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SUMMARY:Member’s Gallery (In-Person) – Digital:  My Favorite Nature Photos with Mike Whalen
DESCRIPTION:Program Description \n\n\n\nMike Whalen\n\n\n\nMike enjoys a wide variety of photography subjects. In this video presentation he will show some of his favorite nature photos\, past and present. These still images will be shown in four groups: \n\n\n\n\nFlowers\, Trees\, Leaves and Bugs\n\n\n\nBirds\, Mammals\, Amphibians and Fish\n\n\n\nWater and Landscapes\n\n\n\nClose-Ups and Abstracts\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nSome examples are shown below. The presentation will be a short video slide-show (approx. 10 minutes) with background music. The video will also be available to members via the website (within a few days after the date presented). \n\n\n\nBio \n\n\n\nMike became interested in digital photography in 2006. His first camera was an entry level Canon DSLR. \n\n\n\nHe joined NVPS in 2009 and held board positions from 2010 to the present\, including president in 2013. \n\n\n\nHe also volunteers weekly as a pet photographer for the Fairfax County Animal Shelter\, and occasionally\, as an event photographer for charitable organizations such as the National Ovarian Cancer Coalition and The Epilepsy Foundation of America. \n\n\n\nJoining NVPS was a significant learning opportunity due to the many club activities and inspiration from talented members. \n\n\n\nHis photographic interests include nature\, landscapes\, macro\, people\, travel\, and abstract photography. He currently uses Sony equipment and Lightroom\, Photoshop and Topaz products for post-processing. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn Person at the Dunn Loring Firehouse
URL:https://nvps.org/home/event/members-gallery-in-person-digital-my-favorite-nature-photos-with-mike-whalen/
CATEGORIES:Activities,Member's Gallery
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SUMMARY:Members Gallery (Print) (In Person): Yard Birds with Stan Bysshe
DESCRIPTION:Stan has been a member of NVPS since 2010-2011. He has served on multiple Board positions and is a past President. For the last ten years he has helped with photo workshops in Washington State\, New Mexico\, Alaska and Montana. For the past few years he has been working for the Smithsonian North American Songbird Project. \n\n\n\nSAFE\, Saving Animals from Extinction and the North American Songbird Project is an undertaking of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) of which the National Zoo is a partner. They are always looking for images and have several assigned bird photographers across the country. Basically Stan helps with images of Atlantic Coast songbirds. \n\n\n\nThe Members Gallery prints are part of the collection used for the SAFE project and were all taken over the past three years\, in his backyard. 
URL:https://nvps.org/home/event/members-gallery-print-in-person-yard-birds-with-stan-bysshe/
CATEGORIES:Activities,Member's Gallery
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240227T194500
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SUMMARY:Member's Gallery:  (In Person) (Virtual) "A Trip to Southern Maine in the Fall Season" with Jennifer Nguyen
DESCRIPTION:Bio\n\n\n\nJennifer Nguyen\n\n\n\nJennifer Nguyen learned about the Basic Photography and Developing photos using the chemical process during her last year at the Architecture University in Vietnam. She realized that photography was the passion of her life and her hobby\, but she had to stop pursuing this passion when she moved to the United States. She was so busy building her career by working full time and studying part time. After graduating\, she worked full time as an engineer at the Department of Defense and took care of her special needs son. She really didn’t have free time for herself at all. \n\n\n\nAfter retiring\, she came back to her passion and hobby in 2019.  Wow\, learning digital photography was easier\, and more interesting with Photoshop and Lightroom processing. Her photographic interests include landscapes\, nature\, macro\, studio portrait\, travel and ICM photography. She joined the Northern Virginia Photographic Society (NVPS) in 2019 and her skills have improved since then\, because NVPS has many club activities. She received several awards within the NVPS’s monthly competitions with her passion and her inspiration from all other talented members.” \n\n\n\nDescription\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMany photographers adore the Autumn atmosphere with the cool air and the yellow and red leaves\, so Jennifer Nguyen went to Southern Maine in November 2022 to photograph the Autumn view. She visited Acadia National Park\, the area around it and Portland.
URL:https://nvps.org/home/event/members-gallery-in-person-virtual-a-trip-to-southern-maine-in-the-fall-season-with-jennifer-nguyen/
CATEGORIES:Activities,Member's Gallery
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240227T193000
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SUMMARY:Members Gallery (In Person) (Print): These Are a Few of our Favorite Things... with Art and Deb Rose
DESCRIPTION:These Are a Few of our Favorite Things…. \n\n\n\nArt and Deb’s interest in photography blossomed over 20 years ago during a family trip to Australia. Their passion for both travel and photography continued to grow. Once retired from their careers\, they are living their dream to travel and capture their experiences through photography.  \n\n\n\nTheir travels have taken them through North\, Central and South America\, Europe\, and Asia.  Domestic road trips include Utah & Arizona\, Grand Canyon\, Route 66\, Louisiana\, West Virginia\, Maine (complete with puffins)\, the Oregon Coast and Covered Bridges from Maryland to the Finger Lakes of New York.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTheir interests span many types of photography including landscape\, street\, night sky\, and wildlife. Deb enjoys merging creativity with her photos. Using photoshop\, she blends watercolor painting and brush effects to create photo artistic pieces; and in a process she calls “Photo Alchemy”\, combines differing images to create new artistic compositions.  Art enjoys working in post processing to create realistic composites and impart a range of dramatic looks to his photos.  \n\n\n\nIn this print Members Gallery\, Deb and Art have selected some of their favorite photos to share with you. These are the photos that as soon as they saw them pop up on their computer screens from their cameras they thought: “We have to print that!”  \n\n\n\nTheir photos come from their road trips and travel. Each has a special memory that goes along with the image. See if you can guess why each photo became one of their favorites! 
