Joseph Miller conducts workshops for serious photographers, teaches photography at the Northern Virginia Community College, Manassas Campus, and frequently speaks, critiques, and judges at photographic societies. He works out of his Center for the Photographic Arts in Northern Virginia and writes extensively on a number of photographic subjects with particular interest in visual communication and design, judging photographs, and judging judges. He was instrumental in the creation of the Northern Virginia Alliance of Camera Clubs. His photography has been influenced by the renowned international photographer, Freeman Patterson, from whom he has taken workshops in Canada and Africa.

 

 

Abstract Photography Program Abstracts are the poetry of photography -- free verse written in color and tone producing poems of mood, feeling and emotion. Photographers are visual communicators who, for the most part, use their cameras to write declarative sentences. But cameras also can be used to write abstracts -- visual mysteries that can awaken the reader's imagination and sense of wonder. The program will consist of three sections: Found Abstracts, Created Abstracts, and Making the Ordinary Extraordinary.