Member's Forum

Africa Kirk Johnson Biography Since joining NVPS in August 2012, Kirk Johnson has been taking digital photographs of a variety of subjects, such as architecture, animal, street and urban, portrait, black-and-white, floral and abstract. Utilizing the Nikon D7100 DSLR and LG G7 smartphone as well as a variety of post-processing tools (Photoshop CS6, NIK Collections, […]

John Krout will be our February Member’s Forum presenter. His presentation is titled: Get Ready For Aerial Fireworks Photography. Come learn what you need to know in order to make great photos of aerial fireworks on the National Mall or anywhere else. You can try it first at the National Cherry Blossom Festival fireworks near the […]

Colena’s portrait by Gwen Flowers This meeting has been Cancelled Members’ Forum March 24, 2020 – Egypt: Cairo and Points South, Colena Turner Since high school, Colena has enjoyed taking pictures.  With her film camera, she became the family photographer for get-togethers.  In 2003, she purchased her first digital camera and has expanded her interests […]

Jim Norman’s photography focuses on landscapes and wildlife. He is a member of NVPS, the Loudoun Photo Club, and the North American Nature Photography Association, and is a Life Member of the National Wildlife Federation.

Manny Fernandez I have been involved with photography in one way or another since I was in middle school with my trusty Kodak pocket Instamatic camera and flash cubes. My 22 years in the Air Force gave me the opportunity to visit and live in many countries starting with my first assignment following pilot training […]

George Hogeman George Hogeman retired in 2019 following 31 years as a Consular Officer with the Department of State. His assignments took him and his family to Nigeria, Canada, Tanzania, Afghanistan, China, and India.  He fondly remembers shooting Kodachrome and Ektachrome with a Yashica SLR through the end of the nineties when he switched to […]

Alan P. Goldstein, 72, at the Great Temple in Petra. Wadi Musa, Jordan. 9 October 2018 Street scene in a neighborhood of Havana. Havana, Cuba 20 January 2019 Alan Goldstein, our October Member’s Gallery presenter, traveled to Cuba under the guidance of Denise Silva and RoadRunner Photography Tours in January 2019. Alan and a group […]

As the walls of their apartment closed in on Joanna and Sidney, with Joanna working from home and Sidney wondering the streets in search of photographic opportunities, they decided the time was ripe for a trip to visit Jo’s brother and sister-in-law in Whitefish, Montana. They weren’t going to fly. They didn’t want to stay […]

Kevin Linde will be discussing and presenting images from a time when he cruised the southern Caribbean. Kevin was born and raised in Johannesburg, South Africa and moved to Canada in 1992 where he met his wonderful wife, Debby. In 1998 they moved to Northern Virginia with their 2-year-old son, Ryan. Their second son, Jared, […]

Dennis’ presentation is really a journey of how he became a photographer purely through “desperation” and how this affected him over the years in taking photographs. The journey starts with recognition that there is diversity in nature, that there are discernible patterns and that details are important. Then you have to determine how to best […]