URL:https://nvps.org/home/event/members-gallery-in-person-print-these-are-a-few-of-our-favorite-things-with-art-and-deb-rose/
CATEGORIES:Activities,Member's Gallery
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SUMMARY:Member's Gallery:  (In-Person) A (Virtual) Tour of Dubai and World Expo 2020 with Judy Guenther
DESCRIPTION:The Gathering\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nJudy Guenther’s Member’s Gallery will include images taken in February 2022 in Dubai\, UAE―a city of amazing architecture\, ports\, beaches\, and a world hub of finance and trade. Dubai hosted the World Expo from fall 2021 to spring 2022 (planned for 2020 but delayed by the pandemic). It was a jaw-dropping event with innovative pavilions\, programs and people\, and a smorgasbord of photographic opportunities. \n\n\n\nJudy Guenther\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nBio\n\n\n\nJudy Guenther joined NVPS in the fall of 2015. She is an avid travel photographer who loves the process of photography from the capture to post-processing. She enjoys a variety of photographic subjects including landscapes\, abstracts\, colors\, nature\, wildlife\, and people\, but she is particularly drawn to architectural abstracts. \n\n\n\nJudy is currently the editor of the NVPS newsletter FotoFax\, and a member of the Art League in Alexandria\, the Maryland Federation of Art\, and the F11 Women’s Photography Collective. Her work has been juried into shows across the country\, published in various journals\, and received awards including grand prize in The Washington Post 2022 Travel Photography Contest.   \n\n\n\n\nReflection\n\n\n\nDubai Harbor\n\n\n\nBlue Abstract\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nIn Person at the Dunn Loring Firehouse
URL:https://nvps.org/home/event/members-gallery-in-person-a-virtual-tour-of-dubai-and-world-expo-2020-with-judy-guenther/
CATEGORIES:Activities,Member's Gallery
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SUMMARY:Member's Gallery ( In Person)  What's On My Walls with Ginger Werz-Petricka
DESCRIPTION:BIO: \n\n\n\nGinger has been a member of NVPS since 2009 when she started exploring ways to be creative and engaged after retirement. She has been primarily involved with the Portfolio Project and is currently the club president for 2023-2024. \n\n\n\nDescription: \n\n\n\nGinger has been collecting the art of other people for her entire adult life. But that doesn’t mean she has ignored her own photographic art.  \n\n\n\nSometimes an image just calls out to her\, but very often the images that find a home on her walls are those she has entered into competition or those from shows. It is a pleasure for Ginger to be reminded of memories from past trips and interesting projects.  \n\n\n\nAnother good aspect of displaying her photography is that she has daily reminders that perhaps she could go back and improve on her previous results. \n\n\n\n\nOLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\n\n\n\nOLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\n\n\n\nOLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA
URL:https://nvps.org/home/event/members-gallery-in-person-whats-on-my-walls-with-ginger-werz-petricka/
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SUMMARY:Member’s Gallery (In-Person) - Tanzania\, Africa with Kimxuan & Thien Nguyen
DESCRIPTION:Description  \n\n\n\nThien and Kimxuan had traveled to Tanzania twice within a year to photograph animals\, birds\, and everything in between. Tanzania is a Country in East Africa. The people of Tanzania were so nice and courteous. The National Parks had many different types of animals and birds. Also\, the landscapes were peaceful and beautiful.   \n\n\n\n   Bio \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKimxuan Nguyen studied photography in college when the photography world was still using film and darkroom to process photos. Fast-forward\, Kimxuan joined the Northern Virginia Photographic Society (NVPS) in 2019. She received several Awards including the Ollie Fite Award.  \n\n\n\nThien Nguyen started photography during the pandemic a few years back. He enjoys reading about photography during his spare time. He joined the Northern Virginia Photographic Society (NVPS) in 2020. He received several Awards including the Ollie Fite Award.  \n\n\n\nThien and Kimxuan like to travel within the United States as well as the world to capture mostly landscaping and wildlife.    
URL:https://nvps.org/home/event/members-gallery-zoom-tanzani-africa-with-kimxuan-thien-nguyen/
CATEGORIES:Activities,Member's Gallery
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SUMMARY:Member’s Gallery (In Person) - Orchids on Canvas with KieuLan Nguyen
DESCRIPTION:Kieulan Nguyen\n\n\n\nKieulan considers herself an avid photographer.  She loves to photograph macro\, landscape\, travel\, street and currently she is working on Light and Shadow project.   \n\n\n\nIn 2019 during Covid\, she took a workshop from Rosie Lalonde to learn how to take pictures of flowers and transform them into paintings using mixer brushes in Photoshop.  Since that day\, she has immersed herself learning more and more about this technique and lately  besides orchids she also paints dogs\, cats\, and birds.   \n\n\n\nFor the last 4 years\, Kieulan has been building up her portfolio of painting orchids.   These paintings are from pictures that were taken from many trips to Longwood Gardens\, US Botanical\, and local gardens near her house.  These images that she presents today are a small body of her work as she continues to look for more exotic orchids to add to her collection. \n\n\n\nPainting is just like mediation.   Seeing an ordinary picture and transforming it into a painting is something that Kieulan loves to do\, and she feels so rewarded after finishing one painting.  A sense of fulfillment that is.
