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FotoFax
The Newsletter of the Northern Virginia
Photographic Society
Tana Ebbole – Early Morning Gold
Volume 52 – No. 6 February 2019
Volume 52 – No. 6 FOTOFAX February 2019
Table of Contents
President’s Message ................................................................................................................3
From the Editor ........................................................................................................................3
Portfolio Project .......................................................................................................................4
Programs ....................................................................................................................................5
Competitions .............................................................................................................................7
Member’s Forum ......................................................................................................................9
New Members ......................................................................................................................... 15
NVPS Exhibitions ................................................................................................................... 15
Field Trips ............................................................................................................................... 16
Education and Training ...................................................................................................... 17
Nature Visions ........................................................................................................................ 17
Announcements ..................................................................................................................... 17
Workshop Offerings ............................................................................................................. 21
January 2019 Competition – First Place Winners ...................................................... 23
Club Calendar
February 5 February 12 February 16 February 19 February 26
Program – Black Education/ Field Trip - Competition – Members
and White Training – Initial Steven F. Open Gallery – Kirk
Photography by Portfolio Review by Udvar-Hazy Competition – Johnson
Jim Steele Ginger Werz- Center Judged by Roy Digital – Tom
Petricka, Kathryn Sewall Schum
Mohrman and Kevin Prints – Stan
Egan Bysshe
March 5 March 12 March 19 March 23 March 26
Program – Education/Training Competition – Field Trip – Members
Portraits by – Multiple Exposures Open Truck Gallery –Kathryn
Catherine by Kieulan Nguyen Competition – Graveyard Mohrman
Simmons Judged by John Digital – Judy
Hoover McGuire
Prints – Joan and
Clark Barker
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The Northern Virginia
As President of NVPS there is little to worry
Photographic Society about when it comes to the week-to-week
promotes the enjoyment, workings of the club. We have a well-oiled
machine. My biggest concern is how to
mastery, and furtherance of attract new members and how to encourage
photography through our newest members to participate in the
running of the club.
cooperation, effort and good
fellowship Our updated website really does show off
the photographic talents of NVPS. It should
serve us well in attracting new members.
But behind the wonderful galleries we have
President’s Message tried to reorganize all of the information
that goes into organizing NVPS. Hopefully
this will make it easier for any member to
research what the Board and Key Members
do and encourage new ideas and new Board
participants.
The new website remains a work in
progress. There is a mountain of archived
documents that need to be organized,
deleted and made easily available to our
members. As you go through the site we
welcome ideas and corrections. Feel free to
contact me with your thoughts.
One final note - we had our first weather
cancelation and it occurred at the last
minute. If on Tuesdays you have a question
as to a meeting cancellation refer to our
Well, hopefully by the time you read this, weather policy, check your emails, and look
NVPS will have officially unveiled its new at our Facebook page.
website. This project was initiated last July
and has painstakingly evolved with the See you Tuesdays,
efforts of many of our members. When I
proposed the update to the Board, I was Stan
quite naive as to the IT implications of the
idea. Once again the talents and dedication
of our club members made the new website From the Editor
a reality. We owe a great deal of thanks to
Mike Whalen, Scott Musson, Kathryn Welcome to the February 2019 edition of
Mohrman, Chuck Campbell, Tana Ebbole, Fotofax.
Ron Taylor, Sid Stone, Georgette Grossman,
John Murray, Stephanie Reavley, Alan
We reached the half way point in the NVPS
Goldstein, George Bradshaw and David calendar year. The second half of the year
Crooks. (My apologies if I left anyone out!)
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will bring more informative speakers, feedback is important as we evolve FotoFax
competitions and field trips. and other NVPS communication vehicles.
I am personally looking forward to the
initial Portfolio Review scheduled for Portfolio Project
February 12th. Not only am I looking
forward to receiving comments on my
We are happy to report that although the
portfolio but also seeing other member’s
initial Portfolio Review was cancelled due
portfolios.
to inclement weather, it has been
rescheduled for February 12th. This is
Over the last six months several NVPS
great news as a live review is much more
members have been slaving away creating a
valuable for the participants, and it is a
new NVPS website. We will transition to the
good educational experience for everyone
new website in February. Many things will
to see the preliminary review and then have
look new including the gallery, calendar,
the opportunity to see the final portfolios
theme, menu, front page and logo. Stay
on May 21st. Whether you have a portfolio
tuned for eblasts, which will describe the
or not, the review will be a fun and
changes in more detail.
interesting experience.
The reviewers for this year’s Portfolio
Project are Ginger Werz-Petricka, Kathryn
Mohrman and Kevin Egan
Although the reviewers may comment on
individual images, the Portfolio Project
emphasizes a body of work and how the
individual images work together as a
cohesive whole. Reviewers will also provide
their thoughts about the Artist Statement
that begins each portfolio, giving feedback
on how it correlates with the actual
A reminder. On program and competition portfolio. In addition, they provide helpful
evenings members meet with the program feedback on continuity, repetition, and
presenter and competition judge at Jason’s image order.
