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Editor: Sam Schaen - Email: Editor@NVPS.org
There have been many fine successes by many NVPS members this year. These successes bring credit to NVPS and keep the reputation of NVPS at a very high level. The Glennie Nature Interclub Exhibition, run by the Merrimack Valley Camera Club of Andover, MA., is an annual competition of digital images, which is a wonderful opportunity for NVPS. Ninety-five clubs participated for 2009; each entering the allowed ten nature images, that had to be juried-in by each club. NVPS, as a first-time participant, was very well accepted and finished in about the middle of the 95 clubs in overall points. The ten NVPS images are very strong images; the photographers are: Sam Schaen and Nikhil Bahl [two images each], Sandi Croan, Marilyn Gaizband, Angelique Rapatakis, Kris Ikejiri, Minh Thai and Will Haubert. Sandi and Sam each had an image selected as a "Merit Award Winner". Glennie is a Spring event, so NVPS members should peruse the Glennie website [which will be posted by John Quigley, when available] to see the winning images and shoot for 2010. Congratulations and thank you to all who submitted images. Congratulations to the eight folks above and to John Quigley, the NVPS Exhibits Chair, who organized the NVPS part. The Meadowlark weekend was very well organized and orchestrated. It required much hard work and many NVPS people volunteered their time to perform many support missions; Willa and Bob Friedman led the way. The overall NVPS efforts were led by Trinka Reddie and Yulan Gao, the NVPS Co-Chairs, who did great work and deserve many thanks. Approximately forty NVPS members had images that were juried in and about twelve received Sponsor's Choice Awards. Nikhil Bahl's image, "Simple Swans", was named the Meadowlark 2d Place overall ribbon winner. Timber Gooding's image was the NVPS "People's Choice" entry. Congratulations to all the photographers who submitted images and to all people who worked the event. Emi Wallace, the Membership Chair, has been completely untiring as the upbeat, welcoming ambassador of NVPS who stands at the entrance each week to answer questions and warmly greet new folks and everyone who attends. Thank you, Emi. Nominating Committee members, Scott Musson, Emi Wallace, Sam Schaen and Fred Chitty, each a Board member, have worked hard to complete the slate of volunteers for appointed Board positions for next year. Please step forward and ask them how you can help NVPS--we need your volunteerism. We thank each of the committee members for their great work. During the illness of Joseph Miller, Amie Tannenbaum has tirelessly supported and encouraged him through his recovery process and reported his progress. Our sending of cards has slowed-- Please send cards to Mr. Miller's home address of: 4811 Catharpin Rd., Gainsville, Va. 20155; they will be taken to him at the hospital. Prayers are also encouraged; bypass USPS and send prayers directly to "Prof." Miller. The annual NVPS End of Year Banquet will be on Friday, 5 June; it will be an evening full of great images, fine food and conversation, awards presented for photography achievements and a place for good fellowship. Admission checks should be given to Fred Chitty, our Treasurer. Bob Friedman is the EOY Chair. All Board members have worked very hard to coordinate for the best speakers, judges, educational opportunities, field trips, visual / audio projection, exhibit chances, facility, etc. All Board members deserve our thanks. Attendance has been high at each meeting---we thank all members for your attendance---you are the reason that NVPS has continued to be very strong. Tom Brett
Election of NVPS Officers for the 2009 - 2010 Club Year In accordance with the By-Laws of the Northern Virginia Photographic Society, the annual election of officers will occur on Tuesday May 5th, 2009. The following are the candidates for the elected offices:
No additional nominations have been received by the Chairman of the Nominating Committee. In accordance with the By-Laws, Scott Musson will present the roster of candidates at the first regular club meeting in May, Tuesday May 5th, 2009. The election will be by voice vote since there are no additional nominations. The Secretary/Historian shall determine if a quorum is present prior to the voice vote which is defined as 15% of entire membership. Scott Musson Proposed Changes to the Rules of CompetitionThe NVPS Executive Board has proposed a number of changes to the Rules of Competition for the 2009 – 2010 Club Year. There are two (2) types of changes proposed: changes to the language of the rules that simply standardize the words used throughout the document and clarifications to the interpretation of the rules. In keeping with the By-Laws of the organization, these changes must be announced in FotoFax, discussed at a general membership meeting and then voted on by the membership (a quorum is required to pass changes) at a subsequent meeting. The discussion will take place at the Program Meeting on May 5th and the changes will be voted upon at the Competition Meeting on May 19th. The By Laws can be located at: http://nvps.org/main//about/about-nvps-new/. The entire rules with proposed changes can be found at http://nvps.org/main/misc/20090424_rules_of_competition_language.pdf. Language ChangesThe language changes will be voted on as group, we will either make all of the changes, or none of them. None of these changes alters the rules, they are simply intended to make the language throughout the document more consistent. Language changes are as follows:
