Guest Speakers & events
2020
GUEST SPEAKERS
GUEST SPEAKERS
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November 23: Jeff Sullivan
Presentation: Astrophotography
Presentation: Astrophotography
Jeff Sullivan
On his website, Jeff Sullivan described how he started shooting with 35mm film cameras and printing in a darkroom in 1974. He studied computer science and electrical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, and upon receiving his degree went directly into digital imaging at the Graphic Printing and Imaging Division at Tektronix which gave him an in-depth technical knowledge of the entire process from sensors through post-processing to printing.
Dark sky night photography can be challenging for both capture and post-processing. During his presentation he will discuss the use of special software for processing night sky images.
Sullivan has pursued his interest in space and astronomy for decades, and has attended multiple NASA launches and landings. He was awarded “Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2011” in the People and Space category by the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. One of his star trails photos was selected for the October 2011 cover of Outdoor Photography Magazine.
In addition, he has explored the American West for decades including five years exploring California while writing a guidebook, “Photographing California Vol. 2 – South." He lives in the Eastern Sierra on the California/Nevada border, and also returns as often as possible to photographing Utah, Arizona, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming, Montana and Colorado.
To learn more visit https://www.jeffsullivanphotography.com/blog/about-us/
To see examples of Sullivan's work visit https://www.jeffsullivanphotography.com/
Dark sky night photography can be challenging for both capture and post-processing. During his presentation he will discuss the use of special software for processing night sky images.
Sullivan has pursued his interest in space and astronomy for decades, and has attended multiple NASA launches and landings. He was awarded “Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2011” in the People and Space category by the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. One of his star trails photos was selected for the October 2011 cover of Outdoor Photography Magazine.
In addition, he has explored the American West for decades including five years exploring California while writing a guidebook, “Photographing California Vol. 2 – South." He lives in the Eastern Sierra on the California/Nevada border, and also returns as often as possible to photographing Utah, Arizona, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming, Montana and Colorado.
To learn more visit https://www.jeffsullivanphotography.com/blog/about-us/
To see examples of Sullivan's work visit https://www.jeffsullivanphotography.com/
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DECEMBER 12: HOLIDAY FOOD IMAGES
Dec. 12 at 6 p.m. -- The NVPS virtual holiday party. Get ready for something very different. Submit images of what you might have brought to the annual NVPS holiday party if Covid-19 hadn't changed all our plans. See the President's Message for details.
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JANUARY 25: Nic Stover Landscape photographer
Theme: Evaluating light
Moose -- Nic Stover photo
Nic Stover is based in San Luis Obispo, California and focuses on landscape photography classes and workshops encouraging his class participants to develop skills, explore capabilities, and to create meaningful work.
Stover's landscape photography work has taken him across the globe — from the backcountry of Greenland, to the windswept mountains of Patagonia, and the frigid extremes of Alaska. His portfolio of work encompasses desert, ocean, night and mountain photography. Nic also enjoys showcasing the places that are unique to the Central Coast, from sea caves to sand dunes, and its dramatic coastal landscapes.
Additional information can be found at www.stoverphoto.com
Stover's landscape photography work has taken him across the globe — from the backcountry of Greenland, to the windswept mountains of Patagonia, and the frigid extremes of Alaska. His portfolio of work encompasses desert, ocean, night and mountain photography. Nic also enjoys showcasing the places that are unique to the Central Coast, from sea caves to sand dunes, and its dramatic coastal landscapes.
Additional information can be found at www.stoverphoto.com
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FEBRUARY 22: Nita Winter, Rob Badger
PRESENTATION: Wildflowers, environment, climate change
THEME: Our environment
PRESENTATION: Wildflowers, environment, climate change
THEME: Our environment
Nita Winter
Nita Winter and Rob Badger are internationally acclaimed, award-winning photographers who have been life partners and creative collaborators for over three decades. Rob's first environmental assignment (1980) was documenting the effects of groundwater pumping in California's Owens Valley. Since then, he has photographed more than 30 projects for land-conservation groups throughout the world. Nita began her photographic career nearly 40 years ago documenting her work. They are the recipients of Sierra Club's 2020 Ansel Adams Award for Conservation Photography
NITA WINTER grew up on Long Island, New York and enjoyed exploring the natural world around her. Her father's love of photography exposed her to the work of many of the great documentary photographers, such as Dorothea Lange and other WPA photographers. In 1976, after receiving a Bachelors Degree in Biology at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts she followed her family out west to California.
She began her photographic career documenting her work fighting wildfires in northern California and later as a National Park Ranger on Alcatraz. While working at the San Francisco Women's Building, she found a new passion: capturing the San Francisco Bay Area’s rich cultural diversity. In 1986, Nita had her first major exhibit, “The Children of the Tenderloin.” This documentary project launched her career and directed her focus toward creating healthy communities.
NITA WINTER grew up on Long Island, New York and enjoyed exploring the natural world around her. Her father's love of photography exposed her to the work of many of the great documentary photographers, such as Dorothea Lange and other WPA photographers. In 1976, after receiving a Bachelors Degree in Biology at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts she followed her family out west to California.
She began her photographic career documenting her work fighting wildfires in northern California and later as a National Park Ranger on Alcatraz. While working at the San Francisco Women's Building, she found a new passion: capturing the San Francisco Bay Area’s rich cultural diversity. In 1986, Nita had her first major exhibit, “The Children of the Tenderloin.” This documentary project launched her career and directed her focus toward creating healthy communities.
