Mallow Camera Club

Tallaght photographic society, Dublin, Ireland, recently held an International Photographic Competition.

Both Brid Coakley and John Hooton recieved awards in this very prestigious competition.

With over 250 entries in the colour slide section, Brid Coakley, LIPF won a silver medal for the image of a wave bursting through rocks on a Dingle beach in the south west of Ireland.

John Hooton, FIPF, EFIAP & FRPS, recieved a Bronze Medal both in the Colour Slide and the Colour Print sections.

Congrats to to both members from all in the club.

This is Brid Coakley’s Silver Medal Image

Last December 3rd, ten members of the club travelled up to Cahir to attend the SACC AGM and Print & Slide Competition. The club did very well in the competitions with a number of winners:

Colour Print

1. John Hooton
2. Morgan O’Neill
3. Seán Murphy

In the Black and White Print section Sean Murphy came second and in Slides Bríd Coakley came first while John Hooton came third.

John Hooton also won the Seamus Scullane Trophy for the best image at the competition.  Well done to all involved!

SACC Prizewinners, December 2006.  John Hooton, Morgan O’Neill, Bríd Coakley, and Seán Murphy.

Last week’s Patterns Around Us competition was a great success with a good attendance despite the abstract theme. There were a number of categories with winners picked from each category. Members were limited in the number of images they could submit, but as you can see by the results below, some of the same names come up again and again.

Print Colour

1. Sean Murphy
2. Morgan O Neill
3. Karen Fleming

Print Colour Novice

1. Morgan O Neill
2. Karen Fleming
3. Eamonn Looney

Print Black & White

1. Morgan O Neill
2. Sean Murphy
3. Sean Murphy

Slides

1. John Hooton
2. Jerome Coakley
3. Brid Coakley

Digital Images

1. David Lavery
2. David Lavery
3. Brid Coakley

Digital Images Novice

1. Donncha O Caoimh
2. Paddy Fennessy
3. Paddy Fennessy

You can find Donncha O Caoimh’s entries on his blog, and other entries will eventually make their way to the gallery here.

A few days ago I received the following email from Geoff Pick of the Geograph Project. It may be of interest to members of the club:

Hi

I am one of several thousand amateur photographers who are contributing to the non profit-making Geograph project which aims to obtain at least one representative photograph of every half kilometre square of the British and Irish Ordnance Survey maps. To date we have collected over 250,000 images but are very short of Irish photos with only 7% coverage when compared to 58% of the UK. Can any of your members help?

The link is http://www.geograph.org.uk   Just zoom in on the map !!

Hopefully you will be able to give some publicity to this project which will provide a photographic record of our islands for many years to come

Many thanks

Geoff Pick

I may sign up and submit a few photos but it’s worth noting that images uploaded there will be bound by the terms of a Creative Commons licence. In a nutshell, what that means is that you retain the copyright of any photos you upload, but you must allow commercial usage, usually with an attribution clause so you will be identified as the copyright holder. You can read more about the various licences at creativecommons.org

For more information, please visit the Geograph Site.