Rule ClarificationsSeveral rules had conflicting language in multiple paragraphs or were questioned on more than one occasion. These clarifications will be voted on individually because they are generally unrelated. If words were removed or changed in the current rules, they are marked in Blue. Words that were added in the proposed change are marked in Red. Section I.B and I.C. Number of Entries Required for a CompetitonThe current two paragraphs: For a monthly competition in a Class/Category to occur there must be at least two entrants. Where there is only one entrant, even if there are two entries, the judge shall comment on the image(s) and the image(s) will be given one point each for participation, but no award points. – and – For a monthly competition in a Class/Category to occur there must be at least two entrants in Novice Classes and at least three entrants in Advanced and Enhanced classes. When there are insufficient entrants, the judge shall comment on the image(s) and the image(s) will be given one point each for participation, but not 10 points for First Place. Becomes a single paragraph in place of the first paragraph above: For a monthly competition in a Class/Category to occur there must be at least two entrants in Novice Categories and three entrants in Advanced Categories and the single Enhanced Category. When there are not enough entrants for a competition, even if there are enough entries, the judge shall comment on the image(s) and the image(s) will be given one point each for participation, but no award points. Section I.G. Presentation of Digitally Projected ImagesThe current sentence: In addition, images for the Digitally Projected categories/classes must be provided in advance. Becomes: In addition, images for the Digitally Projected Categories/Classes must be provided in advance of the competition date. Section III. Classes/Categories of CompetitionThe current paragraph:
Becomes:
Section IV.C. Questions of Eligibility and DisqualificationThe current sentences: If a Novice inadvertently enters a slide or print in an advanced competition, the novice can request that the image be eliminated or any awards refused and still preserve his/her Novice status. Otherwise, the entrant will be placed in the Advanced class for that category. Becomes: If a Novice inadvertently enters a slide or print in an Advanced Class, the novice can request that the image be eliminated or any awards refused and still preserve his/her Novice status. Otherwise, the entrant will be placed in the Advanced Class for that Category from that time forward. Section V.A. EligibilityThe current paragraph: All entries from the monthly competitions receiving at least an honorable mention are eligible for the end-of-year competition. Rules for monthly competitions apply, except that submissions will take place as prescribed by the VP for Competitions, judging will take place in a separate location, and results will be available at the end-of-year banquet. Becomes: All entries from the monthly competitions receiving at least an honorable mention are eligible for the end-of-year competition. Rules for monthly competitions apply, except that submissions will take place as prescribed by the Vice President for Competitions, judging will take place in a separate location, each competitor may enter all of their award winners for the year, and results will be available at the end-of-year banquet. Section V.B. Versatile Photographer of the YearThe current paragraph: The Versatile Photographer of the Year award shall be given to the club member who has accumulated the highest number of total points from all competition classes and must have received an award in at least three classes. Becomes: The Versatile Photographer of the Year award shall be given to the club member who has accumulated the highest number of total points from all competition Categories and must have received an award in at least three Categories. Should two (2) or more photographers have the same total points in at least three (3) Categories, the photographer with points in the most Categories shall be declared the winner. Should two (2) or more photographers have the same number of points in the same number of Categories, then each of those photographers shall all be awarded Versatile Photographer of the Year.
