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Nature Visions and NIHCC 2016

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We have the results back from the Nature Visions competition. In all the club had 49 images accepted into the show at the Expo vs. 38 last year – almost a 30% increase!!! I don’t have the statistics back yet on how we did relative to other clubs – but last year we were a tiny bit above average so I’m assuming that this year we did significantly better. The photographers listed below had a least one image accepted:

  • Stan Collyer
  • Suzanne Dater
  • Gosia Klosek
  • George Lea
  • Nate Lee
  • Dale Lewis
  • Kay Norvell
  • Saul Pleeter
  • Diane Poole
  • Cathrine Sasek
  • Margaret Sprott
  • David Terao
  • Jim Turner
  • Kate Woodward
  • Thank you to everyone who participated.

Please think about attending the Expo if you haven’t already registered.

 

http://naturevisions.org/

Oct 16 Photo Lecture & Artist Dinner at Photoworks

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Santos y sombras/Saints and Shadows

Santos y sombras/Saints and ShadowsEl Altar de mi Bisabuelo

My Great-grandfather’s Altar
Muriel Hasbun 1997

Photoworks Lecture and Artist Dinner Series
@ Historic Glen Echo Park in Glen Echo, MD

Sunday, Oct 16, 2016
Photographer Muriel Hasbun
Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery Assistant Leslie Urena
Lecture: 4pm @ the Spanish Ballroom Annex
Artist Dinner: 6pm @ the Glen Echo Inn (within walking distance)

October 5, 2016


Dear Camera Club Members:

I wanted to send you and your members a personal invitation for the upcoming October 16th Lecture/Artist Dinner at Photoworks Photography Center in Historic Glen Echo Park (Glen Echo, MD).  Please help us spread the word and share this information with your members!

Join us for a lively lecture and discussion at 4PM in the Spanish Ballroom Annex with Photographer Muriel Hasbun and Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery Curator Leslie Urena. Afterwards, if you’d like to continue the discussion with the artists over dinner, we’re walking over to the Glen Echo Inn for a 6PM private dinner with the artists.

Tickets are available on Photoworks website at www.glenechophotoworks.org (a direct link to the lecture and a more detailed description of the program is below.)  If you’d like to attend the lecture, the cost is $15.  If you’d like to join us for the lecture and the dinner at Glen Echo Inn, the cost is $75.

Tickets for Photoworks Photography Lecture and Dinner Series: chttp://bit.ly/2d7Rhs2

More information about the artists and the lecture can be found below.  If you have any questions, please send an email to Photoworks Faculty Member Sarah Gordon at sarahagordon@gmail.com.

Best,

Lisa Murphy
Photoworks
LGMphotoworks@gmail.com

Trace, 2015.02.25, Washington, DC, archival pigment print, 2015.

Trace, 2015.02.25, Washington, DC, archival pigment print, 2015.

Trace | Muriel Hasbun 2015

Photoworks Lecture and Dinner Series
Sunday, October 16, 2016
Photographer Muriel Hasbun
Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery Assistant Leslie Urena

A native of El Salvador, photographer Muriel Hasbun has worked and taught in Washington, DC for over 25 years; serving as Head of Photography at the Corcoran School of Arts and Design at GWU. Her photographs and installations probe her own family history in search of identity, as they carefully consider the overlap of past and present. Leslie Ureña is Assistant Curator of photographs at the National Portrait Gallery. Her work on Lewis Hine’s Ellis Island photographs grapples with issues of immigration and identity.  Ureña has worked at the National Gallery of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the gallery TKG+ in Taipei, Taiwan.

Lecture: 4pm @ Spanish Ballroom Annex
Private Dinner & Conversation with Artists:  6pm @ Glen Echo Inn (walking distance)
Tickets: $15 for Lecture Only | $75 for Lecture and Private Dinner with Artists

PLEASE NOTE:  Dinner with artists is limited to approx 10 people. Tickets sold on “first come, first served” basis.

Lasko Award 2016

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The Lorraine Lasko Award  recognizes exceptional service to the club.

Lorraine made an exceptional contribution to our club by serving as our Program Chair – arranging for all of our speakers and judges – for over 10 years. To honor her, the club created a special annual award called the NIH Camera Club Lorraine Lasko Service Award (or the “Unsung Hero” award, for short).

To be eligible for the award, a nominee must be a current member of the NIH Camera Club. However, the service to be recognized may be either past service or service the member is currently providing.

Any current club member may nominate someone for the award by filling out the form below.

The deadline for nominations is  Friday, May 20, 2016.

LL Award — 2016 Call for nominations

Nature Visions Photo Expo

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When: November 13-15, 2015

Where: Hylton Performing Arts Center, Manassas, VA

Web: http://naturevisions.org

What: The Nature Visions Expo is an exciting three day educational event held every year on George Mason University’s campus and sponsored by area Camera Clubs including our club. It is open to the public and designed for photographers from beginners to professional.

