Member Galleries
2007 Member Show Our 12th Annual Show is being held at the Solona Beach City Hall from November 1st through November 29th. The opening Reception will be held on November 8th. This gallery is only a small sample of the images from our members.
2006 Member Show Our 11th Annual Show is being held at the Solona Beach City Hall from October 16th through November 30th. The opening Reception will be held on October 26th. This gallery is only a sample of the 106 images from 50+ members.
2005 Member Show Our 10th Annual Show promises to be our best ever, with 110 images from almost 55 members. This year the Exhibition will be shown at two venues, The Village Gallery in La Jolla Oct. 17th through 30th and the Solana Beach City Hall Nov. 1st through 30th.
2005 Postcard Competition These are images our members have submitted for our first Postcard. The deadline for submitting images is March 31, 2005. After that, a photographic professional will pick out images to be represented on our first postcard.
2004 Member Show Our 9th Annual Show was perhaps our best ever, with 97 images from almost 50 members, and well over 200 people attending the opening reception. Images marked with a "[P]" are photos of the image, rather than a direct digital file.
San Diego Fair
27 NCPS Members, with 110 works, were juried into the Fair this year.
NCPS members won 4 First Places, 3 Second Places, 3 Third Places, 2 Fourth Places, and 44 Honorable Mentions.
Peter Fay Photography has been a passion for much of Peter's life but it wasn't until he retired from a career in engineering that he had the time to really pursue it. The primary sources of inspiration and material for his portfolio have been worldwide travel and hiking in wilderness, but he has also found wonderful material right in "his own backyard". Web Site: www.peterfay.com
Tom O Scott Tom O Scott is an Encinitas photographer whose first love is images of natural abstraction using tidal patterns on the beach and plants native to our area. He uses both a digital Minolta Dimage 7HI as well as a medium format Mamiya 7ii. Web Site: www.tomoscott.com
Doug and Sally Burgess Doug recently retired from software development and now plans to make photography and Photoshop his hobby. Sally Burgess will retire next year, and she just got her first digital camera, a Canon s50. Doug just got his first digital camera, a Nikon D70, and he loves it. Doug and Sally live in Carlsbad and travel as much as they can. Doug teaches math part time at Mira Costa/Palomar Colleges.
Carrie Barton For Carrie Barton, photography is not only a passion but a way of seeing. Through the camera, she shows the big picture as well as emphasizes the details. Every subject holds potential in color, pattern, beauty, or emotion, but her favorites are landscapes and nature, architecture, abstracts, and aerial photography. She shoots with a Nikon D100 but rarely manipulates photos in the computer beyond the darkroom basics.
Kat Larsen I see myself as a fictionist rather than a journalist. I want my images to be other than realistic - more emotional, bigger or smaller than life. I like to come in close, to sense the heartbeat and count the tears. I use programs such as Photoshop, Painter, Dogwaffle to create an artist's palette to convert the camera's image into my imagination. The possibilities seem endless. Web Site: www.photosbyphilandkat.com
Jim Clineis a travel photographer whose area of special interest is in the countries of Latin America. He especially enjoys exploring less-traveled areas, and takes particular interest in the indigenous peoples and traditional cultures. Jim leads photographic tours to Baja California, Mexico, Guatemala and Peru.
Ken Rockwell Photographing since childhood, Ken's been exhibited in galleries that have exhibited Ansel Adams. Ken's works are held in collections across the USA. He's won numerous awards like both first places in the San Diego Union-Tribune's Nature and Eye photo contest in 2001, was exhibited at the San Diego Natural History Museum. Web Site: www.kenrockwell.com
Jeff Brosbe I look upon creating the image much as a poet must feel about creating a haiku. It should be whole in its surface observation while offering commentary in its interpretation. In 1994, more than three decades later after my start in photography, I offered my art to the general public with the creation of Beyond Words Fine Art Photography. Web Site: www.beyondwordsgallery.com
Michael Seewald "Seewald's images communicate in a quiet, lyrical way. Speaking to the photographer, one feels that this is an individual so in love with his art, so in love with the world, that he'll work for as long as he's able to see, as long as his legs and arms will carry him." Photographers Forum Magazine. Web Site: www.seewald.com
Ned & Sara Badertscher Sara's interest in photography began when she received her first digital camera. Ned is a long time amateur who envies her photographic eye, and whose enthusiasm since "going digital" has never been greater. Retired and living in beautiful Carlsbad, their days are filled with beach walks, traveling, and developing their personal photographic visions. Web Site: www.pbase.com/nedsarab
Sharon Anthony I photographed the birds of Batiquitos Lagoon from May of this year, through August, focusing on the Least Tern, which is on the Endangered Species List, and the Black Skimmer. They both migrate from Mexico and South America to mate and have their young. For more on Batiquitos Lagoon, see the Batiquitos Lagoon Web Site.
Garrie Lynn Rhodes Garrie started taking pictures when she was seven, and started developing her own photos when she was nine. In the past year, she converted almost entirely to digital photography. She loves the challenge of looking at the world through the camera lens. This forces her to see the shapes, colors and patterns in everything she observes.
