The Distinguished Service Award was established in 2010 to honor volunteers who make significant contributions of service to NVPS. Awardees are selected by the current President. This year 3 individuals were selected by NVPS President Georgette Grossman that she felt were deserving of the Distinguished Service Award. Willa Friedman Willa has served on many Board positions for NVPS. Beyond
The Joe Atchison Award is a service award presented to an individual who has performed outstanding service to the club over a period of many years. It is not given every year. In our 50 year history it has been given to only 8 individuals (Erwin Siegel, Greg Gregory, Ed Funk, Joe Miller, Andy Klein, Sherwin Kaplan, Bill Prosser,
Ginger Werz-Petricka has two images from her trip to Venice last January in the “Mirror to the World 2015” exhibition of documentary photography opening at Glen Echo Photoworks Gallery this Friday with a reception from 6:00 to 8:00 P.M. and running through June 1st. The address is 7300 MacArthur Boulevard, Glen Echo, MD, www.glenechophotoworks.org ,
Fred Siskind’s image, Frog Face, was published in the 2015 edition of the Northern Virginia Review.
NVPS member Kirk Johnson learned recently that one of his photographs was selected as a regional finalist in the Hunt for Americana Photo Contest, sponsored by the Great American Country TV.com website and Popular Photography magazine. Following submission of his photograph (during a Promotion period advertised in Popular Photography magazine) between October and November 2014,
Long-time member Wayne Wolfersberger took photographs and some video of kayaks navigating Great Falls following a recent snow storm. His images and video were published by the Washington Post and the Weather Channel. You can catch even more of Wayne’s videos on his YouTube channel.
Ginger Werz-Petricka will be the guest speaker at the Washington School of Photography Camera Club on March 18th. She will be presenting “Venice in January” including information and images from her trips to Venice in January 2014 and 2015. The program starts at 7:30 at 12276 Wilkins Avenue, Rockville, MD 20852.
Bob and Willa Friedman have had work juried into the Photoworks Gallery and Photography School’s 2015 show, MY LITTLE TOWN: A PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION ABOUT WASHINGTON, DC. it was juried by award-winning photographer, Peter Garfield (The Washington Post, Smithsonian Magazine, Washingtonian), this exhibition showcases the neighborhoods and local stomping grounds of Washington, DC, providing a glimpse
On February 18, one of Kirk Johnson’s photographs, titled “Next Stop…South Capitol” was selected as Photo of the Day for the Shutterbug.com website. The article accompanying the photo says: Today’s Shutterbug Photo of the Day is this ghostly, futuristic shot of the DC Metro by Kirk Johnson. Johnson actually shot this with his Samsung Galaxy S3 smartphone, proving
Six NVPS members as well as past judge Roy Sewell are finalists in the upcoming ArtSpace Fine Art Photography Exhibit. The finalists’ photographs will be on exhibit from February 24 through March 22, 2015. Winners of the competition will be announced by Judge Carla Steckley during the Awards and Artist Reception on Saturday, February 28,