Deli a few minutes from the firehouse.
These dinners allow us to meet our guests The web team has been working furiously
and get to know other NVPS members over on the new NVPS website and access to the
good food. Of course Jason’s also gives free working portfolio gallery will be much
soft-serve for dessert. See you at dinner. simpler. The new location will be on
Dropbox, a free cloud storage area.
Please let the Editor know if you have won
a photo award, have pictures in an For upload just remember that your Artist
exhibition or want to highlight a photo Statement and images have to be in a jpeg
event or exhibition. Send to format. If you want to put your statement
editor@nvps.org. on top of an image it’s easy in Photoshop or
Elements by putting a text box on the
Please send your suggestions and image. Mike Whalen suggested that you
comments to editor@nvps.org. Your could also bring up your artist statement on
your computer screen and simply take a
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picture of it - just use a very slow shutter The lecture will explore black and white
speed of 1/30 or less. Another idea is to vision and how it is different from seeing in
print the artist statement and take a picture color. Various digital workflows addressing
of it. However you do it, size your conversion to monochrome, digital
statement and images as you would for manipulation of the digital files,
competition, 127dpi, 1400 max pixels for preparation for printing, and various
width and 1050 max pixels for height. This printing issues presented in the digital
sizing represents the best viewing on the world will be presented.
screen at the club.
For those who might be scanning black and
Portfolios are an important outlet for white or color negatives, issues associated
photographers to display their artistic with getting optimum film scans will also be
vision and develop unique projects for their discussed.
bodies of work. Seeing the various
portfolios and hearing the reviewers’ The lecture will also include opportunities
comments will hopefully give everyone to shoot and evaluate the work as it relates
ideas for creating their own portfolios. to black and white imaging.
As always, this year’s project has a wide While coming from a traditional film and
variety of subjects. What we have seen so darkroom background, Jim is equally
far is a terrific collection of concepts comfortable in both traditional and digital
followed up with beautiful images. Be sure technologies. His work includes landscape,
to be there on February 12th for a fun and flowers, figurative, and surreal
educational evening. photography. He has a studio at the
Torpedo Factory Art Center in Alexandria,
Ginger Werz-Petricka and Colena Turner VA. His photographs are included in many
corporate and private collections.
Programs Jim has guest lectured in photography at
Georgetown University and taught for the
Art League in Alexandria Virginia, the
February 5, 2019 Smithsonian, and Glen Echo’s Photoworks.
He frequently lectures on the subject of
visual literacy and darkroom and digital
Jim Steele, who
workflows.
was also our
January He and his wife are members of the
competition Photography Initiative at the National
judge, will talk Gallery of Art in DC.
about Black
and White Jim’s interest (obsession) in flower
Photography. photography started when he was walking
to his car one day and noticed a tiger lily in
Jim’s lecture is the flowerbed beside the driveway. It was
designed for starting to wilt and he thought it was still
photographers beautiful. He took it down to the studio to
working in digital color who want to photograph, and, using focus stacking to
explore black and white imagery in the overcome the shallow depth of field, he
digital medium. ended up with a final focused digital file
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consisting of over a hundred stacked
images. The rest is history. Catherine is both a seasoned mom and
photographer. She began her journey into
Many of Jim’s favorite images are scenes he photography after the birth of her sixth
has been drawn to that most people might child in 2009. Her children’s ages range
not photograph. Jim calls them “Images I from 21 down to 9 years old. As a busy
Like, But Nobody Else Will.” mom, photography became a way for her to
engage with her children, enjoy her creative
appetite for making art, and document the
March 5, 2019 fleeting years as they passed so quickly.
After taking several photography classes at
Catherine her local community college, she realized
Simmons is going that her hobby was quickly turning into an
to be sharing on obsession. She spent the next five years
the topic of Family photographing families and their children
and Child as a small business on the side.
Photography. This
is a broad topic After moving to Vienna, Austria in January
ranging from of 2017, Catherine decided to begin earning
formal family her Master’s in Fine Arts in Photography
portraits to candid from Savannah College of Art and Design
snapshots for the through their e-learning program. While
family album. living in Vienna, Catherine tasted the world
Catherine will of travel photography throughout Europe
present information and ideas on how to as well as taught workshops for the United
capture images that embody both Nations Photography Club. She earned the
sentiment and artistry. You’ll learn how to first place in the 2017 UNPC Annual Photo
improve your technical and artistic Competition as well as in several monthly
approach to photographing children of all competitions.
ages. Catherine will break down the
differences among portraiture, lifestyle, and Upon returning to the States, Catherine
snapshots and how to approach each one transitioned into the studio where she now
strategically and with intent. is both a Fine Art and Commercial portrait
photographer. Additionally, Catherine
Perhaps you are a grandparent wanting to teaches workshops on Beginning
photograph your adorable, but very busy Portraiture, Family and Child Photography,
toddler grandchild, or you’re a parent and Editing Portraiture in Photoshop for
trying to take your high school senior’s Capital Photography Center. While her
pictures for a graduation party invite. expertise is in the studio, she continues to
Maybe you are an aunt or uncle trying to shoot families as well as educate others on
document a family vacation at the beach, or the wonderful and most joyful experience
perhaps you are a retired hobbyist who is of photographing children and their
always being asked to take pictures at families.
special family events and social gatherings.
