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The Southeastern Photographic Society (SPS) is a registered non-profit Atlanta-based community of photographers established in 1976 to help members learn the skills for creating great images and sharing them with others.
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Join the SPS Team for the 2025 NG3C Annual Shootout
First Presbyterian Church, 189 Church Street Northeast, Marietta, GA, USSoutheastern Photographic Society members please consider joining the SPS team for the 2025 NG3C Shootout on November 1st in Marietta, Georgia.
The Shootout is a very cool photo competition that includes camera clubs and about 100 fellow photographers from the North Georgia area. The event takes place in one day and includes timed shooting, juried awards and great prizes! It's a great way to make friends, show off your SPS pride and contribute your photographic talents. Sign up soon (see link below) if you are interested in participating so we can build our team of 20.
Stephen Weiss and Linda Nixon will be co-hosting the event.
Details for the North Georgia Camera Club Council (NG3C) Annual Shootout
REGISTRATION: Register at https://form.jotform.com/spsatlanta/2025-11-01-ng3c-shootout. You must be an SPS dues-paying member. Registration closes after 20 verified members signup, but SPS will maintain a waitlist in case a space becomes available.
EVENT: The North Georgia Camera Club Council (NG3C) Annual Shootout
The shootout is a team photography competition between Camera Clubs that are members of NG3C. SPS has participated in the past and members had a blast!
DATE, TIME, & LOCATION: Saturday, November 1, 2025, 189 Church Street, First Presbyterian Church, Marietta, GA. (2 blocks off the square) 8:00am to 5:30pm.
FEES: FREE for team members. SPS will pay the club membership fee to NG3C and each team member's participation fee. Registration is limited to 20 members.
SKILLS REQUIRED:
Shooting: Competition is a timed event with shooting taking place in a very specific geographic location. The spirit of the competition is spontaneity and to photograph found images based on themes announced the morning of the event.
Editing: Be very comfortable working on your own, uploading photos to your laptop, editing images, sizing images to specific pixel dimensions, naming images, and saving to a flash drive. Do not plan on sharing a laptop, as there simply isn't enough time.
WHAT TO BRING:
- Camera gear
- Laptop with photo editing software and the RAM to handle your editing workflow.
ACTIVITIES & JUDGING:
On the morning of the competition 5 different themes are randomly selected and announced. Teams shoot within a designated geographic location, edit the shots and submit the 10 best images per category to the judges all within a specific time period. There will be a Team Lead to coordinate these activities. It is possible that not everyone will have an image submitted to judges.
While judging is taking place, there are workshops, door prizes and vendor booths to visit. Judges select the top 10 images in each themed category and award points. Individual prizes and ribbons go to the top 10 winners in each category. The Camera Club team with the most points will receive ribbons and bragging rights. Results are announced late in the afternoon.Additional Information will be provided to team members after registering.
If you have any questions, please contact Linda Nixon at
linda-n@spsatlanta.org.The NG3C website is: http://www.ng3c.org
We hope to see you there!
Photo - 2024 SPS NG3C Shootout
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From Personal Photo Projects to Universal Stories - with Forest McMullin
Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Atlanta, 2650 N Druid Hills Rd, Atlanta, GA, USPlease join us for our November First Friday meeting featuring photographer and educator Forest McMullin and enter our digital image competition, “PATTERNS" (more information below.)
Forest McMullin will speak about his career as a working photographic artist, from fine art work created more than fifty years ago through projects completed in the last few years. He'll discuss his interest in working with fringe social groups, including a photo story dealing with radical racists and neo-Nazi skinheads that led to his writing a novel. The thriller, Shooting at Shadows, is based on his experiences and was published in June.
Forest McMullin is a freelance photographer, artist, writer, and educator based in Atlanta. He has work in the permanent collections of Hunter Museum of American Art, George Eastman Museum, Georgia Council for the Arts, American Society of Media Photographers, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester Institute of Technology, The Buffalo Museum of Science, Savannah College of Art and Design, and Southern Poverty Law Center.
