Mallow Camera Club

The annual SACC Nature competition will take place next Sunday the 15th of January 2012.
There are, unlike all other competitions, only two categories in it, i.e colour prints and colour projected images.
This years competition is being hosted by Limerick and District Photographic Society it will be held in The Kilmurry Lodge Hotel, Castletroy, Limerick
For directions see: http://www.kilmurrylodge.com/location.html

The timetable on the day is as follows

9am to 11am Registration
12am to 1pm Judges Preview of images
1am to 2pm Lunch
2pm Judging commences.

On Monday the 12th of December club members will be meeting outside the Opera House in Cork at 7pm. The group will then spread around the the city taking night shots.

A great opportunity for new members to learn how to capture night images. Also a good chance for some of the more experienced members to show off. Make sure you dress up warmly, bring a tripod if you have one and a plastic bag to pull over your camera in case it rains.

Also on the Thursday the 15th of December the club night out will take place in the Hibernian Hotel, Mallow. All club members and their partner/partners are welcome to come. The meal cost €19,95 for one or €39.90 for two. We will be meeting up around 8.02pm. Hope to see you there.

Mallow put forward two panels in the Shield competition last Sunday the 13th of November. Our chairman Barry Linehan and our competition secretary Neilly Curtin travelled to Ballyfermot early Sunday morning to put up the panels. Neilly also roped in some members of his family to help hang the images.

Mallow put in a strong performance with their colour panel finishing with 349 points in total just 33 points behind Cork Camera Group’s winning  panel.

In the mono section the Mallow panel scored 353 and was just 24 points behind Dundalk who won the overall prize

The highlight of the event for Mallow was when Bill Power’s image was Highly Commended. Well done Bill.

Congratulations to Dundalk and Cork on their success, and to all the members who got images onto the Mallow panel.

John Hooton  has once again proved that he is among the top international photographers. At the 7th Salon Mondail of Photography De Limours John took the top prize in the colour section and in doing so won a F.I.A.P. Gold Medal for his panel of four images.
Nearly 1,000 photographers entered this competition with only 25% been accepted
to have their work exhibited in this prestigious event. You can see John’s images
on his website www.john-hooton.com
Some people may be surprised to see that these images are not wonderful seascapes but are images of the interior of an old house.  A new departure for John but a measure of his talent that once again he comes out on top.

The annual SACC Print and Projected images competition will take place on Sunday the 20th of November in the Kilcoran Lodge, Cahir,  Co. Tipperary.

The competition is a qualifier for the annual competition. There are three section, Colour Print, Mono (black/white) print and  Projected Images. Each competitor can enter 3 images in each section.

The theme is open so all types of images are accepted. There is a novice and advanced prize within each section.

Kilcoran Lodge is on the old Dublin road travelling from Mitchelstown to Cahir. The Lodge is approximately halfway between both on the left hand side travelling to Cahir. It can also be accessed from the new motorway.

TIMETABLE
9am to 11am Registration of images
12pm to 1pm Judges preliminary viewing of images in private
12pm to 1pm SACC AGM
1pm to 2pm Lunch
2pm Judging starts

THE RULES AND ENTRY FORM CAN BE DOWNLOADED BELOW.

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Print and Projected Image Entry Form V2

More information may be found on the SACC website: http://www.saccinfo.com/

Congratulations to everyone who entered the club competition last Monday.

The mono (black/white) competition was a 3 way tie between Rodney O’Callaghan, Denis O’Leary and Vivian Buckley.

The colour competition was a 2 way tie between Paki O Donoghue and Vivian Buckley, while Rodney O Callaghan and James Heffernan renewed their intense rivalry battling it out for third place.

The projected images had a clear winner with Paki O Donoghue stamping his authority on the competition. Mark Heffernan and that man again James Heffernan shared second place.

Weather permitting we will have a night shoot on Monday 21st November at Bridgetown Abbey in Castletownroche.

Photographers should bring tripods if they have one, warm clothes and it would be no harm to bring a plastic bag to put over your camera if we have a sudden shower. Make sure your camera batteries are fully charged.

Morgan who has been consistently been amongst the top competitors in recent years continues apace  in the Irish Met.Society  national photographic competition. Morgan’s image of “Black Valley House” achieving 3rd place and will form part of the exhibition at the National Botanic Gardens from the 10th -18th November. Congratulations and keep up the good work.

Congratulations to Mary Magner,Morgan O’Neill, Sean Murphy and David Lavery on having their images being considered for selection on the Irish FIAP Biennial Panel.Best of luck to all concerned.

First there will be no meeting this bank holiday Monday (31/10/2011), as is the norm for bankholidays.

The following Monday the 7th of November we will have a change to the calendar, and there will be an open competition for all members. There will be 3 catogories, colour print, mono (black & white) print and projected images which may be brought in on the night on a cd or memory stick. Each compeditor can bring 3 images in each catagory giving a total of 9 images.

Also on Monday the 28th of November John Hooton will be giving a workshop. This night is one to be marked in everyones diary.We are lucky to have probably the leading landscape photographer in the country, and any tips or information he can give us will be greatly appreciated.