Susan Phillips has been an active member of NVPS since 2009.  She served as Co-vp of Competitions 2013-14 and also Forum Co-ordinator 2014-15.  Susan has won many ribbons for her work exhibiting in the Claude Moore Photo Expo, Joe Miller Center for Photographic Arts, Vienna Art Society Photo Exhibition and Washington Gardner Magazine.   Her work was selected for the Nature Visions Traveling show exhibiting  at the Washington School Of Photography, GW Virginia ‘s Science and Technology Campus,  The Workshouse Arts Center and George Mason University’s Hylton Performing Arts Center.  She has been juried into Nature Visions Mid-Atlantic Photography Expo every year since 2009 winning “Best In Show” and ribbons from Lowepro, Olympic Camera, and Corey Hilz Photography.   Susan has a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from Kutztown University of Pennsylvania where photography was part of the curriculum. She used photography as Art Director and also in her Landscape Design careers .  Susan says digital photography was the game changer and continues to be inspired and learn through the many activities of the NVPS and its talented group of photographers.

Susan’s forum presentation will focus on her short travels to Alaska; Olympic National Park, Puget Sound, Palouse and Seattle Washington areas; and the southern Oregon Coast.  She emphasizes a variety and amazing amount of photographs can be captured in a week long journey.  Her presentation will include landscapes,  oceans capes, architecture, flora, fauna and abstracts from these regions with a bit of storytelling and technical data  methods about each.