{"id":14900,"date":"2018-12-02T18:55:14","date_gmt":"2018-12-02T23:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/?p=14900"},"modified":"2019-02-07T16:28:06","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T21:28:06","slug":"january-22-2019-competition-open-judged-by-jim-steele","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/january-22-2019-competition-open-judged-by-jim-steele\/","title":{"rendered":"January 22, 2019 \u2013 Competition: Open \u2013 Judged by Jim Steele"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>There is no theme for the competition<\/h3>\n<p><b>Jim Steele<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/225283_1029882625377_8427_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15607 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/225283_1029882625377_8427_n-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/225283_1029882625377_8427_n-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/225283_1029882625377_8427_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/225283_1029882625377_8427_n-45x45.jpg 45w, https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/225283_1029882625377_8427_n.jpg 453w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>While coming from a traditional film\/darkroom background, Jim is equally comfortable in both traditional and digital technologies. &nbsp;His work includes landscape, flowers, figurative, and surreal photography.&nbsp; He has a studio at the Torpedo Factory Art Center in Alexandria, VA. His photographs are included in many corporate and private collections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He has guest lectured in photography at Georgetown University and taught for the Art League in Alexandria Virginia, the Smithsonian, and Glen Echo\u2019s Photoworks. He frequently lectures on the subject of visual literacy and darkroom and digital workflows.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He and his wife are members of the Photography Initiative at the National Gallery of Art in DC.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jim\u2019s interest (obsession) in flower photography started when he was walking to his car one day and noticed a tiger lily in the flower bed beside the driveway.&nbsp; It was starting to wilt and he thought it was still beautiful.&nbsp; He took it down to the studio to photograph, and, using focus stacking to overcome the shallow depth of field, he ended up with a final focused digital file consisting of over a hundred stacked images. The rest is history.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many of Jim\u2019s favorite images are scenes he has been drawn to that most people might not photograph.&nbsp; Jim calls them&nbsp; \u201cImages I Like, But Nobody Else Will.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is no theme for the competition Jim Steele While coming from a traditional film\/darkroom background, Jim is equally comfortable in both traditional and digital technologies. &nbsp;His work includes landscape, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":15607,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-activities","category-competition","entry","has-media"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/225283_1029882625377_8427_n.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-21 11:13:19","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14900"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15610,"href":"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14900\/revisions\/15610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}