Chuck Campbell is a serious amateur/fledgling professional photographer based in Northern VA. He’s been a member of NVPS for 6 years and credits the great folks in the club with sparking his interest in becoming a better photographer. He completed the yearlong Professional Program at the Washington School of Photography a year and a half
David Blecman, a member of the Professional Photographers of America, started his photographic career fresh out of high school in 1978. After many years of shooting weddings and such, he started Positive Negatives in 1997, concentrating more in the commercial photography arena. He is now an internationally recognized photographer and instructor, having taught photographers, models,
Competition Results – March 15th, 2016 Digital – Class 1 1st – Kieulan Nguyen – Water Lily 2nd – John Murray – The Sun Also Rises 3rd – Paula Neumann – Autumn Impressions H – Joan Barker – Glowing Edges H – Julie Konzelman – Scarlet H – Paula Neumann – Ghostly Visitors H –
What are the main types of businesses when it comes to photography? What is it like for a full-time photographer trying make a living in this business? Want to learn more about selling your images/prints? Like to make extra money with your hobby, but you don’t know where to start? Special guest, Matthew Rakola, a professional full-time photographer based in
NVPS members have been invited to exhibit framed prints at Beanetics. The show will be hung on Monday the 18th, at 11 am. A reception is scheduled tentatively for Sunday April 24th, from 2 – 4 pm. More details on that later. The show will hang until May 27th. Beanetics has room for about
Alan Goldstein – Digital A member of NVPS since 2012, Alan has been involved in some way or other with photography for the past 54 years (not bad, considering he’s only 29!) It all began with a science teacher instructing him on the art of film developing. At that time, he was using a Kodak
The Black water National Wildlife Refuge is located on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, just 12 miles south of Cambridge, Maryland in Dorchester County, and consists of over 27,000 acres (110 km2) of freshwater impoundments, brackish tidal wetlands, open fields, and mixed evergreen and deciduous forests. This field trip will focus on nature Photography, primarily Bald Eagles
Biography Tom’s “life’s work” involved college graduation from The Citadel with a Regular Army commission as an Infantry officer. His 30 1/2 Army years were extremely satisfying and involved plenty of travel, including 7 overseas assignments (with 3 combat tours) and 3 years of teaching at West Point. His photography introduction came during his mid-20s, but
Well, thanks to the weather February didn’t work out for our camera fun night, so we’re going to give it another try. March may be too late for images for the Joe Miller Abstract Exhibit (remember to get your submissions in by February 28th), but it isn’t too late for the ‘Creativity’ themed competition on the
Critique on March 29-5th Tuesday On March 29, the fifth Tuesday in March, we will have our initial informal critique. Mike Whalen and I will go through each of the portfolios and we will try to answer your questions. Some of the points we will discuss are the following: do your Artist’s Statement