Members of NIHCC have the opportunity to join this field trip organized by the North Bethesda Camera Club. We don’t have much more information than is given below except that others who have attended Matthew Christopher’s field trips have been pleased with their experience. If you are interested in coming please email Gail Bingham at: gbingham@resolv.org ASAP.

North Bethesda Camera Club has an opportunity to go on a field trip on January 10 to an abandoned school site south of Harrisburg.  The exact location will be sent to those who register.  It will be organized as an overnight, with dinner together, but could be done as a drive up and back (about two hours each way).

We would like to extend an invitation to members of other local clubs to go with us, as we have room for at least 10 more people.  Please ask your members to send an email to Gail Bingham as soon as possible (gbingham@resolv.org), if they would be interested in going.

The concept is to work with Matthew Christopher (http://abandonedamerica.us/) who has build relationships with owners of a variety of abandoned sites in the mid-Atlantic.  So, he has unique access to sites we would not otherwise be able to see.  Renovation on this site will begin in February, so it also owon’t be around much longer.  It’s an indoor location, which is good given that the weather is getting colder.  Another nice opportunity is that the site is owned by a Harrisburg architect who participates in the Art Walk there, and he has planned a juried show of photographs from the school at next year’s Art Walk – which we would be invited to participate in along with two other workshops of folks.

The cost would be $135 for a half day access, which is higher than we’ve paid previously for other field trips, but it’s to a site that others aren’t going to and this includes the fee to the owner, a required fire marshal and a fee to Matthew.  We will set a back up date in consultation with those who sign up, either one or two weekends later, in case of bad weather.

The process for competition submission is now through our website… Further details are at: Competitions

Education Night, Tuesday October 27, 7:30 pm, at the Five Star Residence.

Learning to see in Black and White.  Former club member, Greg Holden, will give a presentation on Tuesday 27-Oct at 7:30 pm on Black & White photography.  He will also discuss what types of images work better in B&W and why B&W is often a better choice for a great photo.  Greg will discuss how he learns to pre-visualize images for later black & white conversion.  Throughout the presentation, he will discuss the different methods he uses for converting images to B&W and will at the end of the night will give a demonstration on Nik Software’s Silver Effects Pro, a plug-in program used for monochrome conversions.  You can see some of Greg’s monochrome images on his website:

http://www.imagesunderfoot.com/Home/Portfolios/Pages/Monochrome.html

NIHCC’s Summer Program offers seven workshops on a diverse array of topics including camera basics, printing, matting, close-up and macro photography, post-processing, and techniques of sharpening.

Attendance is free with a nominal charge for materials in some classes as noted in the details.

All are welcome to attend any or all of these informative classes taught by experts within NIHCC.

For further information see Events.

Nature Visions Photo Expo 2015 takes place Friday-Saturday-Sunday November 13-15 at the Hylton Performing Arts Center in Manassas, Virginia with over two dozen instructional sessions, great local and national vendors, and two stupendous juried exhibits of YOUR work. Registration and sales for paid classes begin on August 1st at NatureVisions.org. Online registration is required for admission.

Members of sponsoring clubs, of which the NIH Camera Club is one, will be able to submit images to the juried exhibits. Online submissions of digital entries for the Nature Visions Photo Expo “Nature” and “Photo Art” photography exhibits will begin in late August. Club members will be limited to a total of six Nature entries; nature images can be submitted in various categories (macro, water, landscapes, birds, wildlife, flora). Club members may also submit up to two entries for the Photo Art (formally Fine Art) exhibit, for a total of 8 entries in all. Submission of images is at no cost. Note that the maximum number of nature entries has been reduced to 6 from 10 last year in order to include more photographers in the nature exhibit.

This year’s All-day Friday Seminar Speaker is the noted landscape photographer Marc Muench. Marc’s images have appeared on covers and inside National Geographic, Sierra and Arizona Highways; Marc is the photo editor of the National Parks guides and a fellow of the International League of Conservation Photographers. Marc’s father is David Muench, the legendary landscape master.

The Saturday Keynote address will be given by a genius of imagery and lighting, Joe McNally, author of The Hot Shoe Diaries: Big Light from Small Flashes and other outstanding books of photography and instruction. Joe has been a contract photographer for Sports Illustrated, a staff photographer at LIFE, and currently, an ongoing 23 year contributor to National Geographic, shooting numerous cover stories. American Photo magazine has called him “perhaps the most versatile photojournalist working today.”

The Sunday FREE Featured Speaker is Tim Grey, the digital photography educator and co-author with Art Wolfe of The New Art of Photographing Nature. Tim will give two educational presentations on Lightroom and his work on Sunday morning and afternoon. Tim is well-known for his FREE daily e-mail digest on digital photography and post-processing, Ask Tim Grey. Sign up for it now at http://asktimgrey.com/enewsletter/

Discount classes for beginning photographers will be offered again this year for only $2 per session. And there will be additional seats for two popular hands-on workshops that sold out in 2014: Bird Photography and Curious Critters. Join the rest of the club at Nature Visions Photo Expo 2015!

Got questions? – Contact Jim Turner or Stan Collyer.