BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//NVPS - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:NVPS X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://nvps.org/home X-WR-CALDESC:Events for NVPS REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20180311T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20181104T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20190310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20191103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20200308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20201101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20210314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20211107T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220426T194500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220426T200000 DTSTAMP:20260412T073649 CREATED:20210730T171554Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220318T142318Z UID:22321-1651002300-1651003200@nvps.org SUMMARY:Member’s Gallery – Digital: People\, Places and Things with Greg Smith DESCRIPTION:People\, Places and Things (but not in that order!) \nThis presentation is broken into three parts:  People (street photography)\, Things (that caught my eye) and Places (landscapes and places) from our travels over the last few years. \nGreg Smith Bio: \nEnthusiast to Opportunist to Hobbyist to “Something More”? \nGreg became familiar with photography from an early age.  His father\, serving in Ireland and Cyprus\, took many pictures throughout their many travels\, always considering angles and framing the subjects when he could\, and describing what and why as he did so.  Many a slide show was enjoyed!  \nGreg got his first SLR (Minolta) prior to deployment to the Mediterranean Sea with the Marines\, knowing there would be ample opportunities for pictures.  However\, it was when attempting to take a picture of the Duomo in Florence\, Italy he realized he needed a wide-angle zoom\, as he had to take the picture from 3 blocks away to get it all in!  He secured his lens at the Navy Exchange in Naples\, and so the enthusiast was hooked. \nWhen Greg’s wife upgraded her camera\, he took over her Nikon 5600 and began taking pictures again.  He was able to have a cup of coffee with a retired Marine who introduced him to NVPS\, showing him several amazing award-winning photographs.  K-12 invited Greg to visit a club meeting\, which he did\, along with his wife\, and shortly after they joined. \nSince joining NVPS he has enjoyed the inspiration of seeing amazing pictures\, the creativity of other members and the focused opportunities afforded by the themed competitions.   Taking more pictures led to upgrading to a Nikon D750\, and with the encouragement of his wife\, adopted shooting primarily in manual mode.  \nNow Greg enjoys shooting whatever he happens upon: birds and landscapes primarily\, and street photography when afforded the opportunity.  He is becoming more purposeful in his photography\, moving from just shooting snapshots to thinking about compositions and seeking out better environments for capturing images.  He and his wife Gitta are anticipating an RV trip to Denver\, Grand Tetons and Yellowstone National Parks\, with many stops along the way\, and hopefully will have many opportunities to expand his skills. URL:https://nvps.org/home/event/members-gallery-digital-people-places-and-things-with-greg-smith/ CATEGORIES:Activities,Member's Gallery ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nvps.org/home/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Greg-Smith.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220426T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220426T194500 DTSTAMP:20260412T073649 CREATED:20210730T171121Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220318T224013Z UID:22319-1651001400-1651002300@nvps.org SUMMARY:Member’s Gallery – Prints (Virtually): Getting to Know You with Susan Blalock\, Suzy McIntire and Terri Lannigan DESCRIPTION:This evening will be an NVPS first: a Group Member’s Gallery featuring three of our newer and new to gallery presentation members. Susan Blalock\, Suzy McIntire and Terri Lannigan present three mini Member’s Galleries. \nSusan Blalock \nSusan got her love of photography from her grandfather and helped him develop photos for family holiday cards in his home darkroom which was located a closet under the stairs.  She purchased a digital camera several years ago and the pandemic gave her the opportunity to spend more time taking photos.  Finding NVPS was quite the happy accident for Susan when she started to look for a local camera club to join.  NVPS’ weekly meetings\, variety of speakers\, field trips\, and the mentor program were all interesting and last winter she decided to join the Club.  Since the Fall Susan has been working with mentor Will Friedman and so far their focus has been working on black and white images.  Willa’s guidance has helped Susan to improve how she sees images and improved the tonal range of her images.  Susan is still very much a “newbie” and she enjoys nature photography\, long exposure\, and macro\, but is not opposed to giving any genre a try. \n \n\n\n\n\n\nSuzy McIntire \nSuzy has had two wonderful mentors since she joined NVPS in 2019: Willa Friedman and Stan Bysshe. She can’t thank them enough for help to learn her Fuji\, how to shoot in RAW and use HDR and LightRoom\, how to choose a picture for competition\, and the importance of “knowing her bird.” There was excellent discussion of issues around street photography\, and some pictures even got competition awards\, although not when she didn’t listen to Willa. \n\n\n\n\n\nTerri Lannigan \nTerri was introduced to photography by her father\, an avid photographer of nature\, trains and automobiles.  They spent many hours hiking and capturing photos\, mostly landscape\, with her trusty Pentax K1000.  The cost of film was prohibitive during college and early professional years\, and photography fell by the wayside.  With the advent of digital photography\, and with young children\, Terri again picked up the camera for family events and vacations.  As the kids got older\, and time was more available to return to hiking and to devote to the craft of photography\, Terri was lucky to be encouraged by Georgette Grossman to join NVPS.  She hasn’t looked back!  Originally\, thinking that she would focus on mammals and landscape\, she found that vision difficult to realize for short weekend jaunts and ended up developing a love of birds\, insects and tree frogs.  NVPS has been a huge contributor to her growth as a photographer and she is looking forward to continuing to learn and grow through the many resources available here. URL:https://nvps.org/home/event/members-gallery-prints-virtually-getting-to-know-you-with-susan-blalock-suzy-mcintire-and-terri-lannigan/ CATEGORIES:Activities,Member's Gallery ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nvps.org/home/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Blalock_McIntire_Lannigan.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220322T194500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220322T200000 DTSTAMP:20260412T073649 CREATED:20210730T154706Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220114T143023Z UID:22298-1647978300-1647979200@nvps.org SUMMARY:Member’s Gallery – Digital: Greek Islands 2021 with Kirk Johnson DESCRIPTION:For this Members Gallery\, Kirk will be presenting photographs that were taken during a November 2021 cruise to the Greek Islands. \nKirk Johnson is a seasoned photographer who has been taking digital photos since 2012.  A Nikon shooter\, Kirk is interested in a variety of subjects that include wildlife (in November 2019 he did a photo shoot in South Africa and Zimbabwe)\, architecture\, travel\, street and urban\, portrait\, black-and-white\, floral and abstract.  Kirk uses an array of post-processing tools to create his final product including Photoshop Creative Cloud Topaz Studio\, Photomatix\, and PortraitPro Studio. \nKirk has been recognized internationally\, nationally\, and locally with a variety of photographic awards including: six photo creations on CBS Sunday Morning (2021 & 2022)\,  2019 Annual Photography Award (APA) – Honorable Mention for Wildlife category\, 2017 International Fine Arts Photography Award (FAPA) – Nominee Award for Abstract photography; the 2014 Great American Country  (GAC) – Hunt for Americana Photo Contest – United States Southern Region Finalist; and numerous NVPS monthly and end-of-year competition awards.  Additionally\, three of his photographs were juried into the 2020 Mid-Atlantic Photo Visions competition and a People’s Choice finalist.  \nHis photographs have appeared in Outdoor Photography.com\, Bliss Magazine\, twice in Shutterbug.com “Photo of the Day\,” and inside the Willing Warriors Retreat at Bull Run (Reflecting Pond and Lincoln Memorial)\, and in the 2020 Burke and Herbert Calendar – for the month of August (Jefferson Memorial).  \nKirk\, a retired Naval officer and Federal employee lives in Alexandria\, Virginia with his wife\, Leslie.  Kirk has volunteered his time in NVPS; as a Members Forum Coordinator\, Members Gallery Coordinator\, and most recently Vice President for Programs. \nYou can see some of Kirk’s photo creations on his website www.kirkjohnsonphotography.squarespace.com. URL:https://nvps.org/home/event/members-gallery-digital-greek-islands-2021-with-kirk-johnson/ CATEGORIES:Activities,Member's Gallery ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nvps.org/home/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Kirk-Johnson-Self-portrait-bW.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220322T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220322T194500 DTSTAMP:20260412T073649 CREATED:20210730T153826Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220207T184628Z UID:22296-1647977400-1647978300@nvps.org SUMMARY:Member’s Gallery – Prints (Virtually): Close to Home with Willa Friedman DESCRIPTION:For the past two years\, because of the pandemic\, Willa has been photographing very close to home. This is an overview of the parks in the vicinity and almost all the pictures were taken in the last two years. The only exception that she can think of is the river otter at Huntley Meadows\, but they are unusual and Willa wanted to show what might be seen in these places. \nWilla’s first job after college was as an instructor at the American Museum of Natural History in New York\, She had a choice of several summer projects—filing\, cleaning animal cages or photographing wildlife in city parks for the NYC schools. She claimed to be able to do photography and came home with a camera. 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.\n\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. 