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SUMMARY:Programs: (Zoom) - Life with a Camera with Tommy Brown
DESCRIPTION:Bio and Description\n\n\n\nTommy Brown and Friend\n\n\n\nTommy Brown graduated from college and informed his parents he was going to become a photographer; a ludicrous idea as he had never made a noteworthy picture. He saved money working in his dad’s machine shop and took off on a 5 month trip to Europe. This trip would determine the path of my life. It was do or die as he planned to make the pictures that would get him into a graduate art program (ridiculous considering he had not gone to art school as an undergrad). The urgency of this proposition is palpable in the images (some are included in his talk and below). And yes\, he got into the MFA program at Yale\, which was his long-shot at best. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFor years\, he didn’t have a darkroom but he photographed obsessively. He’d develop his film at night\, hold the negatives up to see if anything looked good\, sleeve and store. Four decades later\, he’s printing those images for the first time. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAfter graduating from Colgate\, he received his MFA in photography from the Yale School of Art. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTune in for his zoom he’ll explain what he’s come to understand about why and how he made these photographs. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAll photos taken by Tommy Brown \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nCOLLECTIONS: \n\n\n\nHis photographs are in numerous private and public collections including: \n\n\n\nMunson Museum\, Utica\, NY \n\n\n\nBeinecke Rare Books and Manuscripts Collection Yale University \n\n\n\nYale University Art Gallery \n\n\n\nColby College Museum of Art \n\n\n\nThe Parrish Art Museum \n\n\n\nAddison Gallery of American Art \n\n\n\nLightwork Collection Syracuse University \n\n\n\nThe Museum of the City of New York \n\n\n\nFarnsworth Museum \n\n\n\nTang Museum\, Skidmore College \n\n\n\nColgate University\, Picker Art Gallery \n\n\n\nHe can be contacted at:  www.tommybrown.com and via Instagram @tommybrownpictures.
URL:https://nvps.org/home/event/programs-zoom-life-with-a-camera-with-tommy-brown/
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SUMMARY:Competition: (In Person) (Digital & Print) No Theme with Judge Pete Duval
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URL:https://nvps.org/home/event/competition-in-person-digital-print-no-theme-with-judge-pete-duval/
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SUMMARY:Members’ Gallery (In Person) (Print) Shared Printed Images in Any Format
DESCRIPTION:Members’ Gallery provides a forum for NVPS members to share ideas and images.  It aims to help club members think about their own body of work and various ways to see it.   \n\n\n\nSo\, for the last Members’ Gallery of the season on May 26\, 2026\, everyone in the club is invited to bring any printed material of their own images.  Books\, calendars\, greeting cards\, T-shirts\, puzzles\, mugs\, posters\, etc. are possible print formats. Images printed on traditional photo paper or other media such as wood\, metal\, canvas\, or something else\, framed or not: also welcome!  Printed images could be finished products\, or an idea in process.  \n\n\n\nAnother goal of this now-annual evening is to show how images can move from the computer to real life.  Sometimes a printed image\, no matter the medium\, evokes responses and reveals detail in addition to what a digital image can do. \n\n\n\nFor questions\, please contact Members’ Gallery coordinator Eva Lanyi at nvps-members-gallery@googlegroups.com.
URL:https://nvps.org/home/event/members-gallery-in-person-print-shared-printed-images-in-any-format/
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SUMMARY:Member’s Gallery: (In-Person\, Slideshow) - Wildlife of the World with Richard Distlerath
DESCRIPTION:Bio\n\n\n\nRichard Distlerath\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nStarting in grade school with a science project to build a pinhole camera\, Richard’s photography endeavors cascaded into a full darkroom where he developed and printed black & white images as well as processed color slides. Photography became lean during his New Jersey working years\, after which the digital age brought about a whole new learning curve. Richard credits Ralph Lee Hopkins from Nat Geo as his first mentor in the digital world. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDescription\n\n\n\nRichard and his wife Linda have traveled the world to see the beauty of wildlife and of nature itself.  His slideshow depicts big cats\, birds\, class D killer whales\, the narwhal\, and other species in the Arctic and Antarctic\, Africa\, Iceland\, and North and South America. Some of his images show a pair of animals displaying typical behavior\, some present portraits. All are shown in their natural environment\, as Richards enjoys photographing wildlife perfectly adapted to its surroundings. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nAll images by Richard Distlerath:
URL:https://nvps.org/home/event/members-gallery-in-person-slideshow-wildlife-of-the-world-with-richard-distlerath/
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SUMMARY:Member’s Forum: (In Person): Denali with Ginger Werz-Petricka
DESCRIPTION:Bio and Description\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGinger has been a member of NVPS since 2009 and has been active primarily with the club’s educational programs\, Education and Training\, Members Gallery and her favorite\, the Portfolio Project. She is also a past club president and is club rep for MAPV. \n\n\n\nAbout a dozen years ago Ginger and her husband Ron were in Alaska and took the train from Fairbanks to Anchorage. At the Denali stop she looked up at the impressive mountains and asked\, is that Denali? The answer was no\, Denali was above the clouds. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nAbout an hour later in the trip the conductor stopped the train and directed everyone to go to the right side and look back\, as the clouds covering Denali had cleared. The view of the distant mountain was still breathtaking\, and the desire to see it again was born. \n\n\n\nFast forward to 2025 and the opportunity finally realizes\, flying into Denali National Park to stay at Camp Denali and experience the beauty of this sub-arctic landscape firsthand. What followed was as memorable as anyone could wish. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAll photos taken by Ginger Werz-Petricka:
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