Southeastern Photographic Society

Congratulations to SPS members whose photographs were juried into The Images That Define Us, the SPS 50th Anniversary Exhibition at Callanwolde Fine Arts Center. The exhibition will hang in Callanwolde's second floor galley through November 19th.

Please join us for the opening reception on Thursday, October 8th from 6:00 to 8:30 p.m. when cash prizes, certificates, and ribbons will be awarded. An additional prize, the Participants' Choice Award, will be selected by all in attendance who submitted images for the exhibition. Cutoff time to vote is 6:45 p.m. Plan to attend this special event and bring your family and friends. Refreshments will be served.

SPS wishes to thank Callanwolde Fine Arts Center for hosting us. We also thank Adam Faust, Callanwolde Operations Director, and Rob Knight
(robknightphotography.com) for serving as exhibition jurors and judges.

Please join us for our October 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 to RSVP with the attend button below. We will send a link to the meeting a day before the meeting to those who RSVP.

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:

Back by popular demand and now an annual tradition — here’s your chance to share your work with fellow SPS members! Drawing inspiration from Brooks Jensen’s insightful project-based concept, “Seeing in Sixes,” we are asking members to stretch their creative wings and share a “project” of six images with fellow members. No competition, no critique, no judgment — just an opportunity to share a personal “project.”

What is a “project?” For our purposes, we are looking for a series of exactly six images portraying a common theme, exploring a place or person, telling a story . . . there is really no limit to what you can include in your personal project so long as something ties the six images together. It can be something you’ve recently shot or something you’ve been playing with for years. The only criteria (aside from good taste!) is that the images have something in common that makes them suitable for viewing in a collection. (Still confused? Go and watch last year's program here:
https://youtu.be/CqiqoIpv6y8.

Size your six individual images according to SPS guidelines and submit them, with a project title (I just need a title for the project, not for each individual image), to milsteenphoto@comcast.net by no later than Tuesday, October 20th at 9:00 p.m. (Note - we are looking for six separate images, not one image that combines six photos, and they can be any combination of formats -- verticals, horizontals, squares, whatever.) Projects are generally shown in the order received, so get your images in early! We’ll ask each photographer to say a few words about their project, either before or after their images are shown.

Whether you’re a seasoned photographer or a newbie, we hope you’ll share a project. And, even if you don’t have a project to share, please join us on-line for what promises to be a fun night of inspirational photography!

Please note:

October’s Learnshop will be ONLINE. The link will be sent only to those who RSVP to this announcement. Only SPS Members may submit a Seeing in Sixes project.

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SPS has three standing meetings each month for its members and guests. The First Friday Program and Competition features an outside 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 pay your SPS dues or join SPS, visit:

Please join us for our First Friday meeting on November 6th. Our guest speaker will be writer and photographer Juliette Mansour. Juliette says: "Street photography asks us to train our eye, to read a scene, to be nimble with candid moments, and to work with the light landscape of public places. This talk traces how those developed instincts can lead us to discoveries and an evolution that brings a deeper understanding of ourselves as photographers. For some, it brings us closer and more embedded in a subject's world; for others, a shift away from strangers and toward the environment itself. We'll touch on a little street photography philosophy and leave plenty of room for discussion."

Juliette will also be judging our digital competition, themed A Different Point of View.

Presenter: Juliette Mansour is a writer and photographer working across connected projects. The Additional f-Stop is her weekly Substack newsletter, and Casa Dresden is her creative house where all the work comes together. She shoots digital and film, developing her own black-and-white film at home. Her work is shaped by photographers like Henri Cartier-Bresson, Fred Herzog, and Vivian Maier.