Unlike the US Treasury and many banks, the NVPS treasury is quite solvent. Last July 28th, the NVPS Board approved the 2008 - 2009 club budget. Projected budget expenditures totaled $9,020 for the club year. These expenditures include
The Board also voted that any club income above expenses would be put into our NVPS capital reserve fund to pay for future equipment replacement (digital projector, laptop computer, software, microphones, etc). Dues were approved for $45 single and $65 for family memberships to produce a projected income of $9,020. As of April 15th, I am happy to report that club dues to date have produced $9,465.50 of income. Expenses to date have been $7,238.92, with the EOY awards and banquet being the last major expense still left to be paid. I am projecting about $1,500 will be added to the club capital reserve funds at the end of the year and that club dues will NOT increase next year. Fred Chitty
Photojournalism
Sam D'Amico started his photography career working for local newspapers. In 2002 he moved to Washington, DC and began to work as an instructor at the Washington School of Photography in Bethesda, MD. Sam enjoyed working as a photography instructor and as a result, in 2003, he began developing curriculum for his own series of workshops. His first workshop was held at 'Teaism Restaurant at Penn Quarter", a Tea House in Washington DC. Currently Sam continues to free-lance. Sam's visual sense and approach to making pictures
have been influenced by his life experiences, his teachers and other
photographers such as Andre Kertesz, Helen Levitt, Henri Cartier-Bresson,
Mary Ellen Mark, Lee Friedlander and Nan Goldin just to name a few.
On May 5, Sam will present on photojournalism. Mary O'Neill
Approximately 24 participants in the club's nine month long portfolio development project will present their portfolios during the NVPS meeting on May 12th. During the first portion of the meeting each of the participants will have a hard copy of their portfolio on display and will be available to discuss it with attendees. The hard copy at the discretion of the artist will be either prints or photo books, together with an artist statement, and will be on display on the tables at the rear of the hall. Please come early and allow yourself time to view and discuss the results of lots of hard work. The second portion of the meeting will be a 90 minute digital projection presentation of each portfolio accompanied by observations by the evening's "judge" Sherwin Kaplan. Note - this is not a competition; everyone will be a winner. Be sure to attend and show support for your fellow members who worked hard during the year to develop their portfolios. If there are any questions, please contact one of the Workshop Coordinators:
Competition Judge Jim Carrell will be the NVPS judge for our final monthly competition on Tuesday, May 19th. The May competition is an "open" competition with no theme. All parts of submitted images must have been photographed after May 19, 2007. Below is a brief bio sketch on Jim. Jim’s parents gave him a Kodak Pony 135 Model B camera as a Christmas present when he was about 13, and he has been photographing ever since. He still has the camera, and it still works. After moving to Northern Virginia 10 years ago he joined the Manassas-Warrenton Camera Club where he has served as President and Vice-president for Programs. During that time his self-taught skills have been honed and added to by attending many workshops, particularly those conducted by Joe Miller, and by competing in club competitions and other venues. Many of his images have been juried in to area exhibits and shows. The combination of a degree in art history and having seen much art in his life biases his judging towards 'artistic' versus 'photographic' merits of images. Jim has been trained by Joe Miller to be a camera club judge and is listed on the NVACC site. To read more about Jim’s judging criteria please go to www.nvacc.org and click on Jim Carrell. Please join Jim and Sandi at Chili's for dinner before the competition at 5:45PM. End Of Year Competition Submissions
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Optional info can include Date of competition that you won the award AND what place it too, e.g.,
Sandi Croan
pashli@aol.com Matthew Schmidt Below are some images that received a first place award in the March competition. Clicking on one of the pictures will display a larger version.
First place winners in future competitions may be submitted to editor@nvps.org. Submitted photos should have maximum width and height of 1024 pixels and 768 pixels respectively. Images should be sent to editor@nvps.org by the Friday following the competition. April Competition Results
Competition standings can be found on the NVPS website.
