CANCELLED due to government shutdown! Watch for rescheduling next month The Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center is the destination for the NVPS January Field Trip, scheduled on Saturday, January 19th. The museum is located in Chantilly near the Dulles Airport, accessible from Route 28. The Center is the companion facility to the National Air and Space
A favorite summer attraction at Longwood Gardens has recently been restored and brought to nighttime brilliance — the illuminated fountain presentations. We’ll be traveling there for a Thursday field trip on August 16. (The trip will be Thursday rather than the weekend to try to avoid the large weekend crowds.) We’ll meet in front of
Lunch Update: See Below September’s field trip will be to the Smithsonian Renwick Gallery Museum (Pennsylvania Avenue at 17th Street NW). We will meet on Saturday, September 15, 9:50 AM at the front entrance. We’ll also meet for lunch at a nearby restaurant (see below) at 12:00 AM. Tripods are not allowed. A sign-up sheet
The “official” NVPS trip to the Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens will be July 28, the weekend following the park’s Lotus and Water Lily festival. The festival is much later in July than prior years, and many club members have already been to the park and posted wonderful images on the club facebook page — keep it
Our final field trip of the 2017-18 club calendar will be May 19 to the National Arboretum, located at 3501 New York Ave., N.E. We’ll meet at the visitor center at 8:30 — the Arboretum opens at 8:00. While the insane weather this year prevents any forecast about what, if anything, will be in bloom, the Arboretum offers a stunning array
In April, we’ll be going back to New York City (April 13-15). Tentative plans include Times Square at night, Midtown Manhattan (Grand Central Station!), Brooklyn and Brooklyn Heights (including views of the Brooklyn Bridge), as well as lower Manhattan (Wall Street and Washington Square). Our plan is for everyone going on the trip to meet
The March field trip will be March 24, going to Huntley Meadows Park, Mason Neck State Park, and/or the Elizabeth Hartwell National Wildlife Refuge. You can go to one or more of the locations – we plan to meet up for lunch (and possible libations) early in the afternoon. Huntley Meadows combines a wooded and
February’s field trip will be to the B&O Railroad Museum in Baltimore, MD, on February 17. The museum website gives this description of what we’ll see: Located among Baltimore City’s historic southwest neighborhoods, at the original site of the historic Mt. Clare Shops, the B&O Railroad Museum is recognized universally as the birthplace of American railroading. …
January 27, 2018, to Longwood Gardens, Kennett Square, PA We’ll try to chase away the winter blahs with a field trip to Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, on January 27. While the Garden’s four-acre conservatory offers a vast assortment of plants and flowers, the annual “Orchid Extravaganza” begins the weekend before, so those flowers should
We’re going to try our luck with the weather with a field trip to Washington, D.C., at night. Tripods and/or high-ISO shooting! Night photography in a city presents the challenges of capturing long exposures, dealing with different light sources (and color temperatures), and being ready for whatever weather may come our way. Possible shooting locations