No matter what your specific need may be, Here are some samples of Catherine’s
you are sure to walk away with a new level portraits.
of understanding when it comes to
photographing children and families in any
context.
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Competitions
January 22nd Competition Results
Congratulations to the winners from the
January 22nd open competition judged by
Jim Steele. Competition results follow.
Winning first place images can be found at
the end of the newsletter.
Digital - Class 1
1st Place Ann Sigafoos – Marilyns on
Royal New Orleans USA
2nd Place Caitlin Payne –CREA
Digital – Class 2
1st Place My-linh Tran – Feeding Time
2 Place
nd Judy Graham – Vermilion Blues
3rd Place Philip Winters – An
Abundance of Red Umbrellas
Digital – Class 3
1st Place Alan Goldstein – Da-da-da-dah
2nd Place David Crooks – Great Blue
Heron in Flight
3 Place
rd Fran Bastress – Azalea Time in
Charleston
HM Gayle Dennis – Dining Parisian
Style
HM Lynn Cates – On the Beach
Color Prints – Class 1
1st Place Tana Ebbole – Early Morning
Gold
2nd Place Joe Gaul – Mandarin Duck
3 Place
rd Julie Konzelman – Chillin’ at
the Jefferson
Color Prints – Class 2
1st Place Kieu-lan Nguyen –Water Lily
2nd Place Philip Winters – Air Ride
Color Prints – Class 3
1st Place Judy Guenther – Milky Way
Dunes
2nd Place Tom Brett – Chincoteague
Colors
3 Place
rd Roger Lancaster – Lunch
HM Kevin Egan – B Reynolds Falls
Monochrome Prints – Class 1
1st Place Tim Brown – Stairway to
Heaven
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2nd Place Stephanie Reavley – Roy has done extensive work for private
Remember, Honor, Teach and commercial clients, as well as Potomac
Monochrome Prints – Class 2 River and C&O Canal-related government
1st Place Jim Dacey – Sunset at White and non-profit organizations.
Sands
Roy's considers the ultimate destination for
2 Place
nd Kieulan Nguyen – The
a photograph to be a large fine art print, 12"
Entrance
x 18" or larger. He has exhibited in
Monochrome Prints – Class 3
numerous DC-area group and one-person
1st Place Tom Brett – White Sands
shows, as well as in his own studio.
Curve
2nd Place Kevin Egan – Walking in the March 19, 2019 Competition
Rain
3rd Place Lynn Cates – Shapes on the Our judge for the
Mall March open
competition is John
Hoover. John is the
February 19, 2019 Competition Instructional Lab
Coordinator for
Roy Sewall will Photography at
be the judge for Montgomery College in
the February Rockville, Maryland
open and is an assignment photographer
competition. specializing in portraits, travel, and
architectural photography. Previously he
Roy's interest in served as the Director of Photography at
photography the Metropolitan Center for the Visual Arts,
evolved from a nonprofit community arts center located
travel in six in Rockville.
continents, yet he
found his own community to be one of the He is the recipient of the 2007 excellence in
most photogenic locations in the world. the Arts and Humanities Award, given by
the Montgomery County Arts and
From Roy's interest in photography evolved Humanities Council, for contributions he
from travel in six continents, yet he found made improving the Photography Center at
his own community to be one of the most Visual Arts enabling national recognition
photogenic locations in the world. among professional photographers and
From 2001 to 2009 Roy concentrated on industrial specialists.
capturing scenes of the Potomac River and
the adjacent Chesapeake and Ohio (C&O) John’s current exhibition is “2018 Travels in
Canal. He then developed diverse bodies of Europe: A Photographic Journey through
work that include foreign and domestic Prague, Vienna and Budapest.” John can be
destinations, architecture and design, reached at his website
people, nature, old places and things, and www.Jhooverphotoimages.com or by email
abstracts. But since 2012 his foremost at johnhoover@jhoover.com.
passion is his ongoing project called
"Mysterra" - illusions that convey fantasy,
whimsy, and spirits.
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Future Competition Schedule photographs of a variety of subjects, such as
architecture, street and urban, portrait,
Following is the competition schedule for black-and-white, floral and abstract.
the remainder of the NVPS Year.
