Bio Patricia has been a member of NVPS since the late 1990’s. Before then, she had a good Nikon film camera but little knowledge of the “how to’s” of photography. F-stops, shutter speed, depth of field, etc. --what did that mean?  Starting as a total beginner, she learned much of her photography craft through attendance […]

Bio Bill Millhouser and his wife Fran Millhouser have enjoyed birdwatching since the mid 1960s when they took a Smithsonian course on birds and local birdwatching. Bill is also an avid bird photographer, and their trips overseas have often combined birdwatching and photography. Over the years they have visited Costa Rica (multiple times), Ecuador, Patagonia, […]

Bio Clark’s first real camera was a used 35mm fixed lens Voigtlander, followed by a Minolta SRT101 after college and gainful employment. After a couple more Minoltas, a digital 8 megapixel Olympus and several Canons, he went mirrorless with a Canon R5 the first day it was available. Most of the pre-digital photos were 35mm slides. Clark’s […]

Bio Kieulan Nguyen has been a photographer for a long time, and her work consists of macro, landscapes, travel, street photography and black & white photography. Her approach to photography is using her camera to find beauty in the things and people around her. She uses different techniques such as high key, intentional camera movement (ICM), long […]

David's mother, an amateur art historian, introduced him to the fine arts, but it was his sister -- then a serious photographer -- who gave him his first camera in high school. She later advised him to get a Pentax when he went to Africa with the Peace Corps. During his career in international development that […]

Grizzly bears, snowy owls, moose, and lightning appear worlds apart at first glance. However, each subject represents a deliberate step in an artistic journey to develop new and distinctively different photographic skills. This presentation takes you from the remote wilderness of Khutzeymateen, Canada, and Lake Clark National Park and Preserve, Alaska -- where logistical hurdles […]