Join us for a presentation by noted photographer Steven Foster!

[image_frame style=”framed” title = “Steven Foster” align=”right” width=”300″ height=”300″][/image_frame]For forty-three years, Steven Foster, has photographed and researched botanicals on six continents from the Amazon rainforest to the highlands of Vietnam. He began his career in 1974 at the Sabbathday Lake, Maine, Shaker Community’s Herb Department, America’s old herbal business dating to 1799. Foster is author and photographer of 18 books, most recently the 2014 third edition of the Peterson Field Guide to Medicinal Plants and Herbs: Eastern and Central North America (with the late James A. Duke; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) , plus National Geographic’s Complete Guide to Medicinal Herbs (2010), and A Desk Reference to Nature’s Medicine (2006, with Rebecca Johnson), awarded a 2007 New York Public Library “Best of Reference”. He has thousands of published photos to his credit and has conducted botanical photo workshops throughout the US, as well as Belize, Costa Rica, Montenegro, Peru, the UK and elsewhere.

For more about Steven at: www.stevenfoster.com.

The 2018 Annual Business Meeting will be held at the PSNWA Gallery & Studio on January 18, 2018 at 7:00 pm. During this meeting PSNWA Chairman Devang Thakore will address to the future goals for the Photographic Society, address membership, and conduct regular business including

• introduction of the 2018 PSNWA Board of Directors
• hearing reports of the organization’s work
• Education
• Community Service
• Events
• Competitions
• Exhibits
• Mid-America Photography Symposium
• Studio/Darkroom
• reviewing 2017 End of Year Membership Survey
• reviewing financial statements
• conducting other business matters.

Meeting is open to all current PSNWA Members in good standing.

[image_frame style=”framed” title = “Canned Food Drive” align=”right” width=”158″ height=”300″][/image_frame]Join fellow PSNWA members and guests as we celebrate the Holidays and say goodbye to 2017 with our Annual Pot Luck Dinner at the new PSNWA Gallery & Studio in Bentonville. Fried chicken from AQ along with tea and soda will be provided. Members are asked to bring a side dish or dessert.

This year’s potluck will include the annual PSNWA canned food drive to benefit a local food bank that needs its shelves restocked. We are asking everyone attending to please bring a canned or non-perishable item to benefit the charity. (Please make sure the food isn’t expired or close to expiration.) PSNWA will match contributions up to 100 cans of food.

During the dinner we will watch and vote for the best digital slide show. Prepare your slide show and enter the competition to show off your work and for a chance to win a new tripod. Details at https://www.psnwa.org/ns/events/2017_slide_show_comp/

David Emitt Adams is a nationally exhibited photographer who makes “tintypes,” one-of-a-kind images, which are placed onto found objects like discarded cans and the lids of 55 gallon drums.

[image_frame style=”framed” title = “David Emitt Adams Oil Drum Lid” align=”right” width=”300″ height=”299″][/image_frame] Incredible as it may seem, the photographer pours a photographic emulsion onto the object while in the field and chemically processes the image in a matter of minutes – exactly the way it would done in the 19th century. His work has recently been on display at the Phoenix Art Museum.

Learn more about the photographer at www.DavidEmittAdams.com.

Elections for PSNWA Board Members will also be held at the November general meeting.

Join us for the October PSNWA General Meeting featuring the work of Photographer Jane Goble.

Jane Goble has lived in Northwest Arkansas for 13 years. Her photography journey began when she got her first camera from Walmart on clearance. After a few weeks of having the camera, she fell in love with photography. Photography has changed the way she views the world. 
Her greatest pleasure is photographing wildlife. She gets satisfaction knowing she has captured a unique moment in time.

Jane and her husband Keith have 2 grown children and 4 grandchildren they adore.
 As Jane has grown older, she realizes it’s the experiences in life that make her rich. 
She hopes to continue to gain riches through travel, adventures, and photography.