Armed with his trusty Nikon D5300 and LG
G6 smartphone and a variety of post-
Date Theme Judge
processing tools (Photoshop CS6, NIK
2/19/19 Open Roy Sewall
Collections, Topaz, Portrait Professional 18,
3/19/19 Open John Hoover
and Photomatix), Kirk has been recognized
4/16/19 Trains, Steve Gottlieb
internationally, nationally, and locally with
Planes,
a variety of photographic awards including:
Automobiles
2017 International Fine Arts Photography
& Trucks
Award (FAPA) - Nominee Award for
5/14/19 Oldies David Blecman Abstract photography; the Great American
Banquet End of Year Nikhil Bahl Country (GAC) - Hunt for Americana Photo
Competition Contest - United States Southern Region
Finalist – in 2014; numerous NVPS monthly
Final Themed Competition competition awards. Additionally, his
photographs have appeared in Bliss
It’s time to start preparing for NVPS’s Magazine and twice in Shutterbug.com
final themed competition for the club’s “Photo of the Day.”
calendar year: Trains, Planes,
Automobiles & Trucks. Images of these Kirk, who retired from the U.S. Navy in
subjects can be of new or old trains, planes, 1999 as a Lieutenant Commander, currently
automobiles or trucks – from mint lives in Alexandria, Virginia with his wife,
condition to a state of ruin. Images can be of Leslie and their dog, Orville. Presently,
the entire vehicle or isolated parts, such as Kirk is a Principal Director working for the
hood ornaments. Subjects can be in motion federal government in Washington, D.C.
or at rest.
Some images from his trip.
Member’s Forum
A Once in a Lifetime Trip to Israel
For the February
2019 Member’s
Forum Kirk
Johnson will
discuss his
October 2018 trip
to the Holy Land
and share some background information on
a number of sites he and his wife, Leslie,
visited along with photographs taken
during their one-week stay.
Since joining NVPS in August 2012, Kirk
Johnson has been taking digital
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Traveling to far off photogenic destinations
can be inspiring, but those trips, for me, are
often separated by long time gaps. So, the
challenge becomes how to stay
photographically nimble.
When I was photographing primarily
underwater, I loved to visit the same reef
time and again. Now, shooting exclusively
on land, I have found my go to location near
my home, Huntley Meadows. Of course, I
travel locally to other spots, but I try to get
to Huntley at least once a week. Some
mornings nature surprises me, some
mornings are slow, but in every instance, I
have a camera in my hands and I have to
deal with the conditions and subjects as
they present themselves.
Besides being outdoors, I love that my time
at Huntley is spent finding a special
moment in nature and trying to capture it.
All images were taken either with a Nikon
D5 or D500. All were on a tripod and with
one of two lenses, Nikon 80-400mm and
Nikon 500mm f4.
I love to print but try to keep it simple. I use
an Epson Sure Color P800 with Epson
papers, precut mats and mat boards.
A few of Stan’s images.
Photographic Prints – Stan Bysshe
Stay Photographically Nimble, Find Your
Go To Place
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.
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Sigmas and eventually some Fuji cameras
followed this.
Now that I am retired I welcome lots of
uncommitted time, the ultimate luxury.
What better way to spend it than to
aimlessly wander around town acting like a
tourist?
By the time I retired, I had spent way too
much time sitting in front of the computer
processing hobby images. I concluded I
don't need to learn more about this end of
photography. While I like to look at some of
the arty images done by the many gifted
members of this club, I prefer to leave
electric wires, visual clutter, litter, and bird
poop in my own images. I like the
authenticity.
I like to watch and listen as the latest
Lightroom and Photoshop techniques are
ably explained and demonstrated in full
detail at the NVPS meetings. And, I
especially like not having to remember any
of it. I'm not progressing in my technical
skills. It's too much like work!
My photographic vision is similarly
haphazardous, but every hundred or so
Digital Images – Tom Schum snaps I get a keeper. I even print now and
then. I used to have an Epson R2000 but
threw it out after years spent buying way
Since I was a
too many ink cartridges. I can highly
teenager,
recommend Nations Photo Labs on the web,
photography has
so long as you turn off their "color
been a hobby. I
correction".
shot and
developed and
So, I don't really have a photographic vision,
printed
only just to shoot and enjoy.
monochrome 35mm in 1967-1970 but took
a long break to raise a family and pursue an
I like landscape, street (if I can avoid
electronics-engineering career.
bothering anybody), some wildlife,
standard tourist type photos and, of course,
Late in my career I was able to re-start the
grandchildren (one so far).
photography hobby, this time digital. After
having a great time with a pocket Minolta
I joined NVPS in 2017 and prefer to shoot
Dimage X, I bought a Canon 30D in 2004
my Fuji X-T100 with manual lenses. I have
and a Sigma point and shoot in 2006. More
no future goals or plans for the
development of my photography.
