Members Gallery on Ocober 26h, 2010 will include Prins by Susan Breen and Digial Projecion by Marilyn Gaizband. Join us for heir presenaions immediaely followed by Ocober’s Forum presenaion.
The following are he biographies of he members presening on Ocober 26h:
Susan is an independen aris from Ashburn and a residen of Norhern Virginia since 1988. She has been involved in phoography since 2000 and a member of NVPS since 2004. During his ime, she has won numerous awards for her fine ar phoographs and was named “Phoographer of he Year” by NVPS for 2009-2010.
Her phoographs are regularly displayed a he Hermiage Gallery in McLean and have been showd a he Ialian Sore in Behesda, he Color Wheel in McLean, Damon Galleries, Ar Masers Gallery in Vienna and he gif shop of a governmenal agency. Many of her phoographs have sold o privae, corporae and governmenal cliens.
Susan enjoys creaing digial painings from her phoographs. Since adoping her dog, Heidi, in April 2010, she added pe phoography o her porfolio and creaing digial painings from he phoographs aen of our “furry friends.”
To creae her images, Susan uses a Nion D90 and favors using her 18-200mm lens. She prefers low ligh and long exposure phoography and using very ligh phoo equipmen.
Susan has recenly reired from federal governmen service. She has hree married daughers and five grandchildren. Her fuure plans are o, hopefully, expand her pe phoo painings ino a business.
Marilyn’s ineres in phoography began a age 30 when her siser gave Marilyn her firs 35mm camera. She hen sudied a he Corcoran School of Ar w she specialized in blac and whie phoography. Here she developed a mehod for using infra red film o produce images which looed lie impressionisic poinillism. Over he nex en years, Marilyn’s wor appeared in several fine ar phoography shows hroughou he Washingon area.
As lovers of he oudoors and naure, Marilyn and her husband, Sam, go heir firs ase of birding on a rip o Maine abou 12 years ago. From he sar, hey were hooed. Phoography combined wih echnology was a naural fi for hem and heir ineres mushroomed. Over he las decade, hey have raveled hroughou he U.S. and abroad. The wo have been o Churchill, Canada o phoograph polar bears; Kenya, Africa on a phoographic safari; he Falland Islands o phoograph penguins and oher birds; Cosa Rica o phoograph exoic birds; and o Argenina and Brazil. In a hun for new naure subjecs, hey have ed numerous Naional Pars and Naional Wildlife Refuges in he U.S. As well, Marilyn has been o Alasa and New Mexico several imes.
Marilyn has recenly used her experise in Phooshop o explore new graphic and design ideas for her images. A few years ago, while driving home, she had a vision of many, many eyes layered on one anoher looing a her. When she go home, she creaed he firs Kaleidimal.
The couple became members of he Norhern Virginia Phoographic Sociey in 2003. Marilyn was Co-Vice Presiden for Compeiions during he 2004-2005 season and Field Trip Coordinaor during he 2009-2010 season.
Marilyn’s digial slide show has hree secions. The firs consiss of “sraigh” bird porrais. The second secion is of “arsy” phoographs using slow shuer speeds o creae ineresing blurred images. The final secion shows a number of Kaleidimals she creaed using Phooshop.
Marilyn mosly shoos wih a Nion 300 using a 200-400mm lens wih a 1.7 x eleconverer.