{"id":21394,"date":"2021-04-02T18:07:10","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T22:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/?p=21394"},"modified":"2023-10-17T15:33:49","modified_gmt":"2023-10-17T19:33:49","slug":"april-2021-presidents-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/april-2021-presidents-message\/","title":{"rendered":"April 2021 &#8211; President&#8217;s Message from Ron Taylor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Ron Taylor &#8211; NVPS President<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/NVPS-Preident-Portrait-600x600-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/NVPS-Preident-Portrait-600x600-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18549\" style=\"width:252px;height:252px\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Spring is finally and officially here.&nbsp; As I write this, however, it is a cold and gloomy day \u2013 great for bundled-up black and white photography or a big cup of hot chocolate.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We begin April with a presentation by Nic Stover titled \u201cPsychology of Photography.\u201d&nbsp; &nbsp;Nic created the Psychology of Photography as a way of helping photographers to think&nbsp;beyond the basics of taking pictures and into the world of creating images.&nbsp; It promises to be a different and interesting approach to photography.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our Education and Training meeting will feature the first final review of Portfolio Project (PP) submissions, with Brian Zwit as our guest reviewer. &nbsp;&nbsp;Brian brings a great deal of experience to the final judging of our Portfolio Program and we are delighted to have him back with us this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The judge for our competition will be Denise Silva.&nbsp; Denise has judged our competitions several times over the past few years and always does a great job.&nbsp; The theme for this competition is Fountains.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Remember that we have revised the rules of competition for this year only, and have included the revised rules on the website.&nbsp;To find them go to the website\u2019s \u201cHome\u201d page, click on \u201c(Member Menu)\u201d and \u201cCompetitions-&gt;Rules of Competition\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp; Please review the rules carefully before you submit your images.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our field trip will be at the Enid Haupt Garden at the Smithsonian Castle between 7 AM and 9 AM.&nbsp;&nbsp; The Garden is at the center of the city block framed between 12th St. and 7th St. SW and Independence Ave and Jefferson Dr SW.&nbsp; Included in this block are a number of iconic and unique structures that should provide excellent photographic opportunities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mike Kane and Judy Guenther will offer Members Gallery presentations on Maine and Passion for Architecture, respectively, and Mike Whalen will present a Members Forum titled \u201cThe Soul of Southern Spain.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I look forward to seeing you at the meetings.&nbsp; Stay safe and well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ron<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ron Taylor &#8211; NVPS President Spring is finally and officially here.&nbsp; As I write this, however, it is a cold and gloomy day \u2013 great for bundled-up black and white [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"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":[447],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-presidents-message","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-10 13:21:12","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\/21394","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=21394"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28634,"href":"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21394\/revisions\/28634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}