To see his work and learn more about Forest, visit:
https://www.forest-mcmullin.com/Please note:
- This month's meeting will be IN-PERSON at our regular meeting location, the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Atlanta, at 2650 N. Druid Hills Road NE.
- Entries are limited to TWO per paid member - one color and one B&W.
- Please see competition rules for more information.
- The deadline for submissions is 9:00PM on Wednesday, November 5, 2025.
- Competition entries are to be sized appropriately, and files are to be re-named using the SPS naming convention: Firstname Lastname - Title of Image
- Images are to be uploaded to the links found on our SPS website.
- All are welcome for the presentation, but competition entries will be limited to paid SPS members only.
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SPS has three standing meetings each month for its members and guests. The First Friday meeting features an guest speaker and a members’ image competition. While competition entries at these monthly meetings are restricted to currently paid-up members, we ALWAYS welcome visitors interested in photography to attend. The Learnshops (fourth Tuesdays) and Coffee & Critique (second Saturdays) are intended for members, but again, we welcome visitors. If you attend regularly, we ask that you help support the club (which pays for the rental of the facilities, supplies, and equipment) by becoming a member!Signing up on the SPS Meetup page does not make you an SPS member. SPS members pay dues to engage in many activities that are unavailable to guests who only sign up on the SPS MeetUp.
To find out more about SPS visit:
www.spsatlanta.org
To become a member, visit:
www.join.spsatlanta.org19 attendees
•OnlineCoffee & Critique - Digital Edition (PLEASE NOTE NEW SUBMISSION EMAIL)
OnlinePlease join us for our November Coffee & Critique, which will be a “digital edition” conducted on Zoom. AND NOTE BELOW NEW SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS FOR WHERE TO SEND YOUR IMAGES!
For newcomers — we meet every month to share images and provide constructive feedback to each other on how to improve our photography. We alternate each month between online digital and in-person print critiques, and the meetings are for beginners and seasoned photographers alike.
For digital months, it is very important that you RSVP on the MeetUp site because only folks who RSVP will be sent the link needed to join the meeting. The link will be sent out the day before the meeting.
For digital C&C’s, participants may submit up to TWO images each for feedback. (A “before” and “after” pair of images will only count as one submission for those who want to “show their work.”) Please size your images as you would for an SPS competition — see instructions here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1F0xzqEXvRfPl4T48zNbbasDSZ4beaOEU/view
Even if you don’t submit images, though, we encourage you to join and participate in the MeetUp. Our experience is that the critiques are a valuable learning experience even for folks who don’t submit images.
Starting with the November Coffee & Critique, David Cruickshanks will be taking over the administrative task of collecting and showing the images on,one. Digital submissions should now be emailed to CC@spsatlanta.org no later than 9:00 pm on the Thursday before the meeting. Please put “C&C” or “critique” in the subject line. David will acknowledge receipt of submissions, so if you don’t hear back from him, it means he didn’t get your images.
Your images should be titled with your name and a number showing the sequence of the submissions — e.g., JaneDoe1, JaneDoe2 — with the number reflecting the order in which your images will be shown. We generally show the final image first, and then show the "before" version, so if you don't want it in that order, please let us know.
The Zoom link will be sent out the day before the event. If anyone has any questions, feel free to email David Cruickshanks at CC@spsaltanta.org.
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SPS has three standing meetings each month for its members and guests. The First Friday meeting features an outside speaker and a competition. While competition entries at these monthly meetings are restricted to currently paid-up members, we ALWAYS welcome visitors interested in photography to attend. The Learnshops (fourth Tuesdays) and Coffee & Critique (second Saturdays) are intended for members, but again, we welcome visitors. If you attend regularly, we ask that you help support the club (which pays for the rental of the facilities, supplies, and equipment) by becoming a member!To pay your SPS dues, visit:
join.spsatlanta.orgTo find out more about SPS visit:
spsatlanta.org***
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