Mallow Camera Club

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 held in April.

The Exhibition will be open to the public from 1pm.

Programme

09:00 Doors Open

09:00 to 10:00 Registration, Hanging of Prints (must be done by each club).

10:00 to 12:30 Judging of Panels

11:00 SACC Meeting.

12:30 to 14:00 Lunch (snacks and soup will be available at the venue)

13:00 Exhibition open to the public

14:00 Judge’s comments on Slide Panels

14:30 Judge’s comments on Print Panels

16:00 Results and Awards Ceremony

16:30 Taking down of prints (responsibility of each club).

Judges: Des Clinton, Seán Casey, and Judy Boyle

2007 Entry Form

VENUE

The venue will be signposted from all roads entering the town. Please note the signs will say IPF in red. The venue is just off the carpark behind the Hibernian Hotel, close to Mallow Garda Station. There is plenty of parking at the venue.

For further information contact John Doheny, PRO, johndoheny@iolfree.ie

Irish Photographic Federation (IPF) – a federation of all camera clubs in Ireland.

Southern Association of Camera Clubs (SACC) – a region of the IPF spanning the country south of a line from Arklow to Shannon Town.

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 PinHolgas, are acceptable. There’s no entry fee.

Any Holga owners in the club want to contribute?

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!

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.

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

1. Black and white/monochrome print
2. Colour print
3. Slide
4. 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 if you can’t meet John after that. (Thanks Brid!)

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 will be represented there by members who are traveling up early tomorrow morning. Give Brid a ring if you’re interested in going. They’re leaving very early in the morning so you can’t say you weren’t warned!

We’ll be in good company, I see that Sligo Camera Club will be there too. It should be a good day for all!

Update – the results are out, via Sligo Camera Club. I’ll post more details about the competition later along with photos.

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.