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Check out Tom’s images. has turned to
photography as
her main focus in
retirement. Her
love of travel
allows her to
explore cultures
across five
continents and to
share
observations with
the viewers of her images. Since most
people will not have an opportunity to
travel to Bhutan or Kenya or Papua New
Guinea, Kathryn considers her photographs
as an extension of her career in teaching.
She hope that these images convey a sense
of our shared humanity as well as a
celebration of the many different ways in
which people around the world create art,
worship their gods, and live their daily
lives.
Check out some of Kathryn’s images from
Papua New Guinea.
March 26, 2019
Kathryn Mohrman will be the speaker for
our March Member’s Gallery. She will talk
about a recent trip to Papua New Guinea.
After more than 40 years as a teacher,
administrator, and college president, she
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as a staff analyst from the Navy Comptroller
Clark and wife Joan have taken several
overseas trips with organized tour groups.
The use of tripods was not an option and
the lighting was “as is” during bus stops and
city tours. A fair number of photos were
taken through a bus window.
Clark’s first “real” camera was a used 35mm
fixed lens Voigtlander followed by a Minolta
SRT101 when he became gainfully
employed after college. After a couple more
Minoltas, mostly using slide film, he entered
the digital age with an 8 megapixel
Olympus, followed by several Canon
cameras. He currently uses a Canon 5Dmk3
with Canon lenses. Most of the pre-digital
photos became 35mm slides.
Clark used Photoshop Elements to process
and print digital images for many years,
upgrading to Lightroom/Photoshop CC
after joining NVPS four years ago. He
attributes improvements in technical skills
and composition to NVPS and was the class
two color print Photographer of the Year
for 2016-2017. He cuts his own mats and
does his own printing, currently with an
Epson P800 printer and his favorite paper
is Ilford Gold Fibre Silk.
He enjoys taking travel photos, especially
landscapes, but has begun exploring other
types of photography such as wildlife and
macro since joining NVPS.
Although Joan has always enjoyed
Photographic Prints – Joan and Clark photographing family and places they
Barker visited, she was not sure that she would
enjoy being a part of a photography club.
NEAR AND FAR Joan was using a point and shoot camera at
the time and knew nothing about F stop,
Clark’s Shutter Speed, or ISO. Needless to say Joan
photographic has learned a lot in the past 4 years. She
experience has now shoots with a mirrorless Panasonic
mostly been as a Luminx Micro 4/3 camera and finally
tourist taking understands how to get off auto.
snapshots of She enjoys shooting landscapes, flowers,
interesting places and abstracts. Joan has surprised herself
visited and photos of his son and daughter with the success she has had in the monthly
when they were children. After retirement
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competitions from the very beginning. She
loves doing post processing on the
computer as it encourages her creative
juices.
Being retired gives her more time to pursue
many interests and Joan is pleased to add
that photography is now one of them. Joan
was an educator and taught elementary
school before her children were born. After
kids, she chose part time teaching and
eventually administration in Early
Childhood.
Clark and Joan have two children, a girl and
boy, and 3 grandkids. They are favorite
subjects to shoot for both of them. In the
future she would like to continue to
improve her technical skills while keeping
the creative side as a big part of what she
does. Joan is interested in becoming more
proficient in monochrome photography.
She appreciates all the help she receives
from Clark and her two Mentors, Willa and
Willa. Joan has learned a lot from these
ladies reinforcing what Clark tries to teach
her at home.
Yes, Joan is glad she joined as she enjoys the
people and the programs but especially the
competitions. So much thanks to Bill
Vanderpool and Nancy Dubiell for their
encouragement to join NVSP.
Here is sampling of Joan and Clark’s images.
Digital Images – Judy McGuire
Judy McGuire will
be our digital
presenting in
March. Her show
will feature photos
of varied subjects
taken in the last
couple years. A
number of locations will be highlighted,
many of them just a day trip away.
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Judy McGuire became interested in
photography and travel when she was 10
and took her first road trip to the western
states with her family and her Kodak
Brownie camera. She took snapshots
documenting family, friends, pets and
travels for many years before getting a
Nikon SLR for slide photography, and
currently shoots with a Nikon D7200.
Since she joined NVPS in 2001, the club's
activities and members have been a
constant inspiration for learning
and improving her photography. Judy
believes regular practice is critical to
developing skills - as she tried to impress
on young students during her many years of
teaching piano. But in photography - as well
in music - another part of the experience is
enjoying the results!
Judy is most interested in travel and nature
photography and loves to photograph
anywhere, searching out back roads as well
as obvious sites. She enjoys giving slide
shows for various groups, and makes
calendars and note cards using her New Members
photographs. Her work has been juried into
Nature Visions and the Joseph Miller Please welcome the following new
Abstract Exhibits, and published in Virginia members to the NVPS family:
Wildlife Magazine. She has won a number of
awards in NVPS competitions, including Leslie Landerkin
Slide of the Year, Advanced Digital Image of Nicholas Studzinski
the Year and Advanced Digital
Photographer of the year three times.
