Stay Photographically Nimble, Find Your Go To Place By Stan Bysshe We all love to take pictures. I’d like to think that over the last forty years I have learned something about photography but I keep finding new ways to improve. Traveling to far off photogenic destinations can be inspiring, but those trips, for me, are
Eva Lanyi A member of NVPS since 2015, Eva Lanyi has been interested in photography since her first blurry black and white photos of the neighbor’s dog, taken with her Kodak Brownie Instamatic (which she still has). School, work, and life in general created other priorities for many years. Since retiring from a 32-year federal
A Week in Normandy Paula’s interest in photography has developed over time. Paula was definitely more comfortable with a point and shoot camera until relatively recently. Her first experience with an SLR was as team photographer for her daughter’s summer and high school swim teams. From 2000-2010 she took 10’s of 1000’s of photos at
Kevin Linde I was born and raised in Johannesburg, South Africa and moved to Canada in 1992 where I met my wonderful wife, Debby. In 1998 we moved to Northern Virginia with our 2-year-old son, Ryan. Our second son, Jared, was born in 1999 when we moved into our current house in Fairfax. My boys
Two Hour Images by Steven Glintz Steven graduated from Rochester Institute of Technology with a degree in Computer Science and currently works in Northern Virginia as a software engineer. For fourteen years, Steven has supported the U.S. Navy and its allies through the development of air defense simulations and trainers and modernizing tactical control systems
Members’ Gallery (Digital) Sam Schaen and Marilyn Gaizband Sam Schaen and Marilyn Gaizband were members of NVPS from September 2003 until 2017.They bought a home in Green Valley AZ and spend their winters there. The pair consider themselves serious amateur photographers. They met in 1983 and celebrated their 32nd anniversary in April. Marilyn became seriously
Christine Tran Born in Saigon, Vietnam, Christine Tran is passionate about the different aspects of nature present in our daily environment. Christine says “As long as we take the time to look at our feet or gaze into the infinite, beauty can be present anywhere.” She started in the 2014 with a DSLR Canon 70D. Her presentation
Bill’s Presentation is called Africa Bill Millhouser became interested in photography in the early 1970s, starting with a used Yashica SLR and then a series of various Canon film SLRs. Bill enjoyed travel and nature photographs, but the outputs were limited to color prints in scrapbooks and boxes of Kodak Carousel slide trays. Having flamed
Joy Brathwaite is a Washington D.C. event and portrait photographer. Joy started photography in July 2013 with a Nikon D3000. Shortly after picking up the camera, she was invited to join NVPS by a work colleague. Through NVPS she has met great photographers and learned various photographic techniques, from whom and which she credits with
Southwestern China Journey by Len Johnson In the Spring of 2017 I took a 19-day trip to the Yunnan and Southwestern regions of China. The villages and cities I visited included Xizhou, Zhoucheng, Dali, Shangri-la, Chengdu, Guilin, Longji, Yangshuo and Shanghai. The first thirteen days were a cultural tour and photographic workshop guided by Douglas