny lens between 18-200mm should satisfy most needs. A macro lens is also recommended.\nTripods are allowed provided they don’t destroy the gardens or get in the way of other visitors.\nHandheld toys such as lights\, crystal balls\, reflectors\, and diffusers are welcome (keep a low profile to avoid any suspicions that we know what we’re doing).\n\nWhen: \nSaturday\, May 15\, 2021 from 7 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.\nRain date on Sunday\, May 16\, 2021 from 7 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. \nThe visitor’s center opens at 10a.m. \nWhere: \n1800 Glenallan Avenue\nWheaton\, MD 20902 \nWe will meet outside the visitor’s center (main parking lot) at 7a.m. for a brief meet and greet. \nPlenty of free parking is available at the main entrance/visitor’s center. Additional parking is also available at the conservatory entrance on Glenallen Avenue. \nWe hope you can join us! \nTammy Tideswell and Steven Glintz\nField Trip Coordinators 2020-2021 \n  \n* Photographs courtesy of Rena Schild.
URL:https://nvps.org/home/event/field-trip-brookside-gardens/
CATEGORIES:Activities,Field Trips
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SUMMARY:Education & Training – Portfolio Project: 2nd Final Review with Cynthia Keith
DESCRIPTION:Portfolio Project:  The second final review of the Portfolio Project will be held with Cynthia Keith as our reviewer for the final fifteen participants in this years group. \nCynthia L. Keith is a native Washingtonian. Her love of photography started in a journalism class at Walt Whitman High School and over the years has led her to scenic locations from Alaska to Maine in search of landscape images. Her specialty is garden landscape photography\, a marriage of her vision for the grand landscape and intimate flower portraits. \nCynthia has been a member of the North Bethesda Camera Club since 1992 where she has exhibited\, participated in numerous presentations\, and served on multiple committees. She is a frequent judge at camera clubs in the greater Washington area. \nOutside of photography\, she has a BA in Music and an MBA from the University of Maryland and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation. Cynthia has worked for several financial firms in the Washington\, DC area during her career as an investment manager. She is past president of the Washington Association of Money Managers and the CFA Institute in Washington.
URL:https://nvps.org/home/event/education-training-portfolio-project-2nd-final-review-with-cynthia-keith/
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SUMMARY:Member’s Gallery – Prints (Virtually): Exploring Delaware with Deb and Art Rose & Digital: Patterns and Graphics with Wayne Guenther
DESCRIPTION:Prints (Virtually): Exploring Delaware with Deb and Art Rose\nArt and Deb have enjoyed having two “home” states; one in Alexandria Virginia\, and the other in Bethany Beach Delaware. The two locations are polar opposites\, yet complement each other beautifully. \nAlexandria offers the bustle of historic Old Town\, Northern Virginia\, and DC museums and landmarks. They enjoy photographing local places such as Huntley Meadows\, Dyke Marsh\, Mason Neck\, Conowingo Dam\, Battlefields\, and Shenandoah. \nBethany Beach offers the quiet of the ocean\, natural vistas\, and a slower paced lifestyle. They enjoy photographing sunrise on the beach (well\, Deb more so than Art at 5 AM)\, native birds\, and sunsets on the Bay at the Ocean View VFW. \nWith their international travel on hold during the pandemic\, and closure of museums and other sites in Virginia\, they spent more time in Delaware exploring the “First State”\, and made some delightful photography discoveries. They explored many sites including the capitol buildings in Dover\, National Wildlife Refuges of Prime Hook and Bombay Hook\, Assawoman Wildlife Areas\, Great Cypress Swamp\, Delaware Botanical Gardens\, James Farm Ecological Preserve\, Abbott’s\, Warren and Double Mills\, Slaughter Beach\, and Lavender Fields. \nArt and Deb’s interest in photography began over 20 years ago during a family trip to Australia. Their passion for both travel and photography continued to grow. Once retired from their careers\, Art as a chemical engineer and Deb as a pediatric physical therapist\, they have been living their dream to travel and capture their experiences through photography. Past travels through North\, Central and South America included the Panama Canal\, Galapagos\, Ecuador\, Peru and Machu Picchu. Travels through Europe and Asia included Singapore\, Thailand\, Vietnam\, Hong Kong\, Italy\, Greece and Malta. They enjoy all types of photography encountered on their travels: landscape\, street\, wildlife\, architectural\, night sky and every flavor in-between. \nMembers of NVPS since 2018\, Art and Deb enjoy learning and developing creative skills to enhance their photography. Deb blends watercolor painting and brush effects with her photography to create photo artistic pieces\, and Art enjoys applying new techniques to landscape\, wildlife and still-life photos. \n“We see photography as a way to connect with others\, capture the experiences of new places\, and discover different perspectives of familiar places”. \n   \n  \n  \nDigital: Patterns and Graphics with Wayne Guenther\n  \nWayne Guenther\nWhen Wayne joined Gallery West (Alexandria VA) artist’s cooperative in 1995\, he was an artist without an identity\, a style.  Wayne shot whatever he liked\, and never examined why he liked the subject or settled on a particular composition.  That gradually changed as he created new work monthly and received a lot of feedback about the “graphic nature” of his subjects and compositions.  By 2001 Wayne had a second solo show that was nearly all graphic interpretations of furniture\, and his statement started with “I like angles\, lines and curves\, so furniture is a natural subject”.  Wayne’s third solo show at the gallery in 2003 was based entirely on interpretations of stairs\, which have lines and curves of course.  Jumping 18 years to today\, Wayne has become a “generalist” in that extensive travel has given him so many subjects to photograph\, but his underlying compositional instinct is still graphic based.  This digital presentation will show examples of this result. \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 joined NVPS in 2015. He has been accepted in many regional juried art competitions/shows over the past 25 years\, and placed in several NVPS monthly competitions. \nWayne shot with Nikon equipment for many years until the aggregate weight on his back and shoulders became problematic.  He switched to the micro-four-thirds system in 2014 and uses Olympus E-M1 bodies and a combination of Olympus and Lumix/Panasonic lenses. \n 
URL:https://nvps.org/home/event/members-gallery-delaware-with-deb-and-art-rose-digital-patterns-and-graphics-with-wayne-guenther/
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SUMMARY:Member’s Forum – Yellowstone with Stan Bysshe
DESCRIPTION:Stan has been a member of NVPS for ten years. He has served on multiple committees and is a past President. Over the years he has given numerous presentations ranging from Underwater photography to Shooting in Crappy Conditions. His April Members Forum talk will be on photographing  Yellowstone National Park in the winter. \nOver the past seven years Stan has been a guide on sixteen photo tours to the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem which includes YNP and the Grand Tetons National Park. His last four trips were during the winter season\, and this rapidly became his favorite time of the year to visit the park. While this is by far and away the most challenging season to be in Yellowstone\, it can be the most rewarding. \nStan will talk about why Yellowstone in the winter is such a magical place\, how and where you can get the best images\, some techniques for shooting in the winter and how to try and stay warm in a region that routinely records the lowest temperatures in the lower forty eight States. \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://nvps.org/home/event/members-forum-yellowstone-with-stan-bysshe/
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