Southeastern Photographic Society

Please join us for our First Friday meeting on October 2. Our guest speaker, "Professor Kenneth Hines, the Ambassador of Light" — is an Atlanta/New York-based photographer, ZEISS Ambassador, and Adobe Lightroom educator whose work spans street, cityscape, and landscape photography, video production, and creative education. Professor Hines will highlight the power of invisibility in photography, emphasizing its role in allowing photographers to move unnoticed through public spaces and capture authentic, compelling street imagery.

Please consider entering our Print Competition - The theme this month is "Get In Close" - Closeup detail of subject using close focus or magnifying focal length. (See below for more information.)

Kenneth “Professor” Hines, Jr. is the definition of a multi-hyphenate creative—photographer, educator, industry ambassador (ZEISS Photo & Vision), and all-around visual powerhouse. Based between Atlanta and New York City, he’s partnered with some of the biggest names in the business, including ZEISS, Sony, Google and Adobe, where he’s an instructor and a speaker at the prestigious Adobe MAX conference. His work has been featured everywhere from Brides and Life & Style Weekly to Professional Photographer Magazine and The Weather Channel, proving his talent knows no creative bounds. Kenneth also serves as the JIB Camera Operator for the dynamic Change Church, led by Pastor Dharius Daniels in Atlanta.

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: