{"id":26322,"date":"2022-12-28T06:10:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-28T11:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/?p=26322"},"modified":"2022-11-26T17:56:15","modified_gmt":"2022-11-26T22:56:15","slug":"january-24-2023-members-gallery-digital-egypt-jordan-and-the-valleys-of-the-vendors-with-bill-corbett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/january-24-2023-members-gallery-digital-egypt-jordan-and-the-valleys-of-the-vendors-with-bill-corbett\/","title":{"rendered":"January 24, 2023: Member\u2019s Gallery \u2013 Digital: Egypt, Jordan and the Valleys of the Vendors with Bill Corbett"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Corbett-Camel-Jockeys.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-26320 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Corbett-Camel-Jockeys-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Corbett-Camel-Jockeys-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Corbett-Camel-Jockeys-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Corbett-Camel-Jockeys-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Corbett-Camel-Jockeys-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Corbett-Camel-Jockeys.jpg 1050w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>This fall Bill and Judy Corbett joined a group tour to see the pyramids in Egypt, Petra in Jordan, and many other antiquities in between.&nbsp; Along the way, Bill took the opportunity to photograph not only the iconic sites, but also the people at work in those places.&nbsp; Bill often shot surreptiously and silently, using a wide angle lens, the camera upside down at hip level, and set for a high frame rate. The denizens of the &#8220;valleys of the vendors&#8221; were his favorite subjects<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Bill_Corbett-Egypt_Jordan-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-26318 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Bill_Corbett-Egypt_Jordan-3-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Bill_Corbett-Egypt_Jordan-3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Bill_Corbett-Egypt_Jordan-3-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Bill_Corbett-Egypt_Jordan-3-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Bill_Corbett-Egypt_Jordan-3.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>A photojournalist in college, Bill Corbett returned to photography fifteen or so years ago with the advent of digital tools. &nbsp;He enjoys nature and travel photography the most.&nbsp; He has been a member of NVPS since 2011 and is a past president of Mid-Atlantic Photo Visions (formerly Nature Visions). &nbsp;Bill and Judy moved to Aldie in Loudoun County in 2017 after 23 years in McLean, where they raised their three kids.&nbsp; He served for two decades as a U.S. diplomat and trade negotiator.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Bill_Corbett-Egypt_Jordan-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"959\" data-id=\"26319\" src=\"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Bill_Corbett-Egypt_Jordan-4-1024x959.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Bill_Corbett-Egypt_Jordan-4-1024x959.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Bill_Corbett-Egypt_Jordan-4-300x281.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Bill_Corbett-Egypt_Jordan-4-768x719.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Bill_Corbett-Egypt_Jordan-4.jpg 1121w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Bill_Corbett-Egypt_Jordan-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"26316\" src=\"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Bill_Corbett-Egypt_Jordan-1-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Bill_Corbett-Egypt_Jordan-1-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Bill_Corbett-Egypt_Jordan-1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Bill_Corbett-Egypt_Jordan-1.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Bill_Corbett-Egypt_Jordan-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"26317\" src=\"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Bill_Corbett-Egypt_Jordan-2-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Bill_Corbett-Egypt_Jordan-2-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Bill_Corbett-Egypt_Jordan-2-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Bill_Corbett-Egypt_Jordan-2.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This fall Bill and Judy Corbett joined a group tour to see the pyramids in Egypt, Petra in Jordan, and many other antiquities in between.&nbsp; 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