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Richard Thompson WMA and Sky Meadows State Park Join us in photographing the spring wildflowers, landscapes and wildlife at the G. Richard Thompson WMA and Sky Meadows State Park. These two parks contain woodlands and fields within a large area of unspoiled and protected countryside. The WMA is believed to have Northern America’s largest trillium stand which should be in bloom for our field trip. The parks are located about 50 miles west of the Capital Beltway.
Gerry Abbott
Seeing Creatively Before and After Come find out Sandi Croan's secrets to her success!!
Please join Sandi for the May 2009 Forum evening as she discusses and
illustrates with examples from her work the concepts that underlie
her approach to photography from the moment she decides to shoot through
the final product. Note: This Forum topic was rescheduled from January
due to snow.
Gayle Dennis
Prints
Gallery Davis Balderston is a former government employee who has had time for photography since retiring late in 2004. In September, 2005, he started classes at Photoworks, which is part of Glen Echo Park in Glen Echo, Maryland. Most of his work there has been with Mark Power, who was in the Corcoran’s photography department. for 27 years. He has also studied with Eliot Cohen, who teaches at Photoworks and the Smithsonian. In October, 2008, 24 of his photographs exhibited at the Arlington Central Library. In May, 2009, five of his photographs will be part of the exhibition "Across The Pond", at the Beyond The Image Gallery in Norwich, England. Davis moved to the Washington, D.C. area in 1972. Since 1990, he has lived in Arlington, Virginia, a close-in suburb of Washington. One of his photographic interests has been Arlington, an older suburb that has been changing rapidly over the past decade or so. He has also been drawn to what he calls semi-abstract nature photography. He finds that digital photography fits his personality and photographic interests well. He likes working in color, and digital technology gives him control over the printing process that he would not have with film. Also, digital photography lets him work almost immediately with what the camera has captured, which he thinks helps improve the quality of his work. The fast feedback possible with digital photography certainly helps reduce the frustrations and delays that go with working with film. Digital Projection Farzin began photographing with a Kodak 110 Film Camera when he was 10 years old and continued with film photography for a number of years. After giving up photography for a while, he resumed it a few years ago with a digital SLR (D70) and attended Wayne Wolfersberger's classes. He now uses a Nikon D300. Farzin has been a member of NVPS since 2006. A few of his images have been shown at the Meadowlark Exhibit in the last couple of years. He loves nature photography, especially landscapes. Farzin is a system analyst/enterprise architect and works for SWIFT in Northern Virginia. He moved to Canada from Iran in 1995 and then moved to the US in 2000. This year he had the opportunity to return to Iran and visit Dasht-e Kavir and Kavir-e-loot in the middle and south of the country. He will show a few pictures of his trip during his presentation. Farzin would like to have his own website eventually but for the moment he would rather be out in the field taking pictures. Luella Murri
Best Western Hotel See April Issue FotoFax.
Glennie Nature Interclub Exhibition Images made by Sandi Croan and Sam Schaen have received Merit Awards in the Glennie Nature Interclub Exhibition. Sandi's image "Pretty in Pink" received its award in the Amphibian Category and Sam's "Baboon with Newborn" in the Medium Size Mammal Category. These images were selected from among more than 1000 images submitted by 94 camera clubs in the United States, Canada and several foreign countries. Congratulations Sandi and Sam. You may view Sandi's and Sam's images in the NVPS Photo Gallery under NVPS Exhibits. John Quigley Laura Howell Laura Howell had 2 images accepted into, "The Photographer's
Eye", a juried exhibit that runs at The Round Hill Arts Center through
April 18. Also, she received 1st and 2nd Place awards (digitally enhanced
category) in The Annual Town of Vienna Photo Show (March 21 & 22).