URL:https://nvps.org/home/event/members-gallery-in-person-orchids-on-canvas-with-kieulan-nguyen/
CATEGORIES:Activities,Member's Gallery
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SUMMARY:Member's Gallery (Virtual):  (Zoom) A Western Road Trip with Thu Huyhn
DESCRIPTION:Description\n\n\n\nThu Huyhn recently had a western road trip with her friends for seven days.  Her trip began in the state of California. She went through four other states including Nevada\, Arizona\, New Mexico\, and Utah. The group then headed back to California. The slideshow includes pictures she took during this entire trip. There was about a 30-minute rest at the hotels every day on this busy schedule. It really was an unforgettable road trip! \n\n\n\nThu Huyhn\n\n\n\nBio\n\n\n\nThu started learning photography in 2019. She simply wanted to improve her photography skills for her real estate business\, but it was then that she knew she had a passion for photography and became deeply immersed in it. She loves various types of photography\, including landscape\, portrait\, wildlife\, sports\, macro and street photography. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOn Zoom
URL:https://nvps.org/home/event/members-gallery-virtual-zoom-a-western-road-trip-with-thu-huyhn/
CATEGORIES:Activities,Member's Gallery
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231024T193000
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SUMMARY:Member's Gallery:  (In-Person) Prints - People of Pleiku\, Vietnam with Wayne Guenther
DESCRIPTION:Mother and Baby\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nI was an Army Captain stationed near Pleiku\, Vietnam from September 1970 to September 1971. My budding enthusiasm for photography was muted while there because of long workdays and the “Off Limits” designation of the city.  I was able to do some photography during my official business travels but those images were captured mostly from the air and from vehicles transiting busy city streets. Pleiku’s status changed to “On Limits” in the spring of 1972\, and coupled with my maintenance battalion’s reduced workload related to US troop withdrawals\, I was able to spend a few hours in the city on scattered weekends until I departed for home.  I usually parked my jeep on the edge of the marketplace and wandered around\, occasionally with another soldier/photography enthusiast.  I was received with curiosity and frequent smiles from the people I encountered and was not hindered from raising the camera and pressing the shutter release. \n\n\n\nAlthough all my Vietnam photos lay dormant for decades\, I always intended to do a book or a show around the “People of Pleiku.”  An exhibit opportunity arose in 2013 at the Northern Virginia Community College Verizon Gallery and I matted and framed 30 images for the show. Now another decade has passed and I’m glad to have this opportunity to display them again for NVPS.  I hope you find them interesting. \n\n\n\nBio \n\n\n\nWayne Guenther\n\n\n\nWayne Guenther began his photography avocation in the late 1960s but became increasingly involved with Art Photography in the mid-1990s. Membership in Gallery West and the Art League (both in Alexandria\, VA) nudged him to regularly create new work and develop a style.  In 2009 he was a charter member and President of the Workhouse Photography Group (Lorton\, VA) and remained active there until 2012 when he fully retired. Wayne joined NVPS in 2015.  He has been accepted in many regional juried art competitions/shows over the past 25 years\, and placed in several NVPS monthly competitions.   \n\n\n\nIn Vietnam Wayne shot with Nikon bodies and three lenses; 35mm\, 50mm\, and 135mm.  He processed most of his black and white film at the nearby Air Force Base photo lab\, and sent off the transparency film to the States.  He saw the results on returning home.  Time was not friendly to Kodachrome and Ektachrome slides\, and the storage conditions were hardly archival. Some scans were done in the early 2000s and the others in 2013 and edited with the software of that time. \n\n\n\n\nCigarette Boy\n\n\n\nAnnoyed Fishmonger\n\n\n\nSad Eyed Girl\n\n\n\n\nIn Person at Dunn-Loring Firehouse
URL:https://nvps.org/home/event/members-gallery-in-person-prints-people-of-pleiku-with-wayne-guenther/
CATEGORIES:Activities,Member's Gallery
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SUMMARY:Member's Gallery - (In-Person) - Prints - Photography from Here and There with Jim McDermott
DESCRIPTION:Jim McDermott’s photography draws from travel and from our beautiful “DMV” region. Some of the photographs come from trips to Alaska’s Brooks Falls in Katmai National Park and New Mexico’s White Sands National Park and Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge. \n\n\n\nJim McDermott\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nBio \n\n\n\nJim McDermott is this year’s Education and Training coordinator for NVPS. Trained as an economist\, he finds the trade-offs among shutter speed\, aperture\, and ISO intuitively sensible. He particularly enjoys wildlife photography\, although he enjoys just about any opportunity to practice his craft. \n\n\n\nHe credits NVPS and many friends in the club with challenging him to become a better photographer. At NVPS\, he’s helped coordinate field trips and served as Program VP. He also worked to arrange speakers for Nature Visions\, prior to it becoming Mid-Atlantic Photo Visions. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nIn-Person at the Dunn Loring Firehouse
URL:https://nvps.org/home/event/education-training-in-person-printing-without-losing-your-mind-with-jim-mcdermott/
CATEGORIES:Activities,Member's Gallery
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SUMMARY:Member's Gallery: Virtual (In-Person) -  Wildlife Images from 2023 with Rena Schild
DESCRIPTION:The pandemic sparked Rena’s interest in wildlife photography.  She has recently started travelling to photograph wildlife in other parts of the country and will share some of her wildlife images from 2023. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nBio\n\n\n\nRena Schild\n\n\n\nRena has been interested in photography since she received a film camera as a college graduation gift\, but was sidelined by the practice of law until she had time to take some photography courses in the 1990’s.  She then began experimenting with many types of photography\, including family portraits\, events\, red carpet\, sports\, fine art and most recently bird photography.  Rena is currently happiest capturing athletes and birds in motion but thoroughly enjoys all photography\, especially outdoors.  She joined NVPS in early 2020.  \n\n\n\nIn-Person at the Dunn Loring Firehouse
URL:https://nvps.org/home/event/members-gallery-virtual-in-person-wildlife-images-from-2023-with-rena-schild/
CATEGORIES:Activities,Member's Gallery
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SUMMARY:Member’s Gallery – Digital: Patagonia and Beyond with Fred Krebs
DESCRIPTION:Patagonian Sunrise–at Lago Grey Hotel\nFred Krebs just returned from a 3 1/2 week Overseas Adventure Travel trip around Patagonia. This presentation will include images from across that remote\, diverse and incredibly beautiful region as well as a few from Buenos Aires and Iguazu Falls (spectacular in its own right). \nFred joined NVPS in 2018 and is thankful for how much it has helped him improve his photographic skills. He generally takes away something from each meeting that he can use. Fred especially appreciates the Portfolio Projects and how much he learns from his participation. \nFred takes pictures of things that interest him (which frequently changes). Since retiring Fred and his wife have increased their travels and the photo opportunities have grown as well.  He loves travel photography but his pictures may include just about anything else. Recently\, he has become especially fascinated with black and white and hopes to improve in that area. \nFred purchased his first camera in 1975 shortly after coming to Washington\, DC for a new job.  The first paycheck paid the rent and with the second he bought an Olympus OM 1 (which he still has). While he has tried virtually every brand of camera from Canon to Sony\, Fred remains partial to Olympus and the mirrorless MFT system because of its relatively small size. However\, he took several of the photos in this presentation with his iPhone 13\, which has assumed an increasingly larger role in his photography. He subscribes to the saying\, “the best camera is the one you have with you”.
