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  • Field Trip – Meadowlark Botanical Gardens

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    Meadowlark Botanical Gardens offers a wide variety of photographic possibilities.  Participants will have the opportunity to capture landscapes and colorful images of flowers blooming in one of a dozen garden beds in this ever expanding park operated by the Northern Virginia Park Authority.  There's even something for bird photographers as this park attracts small songbirds […]

  • Field Trip – Fredericksburg

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    Fredericksburg will be offering a wide variety of photographic opportunities on the day our visit.  We'll start our trip with Cars and Coffee held at the Gari Melchers museum.  This is a free monthly event held on the second Saturday of each month between 8am and 10am where members of the community drive in and […]

  • Field Trip: Upperville Colt & Horse Show

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    This event was so much fun last year that we’re doing it again!  Please join us in the beautiful Virginia countryside for the Upperville Colt & Horse Show.  Established in 1853, it is the oldest horse show in America. There are multiple areas of competition with beautiful horses and riders of all ages. In addition to […]

  • Field Trip: Green Springs Gardens

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    We’re returning to Green Spring Gardens for our field trip in early July. Green Spring Gardens offers so much with only a fraction of the crowds. The gardens around the gazebo and the winding paths between the parking lot and the lawn will be showing their blooms. In addition to the flowers, you will also hopefully find birds, […]

  • Field Trip: The Montgomery County Fair

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    The Montgomery County Fair is a great end-of-summer event and club members have enjoyed it in the past.  This year we will be going on a weekday and will concentrate on the midway and rides after dark.  The fair gives us the opportunity to photograph not only the bright lights and action of the rides, but […]

  • Field Trip: The Old Town Farmers’ Market

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    The Old Town Farmers' Market held in front of city hall is the oldest farmers' market held continuously at one site in the country.  The market as well as the block around City Hall offers lots of photographic opportunities for the street and urban photographer.  Vendors will be tending to their stalls, shoppers will be […]

  • Field Trip: National Capital Trolley Museum

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    In October we’re visiting the National Capital Trolley Museum where we can photograph streetcars from DC and other cities.  At the visitor center we can see exhibits and presentations on the streetcar system as well as board an historic streetcar for a ride around a one mile track.  And of course we can photograph the […]

  • Field Trip: Great Falls MD (South End)

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    Great Falls is a DMV treasure and a favorite place for landscape photography. In November we will photograph the Potomac River and C&O Canal on the southeast end of the Maryland side of Great Falls.  We will park in the (free) parking lots across from The Old Angler’s Inn and head over the Angler’s Footbridge and […]

  • Field Trip: Fireworks & Old Town at Night

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    Want to enjoy shooting fireworks without fighting crowds or heat?  This field trip will give you that opportunity.  Every Saturday through the end of the year there is a fireworks show at National Harbor.  The show, which begins at 5:30 p.m., lasts 5-10 minutes, and will give all levels of fireworks photographers a chance to […]

  • Field Trip: U.S. Botanical Garden

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    NVPS January 2025 Field Trip In January, NVPS will visit the tropical conditions inside the U.S. Botanical Garden located at the foot of Capital Hill on Independence Ave.  Exhibits at the Garden range from roses to orchids, the rain forest of the Mid-Atlantic, endangered plants and the latest in home gardening. The indoor galleries display […]