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  • Member’s Gallery: (In-Person – Digital) – Two Seasons of Japan with Judy Guenther

    Member's Gallery

    Biographical Statement:   Judy Guenther joined NVPS in the fall of 2015. She is an avid travel photographer who loves the process of photography from the capture to post-processing. She enjoys a variety of photographic subjects during her travels and is particularly drawn to architecture.  Judy is a member of the Art League in Alexandria […]

  • Member’s Gallery: (In-Person – Print) Hawaii with Jim Sinsheimer

    Member's Gallery

    As an architect and design/construction manager for the past 45 years, photography has always been an integral part of Jim’s career, starting with a small darkroom in the College of Architecture during the early 70’s. Subsequently, he progressed from a tiny darkroom over a clothes dryer to a fully equipped facility for work; from a 4x5 view camera […]

  • Member’s Forum: (In-Person) – Creating a Watercolor Painting Effect in Photoshop with Ilenia Alvarez

    Member's Forum

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

  • Programs (Zoom) – The Power of Colour in Photography with Sharon Tenenbaum

    Programs

    Bio Sharon Tenenbaum defines herself as an artist working within the medium of photography. The artistic process is paramount in every creation she completes. She always aspires to ‘show reality in a different way’, creating images rather than capturing them. Sharon  is constantly challenging herself: whether experimenting with bicycle parts to create composite cityscapes or […]

  • Member’s Gallery: (In Person – Digital) – What Do I See with Wayne Guenther

    Member's Gallery

    Since joining NVPS in 2015, Wayne’s multiple presentations of his work has included images in about every genre, but he remains a fine art photographer at heart.  His images often highlight his interest in patterns, lines, and geometric content like curves, circles, and triangles.  But there’s more to Wayne’ssubject interests, which he’ll show in this presentation. It is a collection of work he particularly likes from the past five years, mixed together on purpose and including a few images he may have shown in […]

  • Competition: (In-Person) (Digital & Print) No Theme with Judge Frank Van Ripper

    Competitions

    BIO: Frank Van Riper is an award-winning documentary and fine art photographer, journalist, author and lecturer whose work has been published internationally.  His photographs are in the permanent collections of the National Portrait Gallery (Washington, DC) as well as in the Portland Museum of Art (Portland, Maine.) His 1998 book of photography and essays, Down […]

  • Competition: (Zoom) Theme: Industrial with Judge Russ Young

    Competitions

    I began photography as the high school yearbook photographer using a 4x5 Speed Graphic; the very definition of immersion. My senior year, I worked after school as the darkroom monkey for a commercial & industrial photographer. These experiences still shape my imagery as I still shoot film and large format. I taught for The University […]

  • Competition: (Zoom) No Theme with Judge Brian Zwit

    Competitions

    Brian Zwit, formerly just a photographer and educator in northern Virginia, added filmmaker to his resume during the pandemic years.  While still enthralled with still photography, he is using video to expand his storytelling options and range of subjects. When shooting stills, his favorite subject is the elegance and majesty of nature, particularly landscapes. When […]