Since NIHCC is a sponsoring club YOU are encouraged to participate in the following:

  • Education – Attend lectures and workshops led by professional photographers (some fee based and some free)
  • Public Exhibition – submit your images to a juried exhibition (some 300 out of 1000+ entries will be chosen, only members of sponsoring clubs can enter). You will be able to submit up to 8 images total, 6 in various nature categories (Macro, Water, Landscapes, Birds, Wildlife, Flora) and 2 in the Fine Arts category. Online submissions will begin in late August, so it’s time to start thinking about your entries.
  • Merchandise Sales – Pursue photography equipment, books, tours all at discounted prices.

More detailed information will be sent out shortly via our Google list. Please contact Jim Turner or Stan Collyer if you have any questions.

Ocean Wild: an unmissable presentation on underwater photography

Event Information: Ocean Wild

  • Who: National Geographic master underwater photographer Brian Skerry
  • What: A talk about Brian’s latest assignments and intimate photographs of marine life
  • Where: National Geographic’s DC headquarters at 1600 M Street NW
  • When: Thursday, December 11 at 7:30 p.m.
  • Tickets: Starting at $24
  • For more information: http://events.nationalgeographic.com/speakers/2014/12/11/ocean-wild-dc/

On December 11th, National Geographic will be hosting an event at their headquarters called Ocean Wild, featuring National Geographic master underwater photographer Brian Skerry. The event will be a talk about Brian’s intimate portraits of marine life as well as updates from his latest adventures and assignments for National Geographic.

As part of the “Masters of Photography” series, it is sure to be an unforgettable experience at National Geographic headquarters.

 

Night Photography Discussion

DC: A PHOTOGRAPHER’S PARADISE

We live in an amazing area with lots of public spaces and public art. How can we learn to appreciate and take advantage of this in our photography? How can we get beyond the classic snapshot of a monument? Well that is what photographer E David Luria http://edavidluriaphotography.com/ will help us to do. He is the founder and director of the Washington Photo Safari. He has many other photographic credentials including being a member of the American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP), the Association of Independent Architectural Photographers (AIAP), and the Society for Photographic Education (SPE). On Tuesday, April 29 at 7 PM, he will take us on a 90 minute tour of the Washington area. In consideration of the NIH Camera Club’s competition topics, he will place a special emphasis on night-time photography of these special areas. The location is the 5 Star Residence, 8100 Connecticut Avenue, Chevy Chase, MD.

Wet Plate Photography: Live Demonstration

George Lea is the Club contact for this event.

John Milleker, a Baltimore based photographer practices, demonstrates and teaches nearly every photographic process from the early 1800’s to modern digital photography and post processing.

In the Art Studio at the 5 Star Residence (8100 Connecticut Avenue, Chevy Chase) on Saturday March 29th at 12:30  to 4 time, he will give a presentation on the history and a live demonstration of wet plate photography.
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These are also known as ‘Tintypes’ and ‘Ambrotypes’, depending on what substrate was used to make the image. Wet plate collodion photography was invented in the late 1840’s and allowed photographers to extensively cover the battlefields of the Civil War  which gave citizens real images of the carnage at the front lines for the first time in history. The process is a little dirty and smelly, but you will be able to see the images appear before your eyes. We may be looking for some volunteer models.

If people catch the bug and want to learn and do the process themselves, John will be teaching a full two day workshop in Lower Town Harpers Ferry on October 11th & 12th 2014. (There will be a fee.) http://harpersferryhistory.pinnaclecart.com/living-history-workshops/

Raptor Photo Shoot May 10, 2014

Lisa Kruppa has arranged for the special photography session with the Raptor Conservancy (http://www.raptorsva.org/).  The Raptor Conservancy is a non-profit organization dedicated to:

  • Rehabilitation and release of injured, ill or orphaned native VA birds of prey (raptors);
  • Education of the public about raptors and preservation of their habitat; and,
  • Endeavoring to increase the wild population of endangered and threatened raptors.

The date for the session will be Saturday, May 10, 2014. The Conservancy will be obtaining permits for a local park in Virginia. Exact location is yet to be determined; it will be within a 30-minute drive of DC.

There will be two one hour sessions, 11 am and noon. Each session will have two 30 minutes sessions with an owl and hawk/falcon; a total of 4 different raptors over the one hour time frame.

The suggested minimum donation for each session one hour session is $30. All donations will go directly to the Conservancy to support their rehabilitation and conservation efforts.

Participation is limited. If you would like to reserve a time slot please contact Lisa Kruppa –

Please specify the time slot as 11 am, Noon, or both.

B&O Railroad Museum Field Trip March 1st at 10am

Greg Holden will lead a field trip to the B&O railroad museum in Baltimore (www.borail.org) on Saturday March 1 starting at 10 am (when museum opens). The museum features an outside display of train engines, a restored roundhouse full of trains and cars and a workhouse. A special Civil War exhibit is going on right now featuring locomotives and railcars that served during the war. Museum is located at 901 West Pratt Street, Baltimore 21223 and has its own parking lot. The museum is open until 4 pm. Entrance fee is $16. Meet in the parking lot at 10am. Note that “Wheeled Vehicles” is our club competition topic for our March meeting.