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SUMMARY:Programs: (Zoom) - No More Rules: Human Perceptions in Composition with Colleen Miniuk
DESCRIPTION:Oftentimes photographers spend much time forcing their scenes to fit the rules (which yields technically “perfect” but perhaps boring photographs) rather than arranging the subject matter based on emotional responses and human perceptions. This insightful and educational presentation\, outdoor photographer/writer Colleen Miniuk goes beyond reviewing the predominant composition rules and shares how we can leverage the reasoning behind human perception (not rules!) to help elicit specific responses from our viewers. Hear how subject matter placement\, the use of different types of lines\, relationships between shapes\, and other visual language help us arrange our scenes to communicate meaning and messages more effectively with our audiences. \n\n\n\nBio: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nColleen Miniuk is a corporate-America-escapee turned full-time freelance outdoor photographer\, author\, educator\, and motivational speaker from Chandler\, AZ. Through her work\, she aims to inspire adventures in the Great Outdoors and encourage others to live their most fulfilling life\, “the big Life with a capital L\,” with or without a camera in hand. Her work has graced the pages of publications such as National Geographic\, Arizona Highways\, AAA Via\, On Landscape\, National Parks Traveler\, and a broad variety of other outlets. She has penned several award-winning books\, including Wild in Arizona: Photographing Arizona’s Wildflowers; The Current Flows: Water in the Arid West\, and Photographing Acadia National Park: The Essential Guide to When\, Where\, and How (after serving thrice as Acadia’s Artist-in-Residence). Her first adventure travel memoir\, So Said the River: Life\, Loss\, and Pie on the Colorado\, was published in July 2024. She writes an online photography advice column called “Dear Bubbles.” She leads photography workshops (including all-women sessions called Sheography™)\, teaches classes\, and offers one-on-one mentoring. Learn more at http://www.colleenminiuk.com.
URL:https://nvps.org/home/event/programs-zoom-no-more-rules-human-perceptions-in-composition-with-colleen-miniuk/
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SUMMARY:Field Trip:  Brookside Gardens
DESCRIPTION:April in this area is full of natural beauty\, and Brookside Gardens is one of the best places in the DMV to photograph flowers and gardens. There should be lots of trees and flowers in bloom when we enjoy a morning there for our April field trip.  \n\n\n\nWhere: \n\n\n\nBrookside Gardens \n\n\n\n1800 Glenallan Ave. Wheaton\, MD \n\n\n\nWebsite: https://montgomeryparks.org/parks-and-trails/brookside-gardens/ \n\n\n\nWhen: Saturday\, April 5\, 2025 from 8:00 – 10:30 a.m. \n\n\n\n(Rain date: Sunday April 6\, 2025 from 8:00 – 10:30 a.m.) \n\n\n\nWe will meet outside the front entrance to the visitor center at 8:00 a.m.  \n\n\n\nCost: \n\n\n\nAdmission to the gardens is free.  \n\n\n\nThere is free parking is available at the main entrance/visitor’s center. Additional parking is also available at the conservatory entrance on Glenallen Avenue.  \n\n\n\nNotes/Equipment: \n\n\n\n\nLenses in the 24-70 range will work well\n\n\n\nMacro photographers will want to bring a macro lens\, too\n\n\n\nTripods are permitted except in the conservatories\n\n\n\nThere are restrooms in the visitor center\, which opens at 9 a.m.\n\n\n\nA map of the gardens is here: https://montgomeryparks.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/brookside-gardens-map-2024.pdf\n\n\n\nBrookside Gardens asks that photographers “…not disturb any gardens\, stand on rocks or displays\, block paths\, or climb garden or fountain walls” and “not interfere with other visitors’ enjoyment of the gardens.”\n\n\n\n\nWe hope you can join us! Rena Schild and Steven GlintzNVPS Field Trip Coordinators 2024-2025 \n\n\n\nnvps-field-trips@googlegroups.com \n\n\n\nPhotographs courtesy of Rena Schild:
URL:https://nvps.org/home/event/field-trip-brookside-gardens-2/
CATEGORIES:Activities,Field Trips
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SUMMARY:Final Portfolio Project Review (In-Person) – Group 1 with Frank Van Riper
