Group A Name Title Dorte Verner Mexican Cowboy Prashant Tanavade Laguna Colorada Manuel Morquecho Image 3 Dorte Verner Market Scene Emine Gurgen Red Reflection Jayme Dos Santos Fall Jayme Dos Santos They Paved Paradise Jayme Dos Santos Waiting for Peter Pan Prashant Tanavade Break Group B: Name Title Van Pulley Feeling Blue Sandeep Saxena Golden…

  Print Theme: Open   MEETING RESULTS:     GROUP A:     1st Sleeping Beauty Manuel Morquecho 2nd The Look Dorte Verner 3rd Untold Secret Jayme Dos Santos HM Camargue Horses Barbara Mierau-Klein HM Headless Ceyda Oner       GROUP B:     1st Allah Van Pulley 2nd Misty Morning on the Veld…

Dear all, On September 18, we opened our IPS – Season 2019/2020 with the EIC competition featuring the Theme “People”. Joe Newman was the featured presenter and judge. Joe is the founder of Focus on the Story, a non-profit organization based in Washington, D.C. that supports and encourages photographers of diverse backgrounds to explore visual storytelling’s…

Picture this! You submit your photo to a competition hoping for some recognition and on the night of the ceremony, your name is called as having won the first prize. You walk up to receive your prize, in shock and surprise. It’s a surreal moment! Estelle Doro had firsthand experience at the opening of last…

Congratulations to the winners, especially to those who won for the first time and/or who won multiple awards! The winning images are available at the IPS Flickr page. Members Points table is updated at this link. Group A: Award Photographer Image name 1st place Chirag Sanghani Wedding seven steps 2nd place Shannon Turkewitz Beauty Queens 3rd place Jose…

Congratulations to the winners, especially to those who won for the first time and/or who won multiple awards! The winning images are available at https://www.flickr.com/photos/ips_gallery/albums/72157680154115098 . Members Points table is updated at this link.   Group A: Award IPS Member Name Image Title 1st Eric Clifton Bluegrass 2nd Xiaoxiao Peng Three Dogs 3rd Chirag Sanghani Stare HM…

Our March speaker/judge was an award-winning photographer Messay Shoakena who talked to IPS members about his street photography work that focuses mainly on the contrast between light and shadow. Messay is driven to create images where the symphony of colors, people, shadows and lines work together to show a semblance of order in highly congested city…

Our February guest speaker/judge was Frank Van Riper who spoke to the IPS members about his recently published photobook called “Recovered Memory”. The book contains a series of photos taken by Frank in New York City, USA and in Paris, France in the 1960-1980s. See link to Frank’s website: http://gvrphoto.com/wp/bio/ Frank also leads various photo workshops…

Leah Herman (https://www.linkedin.com/in/leahherman/ ), a self-described “dedicated and hard-working digital imaging specialist with a passion for telling stories”, was our guest speaker and judge for the EIC Competition. Adopted from Bogota, Colombia, Leah always had a love for the for video and photography.  Starting at a young age, she had always wanted to want to…

Our December guest speaker/judge was Jason Hamacher who spoke to the IPS members about his photo exhibition called “1,001 Syrian nights” and its genesis. What started out as a desire to track down some mysterious ancient chants for a rock music recording turned into a cell phone call with a spotty phone reception turned into a…