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 is currently coordinator for the solo shows at Beanetics\, or will be when they re-open. \nHer work is on display at the Art League Gallery at the Torpedo Factory in Alexandria and she has an image in the permanent collection of the Joseph Miller Center for Photographic Arts and has had images published in the Northern Virginia Review  and District Lines and has had solo shows at 1st Stage and Beanetics Coffee Rosters in Annandale and has been  a guest artist at Waverly Street Gallery in Bethesda. \n  URL:https://nvps.org/home/event/members-gallery-prints-virtually-close-to-home-with-willa-freidman/ CATEGORIES:Activities,Member's Gallery END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220222T194500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220222T200000 DTSTAMP:20260412T073649 CREATED:20210730T151127Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220105T204915Z UID:22285-1645559100-1645560000@nvps.org SUMMARY:Member’s Gallery – Digital: A Family Vacation in South Africa with Kevin Linde DESCRIPTION:Twenty nine years after leaving South Africa\, Kevin and his family were able to enjoy visiting the country that he grew up in. Southern Africa offers so many photographic opportunities that range from beautiful landscapes to some of the most incredible wildlife on earth. \nKevin was born and raised in Johannesburg\, South Africa and moved to Canada in 1992 where he met his wife\, Debby. In 1998 they moved to Northern Virginia with their 2-year-old son\, Ryan. Their second son\, Jared\, was born in 1999 when they moved into their current home in Fairfax City. Kevin’s eldest son is now working and living in Austin\, TX and his youngest is a senior at the University of Alabama. Kevin currently works as a physical therapist in a private practice clinic\, which he founded in 2003. \nKevin became interested in photography about 16 years ago when he bought his first Canon DSLR. Prior to that he had a Pentax SLR\, which he owned for about 5 years prior to switching to digital. He learned the basics with this camera but was never that interested in photography. The change to digital provided instant feedback\, which allowed him to learn beyond the basics a lot faster. Kevin also enjoys post processing and continues to improve his skills with practice and online learning. He currently uses Canon equipment that he has accumulated over the years. His favorite subject to shoot is motor racing\, which is influenced by his interest in the sport. Not far behind is nature and animals which he was fortunate enough to enjoy while living in South Africa. He states that the great thing about photography is that you can take a photo of almost anything out there and make it something unique. He has been a member of NVPS for five years and has enjoyed meeting some wonderful people and great photographers. He enjoys sharing his photos but also enjoys seeing the great talent of others. Kevin loves the creativity of photography and looks forward to many more years of creating and sharing images. URL:https://nvps.org/home/event/members-gallery-digital-a-family-vacation-in-south-africa-with-kevin-linde/ CATEGORIES:Activities,Member's Gallery ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nvps.org/home/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Kevin_Linde_Headshot.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220222T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220222T194500 DTSTAMP:20260412T073649 CREATED:20210730T150742Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211215T155334Z UID:22283-1645558200-1645559100@nvps.org SUMMARY:Member’s Gallery – Prints (Virtually): Huntley Meadows Park - You Never Know What You Will See with David Crooks DESCRIPTION:Photos taken of the fairly rare wildlife in the ever-changing Huntley Meadows Park. The atmosphere in the park changes frequently from deftly still too noisy and boisterous. This is David’s favorite place to photograph. If it were possible\, he would go there every day. \nThe photos below were mostly shot in 2021. \nPhotography is David Crooks’ passion and capturing the beauty of nature is the reward. David pursued his love of photography from his early days of chasing cardinals in his  neighborhood to visiting many local and far away parks\, reserves\, and other places where “wildlife” lives. \nHe was a member of the Loudoun Photo Club for about 5 years and then in 2015\, joined Northern Virginia Photographic Society (NVPS). In 2016\, he volunteered to be the Webmaster of the NVPS website. In 2021\, David wrote “Virginia Beltway Photography Meetup Guide Book.” In it\, he describes 25 locations the Meetup Group frequently visited over the past seven years. The book is available on Amazon. URL:https://nvps.org/home/event/members-gallery-prints-virtually-huntley-meadows-park-you-never-know-what-you-will-see-with-david-crooks/ CATEGORIES:Activities,Member's Gallery ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nvps.org/home/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/David_Crooks.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220125T194500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220125T200000 DTSTAMP:20260412T073649 CREATED:20210729T212540Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211207T204156Z UID:22260-1643139900-1643140800@nvps.org SUMMARY:Member’s Gallery – Digital: Beauty Close to Home: Images from the Pandemic with Rena Schild DESCRIPTION:When the pandemic shut down sports and events\, Rena turned to wildlife and nature photography.  She will share the local beauty she has captured during the pandemic.    \nRena has been interested in photography since she received a manual 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. URL:https://nvps.org/home/event/members-gallery-digital-beauty-close-to-home-images-from-the-pandemic-with-rena-schild/ CATEGORIES:Activities,Member's Gallery END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220125T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220125T194500 DTSTAMP:20260412T073649 CREATED:20210729T212141Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211207T215133Z UID:22258-1643139000-1643139900@nvps.org SUMMARY:Member’s Gallery – Prints (Virtually): Welcome to Da ‘Hood with Debra Mastronardi DESCRIPTION:Welcome to Da ‘Hood – a collection of images from various Manhattan neighborhoods. \nStunning photos have always been Debra’s preferred form of art. She gets inspired by what is possible when looking through the lens. She started shooting with film and enjoyed capturing her life’s journey through the camera. Her camera never left her side for over two decades while raising her two children as she captured every life event; however she switched off manual and onto auto functions. There was no time to fiddle around with aperture\, shutter speed\, and ISO. \nNow she is onto the next chapter of her life\, the “empty nester”. She renewed her passion for photography with help from a few friends and started creative shooting again. Her theme for this rebirth is “Life Off Of Auto”. It means more than moving the dial from Auto to Manual. It’s a transition from her children’s needs and schedules to a more spontaneous lifestyle; traveling with her husband while rediscovering her artistic creative side. \nDebra has been an NVPS member for just over 1 year. Some of her favorite styles of photography are cityscape\, landscape and street. URL:https://nvps.org/home/event/members-gallery-prints-virtually-welcome-to-da-hood-with-debra-mastronardi/ CATEGORIES:Activities,Member's Gallery END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211123T194500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211123T200000 DTSTAMP:20260412T073649 CREATED:20210729T201426Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211007T194505Z UID:22233-1637696700-1637697600@nvps.org SUMMARY:Member’s Gallery – Digital: Honor Flight with Colena Turner DESCRIPTION:Photo Credit: Chuck Campbell\nIn 2014 and 2015\, Colena served as a volunteer to greet Honor Flight veterans arriving at Dulles International Airport and Reagan National Airport to visit their memorials in Washington\, D.C.. Her Member’s Gallery presentation displays many of the emotions and excitement experienced by the veterans and greeters. \nColena is especially drawn to photographing people. In high school\, she started her photography journey as the family photographer for get togethers\, with a camera gifted to her by a family friend. In 2003\, she purchased her first digital camera and has expanded her interests to nature\, macro\, abstract\, portrait\, event\, and street photography. \nAs a volunteer photographer\, Colena has shared her talent with the Phenomenal Women’s Alliance\, Help Portrait\, Loudoun Foto Trek\, Cornerstones\, Library of Congress National Book Festival\, Smithsonian Folklife Festival\, Wreaths Across America\, Reston Multi-Cultural Festival\, Honor Flight and Reston Association. For the past eleven years\, she has served in the Photography Ministry at her place of worship\, Heritage Fellowship Church. \nColena joined NVPS in February 2012 and has served as coordinator for Member’s Gallery and Ask Me A Question table. She currently serves on the NVPS Board as the Secretary/Historian. Colena continues to learn about the art of photography through workshops\, lectures\, tours and field trips. \n  URL:https://nvps.org/home/event/members-gallery-digital-honor-flight-with-colena-turner/ CATEGORIES:Activities,Member's Gallery ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nvps.org/home/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Colena_Turner.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211123T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211123T194500 DTSTAMP:20260412T073649 CREATED:20210729T200147Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211020T143018Z UID:22231-1637695800-1637696700@nvps.org SUMMARY:Member’s Gallery – Prints (Virtually): A Photographic Potpourri with Ginger Werz-Petricka DESCRIPTION:For November Ginger Werz-Petricka will be showing a variety of images from more recent travels to such far-flung and diverse locations as Washington State\, Maine\, Utah and Tennessee.  \nGinger has been a member of NVPS since 2009.  Over the years she has been involved with Education and Training\, and Members Gallery\, but is mostly known as co-chair of the Portfolio Project.  Her photography often reflects her interest in shape and texture\, with a love of dramatic light.  She also has a special interest in photographing the abandoned\, especially old buildings.  URL:https://nvps.org/home/event/members-gallery-prints-virtually-a-photographic-potpourri-with-ginger-werz-petricka-2/ CATEGORIES:Activities,Member's Gallery END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211026T194500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211026T200000 DTSTAMP:20260412T073649 CREATED:20210729T185226Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210901T211002Z UID:22217-1635277500-1635278400@nvps.org SUMMARY:Member’s Gallery – Digital: Whimsy\, and Other Odd Bits with Tim Brown DESCRIPTION:Tim’s Gallery\, Whimsy\, and Other Odd Bits\, is a collection of photos of the kinds of things you don’t see every day. \nTim Brown entered the world of photography gradually after several decades of a life with no apparent artistic interest or talent. Occasional attempts to capture interesting scenes on film\, especially in the desert southwest\, rarely succeeded. The three key threshold events that most significantly advanced Tim’s photography skills and interest are: \n\nGetting a digital camera in 2004\, which enabled unlimited experimentation.\nGetting Adobe Lightroom in 2016\, which provided new life for many pictures previously thought to be worthless.\nJoining the Northern Virginia Photographic Society in 2018\, which opened up an avenue to helpful feedback that boosted both enthusiasm and results.\n\n  URL:https://nvps.org/home/event/members-gallery-digital-whimsy-and-other-odd-bits-with-tim-brown/ CATEGORIES:Activities,Member's Gallery ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nvps.org/home/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/TimBrown.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211026T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211026T194500 DTSTAMP:20260412T073649 CREATED:20210729T184534Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210827T150558Z UID:22214-1635276600-1635277500@nvps.org SUMMARY:Member’s Gallery – Prints (Virtually): Love is in the Air with Bob Friedman DESCRIPTION:The gallery that Bob will share with us are photos of people showing love. \nBob Friedman – Bio \nAs a teenager\, Bob started his photography journey with a basement darkroom he inherited from his brother. He enjoyed printing and did his first composite when he was 17 years old.  He put a friend’s girlfriend’s head on a nude model.  We thought it was funny but the girlfriend did not and they broke up. \nThe first thing he did when he bought a house was to build a darkroom in the basement. \nHe joined the Art League about 8 years ago and has been juried into many monthly shows and even received a Best in Show in an exhibit. \nHe has taken courses and workshops at Photoworks at Glen Echo\, and with Freeman Patterson and Andre Gallant in New Brunswick\, Canada\, He has also had extensive courses in Photoshop. He has been a member of NVPS for over 15 years. \nHe has multiple images in the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections at the Smithsonian Institution\, Washington\, D.C. and has prints on display in various professional offices in the Metro DC area\, a Congressional office and in many private collections. \nHis current passion is street photography.  Difficult in these times\, but possible as shown in his photos in NVPS Members Gallery. \n  URL:https://nvps.org/home/event/members-gallery-prints-virtually-love-is-in-the-air-with-bob-friedman/ CATEGORIES:Activities,Member's Gallery ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nvps.org/home/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/nvps-bob.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210928T194500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210928T200000 DTSTAMP:20260412T073649 CREATED:20210727T205618Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210729T170350Z UID:22067-1632858300-1632859200@nvps.org SUMMARY:Member’s Gallery – Digital: A Photographic Potpourri with George Bradshaw DESCRIPTION:Photo Credit: Ed Marion \nA Photographic Potpourri \nThe venerable stew\, which has been with us since at least the 13th millennia BC\, inspired this Member’s Gallery – a mixture of favorite themes whose commonality is based solely upon the photographer’s interests.  Themes will include Things in the Sky\, The Beauty of Nature\, A Touch of Architecture\, A Dollop of Drama\, Snippets of Astronomy\, and more.  \nGeorge Bradshaw’s Photo Bio \nGeorge inherited a photo gene from his father who freelanced in the ‘30s and ‘40s.  But the gene did not express itself until 2015 when\, in retirement\, he bought a Canon 70D; and has been having a blast with photography ever since.  His interests are eclectic\, in the sense that he hasn’t the discipline to focus.  And his compositions have been called whimsical\, which he firmly believes is a compliment.  \nThis most fascinating of all hobbies has opened up the DC area for George.  Despite being a near lifelong Fairfaxian\, he has explored many more local venues in the past few years than in the past few decades.   And George’s bucket list includes getting outside the area to visit his father’s old haunts in NYC where he plied his freelancing.  \nGeorge joined the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) Photo Club in 2015 and became its webmaster.  The OPC has given George many wonderful opportunities to learn about and have practical experience with the photographic arts.  And as the OPC is affiliated with George Mason University\, the experience has included photographing dress rehearsals for Mason’s School of Theater – quite a technical and artistic challenge\, as well as a fulfilling activity.  In 2018 George joined the NVPS and is now the Society’s eBlaster.  He especially enjoys the NVPS Education & Training programs\, which\, along with all the other NVPS activities\, continually drive him forward to “see” his world and discover meaningful compositions. \n   URL:https://nvps.org/home/event/members-gallery-digital-a-photographic-potpourri-with-george-bradshaw/ CATEGORIES:Activities,Member's Gallery ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nvps.org/home/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Bradshaw-George-800x800-1.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210525T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210525T200000 DTSTAMP:20260412T073649 CREATED:20200807T205537Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210228T185214Z UID:18850-1621971000-1621972800@nvps.org SUMMARY:Member’s Gallery – Prints (Virtually): Exploring Delaware with Deb and Art Rose & Digital: Patterns and Graphics with Wayne Guenther DESCRIPTION:Prints (Virtually): Exploring Delaware with Deb and Art Rose\nArt and Deb have enjoyed having two “home” states; one in Alexandria Virginia\, and the other in Bethany Beach Delaware. The two locations are polar opposites\, yet complement each other beautifully. \nAlexandria offers the bustle of historic Old Town\, Northern Virginia\, and DC museums and landmarks. They enjoy photographing local places such as Huntley Meadows\, Dyke Marsh\, Mason Neck\, Conowingo Dam\, Battlefields\, and Shenandoah. \nBethany Beach offers the quiet of the ocean\, natural vistas\, and a slower paced lifestyle. They enjoy photographing sunrise on the beach (well\, Deb more so than Art at 5 AM)\, native birds\, and sunsets on the Bay at the Ocean View VFW. \nWith their international travel on hold during the pandemic\, and closure of museums and other sites in Virginia\, they spent more time in Delaware exploring the “First State”\, and made some delightful photography discoveries. They explored many sites including the capitol buildings in Dover\, National Wildlife Refuges of Prime Hook and Bombay Hook\, Assawoman Wildlife Areas\, Great Cypress Swamp\, Delaware Botanical Gardens\, James Farm Ecological Preserve\, Abbott’s\, Warren and Double Mills\, Slaughter Beach\, and Lavender Fields. \nArt and Deb’s interest in photography began 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\, Art as a chemical engineer and Deb as a pediatric physical therapist\, they have been living their dream to travel and capture their experiences through photography. Past travels through North\, Central and South America included the Panama Canal\, Galapagos\, Ecuador\, Peru and Machu Picchu. Travels through Europe and Asia included Singapore\, Thailand\, Vietnam\, Hong Kong\, Italy\, Greece and Malta. They enjoy all types of photography encountered on their travels: landscape\, street\, wildlife\, architectural\, night sky and every flavor in-between. \nMembers of NVPS since 2018\, Art and Deb enjoy learning and developing creative skills to enhance their photography. Deb blends watercolor painting and brush effects with her photography to create photo artistic pieces\, and Art enjoys applying new techniques to landscape\, wildlife and still-life photos. \n“We see photography as a way to connect with others\, capture the experiences of new places\, and discover different perspectives of familiar places”. \n \n  \n  \nDigital: Patterns and Graphics with Wayne Guenther\n  \nWayne Guenther \nWhen Wayne joined Gallery West (Alexandria VA) artist’s cooperative in 1995\, he was an artist without an identity\, a style.  Wayne shot whatever he liked\, and never examined why he liked the subject or settled on a particular composition.  That gradually changed as he created new work monthly and received a lot of feedback about the “graphic nature” of his subjects and compositions.  By 2001 Wayne had a second solo show that was nearly all graphic interpretations of furniture\, and his statement started with “I like angles\, lines and curves\, so furniture is a natural subject”.  Wayne’s third solo show at the gallery in 2003 was based entirely on interpretations of stairs\, which have lines and curves of course.  Jumping 18 years to today\, Wayne has become a “generalist” in that extensive travel has given him so many subjects to photograph\, but his underlying compositional instinct is still graphic based.  This digital presentation will show examples of this result. \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. \nWayne shot with Nikon equipment for many years until the aggregate weight on his back and shoulders became problematic.  He switched to the micro-four-thirds system in 2014 and uses Olympus E-M1 bodies and a combination of Olympus and Lumix/Panasonic lenses. \n  URL:https://nvps.org/home/event/members-gallery-delaware-with-deb-and-art-rose-digital-patterns-and-graphics-with-wayne-guenther/ CATEGORIES:Activities,Member's Gallery ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nvps.org/home/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/DebArtRose-Bio-Pic.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210427T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210427T200000 DTSTAMP:20260412T073649 CREATED:20200807T204935Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210115T132954Z UID:18846-1619551800-1619553600@nvps.org SUMMARY:Member’s Gallery – Prints (Virtually): Maine with Mike Kane & Digital: Passion for Architecture with Judy Guenther DESCRIPTION:Maine with Michael Kane\nMike Kane will present a sampling of images from his explorations of the mid-coast of Maine. \nPhotography started early for Mike\, while in high school he picked up an Argus C3 rangefinder and began teaching himself how to make images. He moved onto using a Minolta SRT-101 during his college years while dabbling in his own darkroom but life soon brought a career and children which left little time for exploring with his camera. \nFollowing a 30 year career in local government\, Mike bought a digital camera to reacquaint himself with photography. He joined NVPS in 2009 to meet other photographers and to learn as much as he could about digital photography. \nHis passion for photography grew\, he graduated from the Washington School of Photography in 2011 and had success selling his fine art prints and instructing introductory classes in digital photography. \nIn 2013 Mike and his wife left Northern Virginia for the mid-coast of Maine where he has a small real estate photography business and ample opportunities for expanding his personal catalog of images and prints. \nWith being able to re-connect with friends on Zoom\, Mike re-joined NVPS in 2020. \n  \n \n  \nPassion for Architecture with Judy Guenther\nJudy Guenther specifically loves the many opportunities provided by architecture: rotundas\, stairs\, bridges\, cultural icons\, specific architects\, skylines\, cathedrals\, exterior\, interior\, reflections\, details\, abstracts and cultural. She has narrowed down the focus of her presentation tonight to the architects Frank Gehry\, Frank Lloyd Wright\, and Santiago Calatrava\, rotundas\, stairs\, and cultural buildings. \nJudy joined NVPS in the fall of 2015. She is an avid travel photographer and enjoys post-processing and creativity. She has spent this period of Covid isolation without travel by working on photos from past travels. Judy is a member of the Art League at the Torpedo Factory in Old Town Alexandria\, the Maryland Federation for the Arts\, and the F11 Women’s Photography Group. She enjoys a variety of photographic subjects including architecture\, landscapes\, abstracts\, colors\, nature\, wildlife and cultural portraits. \n  \n  \n  \n  URL:https://nvps.org/home/event/members-gallery-prints-maine-with-mike-kane-digital-passion-for-architecture-with-judy-guenther/ CATEGORIES:Activities,Member's Gallery ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nvps.org/home/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Mike_Kane_HEADSHOT.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210323T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210323T200000 DTSTAMP:20260412T073649 CREATED:20200807T204128Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210315T145121Z UID:18842-1616527800-1616529600@nvps.org SUMMARY:Member’s Gallery – Prints (Virtually): Macro Photography with Kieulan Nguyen & Digital: FIAP Photo Meeting in Shandong\, China with Kieu-Hahn Vu DESCRIPTION:Macro Photography with Kieulan Nguyen\nFlower photography is one of few things that Kieulan loves to photograph.   The shapes\, the vibrant colors\, the textures that she always looks for when she takes pictures of flowers.  