Mallow Camera Club

Mallow Camera Club held its AGM for the 2007/08 season on Monday 17th September.
Chairman for 2006/07 Mr John Hogan thanked all for their support and commitment for the 06/07 season.He also thanked the new members who turned out for the first night of the season. Outgoing members Paddy Fennessy, Bríd Coakley, Tim Geary, David Lavery & John Doheny provided very positive reports on the season.
Paddy Fennessy gave a special thank you to all in the club who supported him during the year.
The newly elected members are as follows,
Chairman: Mr John Hogan (re appointed)
Secretary: Barry Lennihan (newly elected)
PRO: John Doheny (Re Appointed)
Competition Secretary: David Lavery (newly elected)
Treasure: Tim Geary (re appointed)
Web Master: David Lavery (re Appointed)
Chairman, John Hogan congratulated all on the posts and wished them all success.
The first club event of the year is the annual photo shoot on Monday 24th September,which will allow members to carry out a photo shoot of models under studio lighting. A enjoyable night should be expected.

The 2007/08 club season commences with the annual photographic exhibition, which will begin in the Mallow Town Library Co. Cork on Thursday 6th of September. The Exhibition will run for three weeks until Saturday 29th of September. Over 30 photographers from Mallow Camera Club will be exhibiting their many varied styles of photography. Mallow Camera Club members have won many awards over the years both at national and at international level.
This year the club unanimously decided to donate all proceeds of the exhibition to the Niall Mellon Township Trust, as one of our Members Sean Riordan is about to embark on a trip to South Africa with the Trust.

Sean will be part of 1,350 Irish men and women in the biggest ever Township Challenge in Freedom Park, Cape Town, South Africa. This will be the largest ever exodus of Irish people to a charity event overseas and will be the fifth Township Challenge the Niall Mellon Township Trust has organized. The club wishes the best of luck to Sean. For more information on the Niall Mellon Township Trust go to www.irishtownship.com.

The club would like to thank Mallow Town Library for the opportunity to exhibit their work.

The annual 2007 club exhibition is approaching us again. The exhibit will be on display in the mallow library for three weeks from September 8th to the 28th.
The club had some very good results during the 2006/7 seasons in which the club competed in both national and international competition. During the early stages of the season Mallow Camera Club competed it the inaugural world photographic club competition, which was held in Paris. There were 116 entries from many different countries around the world. The club eventually finished in 32nd place. The club has again entered its panel of 20 images for 2007 which results will be made public by late September. The club also won a bronze medal in the overall section at the National Photographic Finals.
Some of its members won awards during the year including John Hooton’s Gold medal Brid Coakley’s bronze and Morgan o Neill’s Silver at the SACC nature Finals, John Doheny was also a medal winner when he received a silver medal at the National Photographic finals.
Many of the winning images through out the year will be on display in the Mallow Library.
The competition secretatary wishes every club member to submit up to three images for selection where at least one will be chosen for the exhibit. The size of the images must be one of the following 8x10in; 11x15in or 12x16in and Images can be of any subject.
Images can be submitted to any committee member or any of the following Brid Coakley, David Lavery, John Doheny or John Hooton by August 14th.
Thanks to all for there support in 2006/7 season.

On Monday the 14^th of May, Sean Murphy became the Photographer of The Year for Mallow Camera Club. The annual competition is open to all members of the club. This year the three judges travelled from Cork Camera Group and viewed over 200 Images of club members work in four categories, Digital Projection, Monochrome, Colour Slide & Colour Prints. After a slight score count issue it turned out that the eventual winner was Sean Murphy. For Sean to win  photographer of the year for Mallow Camera Club is a great honour. The Club itself recently finished in Third Place Overall in the National Photographic Finals of Ireland, another great achievment. Second place went to John Hooton & Third place went to Morgan O’Neill. Sean will be presented with the winning trophy at a later date, which has yet to be decided.

The club also had a section open to novice members, in which John Hogan was successful. John displayed some very creative images through a wide section of subjects and media to clinch the section. Second place went to David Nelson & Third place went to John O’Flynn.Congratulations both to Sean Murphy and John Hogan from all club members.

Best colour Slide went to John Hooton for one of his dramatic and award winning Landscape images. Best Colour Print went to Sean Murphy for his Australian 6 am Sunrise. Best Digital Projection again went to Sean Murphy for his very detailed old style kitchen interior.  The best Monochrome print went to John Doheny for a beautifully composed footprints in the sand.

The club Chairman John Hogan thanked all on the night for participating and helping out and welcomed the visitors who showed great interest in the competion .He also thanked the  members from Cork Camera Group who Judged the event.

Sean Murphys Best Digital Projection  kitchen-interior.jpg

Link to John Doheny’s “footprints” footprints_in_the_sand_web.jpg

Pictured Below L-R Brid Coakley (competition Secretary), John Hooton (Best Slide), Sean Murphy (Photographer Of The Year, Best Colour Print, & Best Digital Projection), Morgan O’Neill (3rd Place Photographer of the year), John Hogan (Novice Photographer Of The Year), John Doheny(Best Monochrome)

Mallow Camera Club finished in 32nd place in the inaugural Photographic Clubs’ World Cup competition which was held in France in November 2006. 142 clubs from 34 countries around the world entred the competition. Mallow Camera Club scored 128 points which was 39 points outside the top ten.

FIAP (Fédération Internationale de l’Art Photographique) is an international federation which affiliates as operational members, the national associations of photography. FIAP includes more than 85 national associations in the five continents and represents the interests of nearly one million individual photographers.  The Irish Photographic Federation (IPF) to which Mallow Camera Club is affiliated, represents the interests of Irish photographers on FIAP.

Mallow Camera Club’s entry of twenty images can be seen below.  Click on any image to see a larger version.  The wide variety of images and styles represent the diverse membership of the club.  Well done to all members for a great result.

Wigan Photo Club, UK, scored 214 points to easily take first place in the competition. Second place went to Photo Club Kolkata of India with 183 points. Third went to ESV-St.POTTE of Austria with 182 points.

Full results of the competition can be seen on the FIAP website.

Information and application forms for IPF distinctions are now available for download on the SACC & IPF page linked above.

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

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