NVPS Exhibitions
Check out some of Judy’s enticing images.
Photo Show at Frame Factory
Congratulations to all NVPS members
who hung images at the Frame Factory.
The images demonstrated the skill,
versatility, imagination and technical
skills of our membership. Job well done!
A special tip of the hat to Willa
Friedman for honchoing the show, along
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with help from Melanie Marts, Willa
Siegel and Georgette Grossman. There are hundreds of aircraft and
spacecraft on display including a Lockheed
Ginger Werz-Petricka caught your SR-71 Blackbird a super-sonic spy craft, the
Boeing B-29 Super Fortress Enola Gay that
editor checking out his Flowers in a Shoe
delivered the decisive atomic attack on
image. Japan that ended WWII in the Pacific
theater, the Space Shuttle Discovery, among
many others. Other current exhibits
include: Aerobatic Flight, Application
Satellites, Business Aviation, Clouds in a
Bag, and Cold War Aviation.
The Frame Factory is located at 212
Dominion Rd NE, Vienna, VA. The show,
open to the public, runs through February
12, 2019.
NVPS has worked with the Frame Factory
before and know it is a great venue. They
have about a dozen shows per year and
their community is aware they are a source
for artwork for the home. Check out their
website, http://theframefactory1.com/. We
will have a loop of our images during the
show. They will also offer participants a
discount if you choose to have them mat or
frame your picture.
Field Trips
February 16, 2019
The Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center is the
destination for the NVPS February Field
Trip, scheduled on Saturday, February 6th.
The museum is located in Chantilly near the
Dulles Airport, accessible from Route 28.
The Center is the companion facility to the
National Air and Space Museum at the
National Mall.
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The Center is located at 14390 Air and captures multiple exposures in camera, how
Space Museum Parkway, Chantilly. As she assembles them, and how she does her
tripods are not permitted inside of the post-processing. There will be plenty of
Center, photography can be challenging. time for questions.
None-the-less, the myriad artifacts, displays
and architecture provide rich opportunities
for creative captures.
The museum opens at 10:00 AM. There is
no fee for admission, however there is a
$15.00 fee to park your car. Accordingly we
encourage and will facilitate forming
carpools. Refreshments to follow
photography will likely be had at one of the
several excellent Breweries in nearby
Sterling or Ashburn (TBD).
In March we will visit the Truck Graveyard
in Virginia and in April we’ll travel to the Nature Visions
Eastern State Penitentiary. Details on these
trips will be forthcoming. Mark your calendars for the 2019 edition of
Nature Visions schedule for November 1st to
3rd.
Education and Training
Special thanks to Roger Lancaster as he
February 12, 2019 completes his term as Nature Vision’s
President. He’ll be a hard act to follow!
The February Education & Training meeting Thank you Roger.
will be the initial portfolio review
conducted by Ginger Werz-Petricka,
Kathryn Mohrman and Kevin Egan. Please Announcements
see the review write-up earlier in this
newsletter. Member Exhibits
March 12, 2019 Willa Friedman - Ambiquity
At our March Willa’s Ambiguity
Education and is currently on
Training, KieuLan display at
Nguyen will give a Beanetics Coffee
presentation on Roasters, located
her multiple at 7028 Columbia
exposure Pike, in Annandale.
techniques. She
has shown her multiple exposure prints and Come view some
digital images on Members’ Gallery and of Willa’s new
Competition nights, winning recognition for work and grab
their beauty and creativity. Using several of some
her own images, KieuLan will show how she refreshments.
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Beanetics’ coffee is very good. Willa hasn’t
shown any of these images before.
Ambiquity is her latest endeavor to view the
world in a different way. The show will run
through February 15, 2019.
A few images you’ll see in the show.
ArtSpace Herndon Exhibit
ArtSpace Herndon's 10th annual Fine Art
Photography Exhibit will be held from
February 5 to March 9, with a
reception/awards ceremony on Saturday,
February 5 from 7 to 9 pm. Of the 34
photographers with works juried into the
show, 9 are affiliated with NVPS: Fran
Bastress, Mark Chen, Sandi Croan,
Georgette Grossman, Len Johnson, Kathryn
Mohrman, Craig Nedrow, Kieulan Nguyen,
and Ron Taylor.
