Since joining NVPS in August 2012, Kirk Johnson has been taking digital photographs of a variety of subjects, such as architecture, street and urban, portrait, black-and-white, floral and abstract. Armed with his trusty Nikon D5300 and LG G6 smartphone and a variety of post-processing tools (Photoshop CS6, NIK Collections, Topaz, Portrait Professional 15, and Photomatix),
Judy’s presentation will celebrate the National Parks, in honor of the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service in 2016. She has visited 190 of the 417 total properties in the system. Her images will showcase the variety and splendor that you can find in these treasures, both near and far, big and small. Judy McGuire
As an 11-year old, Dan L. Ward first took “close-up” photos of the moon by holding the family’s Brownie Hawkeye camera to the eyepiece of his Gilbert 3” reflector telescope. The results may have been less than spectacular, but were still sufficient to nurture a love of photography and astronomy that continues five decades later.
Sandi Croan is an independent photographer from Centreville who has been living in Northern Virginia since 1978. She specializes in landscape, nature, and travel photography with an eye for capturing the unique and creating fine art for homes and offices. Sandi has won numerous competitions and awards for her fine art photographs including: Photographer
Although Stan has been taking pictures since the early seventies, it wasn’t until the take-off of digital photography that he became passionate about the photographic process. It has been a slow, sometimes painful and certainly continuous learning process. But with retirement, it beat the heck out of playing golf. Like many of you, in the
Biography Ceasar’s photographic journey began when he took a photography course in college. That was a very long time ago when he began to learn the fundamentals of focus, exposure and composition. Unfortunately, the development of his photography skills stalled upon his graduation from college and commissioning into the Air Force. He made the commitment
Program “Norway has been on my radar for a number of years. Finally, in June 2016, my wife, Cindy, and I, along with two of our long-time friends, spent 17 days touring the south and central western fjord region. We stayed in 10 different locations and traveled over 1000 miles, mostly by car. We experienced
About a decade ago, I had a chance to go to Botswana on safari. I bought an intermediate camera with the longest optical zoom then available. Although I didn’t see all of the Big Five, the photos of the animals are great memories of that trip. The camera also had manual controls, so I
Upcoming Forum Presentations: Date Presenter Title 27 September 2016 Ginger Werz-Petricka A Year of Travel 25 October 2016 Kathryn Mohrman China 22 November 2016 Mike Whalen Norway 24 January 2017 Stan Bysshe TBD 28 February 2017 Susan Phillips TBD 28 March 2017 Sandi Croan TBD 25 April 2017 Judy McGuire TBD 23 May 2017
Patricia Deege – Prints A native of England, Patricia’s artistic journey began in childhood with watercolor painting and a box camera. Married with three children, and now a grandmother of six grandchildren, she returned to photography in 1995, having been inspired through lectures and seminars to once again delve into the fascinating mysteries of the