You’ve been working all summer taking pictures that you want to enter in this years competitions, and are wondering if they will make the cut. Here’s your chance to get some early feedback. Our last Tuesday in September will feature an anonymous critique withSandi Croan, award winning photographer, judge and past president of NVPS. Sandi
For this season we are working on a great mix of software instruction and fun hands-on opportunities. In preparation for competitions we start off September with “Preparing Your Images for Competition”. We’ll begin with suggestions for maximizing your digital images for projection, followed by a show and tell for matting before we break into
Think about it. How many individual decisions both unconscious and conscious do you think you make to produce one image? By breaking down the process using Sandi’s images and stories, Seeing Creatively Before and After takes you through the potentially hundreds of steps/decisions that we all make from the moment we decide that we will
This field trip features the historic mansions, gardens, houses and Civil War sites in and around downtown Fredericksburg. It will include opportunity to visit public sites such as The Chatham Manor and the Fredericksburg Battlefield Visitor Center at which there is no admission charge, as well as sites such as the Hugh Mercer Apothecary Shop,
On September 1st, NVPS launches our new year with Erika Nizborski. She will be speaking on Portrait Photography, both formal and informal, in advance of our November themed competition: Portraits. About: Erika Nizborski has been working as a professional photographer in the DC area for 5 years. She started her photography business shortly after graduating
Updated 2/8/2016 Date Digital Print September 22 Judy McGuire Curtis Gibbens October 27 Chris Langford Bob and Willa Friedman November 24 Dennis Govoni Granger Benson January 26 Cancelled due to Snow February 23 Rick French Andrew Savino March 22 Fred Siskind Bill Corbett April 26 Alan Goldstein Mike Whalen May 24 Ceasar Sharper John Singley
Curtis Gibbens Curtis’ is an outdoor nature photographer whose primary interest is wildlife. He tries not to limit his wildlife subject to birds. However, since birds are easier to find than reptiles, easier to approach than mammals, and he doesn’t usually have his macro lens in the field, bird images outnumber all other wildlife in
Dates for the themed competitions: Oct. 20, 2015 – Portraiture Mar. 15, 2016 – Creativity May 17, 2016 – Architecture Apr. 19, 2016 – Oldies Night. Normally there is a two year time limit on submitted images, but there is no time-limit on images for “Oldies Night”. Definitions for the themed competitions:
Don Rosenberger sold all his camera gear and walked away from photography. But that was back in 1983. He picked up a camera again in 2005 and has spent most of his weekends and vacation time trying to make up for those years he walked away. In the years since 2005 he has worked with
I trust all of you are having a great summer, and shooting lots of wonderful images! I hope that many of your images will be entered in Nature Visions this coming November. A couple of things I want to bring to your attention regarding submissions. This year you are only allowed to submit a total