Shootout Winners

2011-09-18 Shootout

You may view all of the contest winners by going here.

The fourth Sweetwater Camera Club shootout contest held on Sunday, September 18th resulted in the following awards:

Category1: Glowing:
1st Place – Stella Spyrou - truck
2nd Place – Sandra Belk – Glowing lamps (color)
3rd Place – Nicolette – Glowing (b&w)

Category2: Car Parts:
1st Place – Stella Spyrou - Bus
2nd Place – Norma Nichols - tire
3rd Place – Nicolette – car part1

Category3: Self Portrait in Cartersville:
1st Place – Nicolette – self portrait
2nd Place – Retz Joseph – self portrait
3rd Place – Stella Spyrou – self portrait

Category4: Liquid:
1st Place – Nicolette - liquid
2nd Place – Sandra Belk – liquid
3rd Place – Retz Joseph - fountain

Category5: Cartersville Architecture:
1st Place –  Stella Spyrou – Coconuts Ice Cream
2nd Place –  Sandra Belk - courthouse
3rd Place – Carl Pearson – Architecture 2
Harper Lee's South Exhibit opens at Cultural Arts Center
By Sweetwater Camera Club   
Click to View the Harper Lee's South Press ReleaseThe Sweetwater Camera Club is honored this month to present an exhibition of photos depicting "Harper Lee’s South" hosted by the Cultural Arts Council of Douglasville/Douglas County in conjunction with the 10th annual Atlanta Celebrates Photography festival during October. The camera club's participation is part of the CAC's Big Read initiative supported by the National Endowment for the Arts. Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, was set in the mid-1930s in a small Southern town. The SCC exhibit in our own city is our salute to "Douglasville Celebrates Photography."
 
The Cultural Arts Center has participated in Atlanta Celebrates Photography for the past five years; this month-long metro-wide festival now includes more than 300 exhibits, lectures and other events on the art of photography. "Harper Lee’s South" opens on Thursday, October 2nd and will be on view at the Cultural Arts Center through October 26th. The opening reception will be held on Thursday, October 2nd, from 6 until 8 p.m. and is hosted by the Douglas County Writers' Group. The event is free and open to the general public.



"There is a lot of interest in photography in our community," noted CAC Executive Director Laura Lieberman. "The Sweetwater Camera Club is one of CAC’s most active satellite organizations, and our Douglasville Celebrates Photography show last October which also showcased its members’ fine photographs, was very popular, drawing many gallery visitors to the Cultural Arts Center."

One member of the Camera Club, Diane Yancey, actually made a pilgrimage to Harper Lee’s hometown in southwestern Alabama, Monroeville, the model for the fictional Macon, Alabama. Yancey photographed several sites during her visit including the Monroe County courthouse which has been preserved exactly as it was during the Depression Era. Other local photographers roamed closer to home, capturing images of buildings from the same time period as they are today in Douglas County; James Gardner who teaches photography at the Cultural Arts Center depicted the ruins of the Stockmar goldmine in Villa Rica. Still other members of Sweetwater Camera Club considered the larger themes of the novel to illustrate their continued relevance – father and daughter affection, black and white relationships, small town America, and social justice.
 
We hope you will get over to the Cultural Arts Center at 8652 Campbellton Street in Douglasville, GA. For more information visit the CAC website at http://www.artsdouglas.org.

 
 

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