Events Ado About Nature
Stones and .....Other Life Forms Photography exhibit, Stones and .....Other Life Forms, will run at the Multiple Exposures Gallery in the Torpedo Factory Art Center, April 7 to May 31. Artist reception will be held April 19 from 2 PM to 5 PM. Grace Taylor Photographers' Virtual Trade Show The PDN Photographers' Virtual Trade Show is a FREE online
trade show for professional and advanced amateur photographers. While on
the site you will have the opportunity to visit virtual booths, receive
personal attention, discover and buy the latest equipment and participate
in webcast panel discussions and presentations online—all from the
comfort of your home or office. See http://tinyurl.com/dnbgme U.S. Geological Survey Exhibit NVPS has the opportunity to hold an exhibit at the headquarters building of the US Geological Survey during the month of September 2009. While this presents a great opportunity for the club, it also presents some challenges. I have not yet seen the venue, but I understand it is very nice and contains space to display up to 100 framed images. Since the club is in adjournment for the summer months the planning and organization for the exhibit must start immediately. For planning purposes and these details are subject to change, the exhibit would go up on September 1 and remain in place for the month. By the middle of May I would like to have a list of members wishing to exhibit and the number of images you wish to show. My goal would be to get approximately 20 members with 5 images each, give or take. For now lets say maximum framed size of 20 x 16 (input requested) with consideration for panoramics. Also, for planning purposes, each member will need to make arrangements to deliver their images to the venue, either in person or by someone else. I will also need help for setup and takedown. By the time we break for the summer we should have all arrangements except for last minute adjustments in place. I will be available throughout the summer for coordination. John Quigley National Wildlife’s 39th Photo Competition It’s time again for National Wildlife’s Photo Contest. The magazine invites you to enter your favorite images in its 39th annual competition.
Cash prizes totaling $25,000 plus other gifts will be awarded to winners in Professional, Amateur and Youth divisions, including $5,000 each for two grand prize winners, one professional and one amateur. You can submit as many as 20 images in any combination of the following seven categories:
The deadline for all submissions is July 20, 2009. For more details about the categories, the rules, how to submit your photos and other information, go to http://www.nwf.org/photozone/enterphotocontest.cfm. Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2009 Wildlife Photographer Magazine is looking for new, creative, innovative,exciting photographs that show and depict the theme of African Animals and Landscapes. This is the first year that they are holding this competition. First prize is a one-week African Safari. More information is available at: http://www.wildlifephotographermagazine.com/competitions.html Power of Color The Power of Color is an exhibition that will explore color in the creation of artwork.All 2D and 3D art media are acceptable, including photography. See http://www.gallery-west.com. Entries must be submitted June 28, 2009 between 12 PM and 5 PM. Gallery West Look3 2009 LOOK3 in 2009, has just announced an additional forty-seven photographers who will share their work at the Festival this year. Guest Curator MaryAnne Golon has put together a group of artists for the Friday and Saturday night projections (Shots and Works) that spans the most exicting new projects ranging from fine art to photojournalism. The full list of presenting artists is on the website http://www.look3.org. Look3 is held in Charlottesville, VA June 12-13. contact@festivalofthephotograph.org SoFoBoMo SoFoBoMo is short for Solo Photo Book Month - a group event where a bunch of photographers all make solo photo books start to finish, in 31 days, at more or less the same time. It's modeled loosely on NaNoWriMo, where participating writers all write novels in a month, and NaSoAlMo, where musicians write and record solo albums in a month. For SoFoBoMo, the goal is to make the photos, write any needed text, layout the book, and produce a PDF image of the book, all in 31 days. Rather than confining it to a single calendar month, we use a 'fuzzy month', where you can pick any contiguous 31 day period inside a two month window - this makes it a bit more flexible and encourages broader participation. This time around, the fuzzy month is any 31 day period you