URL:https://nvps.org/home/event/members-gallery-digital-patagonia-and-beyond-with-fred-krebs/
LOCATION:Virtual via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Activities,Member's Gallery
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SUMMARY:Member’s Gallery – Prints (Virtually) Birds - One Photo Per Species with David Kravitz
DESCRIPTION:Description: David took this invitation as a challenge to create enough acceptable photographs of birds to fill a 10-minute presentation without repeating species. The photographs were taken in the U.S.\, Costa Rica\, Ecuador (the Galapagos Islands)\, and Iceland \nBio: David Kravitz enjoyed Black and White photography (with his own darkroom) for 2-3 years around 1970\, but then life intervened and time for photography faded away. He always intended to return to photography when he retired\, which he did in June 2019. He researched local photography clubs and\, because he concluded that it would provide the best learning opportunities\, he joined NVPS – a decision he has never regretted. He considers himself a neophyte and is still open to almost all areas of photography. He devotes the most time to nature photography\, but also enjoys travel\, documentary\, street\, and sports photography.
URL:https://nvps.org/home/event/members-gallery-prints-virtually-birds-one-photo-per-species-with-david-kravitz/
LOCATION:Virtual via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Activities,Member's Gallery
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230425T194500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230425T200000
DTSTAMP:20260412T011047
CREATED:20220708T202847Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230228T165021Z
UID:25370-1682451900-1682452800@nvps.org
SUMMARY:Member’s Gallery – Digital: Street Photography with Phyllis Kimmel and Suzy McIntire
DESCRIPTION:Phyllis Kimmel and Suzy McIntire will share a combined Member’s Gallery focused on street photography around Washington DC and New York. Phyllis will share photos from local street fairs and festivals in Washington DC – both spontaneous and street portraits – along with some other local and NYC street photography. Suzy enjoys walking around the city\, noticing what people and animals are up to\, and capturing their sometimes unusual activities. \nBIO – Phyllis Kimmel \nPhyllis has loved photography for as long as she can remember and was thrilled with the Canon AE-1 she received as a Bat Mitzvah gift from her grandmother.  Eventually Phyllis went digital and shot with Canon DSLRs until\, in 2023\, she took the leap to a Fuji mirrorless camera. \nPhyllis combines her love of hiking and the outdoors with photography.  She spends her weekends camera in hand\, exploring trails\, mountains\, parks\, gardens\, and more.  She finds herself drawn to the beauty in the ordinary and focusing on capturing the smaller details around her.  Over the past six years\, Phyllis has been a volunteer photographer for a local non-profit\, Community of Hope\, and with that\, began aspiring to become more comfortable with people as subjects.  More recently\, she’s stepped even farther outside her comfort zone with street photography—a fun endeavor.  \nPhyllis has been a member of NVPS for the past nine years or so.  She received an Honorable Mention at the October 2022 Art League Patterns exhibit\, and in February 2023\, two of her photographs won first and second place in their categories of the Washington Gardener photo competition. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\nBIO – Suzy McIntire \nWith her first Olympus film camera\, Suzy McIntire took all the photos for her 2002 garden book (An American Cutting Garden\, UVA Press). For many years at the Natural History Museum\, she photographed small fossils for researchers and the collections database.  Using a microscope\, scientific camera\, and software for “extended depth of field” (EDF) photos\, these were composites sometimes of as many as 25 pictures.  She once was asked to photograph what a museum visitor claimed was a fossil apple—this visitor planned to sell it to Apple for a million dollars to fund his retirement. (A paleontologist had to tell him it was not a fossil apple.)  \nIn 2012 Suzy won the Washington Post Humor Photo Contest for a photo of an outhouse on a dinosaur dig in Wyoming.  Tiring of documentary pictures\, she got a Fuji camera three years ago and found happiness in street photography and urban landscapes. This past month she was pleased to get a photo into the Exposed DC annual competition.  She has been an NVPS member since 2019\, unless it was 2018.
URL:https://nvps.org/home/event/members-gallery-digital-street-photography-with-phyllis-kimmel-and-suzy-mcintire/
LOCATION:Virtual via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Activities,Member's Gallery
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230425T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230425T194500
DTSTAMP:20260412T011047
CREATED:20220708T202618Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230313T154026Z
UID:25368-1682451000-1682451900@nvps.org
SUMMARY:Member’s Gallery – Prints (Virtually): Nostalgia-Field Trips Before Covid with Willa Friedman
DESCRIPTION:Willa will be just reminiscing.  Field trips are always fun and looking back at the pictures we took is fun too. \nBIO: \nWilla’s first job after college was as an instructor at the American Museum of Natural History in New York\, Her first summer there\, she had a choice of several summer projects—filing\, cleaning small animal cages or photographing wildlife in city parks for the NYC schools. She claimed to be able to do photography and brought home a camera and a light meter.   Bob taught her everything she needed to know over the following weekend and her work was published. Bob still claims to have taught her everything she knows.  \nWilla has taken courses and workshops at Photoworks at Glen Echo\, and with Freeman Patterson and Andre Gallant in New Brunswick\, Canada\, and Santa Fe Workshop in Santa Fe\, NM.  She has also had extensive courses in Photoshop with Eliot Cohen. She has been a member of NVPS since 2004 and has learned a great deal from the members and speakers. She has held many positions and is currently coordinator for the solo shows at Beanetics. \nWilla won Photographer of the Year in Novice Monochrome in 2006\, Advanced Monochrome in 2009 and Color Print of the Year in 2008.  Willa has work on display at the Art League Gallery at the Torpedo Factory in Alexandria and Falls Church Arts.  She has an image in the permanent collection of the Joseph Miller Center for Photographic Arts. She has had several images published in the Northern Virginia Review and has won their Best in Visual Arts award twice\, and was also published in Elan Magazine\, as well as being in numerous juried shows.   Willa has had solo shows at 1st Stage\, the Stone Tower Gallery at Glen Echo and has had several shows at Beanetics Coffee Rosters in Annandale and has been a guest artist at Waverly Street Gallery in Bethesda.