For the last few year\, Kieulan has evolved her macro photography from traditional floral photography using selective focus to high key flower photography on a light box and especially during 2020 due to Covid 19 she has picked up a new way to express the beauty of flowers that she captured and then digitally painted them in Photoshop. \nKieulan considers herself as a beginner of floral digital artist and continues to expand her love for flowers.  From taking a picture of a flower and then painting it some how she feels she has come a complete cycle of her creativity in creating a beautiful flower image. \n \n  \nFIAP Photo Meeting in Shandong\, China with Kieu-Hahn Vu\nKieu-Hanh’s presentation is a compilation of her photos from her FIAP Photo Meeting in Shandong\, China in 2017.  Shandong is known as the hometown of Confucius and Mencius.  This photo meeting consists of more than 320 photographers from over 40 countries and regions around the world.  They gathered in Shadong\, China to photograph the traditional culture\, and the natural landscape of Ji’nan\, Tai’an\, Jining\, Liaocheng\, Zaozhuang\, Zibo\, Weifang\, and Qingdao. \nWhile photographers usually learn to take pictures first and then learn how to edit their pictures using post processing tools\, Kieu-Hanh went the unconventional route.  She first learned about the editing tools when she took a computer graphics course in college\, and because she was so interested in those editing tools\, she began learning about photography so that she could apply her skills.  She first picked up a point-and-shoot camera\, and joined the Vietnamese Photographic Society (VNPS) in 2006 to learn how to take pictures.  She has since moved on to several SLR digital cameras\, and currently uses a Canon 7D Mark II.  She is also a member of Photographic Society of America (PSA) and the International Federation of Photographic Art (FIAP).  Since 2009\, she has been a frequent speaker at VNPS’s educational programs\, as well as contributed her written articles on photography techniques.  For the past seven years\, she has also been part of the judging panel in several photo contests and portfolio projects at this camera club. \nKieu-Hanh has been a member of Northern Virginia Photographic Society (NVPS) since 2008.  She considers herself as an avid amateur photographer.  She uses photography as ways to relax and to reduce the stress from her hectic lifestyle.  Her main interest is nature photography and photojournalism.  When creating an image\, she tries to convey an idea\, message\, or thought in her image.  Kieu-Hanh has won numerous competitions and awards for her photographs at international\, national\, and local competitions. \nKieu-Hanh is currently working as a Systems Analyst in Washington DC.  She lives with her husband in Fairfax\, Virginia. URL:https://nvps.org/home/event/members-gallery-prints-macro-photography-with-kieulan-nguyen-digital-fiap-photo-meeting-with-kieu-hahn-vu/ CATEGORIES:Activities,Member's Gallery ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nvps.org/home/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Kieulan_Nguyen.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210223T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210223T200000 DTSTAMP:20260412T073649 CREATED:20200807T202844Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201209T174314Z UID:18838-1614108600-1614110400@nvps.org SUMMARY:Member’s Gallery – Prints (Virtually): Canadian Rockies with Jack Ledgerwood & Digital: Abandoned Places\, Abandoned Spaces with Karol and John Murray DESCRIPTION:Gems of the Canadian Rockies\nPhoto Credit: Rena Schild \nOver 20 years ago\, Jack had watched a PBS show on some of the great lodges from around the world where he first saw images of the beauty surrounding Chateau Lake Louise\, thus creating an entry to his world travels bucket list. So\, in 2019\, he and his wife Susy made plans to stay at the Chateau and to further explore the Canadian Rockies. Their plans centered around bus tour to the great resorts of the Canadian Rockies which included stays at the Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge\, the Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise\, and the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel\, also known as the “Castle of the Rockies”. What he learned on the trip was that the beauty around Chateau Lake Louise that first attracted him to the area extended throughout the entire Canadian Rockies. The pictures shown tonight are just a small sample of the widespread mountain beauty that they experienced on their journey. \nJack’s photography journey began with his first 35mm film camera\, a Minolta X-370\, back in the 1980s. He enjoyed his photography for several years\, mostly while traveling\, until his interest waned in the early 2000s as the digital transition began. His interest in photography was renewed when he picked up his first digital camera\, a Nikon P610 in 2015\, in anticipation of a European River Cruise. He enjoyed the freedom of the digital medium and certainly all the auto features on his point-and-shoot bridge camera. \nAfter Jack retired from his years in the software engineering industry in late 2018\, he needed to find something to pass his time so he thought about photography. His searching for photography clubs brought him to his first NVPS club meeting in September 2019. Since then\, it has been a good whirlwind of activity. He was fortunate enough to have an image juried into NatureVision and  has received a couple of ribbons in the NVPS monthly competitions. The club has been very encouraging\, and he believes he has grown his skills by upgrading his camera to a Nikon D7500 with an 18-300mm zoom lens. moving fully onto manual\, learning better composition\, and venturing into post-processing. He is enjoying all the benefits of the club and learning from all of the extraordinary talent in it. \nJack is still trying to figure out what he likes to photograph\, but he certainly likes taking pictures of big landscape vistas and capturing his travels from around the world. \n \n  \nAbandoned Places\, Abandoned Spaces – with Karol and John Murray\nKarol in the Woods! \nKarol finds herself drawn to abandoned places. She’s not sure why\, but finds herself wondering what it was like when they were functioning\, who lived or worked there\, and why they were abandoned.  She began dragging John along on fieldtrips and he caught her fascination with such empty spaces.  Fortunately\, Karol hasn’t abandoned him on any of these trips – yet. \nFor this collection\, we wanted to share photos from some of our favorite haunts in this genre\, including images from the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum\, Eastern State Penitentiary\, Ellis Island\, A. Hoen & Co. Lithograph Building\, and other abandoned places and abandoned spaces. \nKarol and John Murray have been involved in photography in one form or another since the early 1970s but did not get “serious” until more recently.  John started with a Mamiya Sekor and shot friends\, family\, sunsets\, and travels when he was in the Navy.  He even had a darkroom in the basement.  Karol shot mostly our children but has a good eye\, won several photo contests\, and even got a picture on a magazine cover. \nAfter a long pause from photography\, Karol joined NVPS in 2013 and became enthralled by her ability to see things differently and capture her vision digitally\, using a Nikon D7200.  John eventually got tired of being her Sherpa and began taking pictures about five years ago – first with a Nikon point and shoot that Karol bought him for Christmas and now with a mirrorless Fujifilm.  Together they have travelled far and wide taking pictures to satisfy creative urges and document their adventures.  They mostly shoot landscapes and architecture but will stop along the side of the road if something catches their eye. \n  URL:https://nvps.org/home/event/members-gallery-prints-canadian-rockies-with-jack-ledgerwood-digital-abandoned-places-abandoned-spaces-with-karol-and-john-murray/ CATEGORIES:Activities,Member's Gallery ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nvps.org/home/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Jack_Ledgerwood_Headshot_1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210126T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210126T200000 DTSTAMP:20260412T073649 CREATED:20200807T202151Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210102T185357Z UID:18834-1611689400-1611691200@nvps.org SUMMARY:Member’s Gallery – Prints (Virtually): Retrospective 2019 with Sid Stone & Digital: Geometrical Shapes with Kathryn Mohrman DESCRIPTION:Retrospective 2019 with Sid Stone\n2019 was a busy travel and photography year for Sidney and his partner Joanna. During 2019 they traveled to Nova Scotia\, Palm Springs\, Vermont\, Australia and Philadelphia. Some of the travel was related to Jo’s job and Sidney got to tag along getting a lot of free time to explore the locals and take pictures. \nSidney will take us back to the “normal” days of 2019 and perhaps add a few shots from his younger days. \nSidney has been photographing seriously since about the age of 9 starting as many did with a Kodak Brownie. Although he recalls taking some pictures with his father’s Kodak Bantam camera that used 828 film. Sidney still has that camera. His love of darkroom work was triggered as he watched his father develop prints in a make shift kitchen darkroom. He thought it was magic to see an image appear on white paper placed in a tray of chemicals. This love of the darkroom led to countless hours spent in darkrooms at his high school\, college\, apartment with the window covered\, a kitchen\, a converted bathroom\, and basement darkrooms. \nOne of Sidney’s particular photography loves is shooting sports. In high school and college is was an official school sports photographer shooting football\, baseball\, swimming\, golf\, basketball (nothing better than sitting on the hardwood under the basket!). When his son Dan became his high school’s football manager Sidney spent Saturday afternoons walking the sidelines and end zones snapping action shots. After shooting about 20 rolls of Ektachrome each game\, getting it processed and scanned he went digital choosing Canon over Nikon. He still has his original Minolta SR-1 and has been recently shooting with it. \n \nGeometrical Shapes with Kathryn Mohrman\nKathryn Mohrman \n“Geometry is the foundation of all painting\,” said Albrecht Durer\, the famous painter and printmaker of the German Renaissance. In fact\, geometry is the foundation of all forms of art\, from sculpture to photography. Almost any artistic work can be analyzed in terms of curves and straight lines\, ovals and rectangles. \nThe photographs in this exhibit emphasize the fundamental geometry of architecture. My eye is drawn to the shapes of bridges and facades and domes and stairways. As I travel in various countries I am attracted to the people\, of course\, but also to the monuments they have created in stone and steel and glass. From New York City to Istanbul\, Ireland to Uzbekistan\, I marvel at the creativity of various cultures across the centuries as they combine various shapes in their buildings in different and intriguing ways. \nKathryn Mohrman became seriously interested in photography about a decade ago\, when she received her first “real” digital camera for a safari in Botswana. She then became fascinated by the options available with manual controls instead of automatic–and the rest is history. \nShe joined NVPS in 2015 when she retired from a career in academia. She has served as secretary/historian of the club and has participated in various anonymous critiques and member displays. \nHer work has emphasized the different cultures she has visited in her travels around the world\, although this exhibit does not have humans in any of the images. In recent months her travels and photography have been limited to locations close to home\, but she has used her time productively with online classes and webinars on Photoshop\, creativity\, and compositing. URL:https://nvps.org/home/event/members-gallery-prints-retrospective-2019-with-sid-stone-digital-geometrical-shapes-with-kathryn-mohrman/ CATEGORIES:Activities,Member's Gallery ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nvps.org/home/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Sid_Stone.