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SACC Annual Competition and Exhibition 2007

Mallow Camera Club is honored to be hosting the SACC Annual Competition and Exhibition in the Patrician Academy, Mallow on Sunday 18 February 2007.
Clubs from all over the south of the country will travel to Mallow to participate in this event, which is also the regional qualifier for the IPF National Photography Finals to be [...]

Holga Photography Exhibit

From Photon Detector comes news that Johnny McMillan is organising an exhibition by Irish Holga photographers starting on February 22nd at the Monster Truck Studio and Gallery in Dublin.
Email submissions (max. 5 JPGs) to info@johnnymcmillan.com no later than Tuesday, 30 January, 2007. (Direct all enquiries to the same address.) Photos made with modified Holgas, including [...]

The club at Pineapple Studios

The club visited Pineapple Studios at the end of October 2006 where we were shown around by Jessica Jones and Tina. There’s a more detailed write-up on inphotos.org but here’s a photo Jessica took of the group. 1-2-3.. Say Cheese!

MCC @ the SACC in Cahir

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

John Hooton
Morgan O’Neill
Seán Murphy

In the Black and White Print section Sean Murphy came second and in Slides Bríd Coakley came [...]

Patterns Around Us Results

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 [...]

Geograph – a photo map of our landscape

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 [...]

Club Competition: “Patterns Around Us”

The next club competition, “Patterns Around Us” will be on Monday, November 27th. The theme of the competition is patterns.
There are four sections:

Black and white/monochrome print
Colour print
Slide
Digital Images

Digital images need to be handed to John Doheny before Thursday the 23rd of November. Bring them along to the meeting next Monday the 20th to ensure entry [...]

The National Shield

Tomorrow is the big day when photography clubs around Ireland descend on Portlaoise for the Irish Photographic Federation’s National Shield Competition. This year Dunamaise Photographic Society is hosting the competition. It’s on in the Heritage Hotel, Portlaoise but if you don’t know your way there a map of the town is online too.
Mallow Camera Club [...]

Say hi to the new site!

This is a test message to fill up some space on the Mallow Camera Club website. There is also a small gallery but it’s all just work in progress right now.