Member's Forum

Bio/Description: Gary Rubin is a 2nd-year member of NPVS. His photography journey began in middle school with his dad's Minolta SRT-101. He shot primarily black-and-white film through high school and into college, where he was a photographer and photo editor for his college yearbook. He set photography aside for a few years after college and later made the […]

Ed hopes you will enjoy a presentation on “Creative Ways to Enhance Ordinary Photos,” sharing these discoveries and inviting others to see the extraordinary potential in everyday photography. Medical Photographer  During his 45-year medical career, Ed Marion consistently used photography documenting patient records and preparing visual materials for teaching purposes. Prior to the advent of YouTube and digital […]

Bio Lidia has a full-time job, a husband and 2 teenage boys. Art is her way to process emotions and express her views of the world around without using words. She always loved taking photos; she continues to feel inspired every time she looks around, whether alone, with her family or at work, by anything […]

Bio Jerri and Jim McDermott have been active members of NVPS for over 10 years. Jerri was a librarian in the Fairfax County schools, and Jim an economist in the federal government. Both credit their friends at NVPS with encouraging their learning and development as photographers. They’ve both migrated to using mirrorless Nikon cameras. Description […]

Bio Judy Guenther enjoys photographing a wide variety of subjects during her world travels. Capturing the beauty and art in nature and the interesting people of the world is a special joy for her. She is also drawn to the details, patterns, abstracts, and design of architecture, especially modern architecture. She has won several awards, […]

A two part presentation on the challenges of photographing wildlife in low light and secondly an update on the latest noise reduction software for post processing. Stan joined NVPS in 2011 looking for help with his photography. Up until that point his 40 years with a camera were primarily spent underwater. There he  graduated from […]

The Faroes are an archipelago of 18 islands about halfway between Iceland and Norway formed by volcanic eruptions and shaped by multiple ice ages. They were settled by Norsemen in the 800’s. Current residents have eked out a living by fishing, farming, and raising sheep in an environment with lots of rain and wind but with a relatively mild climate thanks to […]

Bio and Description Ginger 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. About a dozen years ago Ginger and her husband Ron […]

Description: Ilenia Alvarez will transform a regular photograph into a watercolor painting using Adobe Photoshop. The process involves applying a series of editing techniques that simplify photographic details, create the appearance of brush strokes, soften edges, enhance colors, and add the texture of watercolor paper. Each step is designed to imitate the characteristics of traditional watercolor painting […]

Bio: Suzy McIntire joined NVPS in 2019, and is club secretary for 2026-27. She shoots primarily with a Fuji X-T5, and loves her 17-40mm f/1.8 Sigma lens. Suzy enjoys street photography— capturing little-noticed moments in everyday life and the humor that sometimes comes with it. She’s also partial to human-created vernacular landscapes. For several years she has been photographing […]