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201222T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201222T200000 DTSTAMP:20260412T073649 CREATED:20200726T213456Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200920T235958Z UID:18480-1608665400-1608667200@nvps.org SUMMARY:Member’s Gallery – Prints (Virtually): Memories of Greenland with Judy Graham & Digital Travels in Postwar Cambodia & Vietnam - Part II Vietnam with Bill Corbett DESCRIPTION:Prints (Virtually) Memories of Greenland with Judy Graham\nJudy has been fortunate to do some amazing things in her life\, but the week she spent in Greenland aboard the 100-foot schooner\, the Opal\, remains one at the top of her list. Judy’s presentation is a compilation of photos taken on her journey around Scoresby Sound\, located on the eastern side of Greenland above the Arctic Circle. Her photos also include a stop at a Greenlandic Inuit village\, Ittoqqortoomitt\, inhabited by approximately 400 residents and 250 sled dogs. Hunting whales\, polar bears\, seals\, and musk ox (related to the goat) is still a way of life in this village\, one of the most remote in the country. \nJudy has lived in the Washington\, D.C. area most of her life.  She retired March 1\, 2018 after a long career in the field of human resources management for corporate America. Judy joined NVPS in January 2011 with the goal of meeting local photographers\, doing more local photography\, and learning more about the art of photography. Her goals have been met 10 times over! \nJudy is primarily drawn to photographing dramatic landscapes\, often remote and difficult to get to. Initially her interest was in the desert southwest; however\, in more recent years she has expanded her travel to include colder places such as Alaska\, Patagonia\, Iceland\, Greenland\, and the Canadian Rockies in winter. She does not let the cold get in her way. \nJudy currently shoots with a Canon 5D MK IV. For most of the photos in her presentation she used a Canon 100-400mm II lens and had to handhold due to the motion of the boat. For those who know her\, she is glued to her trusty tripod. \nAs for the future\, she has a trip planned to the Tetons in September 2020 and one to Arizona in November 2020. She is the happy holder of a permit to the Wave (North Coyote Buttes). Beyond that she has no idea. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nDigital: From Angkor Wat to Hanoi: Travels in Postwar Cambodia & Vietnam – Part I with Bill Corbett\nBill Corbett is a bird and travel photographer who enjoys color\, action and texture in his pictures.  A photojournalist in college\, Bill resumed spending serious amounts of time on photography when digital cameras came along.  He is a Nikon shooter who prefers a long lens and who uses a flash anytime he can. Bill enjoys competing his images at NVPS and making albums from pictures he and his wife Judy take on their travels. \nBill and Judy moved three summers ago to southern Loudoun from McLean\, where they raised their three kids.  He is still just beginning to explore the photo opportunities in Loudoun and west of there.   They spend most of the summer in Delaware\, where Bill takes his camera to wildlife refuges regularly.  His main photography goal is to keep on doing what he’s been doing.  It is fun. \nBill is the secretary and a former president of Mid-Atlantic Photo Visions (formerly Nature Visions)\, a member of NVPS for the past ten or so years\, and the winner of a small number of photography ribbons and awards from those two organizations. \nBill is a retired foreign service officer and trade negotiator who served in Washington\, Korea and Japan and enjoyed/suffered through more than a few travels to other points as a minor representative of American diplomacy.  Follow him on Facebook for his views on current events; he doesn’t post his pictures there. \n \n  URL:https://nvps.org/home/event/members-gallery-prints-memories-of-greenland-with-judy-graham-and-digital-travels-in-vietnam-with-bill-corbett/ CATEGORIES:Activities,Member's Gallery ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nvps.org/home/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/JudyGraham-Headshot.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201124T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201124T200000 DTSTAMP:20260412T073649 CREATED:20200726T195749Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200904T192441Z UID:18470-1606246200-1606248000@nvps.org SUMMARY:Member’s Gallery – Prints (Virtually): Bears of Brook Falls with Jerri McDermott & Digital: America the Beautiful with Lynn Cates DESCRIPTION:Prints (Virtually): Bears of Brook Falls with Jerri McDermott\nGiven a blank sheet of paper in elementary school with an assignment to draw something terrified Jerri as she could never come up with something original. Then in seventh grade she took the art elective which opened composition\, rule of thirds\, perspective\, color wheels\, light\, shadow\, and how to make something uniquely mine.  Since her teenage years she explored various forms of needlework and quilting playing with patterns and color combinations. All of this helped her as she took up photography seriously as she approached my retirement from teaching and work as a school librarian. \nJerri attended college at East Stroudsburg State University and worked in the Poconos but never really had the time or money to vacation or explore the area. When a friend found a John Barkley trip to the Poconos\, she signed up hoping to learn the basics of using a digital camera.  Though the camera she borrowed for the class had a broken metal piece in the view finder she was able to capture some interesting images\, learn the essentials of a digital camera and had a blast meeting fellow photographer.  John suggested she deserved a better camera so she purchased her first digital camera\, a Nikon D7000 and started visiting local parks and historical sites shooting whatever caught my eye.   Most years her family visited Williamsburg at least once a year to get away from this century. That year she decided not to take traditional shots but ended up shooting fences\, locks\, historic tools and small details that mean so much but are often overlooked.  Jerri was hooked. \n  \nAs she neared retirement from teaching and being a school librarian\, she wanted a hobby that her husband Jim and she could share.  Joining NVPS gave her inspiration and allowed her to take photography to the next level learning processing skills\, and other camera techniques. Jerri has since enjoyed varied field trips that pushed her beyond family and landscape shooting\, to shooting seasonal flowers\, birds\, old cars\, trains\, abstract images. \nInspired by all the beautiful bird images in competitions she took a class with Jim Clark in Chincoteague on shooting shore birds. Now Jim and Jerri visit several local parks getting up earlier than the birds to capture these wonderful creatures and other local wildlife. Moving to wildlife photography has inspired some of their favorite vacations to Yellowstone\, both in summer and winter\, to the Canadian Northwest\, to Alaska\, Maine and the Great Smokies. \nJerri currently shoots with a Nikon D500 with either an 18 to 200 lens or a Tamron 150 to 600 lens. She recently purchased a Nikon Z50 mirrorless camera with a 15 to 50 mm and 50 to 200 mm lenses and is trying to master mirrorless shooting.  Jerri has been fortunate to have some of her images juried into Nature Visions and honored at the Waterford Fair. \nIn 2018 Jim and Jerri were lucky enough to travel to Brooks Falls National Park in Alaska to shoot the annual Brown bears salmon run.  It was an awesome adventure being so close to these magnificent creatures.   The first thing upon reaching camp the rangers gave a safety lesson on interacting in bear territory.  It is approximately a mile hike from camp to the viewing platforms by the falls. Trails are not just for people\, and part of the adventure is encountering them on the trail.  My presentation images feature bears of various ages\, fishing\, fighting\, playing and even relaxing. I hope you enjoy her work.  These photos were shot with the Nikon D500 and the Tamron 150 to 600 mm lens.  Most\, but not all\, were shot with a tripod. \n \n  \nDigital: American the Beautiful with Lynn Cates\nLynn became serious about photography in June 2015. That month she began shooting RAW at a workshop in Acadia National Park\, and she took Corey Hilz’ class “Lightroom in a Day” and started processing her images. She is passionate about combining her photography with her cross-country road trips. She loves her Nikon D850. You can view her work at rdtrpr.com. \nFor the November 2020 Member’s Gallery Lynn will share grand and intimate landscape images from her road trips across America. She will include the national parks\, coastlines\, forests\, mountains\, and tiny natural jewels she encountered along the way. \n  \n \n  URL:https://nvps.org/home/event/members-gallery-bears-with-jerri-mcdermott-and-america-with-lynn-cates/ CATEGORIES:Activities,Member's Gallery ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nvps.org/home/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Jerri-McDermott.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201027T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201027T200000 DTSTAMP:20260412T073649 CREATED:20200725T200032Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200928T203528Z UID:18452-1603827000-1603828800@nvps.org SUMMARY:Member’s Gallery – Prints (Virtually): Mandala with Kirk Johnson & Digital: Street Photography with Ilenia Alvarez DESCRIPTION:Prints (Virtually): Mandala – From Ordinary to Extraordinary with Kirk Johnson\nKirk Johnson is an seasoned photographer who has been taking digital photos for the past decade.  A Nikon shooter\, Kirk is interested in a variety of subjects to include wildlife (in November 2019 he did a photo shoot in South Africa and Zimbabwe)\, architecture\, street and urban\, portrait\, black-and-white\, floral and abstract.  Kirk uses an array of post-processing tools to create his final product including Photoshop CS6\, Topaz Studio\, Photomatix\, and PortraitPro. \nA proud member of the Northern Virginia Photographic Society (NVPS)\, Kirk has been recognized internationally\, nationally\, and locally with a variety of photographic awards including: 2019 Annual Photography Award (APA) – Honorable Mention for Wildlife category\, 2017 International Fine Arts Photography Award (FAPA) – Nominee Award for Abstract photography; the 2014 Great American Country  (GAC) – Hunt for Americana Photo Contest – United States Southern Region Finalist; and numerous NVPS monthly and end-of-year competition awards.  Additionally\, his photographs have appeared in Outdoor Photography.com\, Bliss Magazine\, twice in Shutterbug.com “Photo of the Day\,” and inside the Willing Warriors Retreat at Bull Run (Reflecting Pond and Lincoln Memorial)\, and in the 2020 Burke and Herbert Calendar – for the month of August (Jefferson Memorial).  You can see some of Kirk’s photo creations on www.kirkjohnsonphotography.squarespace.com. \nKirk\, a retired Naval officer\, lives in Alexandria\, Virginia with his wife\, Leslie.  