Rob Badger
ROB BADGER has created images of the natural world for a wide variety of clients, collectors and art buyers for more than 50 years. His extensive collection of nature photographs (geographically and seasonally diverse) range from dramatic, complex and colorful, to soft and subtle.
His mastery of light and color, and his ability to emotionally portray the essence of a place in time has won him international awards for his Antarctica series, and “Best in Journalism” for his evocative environmental photography, work that is simultaneously beautiful and disturbing.
Rob’s nature and environmental images have appeared in calendars, books, newspapers and national and international magazines, including The New York Times and Washington Post, TIME, OMNI, Better Homes and Gardens, Pacific Horticultural, National Wildlife, Sunset, Sierra, Wilderness Society and World Watch Magazines.
As a photographer for The Audubon Society, The Nature Conservancy, and The Trust for Public Land, Rob has completed more than fifty project assignments devoted to protecting and restoring vanishing natural areas.
More about their accomplishments and photography can be viewed at https://www.winterbadger.com/
His mastery of light and color, and his ability to emotionally portray the essence of a place in time has won him international awards for his Antarctica series, and “Best in Journalism” for his evocative environmental photography, work that is simultaneously beautiful and disturbing.
Rob’s nature and environmental images have appeared in calendars, books, newspapers and national and international magazines, including The New York Times and Washington Post, TIME, OMNI, Better Homes and Gardens, Pacific Horticultural, National Wildlife, Sunset, Sierra, Wilderness Society and World Watch Magazines.
As a photographer for The Audubon Society, The Nature Conservancy, and The Trust for Public Land, Rob has completed more than fifty project assignments devoted to protecting and restoring vanishing natural areas.
More about their accomplishments and photography can be viewed at https://www.winterbadger.com/
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*October: Nita Winter, Rob Badger: Our Environment
Cancelled due to Red Flag warnings and power shutdowns
Rescheduled for February
*SEPTEMBER: JAN LIGHTFOOT: OFF THE BEATEN PATH
*AUGUST: NICOLE AND STEVE GETTLE
Limited signups cancelled the webinair presentation
*JULY : DAVID COLEMAN: STREET PHOTOGRAPHY
*JUNE, MINUTE-TO-SPIN-IT
*MAY, MEMBERS CHOICE: stay-at-home diversions
*APRIL: MEMBERS' CHOICE: REWORKED IMAGES
*MARCH: MEMBERS' CHOICE IMAGES: WILDLIFE
*view on MEMBERS CHOICE, monthly critiqued images page
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ABOUT THE NEW MEETING FORMAT
The general meetings through November 2020 are to be Zoom meetings and members are encouraged to contact Roland Dumas at radumas@servqual.com or Phil Venable at philven@comcast.net with any questions about Zoom or for assistance with setting it up.
This may change if rules and members’ comfort changes, but it’s the current plan.
*For most months, the link to the meetings and a calendar download will be in that month's newsletter so that members can place the reminders and links in their computer/phone calendar. However, these links are for members' use only. They are NOT to be shared or posted to anyone else!
RULES
We are setting the rules on “easy” because we’re a small group and don’t have much risk of someone causing problems, but do pay attention to these rules:
A gentle reminder: if you need to use the bathroom, DO NOT take your device with you. Please!
DATES
Napa Valley Photographic Society's next scheduled Zoom meeting and presentation is Oct. 26 featuring Nita Winter and Rob Badger
Subsequent Zoom meetings, every fourth Monday of the month at 7 p.m. are planned for:
Dec. 12, 2020 NVPS holiday foods
Jan. 25, 2021 Nick Stover, landscape photographer
This may change if rules and members’ comfort changes, but it’s the current plan.
*For most months, the link to the meetings and a calendar download will be in that month's newsletter so that members can place the reminders and links in their computer/phone calendar. However, these links are for members' use only. They are NOT to be shared or posted to anyone else!
RULES
We are setting the rules on “easy” because we’re a small group and don’t have much risk of someone causing problems, but do pay attention to these rules:
- Do not forward or post the meeting link to anyone at all. If you wish to invite a guest, pass that person’s email to Roland or Phil and we’ll send a one-meeting invitation to them.
- When the meeting starts, set your status as “mute” - that will stop the crosstalk and inadvertent sounds from making things noisy. Only one person can speak at a time.
- If you wish to speak, physically put up your hand and the person leading the discussion will recognize you. Then unmute yourself to ask your question. After that, back onto mute.
- There is a chat function. Find it. When there is a presenter, you can ask your questions during his/her presentation, and the presenter can see it. Your question might be answered immediately or at the end of the presentation, at the presenter’s discretion.
- You can also use the chat function to send a message privately to an individual in the meeting. That’s the same as leaning over and whispering to the person next to you. Just make sure the message is to one person and not the whole group so you don’t embarrass yourself.
A gentle reminder: if you need to use the bathroom, DO NOT take your device with you. Please!
DATES
Napa Valley Photographic Society's next scheduled Zoom meeting and presentation is Oct. 26 featuring Nita Winter and Rob Badger
Subsequent Zoom meetings, every fourth Monday of the month at 7 p.m. are planned for:
Dec. 12, 2020 NVPS holiday foods
Jan. 25, 2021 Nick Stover, landscape photographer