URL:https://nvps.org/home/event/members-gallery-prints-virtually-nostalgia-field-trips-before-covid-with-willa-friedman/
LOCATION:Virtual via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Activities,Member's Gallery
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230328T194500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230328T200000
DTSTAMP:20260412T011047
CREATED:20220708T202117Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230122T165833Z
UID:25364-1680032700-1680033600@nvps.org
SUMMARY:Member’s Gallery – Digital: Staying Local with Tana Ebbole
DESCRIPTION:Tana has thoroughly enjoyed having the opportunity to explore and photograph what she calls “local” places. She feels there are many amazing national and state parks\, formal gardens\, museums\, architecture\, and interesting neighborhoods and towns nearby. One really does not need to travel far to experience  places to photograph\, and since neither she nor her husband are great travelers\, they feel fortunate to live in an area of the country that one does not have to go far to seen new and interesting sites.  Tana feels that NVPS members will recognize the locations in her slide show and hopes that what she has captured represents these sites through interesting and appealing photographs. \nBIO \nTana Ebbole\, an Arlington based photographer\, seeks interesting flowers\, landscapes\, and scenes to photograph\, finding that the solitude and peace of being outside in nature or working in her ad hoc studio help her to achieve total focus and a place of calm and peacefulness. She has been selected in several juried competitions\, and is a member of NVPS and the Art League’s Gallery 75.
URL:https://nvps.org/home/event/members-gallery-digital-staying-local-with-tana-ebbole/
LOCATION:Virtual via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Activities,Member's Gallery
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230328T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230328T194500
DTSTAMP:20260412T011047
CREATED:20220708T201823Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230116T165721Z
UID:25362-1680031800-1680032700@nvps.org
SUMMARY:Member’s Gallery – Prints (Virtually): A Five Month Journey Around the US with Alan Goldstein
DESCRIPTION:After months of planning and making reservations\, Alan and his wife Marty set off on April 25\, 2022\, for a 156-day journey around the U.S. in their 27-foot motorhome. The trip took in 25 states and many National Parks as well as other interesting places. They returned on September 27. Obviously\, Alan made photos.  Over 21\,000!  This presentation attempts to distill those 21\,000 images into a 10-minute Members Gallery. \nBIO \nA member of NVPS since 2012\, Alan has been involved in some way or other with photography for the past 60 years.  It began with a science teacher instructing him on the art of film developing.  At that time\, he was using a Kodak Brownie.  Veering off during his teen-age years to using an 8mm movie camera\, he returned to still photography during his college years and while working as a reporter for his hometown newspaper. \nAlan was supposed to call in a newspaper photographer for photos\, but she lived nearly 30 miles away\, so he opted to take photos himself.  At first\, he used a Polaroid Type 103 for photos since it made instant\, crisp pictures.  But encouraged by a classmate and photographer\, Alan got a 35mm camera and access to the college’s darkroom\, and processed Tri-X each time he had a news event or other photo request.  \nAfter graduating from college\, Alan enlisted in the Navy\, becoming a Navy Journalist and later a Public Affairs Officer. \nHis high school girlfriend had a Nikon SLR\, and that became Alan’s Holy Grail.  As a low-ranking Navy man\, Alan scraped up the money and bought his first true SLR — a Minolta SRT-101.  As he progressed up the Navy ranks\, he upgraded to a Minolta X700. \nFast forward to 2003.  Alan’s brother-in-law was getting married and Alan was the photographer.  An acquaintance who was a Nikon rep loaned Alan a D100.   It was love at first click!  Since then\, Alan has had a D100\, D200\, D300\, D810\, and since November 2017\, a D850. \nRetired from the Navy in 1994 and retired from Civil Service in 2011\, Alan is happy to spend his time making images.  He loves photographing just about everything\, but really likes night scenes and landscapes. His photos have been used for greeting cards by non-profits\, used for proposals by environmental entities\, have been used by sports web sites\, have appeared in newspapers\, and even hang in a gas station. \nAlan says he loves being a member of NVPS.  He has gained some great friends\, enjoys the camaraderie\, and has learned something new nearly every meeting.
URL:https://nvps.org/home/event/members-gallery-prints-a-five-month-journey-around-the-us-with-alan-goldstein/
LOCATION:Virtual via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Activities,Member's Gallery
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230228T194500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230228T200000
DTSTAMP:20260412T011047
CREATED:20220708T200014Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230102T194821Z
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SUMMARY:Member’s Gallery – Digital: Italy's Adriatic coast towns with Clark Barker
DESCRIPTION:Scenes from Clark and wife Joan’s last overseas pre-covid journey to Rome\, Malta\, and the Adriatic Coast of Italy by small ship\, ending in Venice. \nBio: \nFollowing college and gainful employment Clark purchased a Minolta SRT101 which was mostly used to produce slides.  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.  Clark’s photographic experience has mostly been as a tourist taking snapshots of interesting places visited and photos of his son and daughter when they were children.  After retirement Clark and wife Joan took several overseas trips with organized tour groups. \nClark joined NVPS in 2015 and was the class two color print Photographer of the Year for 2016-2017.  NVPS membership has led to vastly improved comprehension of shutter speed\, aperture and ISO.  He uses Lightroom/Photoshop CC and Topaz for postprocessing.   \nHe enjoys taking travel photos\, especially landscapes\, but has more recently begun exploring other types of photography such as wildlife and macro. \nPhotos on the 2019 trip to Malta and Italy were taken with a Canon 5D mark III camera.