For more information, go
to: https://www.artspaceherndon.org/new
-events/2019/2/5/10th-annual-fine-art-
photography-competition-amp-exhibit
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Member News
Wayne Guenther
Wayne’s photo "Steel Chair" was accepted
for publication in Vol. 33 of the Northern
Virginia Review, the annual literary and Notice: The information about workshops
arts publication produced by the NOVA and events not sponsored by or affiliated
education system. His image “Gridlocked" with NVPS is provided as an informational
was awarded Honorable Mention by juror courtesy to Members. Individuals should
Ben Simons in the Maryland Federation of review the detailed rules and conditions for
Art Members Winter Show. contests and gallery shows to determine
what impact entering an image has on the
photographer's rights and ownership of the
submitted images. Review the descriptions of
workshops to see whether participation in a
particular workshop would actually meet
your personal learning goals. NVPS attempts
to screen events for legitimacy and quality;
however, NVPS does not recommend these
events and cannot assume responsibility for
their ultimate quality. NVPS recommends
due diligence and encourages you to share
your experience with other club members.
Exhibition/Contest Opportunities
Announcements of exhibitions or contests are
provided for information purposes only.
There is no actual or implied endorsement by
the Northern Virginia Photographic Society.
Joseph Miller Abstract Photography
Exhibit
The Joseph Miller Center for the
Photographic Arts once again takes great
pride in announcing its Ninth Annual juried
abstract exhibit. All interested
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photographers are invited to submit entries Arbus added an eleventh photograph.
for this much anticipated spring event. Over
the years, because of the influence these This exhibition traces the history of A Box of
exhibits have had in encouraging and Ten Photographs between 1969 and 1973,
promoting abstract photography and due to using the set that Arbus assembled for
their reputation, recent JM Abstract Feitler, which was acquired by SAAM in
Exhibits have been attracting entries from 1986. The story is a crucial one because it
international as well as national was the portfolio that established the
photographic artists. Whereas submissions foundation for Arbus's posthumous career,
to the First Annual JM Abstract Exhibit had ushering in photography's acceptance to
been limited to local NVACC-related clubs, the realm of "serious" art. After his
many current participants come from encounter with Arbus and the portfolio,
photographic groups outside the Greater Philip Leider, then editor in chief of
Washington/Northern Virginia area or are Artforum and a photography skeptic,
non-affiliated/independent photographic admitted, “With Diane Arbus, one could find
artists. oneself interested in photography or not,
but one could no longer... deny its status as
The exhibit will run from May 4, 2019 art. What changed everything was the
through May 27, 2019. The Joseph Miller portfolio itself.”
Center will begin accepting entries for the
upcoming Ninth Annual Exhibit on In May 1971, Arbus was the first
Saturday, December 22, 2018. The photographer to be featured in Artforum,
deadline for submissions will be Saturday, which also showcased her work on its
February 23, 2019. cover. In June 1972, the portfolio was sent
to Venice, where Arbus was the first
A detailed PROSPECTUS containing all photographer included in a Biennale, at that
relevant information regarding the exhibit time the premiere international showcase
can be found on the Northern Virginia for contemporary artists. SAAM organized
Alliance of Camera Clubs website @ the American contribution to the Biennale
www.NVACC.org that year, thereby playing an important
early role in Arbus's legacy.
Exhibitions John Jacob, the McEvoy Family Curator for
Photography at SAAM, organized the
Diane Arbus: A Box of Ten Photographs exhibition. The forthcoming catalogue, co-
Now to January 21, 2019 published with the Aperture Foundation,
features an in-depth essay by Jacob that
Smithsonian Art Museum – 8th and F Street presents new and compelling scholarship
NW, Washington, DC correcting errors by Arbus's biographers
and adding significant detail to the period
In late 1969, Diane Arbus began to work on between her death and the 1972
a portfolio. At the time of her death in 1971, posthumous retrospective at Museum of
she had completed the printing for eight Modern Art.
known sets of A Box of Ten Photographs, of
a planned edition of fifty, only four of which https://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions
she sold during her lifetime. Two were
purchased by photographer Richard Lincoln's Contemporaries
Avedon; another by artist Jasper Johns. A Now to May 19, 2019
fourth was purchased by Bea Feitler, art
director at Harper's Bazaar, for whom
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National Portrait Gallery, Eighth and F National Gallery of Art, 4th and
Streets NW, Washington DC. Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, D.C
Who were Abraham Lincoln’s During the 1940s American photographer
contemporaries? They included many Gordon Parks (1912–2006) grew from a
fascinating people beyond the politicians self-taught photographer making portraits
and military leaders of the Civil War. This and documenting everyday life in Saint Paul
exhibition features Mathew Brady’s and Chicago to a visionary professional
portraits of twenty celebrities — from shooting for Ebony, Vogue, Fortune, and
showman P.T. Barnum and inventor Samuel Life. For the first time, the formative decade
Morse to musician Teresa Carreño and of Parks’ 60-year career is the focus of an
clergyman Henry Ward Beecher—who exhibition, which brings together 120
reflect the diversity of American intellectual photographs and ephemera — including
and cultural life during Lincoln’s magazines, books, letters, and family
presidency. pictures. The exhibition will illustrate how
Parks’ early experiences at the Farm
http://npg.si.edu/ Security Administration, Office of War
Information, and Standard Oil (New Jersey)
Daguerreotypes: Five Decades of as well as his close relationships with Roy
Collecting Stryker, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright,
and Ralph Ellison, helped shape his
June 15, 2018 to June 2, 2019 groundbreaking style. A fully illustrated
catalog, with extensive new research and
National Portrait Gallery, Eighth and F previously unpublished images, will
Streets NW, Washington DC. accompany the exhibition.