DESCRIPTION:The final review for group one of the Portfolio Project will be held with Frank Van Riper. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFrank Van Riper is an award-winning documentary and fine art photographer\, journalist\, author and lecturer whose work has been published internationally.  \n\n\n\nHis photographs are in the permanent collections of the National Portrait Gallery (Washington\, DC) as well as in the Portland Museum of Art (Portland\, Maine.) His 1998 book of photography and essays\, Down East Maine/A World Apart\, was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and won the silver award for photography from the Art Director’s Club of Metropolitan Washington.  \n\n\n\nHis latest book is Recovered Memory: New York & Paris 1960-1980\, which immediately became an Amazon bestseller. His previous book\, done in collaboration with his wife and professional partner Judith Goodman\, was Serenissima: Venice in Winter\, a coffee table collection of black and white photographs and essays\, published in 2008 both in the US and Italy.  Their next collaboration—and their first book in color–is The Green Heart of Italy: Umbria and its Ancient Neighbors. (Fall\, 2025) \n\n\n\nVan Riper was a member of the New York Daily News Washington Bureau for 20 years\, serving as White House correspondent\, national political correspondent and Washington Bureau news editor. He was a 1979 Nieman Fellow at Harvard. In 1982 he partnered with his wife in commercial and documentary photography. In 1992\, Van Riper became photography columnist of the Washington Post\, where his column\, “Talking Photography\,” appeared for 19 years. It now is now available at www.TalkingPhotography.com.  \n\n\n\nA popular teacher and lecturer\, Van Riper is on the faculty of PhotoWorks at Glen Echo Park\, Md.\, and has lectured and/or taught in the Smithsonian Resident Associate Program\, the Maine Photographic Workshops\, the University of Maine at Machias and at other colleges and universities in the mid-Atlantic
URL:https://nvps.org/home/event/final-portfolio-project-review-in-person-group-1-with-tbd/
CATEGORIES:Activities,Portfolio Project
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SUMMARY:Competition: (Zoom) - Theme: Texture with  Judge Greg Holden
DESCRIPTION:Greg Holden is a photographer from Longmont\, Cowho uses his photography to share with others how he sees the world. He enjoys creative photos of little scenes often overlooked by others rather than postcard landscapes. Although he won’t pass by a chance to photograph a beautiful landscape or a tranquil sunset\, he’d rather be exploring abandoned places and capturing the details of the layers of paint and rust on a discarded automobile.   \n\n\n\nGreg enjoys searching used bookstores for photo collections and has over 180 books (as of Oct 2023) on and about photography.  He finds inspiration from master photographers and a wide range of subjects\, such as: the close-up beach studies by Minor White\, the early portraiture of Steichen and Stieglitz\, and street scenes by Andre Kertesz.  He enjoys teaching others and sharing his passion for photography and speaks at camera clubs near his home in the greater Denver area\, but also speaks and judges virtually to clubs across the US. You can see Greg’s work on his website imagesunderfoot.com
URL:https://nvps.org/home/event/competition-zoom-theme-self-portrait-with-judge-greg-holden/
CATEGORIES:Activities,Competitions
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SUMMARY:Members Gallery (Prints) (In Person):  In Search of Big Cats with Don Little
DESCRIPTION:Black Leopard by Don Little\n\n\n\nDescription:\n\n\n\nThere is something compelling about big cats. It is easy to be drawn in by their gaze. Their majestic appearance and nature are awe-inspiring\, and it is thrilling to see and try to capture moments of as they live their lives hunting\, playing and resting.  Don Little undertook a somewhat unpredictable journey last year to try and find and photograph one particular leopard\, a melanistic (black) leopard in Kenya.  Black leopards are quite rare and this one leopard is really the only one in Africa that you may have a chance to photograph as her home range overlaps with a camp in Laikipia and she is less shy than others. While Don only had a few brief encounters with her (in mostly low light…)\, it was an amazing experience. As with many wild animals\, you are often dealing with early morning or evening low light and trying to balance shutter speed\, aperture and ISO for the best quality photos. Every encounter with a big cat is thrilling\, being able to capture a few images is a plus. Don is looking forward to the next opportunity to see these amazing creatures in the wild again. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDon Little\n\n\n\nBio:\n\n\n\nDon began his photography journey in high school with an old twin reflex of his Dad’s. His photography grew largely from his travels exploring other counties and love of nature. Starting mostly with travel and landscapes and in recent years he has shifted more to wildlife. He joined NVPS a few years ago looking for kindred spirits and hoping to improve his photographic results beyond the “postcard” photos of the past. \n\n\n\nA goal has emerged in recent years to photograph many of the big cats in the wild. He has managed to get 5 of the top 7 big cats in recent years (tigers\, lions\, jaguars\, pumas and leopards). The sixth\, Cheetahs\, should be an easy fix with the right Africa trip. While the seventh\, snow leopards\, will take a bit more of an effort and luck… \n\n\n\nAdditional Photos by Don Little:\n\n\n\n\nKanha Tiger\n\n\n\nPantanal Jaguar\n\n\n\nPatagonia Puma