URL:https://nvps.org/home/event/members-gallery-digital-italys-adriatic-coast-towns-with-clark-barker/
LOCATION:Virtual via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Activities,Member's Gallery
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230228T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230228T194500
DTSTAMP:20260412T011047
CREATED:20220708T195746Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230104T190517Z
UID:25356-1677612600-1677613500@nvps.org
SUMMARY:Member’s Gallery – Prints (Virtually): East Africa - Again with Nancy Dubiell and Bill Vanderpool
DESCRIPTION:Even though we have been to East Africa before\, we welcomed this\, our fifth trip.  Although the land is the same\, the people and the animals are always different.  This trip\, with Overseas Adventure Travel (OAT)\, included Kenya\, Tanzania\, and Rwanda. \nBIO:    \nNancy and Bill have been members of NVPS since\, well\, since the Washington Gas days. They started getting more serious about photography as their travels commenced\, first within the States and then overseas.  This was their 22nd trip with OAT. \nThey started with slides and\, as they transitioned to digital\, kept the old habit of trying to get the image right in the camera\, with minimal post processing.  Most of their photography is of their travels.  Bill likes street photography and Nancy leans towards landscapes.  Both enjoy wildlife photography. \nAfter a long dry spell of traveling due to Covid\, they have recently started back with a summer trip to Ireland and this one of 3 ½ weeks to Africa.  They are already signed up for at least one trip this year and another in 2024.  Both use Canons and have recently changed to the Tamron 18×400 as their “all-in-one” travel lens.
URL:https://nvps.org/home/event/members-gallery-prints-virtually-east-africa-again-with-nancy-dubiell-and-bill-vanderpool/
LOCATION:Virtual via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Activities,Member's Gallery
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230124T194500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230124T200000
DTSTAMP:20260412T011047
CREATED:20220708T193454Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221126T225226Z
UID:25352-1674589500-1674590400@nvps.org
SUMMARY:Member’s Gallery – Digital: Egypt\, Jordan and the Valleys of the Vendors with Bill Corbett
DESCRIPTION:This fall Bill and Judy Corbett joined a group tour to see the pyramids in Egypt\, Petra in Jordan\, and many other antiquities in between.  Along the way\, Bill took the opportunity to photograph not only the iconic sites\, but also the people at work in those places.  Bill often shot surreptiously and silently\, using a wide angle lens\, the camera upside down at hip level\, and set for a high frame rate. The denizens of the “valleys of the vendors” were his favorite subjects \nA photojournalist in college\, Bill Corbett returned to photography fifteen or so years ago with the advent of digital tools.  He enjoys nature and travel photography the most.  He has been a member of NVPS since 2011 and is a past president of Mid-Atlantic Photo Visions (formerly Nature Visions).  Bill and Judy moved to Aldie in Loudoun County in 2017 after 23 years in McLean\, where they raised their three kids.  He served for two decades as a U.S. diplomat and trade negotiator. 
URL:https://nvps.org/home/event/members-gallery-digital-egypt-jordan-and-the-valleys-of-the-vendors-with-bill-corbett/
LOCATION:Virtual via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Activities,Member's Gallery
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230124T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230124T194500
DTSTAMP:20260412T011047
CREATED:20220708T193116Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221012T132920Z
UID:25350-1674588600-1674589500@nvps.org
SUMMARY:Member’s Gallery – Prints (Virtually): Flora and Fauna: Four Seasons in the Washington DC Area with Eva Lanyi
DESCRIPTION:For the past year or so\, Eva stayed close to home for her photography adventures.  Exploring local gardens and natural areas for plants and animals to photograph was incredibly rewarding.  She was able to capture nature in all four seasons and experience the changes it undergoes with time’s passage.  Starting and ending with spring\, her slideshow will take you on the journey with her. \nEva has been interested in photography since childhood and still has her first camera\, a Kodak Brownie Starmatic.  She dabbled in film photography for many years until about 10 years ago\, when she got serious with her first digital camera.  Now she spends much of her spare time enjoying photography and improving her skills.
URL:https://nvps.org/home/event/members-gallery-prints-virtually-flora-and-fauna-four-seasons-in-the-washington-dc-area-eva-lanyi/
LOCATION:Virtual via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Activities,Member's Gallery
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221122T194500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221122T200000
DTSTAMP:20260412T011047
CREATED:20220708T190356Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220903T151717Z
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SUMMARY:Member’s Gallery – Digital: Arizona Skies with Debra Mastronardi
DESCRIPTION:Debra will present a collection of images from storm chasing during Arizona’s monsoon season. \nDebra was introduced to photography by a classmate while in college\, and was instantly  hooked.  She gets inspired by what is possible when looking through the lens.  Growing up in New York City combined with her love of travel\, she explored different genres from cityscapes\, landscapes\, architectural\, and most recently\, street.  She discovered she has always been a street photographer at heart but never realized that until she digitized all her photos.  Debra enjoys exploring new genres of photography and honing her street photography skills. She joined NVPS in 2021.