Currently\, he works in Washington\, D.C as a Staff Director for the federal government. \nTonight\, Kirk will be presenting some of his (virtual) prints of Photo Mandalas; taking ordinary photographs and using Photoshop to create mandala-like images. \n \n  \n  \nDigital: Street Photography: a patchwork of day-to-day images from around the world with Ilenia Alvarez\nIlenia has been attracted to photography from an early age. She started with an old Minolta camera that belonged to her aunt. She would usually be the designated photographer during family trips\, reason why she may not appear in a lot of the family photos. Ilenia got her first Canon DSLR camera in 2011 (which she will pass on to her eight-year old niece); but\, it is not until later in 2016\, that Ilenia became more interested in improving her photography technical skills. \nIlenia enjoys landscape\, night and long-exposure photography however travel photography and street photography are the dearest to her heart. The digital collection for this member’s gallery includes some of her favorite photos taken during her travels in Europe\, Africa\, Latin America\, and the Middle East but mainly in Asia\, from 2012 through 2019. Considering the current limitations for travel\, Ilenia has recently purchased a macro lens\, and she plans to experiment macro photography with various subjects at home. \nIlenia joined NVPS in 2018. In the 2019-2020 club year\, Ilenia was awarded Digital Photographer of the Year in the Novice category. \nYou are welcome to check more of Ilenia’s photography here: www.ilenia-photography.com/ \n \n  URL:https://nvps.org/home/event/members-gallery-mandala-with-kirk-johnson-and-street-photography-with-ilenia-alvarez/ CATEGORIES:Activities,Member's Gallery ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nvps.org/home/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/vic-falls-13-kirk.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200922T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200922T200000 DTSTAMP:20260412T073649 CREATED:20200725T180354Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200920T234658Z UID:18433-1600803000-1600804800@nvps.org SUMMARY:Member’s Gallery – Prints (Virtually):Passages with Fred Krebs & Digital: Travels in Cambodia and Vietnam\, Part I Cambodia with Bill Corbett DESCRIPTION:Prints (Virtually):Passages with Fred Krebs\nFred Krebs \nFred’s “Passages Portfolio” began more than 15 years ago on a business trip to Veracruz\, Mexico.  The walkway under the walls of San Juan de Ulúa\, an old Spanish fort\, immediately caught his eye—something about its colors and symmetry drew him in.  He stopped and simply stared down its long expanse.  The repetition reminded him of what you see when you hold a mirror up to a mirror.  Since then he has looked for other passages that have had a similar impact—ones that draw him in\, make him stop and simply look deep into the scene before him.  Once he  began looking for these passages he began to see them. \nFred Krebs came to work in DC in 1975.  In his first paycheck he paid for his rent.  In his second paycheck he purchased a camera (which he still has). After 40 years as an attorney\, lobbyist\, association executive and professor Fred now work diligently at being 100% retired with grandchildren\, travel\, golf and photography being his primary interests.  He takes pictures of things that are of interest to him. Fred felt like he was in a photographic rut so he joined NVPS in 2018 to improve his skills.  Fred says that so far he has had fun with the club as well as a valuable experience that has made him a better photographer. \n \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n\nDigital: From Angkor Wat to Hanoi: Travels in Postwar Cambodia & Vietnam – Part I Cambodia with Bill Corbett\n(Part II Vietnam scheduled for 12/22/2020) \nBill Corbett is a bird and travel photographer who enjoys color\, action and texture in his pictures.  A photojournalist in college\, Bill resumed spending serious amounts of time on photography when digital cameras came along.  He is a Nikon shooter who prefers a long lens and who uses a flash anytime he can. Bill enjoys competing his images at NVPS and making albums from pictures he and his wife Judy take on their travels. \nBill and Judy moved three summers ago to southern Loudoun from McLean\, where they raised their three kids.  He is still just beginning to explore the photo opportunities in Loudoun and west of there.   They spend most of the summer in Delaware\, where Bill takes his camera to wildlife refuges regularly.  His main photography goal is to keep on doing what he’s been doing.  It is fun. \nBill is the secretary and a former president of Mid-Atlantic Photo Visions (formerly Nature Visions)\, a member of NVPS for the past ten or so years\, and the winner of a small number of photography ribbons and awards from those two organizations. \nBill is a retired foreign service officer and trade negotiator who served in Washington\, Korea and Japan and enjoyed/suffered through more than a few travels to other points as a minor representative of American diplomacy.  Follow him on Facebook for his views on current events; he doesn’t post his pictures there. \n  URL:https://nvps.org/home/event/members-gallery-passages-with-fred-krebs-cambodia-with-bill-corbett/ CATEGORIES:Activities,Member's Gallery ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nvps.org/home/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Krebs-head-shot.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200526T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200526T220000 DTSTAMP:20260412T073650 CREATED:20200325T235954Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200418T183127Z UID:18038-1590521400-1590530400@nvps.org SUMMARY:May 26\, 2020 - Member's Gallery: Digital - Heat Wave in Europe with Judy Guenther; Print (virtually) - Variety of topics (wildlife\, people\, mandalas\, cars\, etc.) with Kirk Johnson DESCRIPTION:JUDY GUENTHER\, photographer\, enjoys capturing scenes from her world travels in a variety of styles from storytelling to discovering small details in ordinary scenes. Capturing the beauty and art in nature and the people of the world is a special joy for her. Judy also enjoys photographing details in architecture and looking for abstracts. She shoots with an Olympus OMD-EM1 Mark II with a variety of lenses and is also enjoying her new Apple 11 Pro Max. Judy enjoys the creativity of post-processing using a variety of tools and packages. She has been a member of NVPS for the past 5 years\, is a member of The Art League Gallery of Alexandria\, Va.\, and the F11 Women’s Photography Collective.  Her web site is www.judyguentherphotography.com  \nFor the May Member’s Digital Gallery Judy will be sharing images from a summer 2019 trip to the South of France and Switzerland titled “Heat Wave in Europe.”  \nHere are a few of the images she plans to show: \nOld store building in Provence\, France \nElderly gentleman outside a church in the south of France \nYoung lavender starting to bloom in Provence\, France \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n\nKirk Johnson – Bio \nSince joining NVPS in August 2012\, Kirk Johnson has been taking digital photographs of a variety of subjects\, including architecture\, street and urban\, wildlife\, portrait\, black-and-white\, floral and abstract. \nKirk’s camera of choice is the Nikon D7100 and on occasion\, he uses his LG G7 smartphone for those unexpected photo images.  Kirk uses a variety of post-processing tools: Photoshop CS6\, NIK Collections\, Topaz Studio\, Portrait Professional 18\, and Photomatix. Kirk has been recognized internationally\, nationally\, and locally with a variety of photographic awards including 2019 International Annual Photography Award – Honorable Mention in Wildlife Category; 2017 International Fine Arts Photography Award (FAPA) – Nominee Award for Abstract photography; the Great American Country  (GAC) – Hunt for Americana Photo Contest – United States Southern Region Finalist – in 2014; numerous NVPS monthly competition awards.  Additionally\, his photographs have appeared in Outdoor Photography Magazine.com\, Bliss Magazine and twice in Shutterbug.com “Photo of the Day.” \nKirk\, who retired from the U.S. Navy in 1999 as a Lieutenant Commander\, currently lives in Alexandria\, Virginia with his wife\, Leslie and their dog\, Casey.   Presently\, Kirk is Staff Director working for the federal government in Washington\, D.C. URL:https://nvps.org/home/event/members-gallery-heat-wave-in-europe-with/ CATEGORIES:Activities,Member's Gallery END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200428T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200428T220000 DTSTAMP:20260412T073650 CREATED:20200320T202828Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200423T200005Z UID:18011-1588102200-1588111200@nvps.org SUMMARY:Members Gallery: Prints: Shape and Texture By Ginger Werz-Petricka and NatGeo Arctic Expedition by Len Johnson DESCRIPTION:Shape and Texture\nBy Ginger Werz-Petricka\n \nGinger joined NVPS in 2009 at a point in her life when she really needed to find a creative outlet. Over the years she has been involved with Members Gallery and Education and Training\, but her special interest has always been the Portfolio Project. \n \nShe has been interested in photography since high school and while studying for a fine arts degree in college concentrated on printmaking and photography as her media.  Looking back at early images it has become evident that dramatic light\, shape\, and texture has always been a driving force in her work.  Ginger shot with a Canon 6D for several years\, but after injuring her foot in 2017 has found that her lightweight mirrorless Olympus OMD mark ll has become the camera of choice.\n \n“One of the first questions a photographer always seems to get is ‘What kind of photography do you do?’    My answer is all kinds.  I’m aware that some people think that a photographer needs to specialize\, but if you see the world as shapes\, textures\, light\, and shadow\, any subject is fair game.  Perhaps the exceptions are that I’m not really interested in standing in the woods waiting for birds and animals to make that perfect shot.  I love to get them when they’re cooperative…but.\nFor this collection\, I wanted to include some recent works illustrating the kind of images that make me want to pick up my camera.”\n\n \n\n\n  \n \n \n \n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n\n \nNatGeo Arctic Expedition\nby Len Johnson \nIn the Summer of 2019\, Len took an 18-day trip to Iceland\, Greenland and the Canadian High Arctic on the National Geographic Explorer ship. This ship is relatively small with only 148 guests plus crew. The expedition team of experts included a naturalist\, two NatGeo photographers\, and regional specialists that shared their knowledge and insights on the wildlife\, landscape\, and local culture. \nThis journey included a street festival in Reykjavik\, Iceland to celebrate their 24th Annual Culture Night\, and a visit to the Whale Museum that features a life-size replica of a great blue whale. There was a short flight from Reykjavik to a small landing strip in Kangerlussuaq\, Greenland where the expedition group was transported by Zodiacs to the National Geographic Explorer ship.\nWe then cruised down the length of Kangerlussuaq Fjord en route to Sisimiut\, a former whaling port on Greenland’s west coast. This small-town features brightly painted colored buildings from the 18th century. \nWe began our exploration of the Canadian High Arctic with a visit to the small Inuit community of Pond Inlet where we saw a cultural and arts presentation by village children and elders. We then sailed to Dundas Harbor where we hiked on the tundra. The ship continued its voyage into Lancaster Sound where we saw polar bears on the drifting icebergs. \nAs we continued the voyage to Dundas Harbour on the Southern shore of Devon Island\, we experienced a magnificent cliff exposing a three-billion-year long geological history of the area.\nAs we continued to explore the Arctic and the Russian Far East\, we sailed to Fram Fjord\, Ellesmere Island. We continued on our journey to Philpots Island where we saw massive icebergs that recently calved from the huge glacier descending from the Cunningham Mountains.