February's competition theme is "Travel": The primary criteria here is that the image must give the viewer a sense of place outside of Metro Atlanta. This might be someplace out in the country or some far away land.

Our speaker for this month is Gay Allen. Gay is an award winning photographer and one of the driving forces in the emerging digital/computer art scene. Gay has a number of commercial photographic clients to name, including Louisville Magazine, the University of Louisville Health Sciences Center, the New Orleans Yacht Club, and many others. Her work has appeared in local and national publications, including the Louisville Courier Journal, New Orleans Magazine, and USA Today.

Gay's photographic accomplishments span various techniques, mediums and genre and she has won local, regional, national and international placement and awards, and even a couple first-place winners here at SPS!

She currently serves on the Advisory Board of the Museum of Computer Art, New York, and lectures and writes on the emerging photographic art form of digital art. She is Chairman of the Photography Salon, Atlanta Artists Center; and a member of Atlanta Photography Group, Southeastern Photography Society and Dunwoody Fine Arts Association.

Visit Gay's web site to see some inspirational images that explore the boundaries between photography and digital art.

Our judge for the competition is the infamous TBD.