URL:https://nvps.org/home/event/members-gallery-digital-arizona-skies-with-debra-mastronardi/
LOCATION:Virtual via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Activities,Member's Gallery
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221122T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221122T194500
DTSTAMP:20260412T011047
CREATED:20220708T185751Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220914T155813Z
UID:25344-1669145400-1669146300@nvps.org
SUMMARY:Member’s Gallery – Prints (Virtually): Four Season in the Appalachian Highlands with David Lattanzi
DESCRIPTION:For a few weeks every year\, nature photographers converge on the Appalachian Mountains to capture the beautiful fall foliage. Yet this unique region offers year-round opportunities for image making\, as Dave hopes to convey to you. \nDave Lattanzi got into photography over 20 years ago after finding his mother’s old Canon AE-1\, primarily to impress his girlfriend. His love of photography has lasted far longer than that relationship. His photographic journey started with traditional black and white darkroom processes that still influence the way he shoots today. \nHe has a love of both nature and travel photography\, often in combination. He has been fortunate enough to travel the world with his camera\, having visited 50 states\, 5 continents\, and more countries than he can count. But his heart belongs to the West Virginia highlands\, and he is devoted to capturing the unique beauty of those lands. He counts Fay Godwin\, Bruce Percy\, Clyde Butcher\, and Galen Rowell among the myriad photographers that have inspired him over the years. He has been a member of NVPS since 2018. You can see more of his work at lattanziphoto.com \n 
URL:https://nvps.org/home/event/members-gallery-prints-virtually-four-seasons-in-the-appalachian-highlands-with-david-lattanzi/
LOCATION:Virtual via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Activities,Member's Gallery
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221025T194500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221025T200000
DTSTAMP:20260412T011047
CREATED:20220708T154539Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220715T154836Z
UID:25340-1666727100-1666728000@nvps.org
SUMMARY:Member’s Gallery – Digital: Covid Projects to Keep Me Sane with Bob Friedman
DESCRIPTION:This gallery will feature some of the projects that Bob worked on during COVID. Some took planning like “Railroad Crossings” where he traveled to find the crossings. Another was wandering around and seeing a “Lone Person Sitting”. A third project was looking for “Ladders” that looked interesting. And lastly\, the fourth project\, seeing young ladies celebrating quinceañera at Green Spring Gardens. \nBob Friedman Bio:As a teenager\, Bob started his photography journey with a darkroom in his parents basement which he inherited from his brother. The first thing he did when we bought his own home was to build a darkroom in the basement.Today Bob is 100% digital in color and black and white (his preferred medium)Bob has taken courses and workshops at Photoworks at Glen Echo\, and withFreeman Patterson and Andre Gallant in New Brunswick\, Canada. \n \nAwards: \nNorthern Virginia Photographic SocietyPhotographer of the Year – Color Prints 2006-2007Print of the Year – Monochrome 2012-2013 \nJewish Community Relations Council National Contest 2008Two Honorable Mentions \nShows:Penn Camera – Dec. 2009National Parks of Utah\, Two person showMeadowlark Nature Photography Juried Show 2005-2008NatureVisions Juried Show 2009-2017Center for the Photographic Arts – Gainesville\, VirginiaAbstract Photography Exhibition Spring 2012-2017Best in Show. The Art League\, Alexaandria\, Virginia\, April 2017Multiple images in the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections at the Smithsonian Institution\, Washington\, D.C.Prints on display in various professional offices in the Metro DC area.
URL:https://nvps.org/home/event/members-gallery-digital-covid-projects-to-keep-me-sane-with-bob-friedman/
LOCATION:Virtual via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Activities,Member's Gallery
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221025T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221025T194500
DTSTAMP:20260412T011047
CREATED:20220708T154207Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220823T000942Z
UID:25338-1666726200-1666727100@nvps.org
SUMMARY:Member’s Gallery – Prints (Virtually): Alaska Brown Bears with Len Johnson
DESCRIPTION:The Alaska Brown Bears presentation is a collection of photos taken by Len Johnson during a photography workshop led by Tom and Cree Bol in July 2022. This was a 7-day adventure that started in Anchorage Alaska. The 8-person group of photographers flew in Piper Cub planes to Salmon Creek Lodge in Lake Clark National Park. We landed on the beach in front of the lodge and stayed there for six days. \nEach day was a new adventure as we traveled in open carts pulled by 4×4 vehicles in search of roaming bears. We also walked out on the beach behind the lodge and came within 30 yards of the mother bears strolling with their cubs. The bears were grazing on sedge grass and digging in the beach sand for clams. Even though we were extremely close to the animals\, they never appeared to feel threatened by the photographers\, and we also felt secure in our distance. Most often a mother bear had two or three cubs near her. Our workshop included early morning expeditions and afternoon sessions that lasted until dusk. \nThe trip ended with a helicopter flight to the Kink Glacier where we landed on the tundra. We debarked from the helicopter and strapped spikes to our boots to give us traction on the ice. The scene was both desolate and beautiful as we carefully walked across the ice. Actually\, it felt like we were walking on the moon! \nThis was a “bucket list” adventure that I look forward to sharing with NVPS and hope it makes you want to experience it yourself. \nBIO \nAfter graduating with a BFA degree in graphic design from the University of Illinois\, Len served three years in the U.S. Army as a photographer during the Vietnam War era. Upon completing his enlistment commitment\, he joined a 3-person design firm in Washington\, D.C.\, where he worked for seven years. He began his business career when he purchased the firm from the owner upon his retirement. Len operated his firm JDG Communications (JDG)\, for 30 years. JDG tripled in size and became an award-winning brand development and integrated marketing firm with national accounts. Government agencies selected his firm for high-profile federal programs\, including the FTC Do-Not-Call launch campaign\, the SBA Business.gov website launch\, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Centennial celebration\, and the rebranding of the U.S. Agency for International Development. \nThe growth of the business with its talented team and valuable government contracts made JDG an acquisition candidate for other integrated marketing firms in metropolitan Washington\, D.C. In 2009 he sold his firm to Sage Communications (Sage). \nHe has been a member of NVPS since 2014 and appreciates the opportunities it provides for learning from experienced professional photographers’ presentations and competition critiques. He also values the friendships he has made through NVPS meetings and events.
URL:https://nvps.org/home/event/members-gallery-prints-virtually-alaska-brown-bears-with-len-johnson/
LOCATION:Virtual via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Activities,Member's Gallery
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220927T194500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220927T200000
DTSTAMP:20260412T011047
CREATED:20220702T233343Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220802T151302Z
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SUMMARY:Member’s Gallery – Digital: Flower Photography with Georgette Grossman
DESCRIPTION:This presentation is all about FLOWERS…some photographed in nature\, some in a studio setting\, and some captured in grocery stores with my cell phone! Each flower has its own personality and I love photographing their beauty.  \nBio: \nGeorgette Grossman’s love of photography began in earnest when her granddaughter\, Ava\, was born in 2006. Before then she had played with point’n’shoot cameras but never understood what was really going on inside the “box.” The following year\, when Ava began to move around faster than her point’n’shoot could capture her smiles\, it was time to buy and learn how to use a DSLR (Nikon D80 was her first). Georgette took a class through Fairfax County Adult Ed. Her first instructor\, John Gonsalves\, was wonderful. He told the class on the first day of instruction that we all had expensive cameras with lots of automatic features\, but we were going to learn how to shoot manual! Initially the class was terrified\, but somehow the concept of aperture\, shutter speed\, and exposure fell into place. Tell a story he would say; fill the frame! Georgette’s journey in photography had begun. \nGeorgette learned about the Northern Virginia Photographic Society (NVPS) at Meadowlark in February\, 2008 and she joined shortly thereafter. The club was a source of endless people who LOVED photography as much as she did—folks who were willing to share their talents to help her improve her photography. The meetings provided wonderful programs and hands-on workshops that made learning fun. \nGeorgette especially remembers participating in a Portfolio Project where Joe Miller announced that in this day of digital technology almost anyone could take a decent picture\, but it took effort to capture great images. What a true statement! Monthly competition became a way to learn what makes an image better. Watching everyone’s images being critiqued\, became a useful learning experience. \nIn 2010 Georgette was elected the Secretary/Historian for NVPS. She was elected the president of NVPS for the 2014-2015 term and has served as an Advisor to the Board ever since. \nShe photographed with a variety of Nikon DSLR’s but switched to mirrorless Fuji in 2016. Currently she uses the Fuji X-T3 and loves the fact that she can “see” what the image will look like before she presses the trigger. She also photographs with her Pixel 6 cell phone camera. \nGeorgette uses her photography to share her vision of the world with others. She captures moments she wants to remember; her subjects include abstracts\, people\, places\, nature. Flowers are a favorite. During the COVID pandemic she did not get out to photograph much\, but\, every time she grocery shopped she captured the flowers in the Giant and practiced various post-processing techniques in Lightroom\, Photoshop\, DXO Nik\, and Topaz Studio 2. Some of those images are in her presentation. \nShe had a solo exhibit at Beanetics Coffee Roasters coffee shop in Annandale\, VA. . Her images\, A Man and his Dog and Quiet Lunch were selected for Volume 31 of The Northern Virginia Review\, Spring 2017. Her image African Daisy was the cover image in The Washington Gardener Magazine in 2019. Georgette has exhibited her images at The Art League in Alexandria\, VA\, the Glen Echo Annual Labor Day Art Show\, the ArtSpace Herndon Fine Art Photography Exhibit\, Mid-Atlantic Photo Visions Expo annual exhibit\, Washington Gardener Magazine\, and the Annual Joseph Miller Abstract Photography Exhibit. Her images can be seen at https://georgette-grossman.pixels.com/.
URL:https://nvps.org/home/event/members-gallery-digital-flower-photography-with-georgette-grossman/
CATEGORIES:Activities,Member's Gallery
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SUMMARY:Member’s Gallery – Prints (Virtually): Abstracts – Just for Fun with Joan Barker
DESCRIPTION:This gallery presentation will showcase how much Joan enjoys using Camera Motion and computer manipulation to create images beyond reality. \nJoan joined NVPS in 2015.  Although Joan has always enjoyed photographing family and places she visited\, she was not sure that she would enjoy being a part of a photography club.  Joan was using a point and shoot camera at the time and knew nothing about F stop\, Shutter Speed\, or ISO.  Needless to say Joan has learned a lot in the past 7 years and now shoots with the mirrorless Fuji X-T3. \nShe enjoys shooting landscapes\, flowers\, and abstracts.  She loves doing post processing on the computer as it encourages her creative juices.  This naturally led to her interest in abstracts as there are so many opportunities to manipulate an image digitally. During the pandemic\, she joined her churches’ photographic team and spent many hours safely documenting their events both outdoors and eventually inside as well.  \nJoan was an educator and taught elementary school before her children were born. After kids\, she chose part time teaching and eventually administration in Early Childhood.  \nYes\, Joan is happy she joined NVPS as the group has inspired her to try new techniques and enabled her to enjoy the works of so many excellent photographers.
URL:https://nvps.org/home/event/members-gallery-prints-virtually-abstracts-just-for-fun-with-joan-barker/
LOCATION:Virtual via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Activities,Member's Gallery
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220524T200000
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SUMMARY:Member’s Gallery – Digital: A Walk With Nature with Sarah Olsen
DESCRIPTION:Sarah loves to travel and capture her experiences through photography.  While working remotely during the pandemic\, she hiked many National and State Park trails throughout the United States including Yellowstone\, Grand Tetons\, Rocky Mountain\, Zion\, Bryce Canyon\, Arches\, Joshua Tree\, Mt. Rainier\, Columbia River Gorge\, Haleakalā\, Grand Canyon\, Saguaro\, Sedona\, Acadia\, and Shenandoah.  Walking with nature has given Sarah an appreciation of the depth\, breadth\, and the beauty of the great outdoors.  This gallery highlights photos from Sarah’s travels over the past two years\, shot entirely on her iPhone.  She frequently pulled her iPhone out of her hiking backpack to capture shots of the stunning landscapes and interesting silhouettes along the way.Sarah is a beginner photographer and new member of NVPS\, joining in the Fall of 2021.  She was inspired by her father and fellow club member\, John Olsen\, to further develop her photography skills.  Sarah has attended several NVPS field trips with her Dad over the years.
URL:https://nvps.org/home/event/members-gallery-digital-a-walk-with-nature-with-sarah-olsen/
CATEGORIES:Activities,Member's Gallery
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SUMMARY:Member’s Gallery – Prints (Virtually): A View from the Street with Robin Weisz
DESCRIPTION:Robin will present a galley of architecture\, shadows\, reflections\, and street photography. \nRobin was introduced to photography as part of the curriculum in her work towards her BFA in graphic design. Working her way through college as an assistant in the photo lab she spent many hours helping others with their processing of film and black and white prints. From the very beginning Robin found herself drawn to images of architecture\, abstraction and reflections. That continues to be the main focus of her work. Robin is a full-time graphic designer with her own studio\, Robin Weisz Design (robinweiszdesign.com). The studio’s focus is on publication design for non-profits and higher education. Robin’s architectural photography has been featured in many publications designed for UCLA. \nOriginally from New York\, Robin has been a full-time resident of Los Angeles for the past 40 years. Fellow NVPS member\, and high school classmate\, Rena Schild suggested that since the NVPS meetings were now virtual she might be interested in joining. She has enjoyed the virtual meetings and participating in the competitions and feels she has learned a great deal from her membership and the critiques.
URL:https://nvps.org/home/event/members-gallery-prints-virtually-a-view-from-the-street-with-robin-weisz/
CATEGORIES:Activities,Member's Gallery
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