\nA highlight was Buchan Gulf\, Baffin Island with its dramatic cliffs carved by Ice Age glaciers that had clouds hovering over their peaks. As our journey continued\, we set anchor in the town of Ilulissat on the West coast of Greenland. Here we visited the archaeological UNESCO World Heritage-designated Ilulissat Icefjord in the Sermermiut Valley.\nThe trip ended sailing through Greenland’s ice cap and picturesque waterways until we returned to Kangaamiut airstrip for the journey home.\nThe Member’s Forum video presentation will be a selection from Len’s photos that feature his favorite images including polar bears\, whales\, soaring icebergs\, and massive glaciers. The presentation also includes colorful buildings in Greenland’s Sissimiut community and photos of the World Heritage site of Ilulissat Icefjord captured on this expedition. \nLen Johnson Bio \nLen Johnson received a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from the University of Illinois and then enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1968 during the Vietnam War. He was sent to Fort Monmouth New Jersey for training as a photographer. Upon completion of his training\, he was assigned to a base in Okinawa\, Japan where he photographed military ceremonies\, Bob Hope’s USO Tour visit\, and local cultural activities. While in the Far East\, he also traveled to India\, Thailand\, Taiwan\, Hong Kong\, and the Expo 70 World’s Fair in Osaka\, Japan. \nAfter his military tour of duty in 1971\, he and his wife settled in Arlington\, Virginia and Len began working at a three-person graphic design firm. After ten years as an employee\, he purchased the firm upon the owners’ retirement. He then grew the firm to a 15-person integrated marketing communications firm called JDG Communications. JDG had clients in the government\, corporate and nonprofit sectors and he sold his company in 2009. Since his retirement\, Len has served as a volunteer for the Washington DC chapter of SCORE that mentors small business entrepreneurs. \nHe has been a member of NVPS since September 2015 and appreciates the educational and social opportunities it provides. He photographs using two Fuji X-T3 cameras and likes to shoot landscapes\, nature\, and wildlife. On previous photo journeys\, he photographed wildlife in Africa\, wildflowers in the Arizona desert\, landscapes in Tuscany\, and architecture in Rome and Florence. Len’s next photo adventure will be a photography workshop in Argentina and Chile in March and April of this year. \n \n\n  URL:https://nvps.org/home/event/april-28-2020-members-gallery-prints-shape-and-texture-by-ginger-werz-petricka/ CATEGORIES:Activities,Member's Gallery ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nvps.org/home/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Ginger-Portrait-by-Chuck-Campbell.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200128T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200128T220000 DTSTAMP:20260412T073650 CREATED:20191218T180346Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200102T170915Z UID:17535-1580239800-1580248800@nvps.org SUMMARY:Member's Gallery: "Prints" with Fran Bastress; "Digital" with Art and Deb Rose DESCRIPTION:Prints with Fran Bastress \nFran Bastress \nFran will entertain us on January 28 with a collection of the beautiful photographic images she’s created in recent years. Fran has been involved in photography for decades\, and sees it as a way to connect with the extraordinary in the world. She captures and creates her images because of their beauty\, uniqueness\, and elements of design. Inspired by the North American landscape\, she has traveled its highways and byways to discover limitless possibilities for harvesting art from nature in the magical light of early morning and late afternoon. \nShe has been drawn especially to America’s West and South\, and recently Iceland. \nFran became more engrossed in photography after buying a secondhand Hasselblad and taking a photography course in Boston\, where she developed her darkroom skills. Black & white photography was her passion while living in New England\, and she found the area rich with photographic possibilities. \nMoving into digital after shooting with film\, Fran has advanced through a variety of Canon’s single lens reflex cameras\, most recently to the 5D Mark IV. She has participated in photo tours and workshops\, but now she and her husband do extensive research to create their own photography adventures. \nFran personally handles all aspects of her art\, from image capture to framing. She uses Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop and a variety of plug-ins\, including the Nik and Topaz collections. \nFran has been active in NVPS for nearly 10 years\, and served on its board two years as secretary. In addition to her solo exhibits\, she has been juried into various photography exhibits\, including Nature Visions\, where she received the 2018 People’s Choice Award for Magnolia Gardens\, Charleston. \nHer professional background includes human resources administrator\, community college professor\, managing her career counseling business\, and authoring two books related to career development. \nTo view Fran’s photography online\, go to www.visionsbyfran.net. \nHere are a few of Fran’s images to wet your appetite for January’s print member’s gallery. \n \n  \nDigital with Art and Deb Rose \n \nArt and Deb Rose’s greatest passions\, travel and photography\, go hand in hand. They love all types of photography encountered on their travels: landscape\, street\, wildlife\, architectural\, night sky and every flavor in-between. \nThey use their photography as a way to connect with others\, capture the experiences of new places\, and discover different perspectives of familiar places. \nArt and Deb hope you enjoy these photos from our most recent travels and adventures around the world. \nArt and Deb have been members of NVPS since 2018. Their interest in photography began over 20 years ago with a family trip to Australia\, and their passion for both travel and photography continued to grow. \nBoth are retired from their careers\, Art as a chemical engineer and Deb as a pediatric physical therapist\, and are fulfilling their dream to travel more extensively and capture their experiences through photography. \nOver the past 3 years\, they have traveled through North\, Central and South America\, Europe\, and Asia\, including the Panama Canal\, Galapagos\, Ecuador\, Singapore\, Thailand\, Vietnam\, Hong Kong\, Italy\, Greece\, Malta\, and most recently Machu Picchu in Peru. \nWhen not traveling outside the country\, they enjoy photographing local places such as Huntley Meadows\, Mason Neck\, Conowingo Dam\, Washington DC museums and monuments\, Old Town Alexandria\, and sites along the Eastern Shore. \nTheir home base is in Alexandria\, Virginia. \nCheck out a sampling of their images. URL:https://nvps.org/home/event/members-gallery-digital-with-art-and-deb-rose/ CATEGORIES:Activities,Member's Gallery ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nvps.org/home/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Fran-Bastress_headshot-e1553696043137.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191224T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191224T220000 DTSTAMP:20260412T073650 CREATED:20191015T182848Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191015T182848Z UID:17119-1577215800-1577224800@nvps.org SUMMARY:Member’s Gallery and Forum Cancelled Due to Holidays DESCRIPTION:Meetings are never scheduled during the last week in December due to the holidays. Member’s Gallery and Member’s Forum are always cancelled during the month of December. \n  URL:https://nvps.org/home/event/members-gallery-and-forum-cancelled-due-to-holidays/ CATEGORIES:Activities,Member's Forum,Member's Gallery ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nvps.org/home/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/20210219_DSC01385-Edit.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191126T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191126T220000 DTSTAMP:20260412T073650 CREATED:20191021T163226Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191023T124303Z UID:17217-1574796600-1574805600@nvps.org SUMMARY:Member’s Gallery: “Prints” with Eva Lanyi; “Digital” with Philip Winters DESCRIPTION:“Prints” with Eva Lanyi \nTitle: Portfolio Excerpts \nA member of NVPS since 2015\, Eva Lanyi has been interested in photography since her first blurry black and white photos of the neighbor’s dog\, taken with her Kodak Brownie Starmatic (which she still has).  School\, work\, and life in general created other priorities for many years. Since retiring from a 32-year federal career as an analyst\, she’s been able to concentrate more on photography and plans to make it a big part of her life going forward.   She constantly works to improve her technical and artistic abilities\, while keeping photography a fun\, enjoyable endeavor.   \nMs. Lanyi does mainly landscape and garden photography\, because she loves being outdoors.  She has also started doing bird and wildlife photography. In addition\, believing that the natural world is imperiled by human activity\, she would like her photography to show the grandeur of Mother Nature before it is gone.  She also constantly scrutinizes trees\, rock formations\, leaves\, sand (anything\, really) for interesting\, more abstract scenes from nature. Every photography adventure\, for her\, is an opportunity for a “personal best” photo. She works with Nikon equipment and a trusty Manfrotto tripod.  You can view some of her work at evalindalanyi.com. \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n\n“Digital” with Philip Winters \nDigital Image Gallery – Philip Winters – Norway\, a Country of Sea\, Mountains\, Snow\, and Ice  \nPhil started taking pictures as a kid\, using an old family box camera.  In his teens\, he got to use one of his father’s older range finders for his intermittent photo efforts. He received an SLR\, he thinks it might have been a brand called Miranda\, as a high school graduation present and began taking as many photos as he could with the usual limited funds of a college student. Once his income rose above zero\, he splurged on a Minolta SLR\, a step up with modern features like a built-in light meter. During his working life as a Federal Budget Analyst in the Congressional Research Service\, he continued taking photos\, mostly for fun and for family and now has thousands of slides and prints locked safely away in sleeves and boxes\, possibly never again to see the light of day. In the 1980’s\, his wife took her students on five-week tours of Europe and Phil got to go along on several of them\, taking as many film rolls\, mostly slides\, as he could stuff in his luggage. An after-trip party was held that included a slide show – who remembers those? – that Phil put together.  \nOnce the digital era arrived\, he bought a 3-megapixel non-DSLR of some forgotten brand (he doesn’t remember the brand and can’t find the camera in his photo equipment graveyard). He remembers that the camera took fairly decent pictures\, as long as you didn’t blow them up or crop them. Since then\, he’s moved on\, first to a Nikon 90\, followed by a Nikon 7000\, both very nice cameras\, but his shoulders and back complained about the weight of the accumulation of stuff in the camera bag. That led to his current cameras\, the mirrorless Sony 6000 and Sony 6300.  His shoulders and back gave him a big thank you. He keeps a Nikon point-and-shoot in his car\, just in case\, and of course has his phone ready for photo emergencies. \nHe’s very happy that he joined NVPS several years ago (he says it feels like forever – in a good way).  He’s learned a lot\, including better composition\, being almost comfortable using Lightroom\, and enjoying being able to cut and mat his prints.    \nHe hopes you enjoy his photos of Norway.  \n \n  URL:https://nvps.org/home/event/members-gallery-prints-with-eva-lanyi-digital-with-philip-winters/ CATEGORIES:Activities,Member's Gallery END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191022T191500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191022T200000 DTSTAMP:20260412T073650 CREATED:20190901T174934Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191002T000049Z UID:16892-1571771700-1571774400@nvps.org SUMMARY:Member's Gallery "Prints" with Curtis Gibbens; "Digital" with Jim Sinsheimer DESCRIPTION:“Prints” with Curtis Gibbens \nTitle: The Wild Side \nCurtis Gibbens \nCurtis Gibbens has been taking outdoor photography for over 20 years. His interest sparked the first time he stepped on the boardwalk at Huntley Meadows Park. He did not realize such a wetland environment existed in Fairfax County. \nCurtis has many landscape images\, but wildlife is his favorite subject. Most of his wildlife images are birds – they are everywhere\, from national parks to his back deck. \nCurtis enjoys visiting great locations like Yellowstone\, Bosque del Apache\, and Alaska\, but finds the Washington metro area provides many opportunities for nature photography. Mountains are two hours west and the Eastern Shore is two hours east. Curtis’s favorite day trips are Big Meadows in Shenandoah National Park and Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge in Cambridge\, Maryland. However\, Huntley Meadows Park is still his favorite photographic location today. \nCurtis has been a NVPS member for almost 20 years. He gained great knowledge throughout the years such as having an eye for photography\, exploring new subjects and locations\, and gaining knowledge of his Nikon equipment. \nHe had an image selected by the North American Nature Photography Association in “Expressions”\, 2016. Curtis was the album photographer for an alternative band\, “The Mood”. He has also been drafted to take pictures at work and church events\, which is when he wishes no one knew of his photography interest. He currently has a government job and can’t wait to retire and to devote more time to photography. Here are some of Curtis’s images. \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n“Digital” with Jim Sinsheimer. \nTitle: Architecture and the Urban Landscape \nAs an architect and design/construction manager for the past 45 years\, I’ve been engrossed in the creation of building and interior spaces\, mostly within the urban environments of Phoenix\, Southern California and lately Chicago. Photography has always been an integral part of my career even from college where we had a small darkroom in the College of Architecture at the University of Arizona back in the early 70’s. I started merely documenting my completed projects\, then progressed to construction documentation. Along the way\, I realized that there was an artistic bent to be captured if I only looked beyond the basic forms. Images became more expressive and expanded into the urban context itself.   I hope to convey the fascinating opportunities of capturing these types of images in my presentation.  \nMy introduction to photography was at around 7 years old when my Dad converted a coal bin (we now had gas heat) to his darkroom.  However\, my interest really took off in college.  I’ve been a member of NVPS since last year having moved recently to Virginia from Southern California to be with our grandson and his family.  My work has been published in Black and White Magazine\, LensWork and will be soon featured again LensWork’s “Seeing in Sixes”.  I have had showings at the California Department of Transportation Headquarters\, the 1650 Gallery in Los Angeles and currently in a large digital wall at the 71 South Wacker building in Chicago.  For several years\, my images have won awards at the Orange County (CA) fair. \nI’ve been a Canon shooter forever – I still have my FTB\, TL and F1 cameras as “museum” pieces. For the future\, I’m working on a portfolio of architectural details to install at the 71 South Wacker digital wall. Travel photography to Europe is also in the plan. Of course\, the Willing Warriors project is of foremost importance. \n  \n \n \n \n… \n \n  URL:https://nvps.org/home/event/members-gallery-prints-tbd-digital-with-jim-sinsheimer/ CATEGORIES:Activities,Member's Gallery ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nvps.org/home/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Gibbens_Self.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190924T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190924T220000 DTSTAMP:20260412T073650 CREATED:20190724T122835Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190820T013108Z UID:16640-1569349800-1569362400@nvps.org SUMMARY:Member's Gallery: “Prints” with Bill Corbett; “Digital” with David Crooks - Print Matting Tutorial - Review My Image DESCRIPTION:Print Matting Tutorial \nBob and Willa Friedman will do a mini-matting tutorial on Tuesday\, September 24\, from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.\, before our regular meeting\, in the back of the room.  Participants should bring a mat cutter and practice mats if they have them\, and be prepared to start promptly at 6:30 p.m..  Bob and Willa will also bring some practice mats. \nMember’s Gallery \n \nBirds\, Travel & More \nBill Corbett is a bird and travel photographer who enjoys color\, action and texture in his pictures.  A photojournalist in college\, Bill resumed spending serious amounts of time on photography when digital cameras came along.  He is a Nikon shooter who prefers a long lens and who uses a flash anytime he can. Bill enjoys competing his images at NVPS and making albums from pictures he and his wife Judy take on their travels.     \nBill and Judy recently moved from McLean\, where they raised their three kids\, out to the Willowsford development in southern Loudoun County.  They spend most of the summer in Delaware\, where Bill takes his camera to wildlife refuges regularly. He is just beginning to explore the photo opportunities in Loudoun and west of there.   His main photography goal is to keep on doing what he’s been doing; it is fun.   \nBill is the secretary and a former president of Nature Visions\, a member of NVPS for the past ten years\, and the winner of a small number of photography ribbons and awards from those two organizations. \nBill is a retired foreign service officer and trade negotiator who served in Washington\, Korea and Japan.  Follow him on Facebook for his views on current events; he doesn’t post his pictures there.    \n \n  \n  \n  \n\n \nFlying Critters \nPhotography is David Crooks’ passion and to be able to capture the beauty of nature is the reward.  From his early days of chasing after cardinals in his neighborhood\, to visiting  many local and far away\, parks\, reserves\, and other places where “wild life” lives\, David pursues his love of photography. \nFive years ago\, David\, his wife\, and their dog Sam\, moved to Annandale from Leesburg to be closer to work.  He was a member of Loudoun Photo Club for about 5 years and then joined NVPS. He is currently the Webmaster of the NVPS website. \nIn January 2015\, David decided to create a local photography Meetup.  He knew there were many great places to photograph the wildlife along the beltway near his house.  Four and a half years later\, the Virginia Beltway Photography Meetup Group has over 1\,900 members and he leads about two field trips a month. \nCurrently David uses a Canon 7D Mark II with a Sigma 50-500mm lens on a gimbal head and tripod.  David has three destinations on his bucket list: Iceland\, Cuba\, and Costa Rica\, in no particular order! \nThe title of his presentation is “Flying Critters\,” a slideshow of his photos of birds and bugs in flight.  Enjoy! URL:https://nvps.org/home/event/members-gallery-forum-tba-print-matting-tutorial-review-my-image/ CATEGORIES:Activities,Member's Forum,Member's Gallery ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nvps.org/home/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Bill-Judy-on-Alaska-train.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190528T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190528T203000 DTSTAMP:20260412T073650 CREATED:20181204T043159Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190329T001040Z UID:14405-1559071800-1559075400@nvps.org SUMMARY:Member's Gallery: "Prints" with Ron Taylor; "Digital" with Kieulan Nguyen DESCRIPTION:Member: Ron Taylor – Favorites \nDescription: The collection includes some of Ron’s favorite images. \nThis collection includes some of Ron’s favorite images. He has been making photographs on an occasional basis for several years. Ron uses Nikon equipment.  His walkabout camera is a Nikon D750 with a Nikon 24-120 lens. He uses use a Tamron 150-600 lens for distance shots and a Nikon D105 for close-up work. \nRon began competing in Class 1 in 2016\, was promoted to Class 2 in 2017 and to Class 3 in 2018.  He was named both Class 2 Monochrome Photographer of the Year and Versatile Photographer of the Year last year.   \nIn addition to serving as Co-VP Competition in 2018 and 2019 he served as Vendor Manager for the 2018 Nature Visions Expo.  His image “Black and White Sunflower “ won First Place at the 2018 Nature Visions Expo. \nFor the past eighteen years Ron has headed his own company\, The Ron Taylor Group\, specializing in leadership and project management training and consulting.  During that time he has served as an Adjunct Professor in the graduate programs at both Virginia Tech and George Mason University and as President of the Washington DC Chapter of the Project Management Institute which\, with over 10\,000 members\, is the largest such organization in the world. \nRon has been married for 30 years to Yvonne.  His son\, daughter-in-law and grandchildren have been living in New Zealand for the past 5 years\, and he is delighted to say they returned to the U.S. in March and are now living only three time zones away in California. \nRon’s future photography plans include continuing to learn from others and trying to become a better photographer. \n \n\nMember: Kieulan Nguyen \nDescription: Return to my Motherland after 43 years \nKieulan Nguyen has been doing photography for a long time\, but it wasn’t until 2010 that she took her hobby seriously.  Kieulan is a Canon and Fuji shooter. She enjoys macro\, landscape\, urban photography. Now that her children are grown up\, she has more time to travel so travel photography is something that now interests her.  Because photography keeps evolving\, she never stops learning. She is always looking to bring new and fresh air into her pictures. Being creative is very important for her because it reminds her that she does not take pictures\, but rather makes pictures.   \nKieulan often thought there were so many countries she would love to visit. Viet Nam rarely made her bucket list despite it being her motherland.  After seeing so many wonderful images taken of her country\, her desire to go home grew over time. So after a 43 year absence\, on a spur of the moment in 2018\, she agreed to join her friends to go back for 3 weeks.  That was the best decision she has made. \nKieulan’s collection is of photos she took during her trip to Viet Nam.  During her visit she spent 12 days driving along many winding country roads from Ha Noi to Ha Giang\, Hue\, Hoi An\, Phan Rang and Phan R. Most of the time it rained\, but it did not stop her.  Every place she visited had its own charm and beauty. She loved every moment she was there. Through her modest lens\, she wants to share with you these images of a beautiful country she is so proud to call home. \nUntil then … Viet Nam\, she will definitely return! \n \n  URL:https://nvps.org/home/event/members-gallery-prints-with-ron-taylor-digital-with-kieulan-nguyen/ CATEGORIES:Activities,Member's Gallery ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nvps.org/home/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/RonTaylorHeadshotBlueBackground-3-Revised-3-3-1.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR