Thursday 17th July 2025; We have our annual Nature members competition of the year, a competition judged by John Chamberlin (prints and PDIs are welcome).
Entry is open now and will close on Monday 14th July (this hase been extended fron Sunday 13th)
To watch by live streaming you must be registered and logged in and purchase a ticket. For information go to our Streaming page HERE
Programme begins at 8.00pm.
These images are from the same competition in 2024.
On Thursday 10th July SPS’s very own Peter Siviter will be back to give us part 2 of his Electric Dreams talk which started as far back as 1986!!. Peter will be live in the club room with SPS members and guests alike.
Peter is a long time member of Smethwick Photographic Society (over 40 years) and has experimented with and become proficient at a variety of subjects and genres of photography together with developing digital editing editing skills to help create his masterful composites. Peter was one of the early adopters of digital image manipulation using Photoshop as far back as the early 90s. Peter has also been a judge and MCPF lecturer since 1986.
‘Electric Dreams – The Final Act’ is actually the second part of a talk Peter gave to Smethwick members as far back 1986. His presentation will cover his chosen style of vivid and colourful composites together with a selection of his wide ranging award winning competition photography.
Peter will also present a number of Audio/Visual pieces and finish off with the potential of AI generated images and AVs, with a surprise creative piece of work along the way.
Starts at 8pm in the club room and on stream
This week’s talk is part of a series of FREE ‘taster’ sessions for local Sandwell community residents and workers (non SPS members or regular guests). If interested do login or better still come along to the live presentation at the clubhouse. Full details below.
On Thursday 3rd July Libby Smith MPAGB EFIAP HonPAGB HonSPF will be demonstrating how she gets inspiration for her many photography projects. Libby will be live in the club room with SPS members and guests alike.
Libby has been taking photographs since the late 60s and initially used her photography as a base to sketch or paint from. This progressed into a love of printing. She joined Carluke Camera Club in 1993, and photography and printing were to become a passion and the journey into competitive photography and International Exhibitions began.
The discovery of Photoshop and digital printing in 1997 fuelled the obsession with her producing a fairly eclectic mix of subjects and styles over the years, influenced by her art background and love of early darkroom printing, coupled with a love of creating composites.
Almost as much as creating images, Libby enjoys seeing images and meeting people within the photographic community, so judging, lecturing, running workshops, working at, or organising some photographic event or another, has been a way of life. For over 25 years Libby has been an Office Bearer of the SPF, and for most of that time a member of the Scottish Salon committee and PAGB executive.
Starts at 8pm in the club room and on stream
This week’s talk is part of a series of FREE ‘taster’ sessions for local Sandwell community residents and workers (non SPS members or regular guests). If interested do login or better still come along to the live presentation at the clubhouse. Full details below.
Thursday 26th June 2025; We have our second colour print members competition of the year, a competition judged by Dave Tucker
Entry is open now and will close on Monday 23rd June (this hase been extended fron Sunday 22nd)
To watch by live streaming you must be registered and logged in and purchase a ticket. For information go to our Streaming page HERE
Programme begins at 8.00pm.
On Thursday 19th June the ever popular and distinguished photographer Carol McNiven Young will be demonstrating her photography and image editing skills for that ultimate ‘creative rush’. Carol will be live in the club room with SPS members and guests alike.
Carol McNiven Young FRPS MPAGB ABPE EFIAP/g
Carol discovered photography in 2014 and 5 years later she was awarded a Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society. Since then she has gained over 200 awards in national and international competitions. She is a PAGB and N&EMPF judge, an RPS distinctions assessor and regularly judges BPEs and international salons as well as offering personal mentoring and club talks.
Carol enjoys all genres of photography, but her main passion is for creative portraiture. using her extensive collection of costumes and props and utilising her local village hall as her ‘studio’.
She also enjoys entering national and international competitions and pursuing photographic distinctions.
Starts at 8pm in the club room and on stream
This week’s talk is part of a series of FREE ‘taster’ sessions for local Sandwell community residents and workers (non SPS members or regular guests). If interested do login or better still come along to the live presentation at the clubhouse. Full details below.