URL:https://nvps.org/home/event/members-gallery-prints-in-person-in-search-of-big-cats-with-don-little/
CATEGORIES:Activities,Member's Gallery
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SUMMARY:Member's Gallery (Digital\, In Person) - iPhone Photography:  The Things You See! with Greg Smith
DESCRIPTION:Description:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWith his iPhones\, Greg Smith has often captured spur-of-the-moment events\, but also taken landscapes\, portraits\, and anything else that is picture worthy.  And quite a bit that is not.  Greg has found that often the iPhone’s camera settings are excellent as far as the image capture and has used native and Lightroom apps for editing his pictures.  With the iPhone Pro model\, he recently learned from NVPS members that he could even take RAW photos. \n\n\n\nGreg enjoys photographing whatever he happens upon\, primarily birds and landscapes\, and street photography when afforded the opportunity. As he and Gitta travel around the country in their RV trailer\, he has found that taking a quick iPhone picture from the same vantage point as the pictures they took with their Nikons\, Greg is able to capture the location and have it on a map\, making remembering where they took all the pictures much easier.  They have taken multiple trips to Denver\, the Grand Tetons\, Yellowstone\, and Acadia National Parks\, lots of State Parks\, and many stops in between and along the way.  Yes\, you can use the GPS function with your camera\, but Greg thinks the iPhone has made it even easier. \n\n\n\nBio:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGreg Smith became interested in photography from an early age when watching his father\, taking many pictures throughout their many family travels.  His dad always considered angles and framed the subjects when he could\, describing what and why as he did so.  Greg got his first SLR\, a Minolta\, prior to deploying to the Mediterranean with the Marines\, knowing there would be ample opportunities for pictures. However\, it was when attempting to take a picture of the Duomo in Florence\, Italy that he realized he needed a wide-angle zoom\, as he had to take the picture from three blocks away to get it all in!  Many years of photography have followed.  Greg shoots primarily with his Nikon D750\, but he has a great camera in his pocket all the time – his iPhone! 
URL:https://nvps.org/home/event/members-gallery-in-person-iphone-photography-the-things-you-see-with-greg-smith/
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SUMMARY:Member's Forum (In Person): Aurora Photography with Nancy Galib
DESCRIPTION:Description:\n\n\n\nNancy will discuss her trips to see the aurora borealis\, and what she learned on each one.  The presentation will include information on gear\, camera settings\, and editing aurora photos.  And a little science from a layperson’s perspective. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBio:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNancy Galib has been a member of NVPS since 2021. She has been taking photographs for most of her life\, but much more so in the past seven or so years. She started out with a Kodak Instamatic camera when she was a teenager\, moved on to a rangefinder\, and then an SLR during the film–only era. But digital photography and post–production tools  were game changers. It’s so much easier to experiment without the expense of getting rolls of film developed. Her photography really took off after a photo trip to Alaska in the winter of 2017 when she learned about shooting raw files and post–processing with Lightroom and Photoshop. She loves the creativity that it gives her to convey what she feels. Nancy has taken several photography trips since then to places like Yellowstone\, the Southwest\, and most recently\, Botswana. Each trip brings new skills\, new ways of seeing the world around her\, and new friends. Her photography doesn’t yet have a particular style\, and she is not drawn to one particular genre. She sees photography as a journey of learning\, seeing\, and connecting with the world around her.
URL:https://nvps.org/home/event/members-forum-in-person-aurora-photography-with-nancy-galib/
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SUMMARY:Education & Training (In Person): A Photographic Exploration of Ireland
DESCRIPTION:The spectacular Cliffs of Moher – Fran Bastress\n\n\n\nDescription:\n\n\n\nFive NVPS members traveled to Ireland in 2024 to photograph its landscapes\, waterscapes\, cities\, ancient and sacred sites\, and—for some of them—the land of their ancestors: Jim & Jerri McDermott\, Mike Whalen\, Fran Bastress\, Ginger Werz-Petricka. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nThese members will share information in the presentation about their experiences\, including major expenses\, camera gear\, and pros and cons of their styles of travel. Their diverse travel styles included: \n\n\n\n\na photo trip by bus with a professional photographer\, \n\n\n\na self-guided driving tour\, and\n\n\n\na nationally known tour company trip by bus.\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\nThey covered much of Ireland between them\, and their photos have been compiled into a slideshow representing the best of the Emerald Isle. \n\n\n\n\n\nIf you are planning to travel to either Ireland or Northern Ireland\, this presentation should help you decide which areas to visit\, because each of its chapters represents photos from the six different geographical regions. \n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nThe Photographers And Their BIO’s:\n\n\n\nJim and Jerri \n\n\n\nJim and Jerri McDermottJerri and Jim McDermott have been members of NVPS since (at least!) 2010\, and credit the club and its members for opportunities to grow as photographers and have a lot of fun doing that. Jim has served in a number of volunteer positions for the club. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMike\n\n\n\nMike WhalenMike became interested in digital photography in 2006. He joined NVPS in 2009 and held board positions from 2010 to the present\, including president in 2013. His photographic interests include nature\, landscapes\, macro\, people\, travel\, and abstract photography. He currently uses Sony equipment and post-processes with Lightroom\, Photoshop and Topaz Labs products. For this trip he took a Sony a6700 APS-C camera and 3 lenses: 18-50mm f/2.8; 10-18mm 2.8; and a 70-200mm f4. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFran\n\n\n\nFran BastressFran has been a member of NVPS since 2009\, served on its board for two years\, and placed in various competitions\, including at Nature Visions where she received the 2018 People’s Choice Award in Photo Art. In recent years she has been creating large bound photo books\, including A Journey in Ireland: Scenes from the Emerald Isle. Although devoted to Canon cameras for years\, she converted to the OM-1 in 2022. For post-processing\, Fran uses Lightroom and Photoshop\, along with Topaz and Nik plugins. She credits NVPS for her development as a photographer. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGinger\n\n\n\nGinger Werz-PetrickaGinger joined NVPS in 2009 at a point in her life when she really needed to find a creative outlet.  She has been interested in photography since high school after receiving a Minolta SRT-101 for Christmas.  Her first DSLR was a Canon 6D that she still loves\, but for travel in particular the weight has become a problem.  Today she carries two Olympus mirrorless bodies\, the OMD mark 11 and the OM-1. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA Few Of Their Images :\n\n\n\n\nKylemore Abbey – Co. Connemara – Jim McDermott\n\n\n\nDoonagore Castle – Co. Clare – Jerri McDermott\n\n\n\nDunluce Castle Ruins – Northern Ireland– Mike Whalen\n\n\n\nIrish Bagpiper\, Blarney Castle – Co. Cork – Mike Whalen\n\n\n\nIrish Countryside – County Clare – Ginger Werz-Petricka\n\n\n\nDonegal Castle overlooking River Eske– Fran Bastress
URL:https://nvps.org/home/event/education-training-in-person-a-photographic-exploration-of-ireland/
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