Jim Respess James G. Respess is a San Diego based fine art photographer and graphic artist. His subject matter includes historical California settings, street photography and surrealistic compositions using digital imaging, alternative photographic processing techniques, painting, collage and mixed media. Web Site: www.greenflashphotography.com
Dan Nougier For travel images, I try to bring home intimate pieces rather than the whole city. It is always a challenge trying to distill a large chaotic scene into the simplest elements that still convey all the emotions of the grander area. Most of my images are 35mm slides, which help fuel my enjoyment of Polaroid transfers and lifts. My latest toy is a Holga fitted with a Polaroid back. (And yes, I do admit to owning a small digital camera.)
Dave Hernandez Like many photographers, Dave's interest in photography started at an early age and has photographed and experimented with almost every aspect of this art form. Portrait photography happens to be one of his favorites.
Barbara Swanson I have enjoyed creating and sharing images for many years. I am especially drawn to photographing nature, ranging from capturing the detail and beauty of flowers to landscapes. I use both digital and film formats and only minimally alter my photos in the digital darkroom.
Jack Jennings Jack Jennings is a local photographer who is a member of several photography clubs and professional organizations. Jack shows his work in several galleries and exhibits at the San Diego County Fair where his images have won awards in the international competitions. Jack and his wife Nancy are co-owners of Optical Illusions Photography and reside in Escondido.
Michael Vander Vorst Michael has a life-long interest in nature photography. He was raised and worked on a farm under the big skies and rolling prairies of North Dakota where he gained an appreciation for the splendor of the natural world. He primarily uses medium format and 35 mm film cameras, but is starting to do portraiture and infrared photography with 35 mm digital.
James David Phenicie James is a Carlsbad-based wedding and portraiture photographer. Photography has afforded him the ability to communicate with those with whom he has come in contact, to share a common interest in the beauty of life, taking the instant to capture a snapshot of a moment in time of what he's seen, felt and revered.
Robert Chavis, Jr.got a B.A. in Liberal Studies in 1997 from SDSU. After that, he attended Palomar College for many years, taking Art and Photo classes. Robert always loved doing things artistically, and is now the owner of Screams of Passion Salon Spa, where he sells his wife's art along with his photos.
Philip Herwegh I first became interested in photography around 1975 and took photography classes at a community college. After several years my enthusiasm waned and I gave up photography until I retired in 1993. Since then I have been doing color photography and entering my work in shows such as the Del Mar Fair and the North County Photographic Society. Web Site: www.photosbyphilandkat.com
Robert BennettI am a Vista Attorney who started taking pictures at age ten. Using a Mamiya 1000s and Canon Digital Rebel during the past two years to capture images has added fuel to the fire. Thanks to Michael Seewald, Donna Cosentino, Will Tompkins and Paul Johnson, I now look at practicing law as something that interferes with my never ending effort to capture interesting images.
David HamiltonIncluded in my latest submissions are images of Carmel By The Sea and the Disney Concert Hall. A special thank you is extended to Donna Cosentino for her enthusiastic encouragement and guidance.
Shirley Vann Olsen Shirley is a local photographer who loves to make both color and B and W images of people, especially children, using natural light in a variety of settings and countries. She currently shoots with a traditional 35mm camera, experiments with digital, and dabbles with a Holga.
Suzanne Schmidt-Traner Suzanne's fine art photography developed as she was a matriculating fine art student at Mesa and Palomar Colleges. Her love of the arts goes back to her childhood; drawing portraits of friends and family. She has a love for sculpting, fine art portraits, figure work, and landscapes and incorporates this into her photography.
Fred Heinzmann Fred is a retired engineer who has had photography as a hobby off and on since he was a teenager. The advent of digital technology has breathed new life into the hobby.
Joyce Mate projects her connection to nature, especially through her floral and landscape images. Nature scenes, particularly in the Midwest, stir her artistic emotions. All in all, if a scene can be photographed and Joyce has her camera nearby, she'll capture it. Some of Joyce's photo art has won awards.
Patricia StevensWhen my husband gave me a digital camera several years ago, it was as if I jumped from my left brain to my right overnight. Flowers, sunsets, children's faces, landscapes, abstractions - they all called to me and pushed aside the neat mental boxes, tight time schedules, numbing order of my previous life. I no longer wanted to organize chaos, but to photograph it, to capture beauty, essence, and the secrets of light.
Wayne RichardVision is a gift that Wayne Richard never takes for granted. Driven by the wide range of emotions that are evoked by the visual sense, he has been a passionate photographer for the past 30 years seeking to capture and share emotional visions of our world. Welcome to Wayne's website where you are warmly invited to come in, look around, and enjoy some of those visions! Web Site: wayne-photo.com
Bob MandichTwo of my favorite hobbies are travel and photography--especially people. I enjoy the interaction and rapport with the subjects, even if is only a conversation, a "Please", "Thank you" or a handshake. My first gallery is an example of this.
Sanford ShermanI took a course at UCSD in photography and aesthetics. One of the lectures included a study of Western concepts of beauty originating from the art of the Greeks and the Romans. Then my wife, Ann Force, and I were in the museums and Roman Villas of Italy. We were overwhelmed by the volume and beauty of the ancient art. Now it was just a matter of holding the camera steady because no flash or tripods are allowed.
