NANP News, Winter 2024/2025

Farewell from Wes Gibson

My term as president has come to an end. I want to take this opportunity to express my deepest gratitude to all of you. Thank you for placing your trust in me over the years. It has been an incredible honor to serve this organization in various capacities—first as Second Vice President, then Vice President, and most recently as your President for the past three years.

Looking back, I’m proud of what we’ve accomplished together. One of the most significant achievements during my presidency was the development and ratification of new bylaws in 2022. This was a collaborative effort, led by Lifetime Director Tim Timmerman, that required patience, compromise, and dedication, and I’m thrilled that we were able to create a framework that serves us all well.

I also had the privilege of leading the association through a time of renewal as we reconnected after the COVID-19 lockdowns. Together, we enjoyed three fantastic reunions: San Antonio, Texas, in 2022; Washington, D.C., in 2023; and the unforgettable Navy Photographers Reunion Cruise to the Bahamas in 2024. These gatherings remind us of the bonds we share and the rich history of our profession.

As I step aside, I am excited to welcome Lisa Borges as our new President. Lisa is a trailblazer as the first retired Mass Communication Specialist (MC) and only the second woman to lead NANP. Her leadership marks a new chapter for our association, and I believe she will inspire the next generation of Navy photographers and Mass Communication Specialists to join and contribute to our community.

While I am no longer your President, I remain an active member of NANP. I will serve as Past President on the Board of Directors for the next two years, and I will continue as your Webmaster and, for now, the Newsletter Editor. (Though I am actively seeking a successor for the latter role!) My commitment to this association is steadfast, and I look forward to supporting Lisa and the board in any way I can.

As we look to the future, I encourage all of us to focus on fostering unity within our community. While our association is rooted in the traditions of Photographers Mates (PHs), we must embrace and welcome the Mass Communication Specialists (MCs), who face the ever-evolving challenges of modern photography with incredible skill and dedication. Together, we can bridge the generational and cultural gaps, ensuring NANP remains a vibrant and enduring community.

Thank you again for the privilege of serving as your President. It has been one of the most rewarding experiences of my life. I look forward to continuing to work with you as we build on our legacy and pave the way for future generations.

Wes Gibson
Past President, National Association of Naval Photography

From the New Vice President

I would like to take a moment to thank Y’all for giving me your vote of confidence to be your Vice-President of this organization. Over the next year, I will do everything I can to help Lisa move us forward. We have so much Naval Photography history in our midst that we need to preserve and pass down to future Navy Photographers. By Navy Photographer I mean anyone that picked up a camera to document naval history. This includes those that were in the rate of PH, JO, MC or any other rate that picked up a camera. My own experience, as an 8288, allowed me to spend many hours with Aviation Ordnanceman instructing them on photographing ships from both P-2 Neptune and P-3 Orion aircraft. This should also include Marine Photographers. They went to “A” school with us and then we let them go on their way, never to look back at their roots. We need all members to think hard about how to grow this organization with inclusion. Without growth, we will surely fade away into the twilight. Thank you again and God bless Y’all.

P.S.: I found the article titled “The Origins Of American Naval Photography,” located lower in this newsletter, while surfing the net and thought Y’all would find it interesting.

Welcome Aboard John DeDitius
NANP Director 2025, 2026, 2027

I am humbled and honored to be elected as Director for the next three years, and I look forward to working with the NANP community.  I’d also like to take this time to introduce myself less formally.  My formal name is John DeDitius, but my friends (and I consider you all to be those) call me Johnny or Johnny “D”.  I’ve been married to my beautiful and talented wife Michelle for the last 34 years.  I have two daughters Crystal DeDitius Irby and Katie Jean Reyes, and between them four grandchildren: Hannah 5, Brodie 5, Bridget 4, and Kara 3.  I spent thirty-two years in the Navy which afforded a young wide-eyed kid from Dallas TX with some wonderful opportunities. I was one of two LDOs to be the first selected to attend the Naval Postgraduate School where I earned my MBA.  After retirement I used that education to work as a Financial Analyst for the Justice Department, as a Budget Officer for the US Marshals Service, and finally, at the International Trade Administration where I retired in 2021. I enjoy many activities including golf (which I’m terrible at), 8 and 9-ball billiards a plebeian sport at which I’m fairly decent, working around my way too-large property, photography, and most importantly spending time with my grandchildren. I look forward to being a part of the NANP over the next three years and hope to see all of you at the next NANP get-together.  

Johnny “D”

Shoot Off Workshops – Not Just a Competition

Story by Johnny Bivera

The 2024 season of the DC Stills and Video Shoot Off Workshop that transpired at the nation’s capital last year was a great success. Attendance numbers had come back to near normal for the post pandemic period.  

Let’s go back to 2020 at the time of the Covid outbreak. As news that New York City was getting its first signs of Covid, we were just days away from kicking off the stills shoot off program, and the staff and I were in flummox as to what we were going to do. It’s not like things were getting shut down, but hand washing and the use of hand sanitizers were making its way through the scuttlebutt, and each day closer brought more and more restrictions, one to include that if you didn’t have to fly, please don’t. We immediately started calling on folks from out of state that would be flying in to reconsider that possibility, but most had already arrived early and were here. It was a hard day when I had to call Chip Maury to say that he couldn’t come and teach, we couldn’t take the risk of our most precious faculty member to end up on the sick list.  

The night before the start of the shoot off, Bob Houlihan and I were on the phone talking this out. Do we cancel and eat the cost, or do we create an alternative? Again, nothing was being shut down, everything was just a cautionary note. So, we decided to call all our local peeps and say please unless you are part of the working staff, monitor and participate the workshop online at home, and that only working staff and out of towners that had flown in be allowed to come in as foot traffic. We cut down the on-scene attendance numbers in half, and the program happened just fine. The crazy part was that the next day after everyone from out of town had made it back home, the official call to shut down the east coast happened. And we went silent for the next three years.

In 2023 we made a last-minute call to hold the still shoot off program in March and video in early September. No matter if we were successful or not, if the program was to continue, we had to get back on the horse. But more like getting on a bike, everyone came back riding high, and while we had the lowest numbers turnout ever, there was enough participation to still influence a great number of many new military photographers, and that alone counts for success.

And all this following last year’s program, where we had a full staff of volunteers and every seat taken, the program that NANP supports from inception was back! And this year we plan to do so again, now mark your calendars for 27-29 March for the stills program and 21-24 August for the video program to happen in Arlington, Va. We look forward to having anyone that can come and be with us, but if not, support us in any way possible. And no, the workshop is not just a competition, it’s a learning environment and networking tool but most importantly, a time for leadership, mentorship and friendship.  

To see all of the photos from the 2024 season of the DC Stills and Video Shoot Off Workshop, follow this link to the article on the NANP website: https://navyphoto.net/wp/shoot-off-workshops-not-just-a-competition/.

The Origins Of American Naval Photography (Pictorial Section)

By Lieutenant Commander Neville T. Kirk, U. S. Naval Reserve (Inactive)
Published June 1951 / Proceedings / Vol. 77/6/580

By a fortunate chance the American Civil War coincided with the development of photographic techniques which permitted the recording of operations on land and sea. Posterity is therefore able to study in minute detail the first large scale applications of the weapons of modern war. As the combatants grappled in campaigns of attrition, private photographers compiled a documentary history which brought home to all sections of the population the first vivid portrayal of the actualities of war. These pioneer cameramen subordinated artistic considerations and tried to get at the stuff of history. No armed conflict down to 1914 was recorded with the comprehensiveness that characterized the work of Matthew Brady and his fellow photographers from 1861 to 1865. Their achievement is a distinctive chapter in the story of American enterprise and energy.

Some 6000 of their photographs now remain in the collections of the Library of Congress and the Signal Corps files of the National Archives. Of these the 300 naval views are by all odds the most interesting because they represent the first occasions that ships of the United States Navy and their crews were brought under the camera lens and are, in fact, the earliest of all naval photographs. Matthew B. Brady, the imaginative genius who was foremost in organizing the activities of Civil War cameramen, can therefore be considered to be the father of naval photography. Some of his best known naval work, together with some which has hitherto remained unpublished, appears in this issue.

From the outset of his career Brady perceived more clearly than any of his colleagues the potentialities of photography for recording the history of his era. He photographed all the Presidents from John Quincy Adams to McKinley. Commodore Matthew C. Perry posed for him on the return of the Home Squadron from the Vera Cruz campaign in 1848. This daguerreotype portrait, which appears opposite, is the best known of early American naval photographs. Subsequently engraved and published in a “leaders of the Mexican War” series, it made the Great Commodore’s strong features familiar to most Americans several years before his expedition to Japan. Brady’s New York and Washington galleries became the resort of fashion. On the eve of the Civil War leaders in society and politics were to be seen in his reception rooms, rubbing elbows with the Prince of Wales, “Boss” Tweed, and John C. Heenan the “Benicia Boy,” then on his way to England for the first great international prize fight.

Brady’s ambition to become the pictorial historian of his time would probably have remained short of realization had not the invention in 1855 of “wet-plate” photography created a practicable medium. The process was based on the glass negative and paper positive principle, and its revolutionary feature consisted in the possibility of reproducing an unlimited number of paper prints from each exposure. Photographers thereupon abandoned daguerreotypy, the original technique which had created their profession in 1839. The commercial possibilities of the daguerreotype were severely limited by its lack of transferability. Exposure was made directly on the sensitized copper plate which became the developed positive photograph. Thus all pictures were unique originals and, in the case of war photography, could not be reproduced in sufficient quantities to defray the high initial costs of procurement in far-flung operations theaters. No more than five daguerreotypes of the Mexican War are known to exist, and none are naval views.

The possibilities of the new wet-plate process received immediate and rather spectacular demonstration. Roger Fenton, a London photographer, in 1855 took his cameras and equipment to the Crimea where they, together with the accompanying horse-drawn dark room, became familiar sights to the British and French troops in the siege lines before Sevastopol. Other photographers went into the field to record the Sepoy Mutiny, getting some striking views of persons, places, and, not least, of the drastic punishments meted out to captured rebels. The Solferino campaign of Napoleon III in 1859 was likewise photographed and, in the following year, the operations of Victor Emmanuel’s army of Italian unification. But none of these pioneer efforts took in naval warfare. While Fenton was getting his pictures of trench and camp, no colleague attempted to record the blockade and bombardment operations of the British fleets in the Baltic and Black Seas.

The lag in naval photography is not surprising when it is remembered that the wet plate required a ten to thirty second exposure. The tempo of life on deck, in addition to the constant movement of ship and sea, created a major problem. Then, too, the typical warship of the Crimean War was not commodious. She was a steam auxiliary sailing ship of the line measuring 250 feet between perpendiculars, and packing 850 men and 100 guns on her decks besides two years stores for war operations in distant waters. The private photographer with his bulky apparatus of chemicals and dark room necessary for the preparation and instant development of wet-plate pictures did not fit into this environment. Quite as serious, at sea, was the lack of an adequate supply of fresh water. This precious fluid was always doled out sparingly in the age of sail. Even in the piping times of peace fresh water ablutions were strictly a wardroom privilege and were performed with a cupful; fresh water baths were wholly unknown outside the rainy tropics. These factors made photography impracticable at sea until the dry plate became available after 1880.

Brady’s men, however, were not deterred by ordinary difficulties. They took advantage of the more localized operations of the Civil War to board ships at anchor in the James River, the North Carolina sounds and off besieged Charleston. Samples of their work appear on the following pages. The “slowness” of their plates still required lengthy exposures and therefore excluded “action shots” or even views of vessels underway. But they did obtain an imperishable record of the daily lives of the men who for four years and in all seasons pressed home the naval blockade which first brought a major opponent to his knees through economic starvation, and set him up for the knockout to be administered by the armies cooperating ashore.

The cameramen who photographed the Federal Navy worked in pairs. On boarding a ship they set up a portable tent for a dark room, and this was occupied by one operator while his partner manned the cameras. The latter usually, consisted of a small double camera for stereoscopic pictures and a larger instrument capable of holding plates of sixteen by twenty-four inch size. In the dark room plates were prepared for exposure and developed immediately afterward. A modern photographer would be dismayed by the formidable nature of the task. The glass plates were first flowed with collodion to which was added soluble iodide. A transparent film was thereby produced, and this was sensitized by immersion in silver nitrate. Because sensitivity was lost with the drying of the plate, a matter of thirty minutes or less under outdoor conditions, the negative had to be manufactured, exposed, and developed in one operation. These facts should enter into any evaluation of Civil War photography.

Brady’s assistants made the pictures which are reproduced here. The master himself made few, if any, naval photographs, though on occasion he accompanied the Army of the Potomac. Having undertaken his self-appointed task of covering the war, he soon faced management problems which compelled his continued presence in Washington. His enterprise was purely private; as the country’s best known photographer he alone, among 3000 competitors, was capable of financing it. No government assistance was forthcoming; and though the Army employed a few photographers for topographical work and in connection with the Quartermaster Corps, war photography remained in private hands until the First World War. Brady hired and directed the operations of field photographers, about twenty in all. In addition, he bought negatives whenever possible, and chiefly from his competitor and former protégé, Alexander Gardner, who worked with the Army of the Potomac. In the case of the Mississippi River naval operations he had to content himself with copying purchased prints. Brady estimated that the enterprise cost him over $ 100,000, and this he expected to clear by the sale of war view albums. Actually, the debts he incurred during the war years were never afterwards discharged, and they contributed to Brady’s bankruptcy a decade later. In view of his achievement, posterity owes him perhaps a greater debt of gratitude because his energy and enthusiasm led him to disregard the dictates of financial prudence.

In a technical sense, too, the Brady photographs have considerable significance, for they enable us to visualize accurately the first application of modern science to war. The struggle in North America from 1861 to 1865 was the first to be waged on a large scale after the full development of the Industrial Revolution. It foreshadowed the complete transformation of war methods to be effected by the factory system, power tools, and steam transport. Then, also, the world witnessed for the first time the war potentialities of the American economy. The defense departments at Washington, confronted with strategic problems of baffling novelty and unprecedented magnitude turned for assistance to private industry. For the Navy this initial association of civilian know-how with the operation of its bureaus produced a series of fundamental technological developments: the turreted ironclad warship, mass produced ordnance, mine and torpedo warfare, and a bewildering variety of specialized ship types. Brady had these photographed; his pictures provide complete documentation, in the most vivid of all media, of a case study in the successful partnership of the Navy and American industry. In thus having direct bearing on the principal defense requirement of our time they merit study, for they are “history teaching by example.” The Navy can concur in the judgment of Robert Taft, leading authority on the development of photography in this country: Matthew B. Brady may indeed “deserve rank equal to the greatest historian of the American scene.”

2024-2025 Advanced Military Visual Journalism Selectees

by Master Chief Tony Sisti, CHINFO Senior Enlisted Advisor, MC Community Master Chief

Please join me in congratulating the 2024-2025 cohort selected to attend the Advanced Military Visual Journalism (AMVJ) program held at Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Public Communications.

The following Sailors have been selected to attend photojournalism training:

• MC1 Daniel Gaither, Naval Special Warfare Group One
• MC1 Jonteill Johnson Montgomery, Navy Office of Information
• MC1 Andre Richard, Navy Public Affairs Support Element West Det. Hawaii
• MC2 Nicholas Russell, USS George Washington (CVN 73)
• MC2 David Negron, Navy Public Affairs Support Element West
• MC2 Mykala Keckeisen, USS Nimitz (CVN 68)

The following Sailors have been selected to attend graphic design training:

• MC1 Jacob Bergh, Commander, Navy Reserve Force
• MC2 Tyler Slavicek, PCU John F. Kennedy (CVN 79)
• MC3 Joshua Sapien, USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70)
• MC2 Mariano Lopez, U.S. Naval Academy

The team at Newhouse offers our Sailors a world-class education in journalism and visual communication. The Navy selected these 10 Sailors to attend based on their proven ability and demonstrated potential. They will spend nine months in an academically demanding environment, where they will complete graduate-level course work and learn cutting-edge skills and techniques. When they graduate next May, they will bring their knowledge to the fleet and increase our team’s communication capabilities and help build our public affairs team of the future.

Congratulations! Team First!

2024 Navy Photographers Reunion Cruise Recap

The 2024 Navy Photographers Reunion Cruise was held aboard the Carnival Cruise Lines Glory, departing from Port Canaveral, Florida, on October 18, 2024, and returning the morning of October 21, 2024. The destination was the Bahamas, though the voyage encountered some changes due to weather.

Rough Seas and Adjusted Plans

Upon departure, the seas were choppy due to a tropical depression in the region. While seasoned sea-goers found the conditions manageable, many other passengers found it rough. Originally scheduled to arrive in the Bahamas on Saturday, October 19, worsening sea conditions caused the cancellation of that day’s port visit. Instead, the day became a “fun day at sea,” with onboard entertainment for passengers. The ship arrived in the Bahamas on Sunday, October 20, allowing attendees to enjoy sightseeing, shopping, and local tours.

Association Meetings and Gatherings

The National Association of Naval Photography adapted its schedule to accommodate the changes. The Board of Directors meeting and the General Meeting were moved to Saturday, October 19, instead of Sunday. Limited attendance—23 members in total, including five board members—resulted in informal but productive discussions. The Board of Directors met in Gary Mann’s stateroom, while the General Meeting was held in the ship’s Green Room, thanks to assistance from the ship’s Guest Services.

While the traditional banquet and formal Two Bell Ceremony could not be held due to the cruise setting, an informal Two Bell Ceremony took place during the General Meeting. It was also decided that the 2026 Navy Photographers Reunion will return to a formal Two Bell Ceremony, honoring members who passed in 2024, 2025, and 2026.

Reflections and Looking Ahead

Although attendance was smaller than expected and adjustments were necessary, the reunion provided a unique experience for attendees. Members enjoyed reconnecting and shared camaraderie, even under less-than-ideal circumstances.

Plans for the 2026 Navy Photographers Reunion in Virginia Beach, Virginia are already underway, with a focus on returning to traditional ceremonies and ensuring a meaningful gathering for all attendees.

2023 Scholarship Winner: Alexandria Wolford-Griggs

Alexandria is a student at Kalamazoo Valley Community College in Kalamazoo, Michigan where she will be graduating, with honors, at the end of April with an Associate of Science in Biology. She has already been accepted to Western Michigan University, also in Kalamazoo, where she will start this coming Fall with a double major in Biology and Earth Science while also minoring in Chemistry. Upon graduating, her goal is to go into the public sector for the US Forest Service, or ideally the National Park Service. This scholarship has been a great help to her with affording books and supplies for coming semesters as, much to the vexation of every current and future student, the price of textbooks seems to have no upper limit.

In her free time, Alexandria loves to get on the airwaves with her Extra-Class amateur radio license and talk with people from around the world, fostering a sense of goodwill with anyone she comes across.  Off the air, she enjoys many hobbies such as exploring parks, diving, as well as building and repairing guitars.

Alexandria thanks the Awards Committee for considering and selecting her for the 2023 NANP Scholarship Program.

Note: No one was awarded the NANP Scholarship in 2024 because no applications were submitted. Both in 2022 and 2023, there was only one applicant each year. In 2024, there were no applicants. A proposal was made to the membership and subsequently voted in that the NANP Scholarship program be discontinued due to a lack of interest.

“Life at Sea, the 30-hour day”

by Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum

Photo essay aboard the aircraft carrier “USS America”, CV-66 in the Indian Ocean in 1981, by PH1 Jim Preston, USN.
(Click here to go to the actual Flickr page to see the album)

Love from the Periscope Room

Story by Duane Romine (NANP Director)

It all began in 1959 in Building 1500, the Periscope Room—now home to our Photo Museum. Even if you don’t read the entire story, know that it led to a 61-year marriage!

I was a Photo “A” School student in the Aerial Phase, conducted on the second floor of Building 1500. A month or so earlier, I had met Bonnie Twist, a Photo student in the class before mine. She graduated in May 1959 and was stationed at NATTU “B” School, just up the road from Building 1500. One of her duties was to deliver “Guard Mail” from the “B” School Building to the Admin Office in Building 1500 every day around 1500 hours. I knew this because by then, Bonnie and I were dating.

Being in the Aerial Phase of “A” School, I worked on the second floor of Building 1500. One day, I realized that if I could sneak away to the Periscope Room around 1500 hours, I could use the periscope to watch Bonnie walking down the street! I couldn’t manage it every day, but I did whenever I could. Little did I know that in just three weeks, Bonnie and I would be married at the Methodist Church in Warrington.

After graduating from “A” School, I received orders to the USS Norton Sound (AVM-1), the Navy’s missile test ship, homeported in Port Hueneme, California. Bonnie and I had a quick wedding and honeymoon in the Pensacola area before I left for California. Determined to stay together, Bonnie requested a “humanitarian transfer” to join me. Her request was approved, and she was transferred to Naval Station Long Beach, where she became the staff photographer. Long Beach was 60 miles from Port Hueneme—a significant improvement over being separated by the entirety of California and Florida. Every weekend I didn’t have duty, I would hitchhike to Long Beach and take a Greyhound bus back to Port Hueneme.

Bonnie was honorably discharged from the Navy eventually, and in 1960, we welcomed twin daughters, Charlotte and Charleen. A year and a half later, our third daughter, Cheryl, was born. You could say the Photo School’s periscope brought us together and started our Navy family. Bonnie served for two years, and she spent the next 25 by my side.

Our daughters carried on the tradition of service and dedication. Charlotte served 30 years with the Seabees, retiring as an E-9. Cheryl served 22 years, retiring as a Chief Intelligence Specialist (“traitor”). Charleen pursued a 26-year career with the University of Georgia’s Veterinary Teaching Hospital in Athens, Georgia. Today, Charlotte and Charleen own property in Archer, Florida, while Cheryl and her husband, Mike Ano—a retired 24-year Marine—live in Durhamville, New York.

I lost Bonnie five years ago, but as I reflect on our journey, I’d say we did pretty well for a couple of 19-year-old Photo “A” School graduates.

Do you have an interesting sea story to share with our community? Often times, the NANP Newsletter Editor does not have enough stories to put together a newsletter. So, if you have a great sea story, preferably with one of two supporting photos, please submit it to the NANP Newsletter Editor at nanpwebmaster@gmail.com for consideration. The current plan is to run one or two sea stories in each newsletter as space permits. The Newsletter Editor can not guarantee all stories will be used however.

Pensacola Group

San Diego Group

NANP San Diego continues to meet for lunch on the second Saturday of each month and have a great time doing so.  We are up to 20 + members at each lunch. Join us next month.    

Hampton Roads Group

Tidewater Photo Mates and MC’s will be gathering for lunch at Bubba’s 33 in Chesapeake on Sunday, March 23rd at 11:00. The address is 1725 Debaun Ave. We will meet on the patio and Greg McCreash will update us on the 2026 NANP reunion!

Please join the Hampton Roads Naval Photography Facebook page for more information and to RSVP. 

NANP Job Opening – Assistant Webmaster

We are seeking a volunteer Assistant Webmaster to work with Wes Gibson on the NANP website. The job entails the design and upkeep of the NANP website, putting out mass emails when needed, working closely with the reunion coordinators each year, assisting in the production of the Association’s newsletter, and in the Webmaster’s absence, able to carry on for the Association and answer to the Board of Directors on all matters about the website

Candidates should have the following qualifications.

• Very familiar with web page design using WordPress.
• Comfortable with the Gutenberg Block Editor.
• Able to design creative web pages, mass emails, and newsletters from scratch.
• Know what a hosting service is and able to navigate a C-Panel.
• Experience with Elegant Themes Divi would be a plus.
• Able to install, quickly learn, and use WordPress plugins.
• Able to work as a team in the design and upkeep of the NANP website.
• Can take and give constructive criticism.
• Understand and be able to use Auto Responders such as Vertical Response, Mail Chimp, and Aweber.
• Have a Facebook account and be able to post to the Navy Photography related Facebook groups.
• Able to construct and manage online surveys.
• Good photo management practices.
• Able to devote the necessary time to web design and upkeep. Typically only a few hours each week, but it could be significantly more during the upcoming website redesign and before each year’s reunion registration.

If interested in being the NANP’s Assistant Webmaster, please submit your name, email address, and phone number to Wes Gibson at nanpwebmaster@gmail.com. If you have a sample website that you have designed and maintained, please submit a link.

Candidates will be interviewed by the NANP Webmaster, Wes Gibson. The final selection of the Assistant Webmaster must be approved by the NANP Board of Directors.

NANP Job Opening – Newsletter Editor

We are seeking a Newsletter Editor. This is a Chairperson position on the Board of Directors with voting privileges. The job entails the design and upkeep of the NANP newsletter. Since the newsletter is web-based now, the Editor will work closely with the NANP Webmaster, along with the entire Board of Directors, and have website access to design and publish the newsletter.

It would be beneficial if candidates have the following qualifications.

• Familiar with web page design using WordPress.
• Comfortable with the Gutenberg Block Editor, currently used in WordPress.
• Able to design a creative quarterly newsletter from scratch.
• Have a Facebook account and be able to post to the Navy Photography related Facebook groups.
• Able to devote the necessary time to the newsletter design and upkeep.

The current Newsletter Editor and Webmaster is willing to train anyone with rudimentary newsletter design skills in how to transition to a web-based newsletter.

If interested in being the NANP’s Newsletter Editor, please submit your name, email address, and phone number to Wes Gibson at nanpwebmaster@gmail.com. If you have a sample newsletter that you have designed, please submit a copy to Wes as well.

Candidates will be interviewed by the NANP Webmaster, Wes Gibson. The final selection of the NANP Newsletter Editor must be approved by the NANP Board of Director.

New NANP Members in 2024

MC2 Andrew Geraci
PH1 Robert Foster
PH2 Edward Cafarella
MC1 N.Brett Morton
MCC Tyler Swartz
PH2 Tom Dickerson
PH1 Randall Jackson
PH2 Greg Giesing
PH2 Wayne Abbott
MCC Essex Moore
PH2 Peter Romanjenko
PHC Daniel Durrant
PH2 Bernie Weithorn

Reminder: Life Membership in the NANP is only $95. Those joining receive a Welcome Aboard pack containing a patch and certificate. For those not wanting to join the NANP, you can still add your name and information to our Photographers Past and Present list for free.

Click the button below to join NANP, add your name to the free Photographers Past and Present list, or to update your information.

Taps

All shipmates who embarked on their last cruise in 2024

PH1 Bryan Barbee
PH2 Ernie Bassard
PHC Warren Brunner
PH2 Thomas Coughlin
PHCM Douglas D’Andrea
PH1 Bill Dappen
PH2 William Fonda
PH2 Eugene Gerlach
CW04 Donald Grant
PH2 Rich Harala
PHC Howard Hawthorne
PHCS Carlton Ihlan
CAPT Donald Jarvis
LCDR Tom Kirkman
SN David Knight
PH3 Charles McDonnell
PH1 Jim Mealey
CDR Frank Peele
PHC Kent Potter
LCDR Bobby Powell
PHCM William Quinn
LCDR Joseph Quirk
PH2 Jerry Sandifer
LCDR Alfred Tennyson
JOC Kenneth Testorff
PH1 William Washabaugh
CDR John White
PH1 Robert Williams