About the Artist: William R. Prosser

Bill Prosser is a local, McLean artist who has been a serious amateur photographer for over 35 years. He studied under a number of local teachers and mentors: Marty Kaplan, Joe Miller, Jim Steele, and Eliot Cohen; and Canadian, Freeman Patterson. He gave up the chemical darkroom for the computer in 1995 and film for the digital chip in 2000 after learning Photoshop and working photographic images in his digital darkroom. Also in 1995 he began his current volunteer work at McLean High School where he teaches and mentors students in Photoshop, photography, and visual design. He has assisted Eliot Cohen teach Smithsonian Institution Photoshop Classes. He is a founding member, and past-president, of the McLean Photography Club and a 18 year member of the Northern Virginia Photographic Society (NVPS). He is an NVPS Digital Imaging Mentor. In recent years he earned numerous NVPS Photographer-of-the-Year and Image-of-the -Year awards. He has exhibited his photographic images at University of Wisconsin-Madison and locally at the Fairfax County Government Center, Arlington Henley House, the Fairfax Virginian Retirement-Community Center, and the Reston Unitarian-Universalist Church. The Georgetown University Graduate Public Policy Institute purchased seven of his Washington, DC images to hang in its Faculty and Administrative Offices. His work has been published in Bob Ryan’s Weather Almanac, National Geographic Traveler Magazine, and most recently the March/April 2008 AAA World Magazine.