The 2018 installation of the Daguerreian https://www.nga.gov/index.html
Gallery celebrates the National Portrait
Gallery's golden anniversary by highlighting
fifty years of daguerreotype collecting by Workshop Offerings
the museum. Included will be portraits of Speakers and competition judges for NVPS
such iconic figures as activist and reformer are offered the opportunity to have notices
Dorothea Dix, entrepreneur and showman about up-coming tours and workshops
P. T. Barnum with Tom Thumb, Seneca in FotoFax for two years after the date of
Chief Governor Blacksnake, U.S. Navy their NVPS program.
Commodore Matthew C. Perry, and artist
Alfred Waud. Portrait Gallery Senior
Curator of Photographs, Ann Shumard, John Barclay
curates this exhibition.
John Barclay was our May Program speaker
http://npg.si.edu/ and was our speaker in February 2017.
John is an award wining freelance
photographer based in Bucks County,
Pa. John’s work has been published in a
Gordon Parks: The New Tide, Early Work number of books and magazines and is
1940–1950 treasured by a number of private
November 4, 2018 to February 18, 2019 collectors. Recently, John was the recipient
of an excellence award from B&W
Magazine and was chosen by Dewitt Jones
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to participate in his Learn more
www.healingimages.org program. You can at: http://www.virginiaphotosafari.com
see his work and view his workshop
schedule Corey Hilz
Denise Silva Corey Hilz was our 2017-2018 End-of-Year
judge, our February 2016 judge, and our
Denise Silva has often judged and been a October 2015 Education and Training
presenter at NVPS. She and Don Rosenberg speaker. He was this year's End-of-Year
operate Road Runner Photography Tours. Banquet judge. He regularly offers software
For information on their latest tours and workshops as well as photo workshops and
workshops, please visit their web site international tours. Spring/summer photo
at http://roadrunnerphotographytours.co workshop locations include Longwood
m Gardens, the National Zoo, Maryland’s
Eastern Shore, and Meadowlark Botanical
Nikhil Bahl Gardens. His international destinations
include Cuba, Ireland, Czech Republic and
Nikhil Bahl was our End-of-Year judge for Morocco. Full schedule of events is listed
2016-2017 as well as Program Speaker in at: http://www.coreyhilz.com
November 2015 and November 2016. He
offers a variety of workshops and coaching Roy Sewall
events. For more details with his latest
workshop updates, Roy Sewall was our Judge in February 2018
visit: www.NikhilBahl.com and was our Program speaker in May 2017.
Roy offers both private and group
E. David Luria instruction to novice and intermediate
photographers, and in 2014 became an
A member of the Society of Photographic instructor for the Capital Photography
Education, E. David Luria is founder and Center. Find out more on Roy's
director of the Washington Photo Safari, website: http://www.roysewallphotograph
through which he and his team of eleven y.com/iWeb/Home.html
professional photographers have trained
over 32,000 clients on 4,700 photo safaris David Blecman
since 1999 in the techniques of travel and
architectural photography. Washington David Blecman, a member of the
Photo Safari is offering more than 25 Professional Photographers of America, is
technical skills initiatives this year. For an internationally recognized photographer
more information on their various and instructor, having taught in over a
offerings, check their web site dozen countries to photographers, models,
at www.WashingtonPhotoSafari.com and makeup artists. He was our judge in
October 2015 and April 2017 and a
Alan DeFelice Program speaker in April 2016. David's
website: http://posneg.com/
Alan DeFelice was the April 2018 judge. He
is a professional photographer who has
done raptor photo workshops at Nature
Visions. For several years Alan has been a
partner with Virginia Digital Photo Safaris.
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January 2019 Competition – First Place Winners
Color Prints Class 1 – Tana Ebbole – Early Morning Gold
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Color Prints Class 2 - Kieu-lan Nguyen –Water Lily
Color Prints Class 3 – Judy Guenther – Milky Way Dunes
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Digital Class 1 – Ann Sigafoos – Marilyns on Royal New Orleans USA
Digital Class 2 – My-linh Tran – Feeding Time
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Digital Class 3 – Alan Goldstein – Da-da-da-dah
Monochrome Class 1 - Tim Brown – Stairway to Heaven
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Monochrome Class 2 - Jim Dacey – Sunset at White Sands
Monochrome Class 3 – Tom Brett – White Sands Curve
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