please, provided that it starts no earlier than May 1, 2009, and ends no later than June 30, 2009, at midnight in your local time zone. For more information, see http://www.sofobomo.org/2009/ Submitted by Ed Knepley Workhouse Photographic Society The Workhouse Arts Center in Lorton, Virginia is pleased to announce openings in the Workhouse Photographic Society (WPS), a cooperative studio and gallery under the direction of the Lorton Arts Foundation. The WPS has a large gallery space in addition to a wet darkroom, digital darkroom, and studio for shooting portraits, products, or artwork. Members are accepted by jury and membership fees are $120 per month. Photographers will be responsible for maintaining the space and providing gallery coverage 5 days a week. Each member will serve 8 hours a month covering the gallery and 6 hours a month on a WPS committee. A schedule for using the studio facilities will be maintained by the studio manager. We are now accepting applications to jury. For those photographers not interested in the WPS, we are also accepting members in the Workhouse Art Guild (WAG). Receiving for our next juried show is March 9th 10-noon. Further information and forms can be found at the web site, http://www.workhousearts.org/participate.php Marti Deppa Kirkpatrick Chesapeake Watershed Photography Show The Chesapeake Watershed Photography Show is sponsored by the Maryland Federation of Art. They are seeking original photographs to be included in the juried show scheduled for June 25-July 26 at the Circle Gallery in Annapolis. John Coder Photoshop Videos Matthew Schmidt recently purchased a number of Adobe Camera Raw and Adobe Photoshop workflow videos from Kelby Training. These videos are for Adobe Photoshop CS3, but much of what is contained in them is applicable to older and newer versions of Photoshop and Elements as well. Matthew would be happy to loan them to any member who is interested in getting more from Photoshop and Camera Raw. There is some overlap among the videos. The videos and descriptions are:
If you are a JPEG shooter and want to know what all the fuss is about Camera Raw, or you shoot Raw but don't generally make adjustments in Camera Raw, Adobe Photoshop CS3 for Digital Photographers or Camera Raw Workflow Essentials would be perfect for you. If you are using Camera Raw and Layers in Photoshop already, but want to improve the look of your photos, Adobe Photoshop CS3 Power Session may help you find the features that you really need to get that little something extra out of your photos. If you are processing many images with similar lighting, or just want to be able to produce the same multi-step effect over and over, Automating Photoshop for Photographers will help you simplify your processing. Please see Matthew at a meeting or email him directly at mgs@loreleistudios.com if you are interested in borrowing any of these videos. He would like to keep the loans to 1 - 2 weeks. Matthew Schmidt Documentary Photography Workshops
Nancy Libson
Framing Workshop
Aline Santos Nikhil Bahl Workshops
Nikhil Bahl Windstar Cruise with Stephanie Pfriender
Stylander
Lisa Glover
Borneo and Brunei Wildlife Expedition
Akos Hivekovics Joshua Taylor Joshua Taylor’s photography workshops, classes, and lectures for the first half of 2009 are posted on his web site. Added for 2009 are workshops at Longwood Gardens, the Adkins Arboretum, and Ace Photo. Web site: archiphotoworkshops.com. Christine Kent Bowles (CKB) Workshops
Christine Kent Bowles (CKB) Photography Corey Hilz Photography
Corey Hilz NVACC Calendar May, 2009
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Loudoun Photography Club Contact: Mary Austin-Keller at info@loudounphotoclub.com or 703-435-8907 Website: www.loudounphotoclub.com Program: May 14, 2009 - "Inkjet Printing Tips" with Carolyn Koslow Competition: May 28, 2009 - Theme is "Open" (Judged) Field Trip: TBD
Manassas Warrenton
Camera Club Competition: May 21; Category: Open – Judge: Corey Hill Field Trips: May 3, 2009 - Trilliums at G. Richard Thompson Wildlife Management Area; June 6, 2009 - Shenandoah National Park and Great Meadows
McLean Photography
Club Program: Competition this month Competition: May 13, Wed. 7:30 p.m. at the McLean Community Center, Warren Standley will be judging.
Reston Photographic
Society Program: On May 18th we have a program from Joe Rossbach titled “The Mighty Potomac”
Field Trip: Sat., May 16, Frontier Culture Museum, Staunton, VA
Epson 2400 printer. Excellent condition. Not sure what the value is. It has ink in the printer, plus extra ink cartridges. If interested, please call and we can probably come to an agreement on price. Bob Friedman 703.978.7937 |