Mallow Camera Club

There was great success last weekend at the IPF Print and Projected Finals held in Athlone 

Sky Movement by Paki O Donoghue

Of the  36 prizes up for grabs Mallow came away with a total of 8 prizes . The big win of the day for mallow was Paki O Donoghue who took a Silver medal in the projected image. Pakis image tied for first and  following  the judges decision he was awarded  the Silver medal coming second to no other than the great Des Clinton , that in itself a great  achievement. 

There was also success on the day for  John Hooton , Brid Coakley, Morgan O Neill, Bill Power and  Terry Conroy . Congratulations and well done to all.

Projected Open

Paki O Donoghue -  Sky    Movement  -   Silver Medal

John Hooton  -   Inch -  Judges Medal

Mono  Open

Brid   Coakley  -   Flower    -    Judges Medal

Morgan O Neill   -   Girl with Doll   -   Honourable Mention

Mono Intermediate

Bill Power   -  Gannets in Love -   Bronze Medal

Colour Open

John Hooton   -   Sand Shapes  2 -    Honourable Mention

Enviromental Portraiture  Intermediate

Terry Conroy   -   The Band Strikes A Pose -    Silver Medal

Coastal Ireland

John Hooton   - Coolemonoole-   Honourable  Mention

John  Hooton has yet again proved his talent by his latest win on the international salon circuit .

John won two medals in the German Mega Circuit Salon for his two fantastic black and white kerry seascapes.

Well  done John

Kolkata  Photography Exhibition in conjunction with   The Hope Foundation
Thursday 2nd of February – Wednesday 15th of February
Mallow Library,  Mallow co.cork
Four local photographers from North Cork who travelled Kolkata, India, recently  will exhibit a sample of there work in the Mallow Library . The four accomplished photographers, Sean Coleman, Morgan O’Neill, Sean Murphy & David Lavery have all been given extensive access in to the projects that the Hope Foundation work within,  on the streets and slums of Kolkata, ( formally Calcutta ) .
The  exhibition will be opened by Hope foundation Founder – Maureen Forrest on Thursday 2nd February  2012 at 6.00pm at the Mallow Library  and will run until Tuesday 15th February.
The exhibition is hoped to give an insight in to the life and the struggle on the streets of Kolkata. The photographers who are also members of Mallow Camera Club have travelled to Kolkata on numerous occasions between them, to help document the great work carried out by The Hope Foundation.
The Hope Foundation  work to free children and poor families from lives of pain, abuse, poverty and darkness.Living on the streets, children are exposed to horrendous physical and sexual abuse. Those who survive are left to fend for themselves, with no promise of a safe future. They are forced to work from as young as five years of age to earn money for food and so cannot go to school. HOPE works to free them from child labour.
HOPE funds and operates over 60 projects. HOPE reach out to those most forgotten; offering protection, healthcare, nutrition, education, rehabilitation and a family for life
The exhibition is opened to the public for the duration of the exhibition
For further information, please visit www.hopefoundation.ie, email: susan@hopefoundation.ie or contact the office on 021 – 4292990.

We are grateful to Mark Condren, PPAI photojournalist of the year for the past two years, for providing such an extremely interesting, informative, entertaining and thought provoking presentation at the Hibernian Hotel, Mallow on Monday 23^rd January. He showed over one hundred images covering  a wide range of topics and took questions from the large attendance on life as a professional photojournalist. He kindly provided a signed copy of his best seller  publication “The Guards” for the raffle. Thanks to all who turned up on the night. A total of 500 euro  was raised for Temple Street Children’s Hospital. Also thanks to all those members who worked behind the scenes to make it such a successful evening.

Fungi Family By Bill Power

The SACC  Nature competition was held recently in the kilmurry Lodge in Limerick.  The  competition is a regional qualifier for the national nature  finals.   Mallow had a strong contingent of members present on the day ,12 in all, with everybody getting  at least an image or more through to the finals.

Bill Power kept the flag flying for Mallow  when his image  ‘Fungi Family’ won the ‘Best Flora’ category. Another image by Bill  ‘Kingfisher on Green’ was one of 8 photos to get a score of 18 in the printed section, but was pipped at the post. Well done Bill.

Denis Wheleahan, Irish Co-Ordinator for P.S.A. in Ireland presenting John with his award

“Sand Shape”

“Coastal Edge”

John Hooton of Mallow Camera Club has once again achieved international acclaim when he took two of the main awards at the Tallaght Photographic Society International Salon of Photographic Art. In the Colour Print Landscape section John took the Photographic Society of America P.S.A. Silver medal for his print titled ‘Sand Shape”. The image was taken on Fermoyle Beach on the Dingle peninsula. He also won a much coveted F.I.A.P. (International Federation of Photographic Art) Blue Badge Award for the most accepted images in the exhibition.
Also in the Colour Print Landscape section John won a P.S.A. Ribbon and a F.I.A.P. Ribbon.
This is another major achievement for John. All images can be seen on John’s website www.john-hooton.com
As usual Mallow Camera Club meets every Monday night in the Southside Community Centre and everyone is welcome to attend.

Mallow Camera Club

is proud to present an evening with PPAI Photojournalist of the Year

Mark Condren,

author of “The Guard”,

 at the Hibernian Hotel,

Mallow on Monday 23 rd January at 8 pm.

 Cover charge €5. Proceeds to Temple St. Children’s Hospital.

Heavy Clouds by Geraldine Dennehy

An image taken by club  member Geraldine Dennehy has been shortlisted for the RTE  Weather final, Winter  theme.

Geraldine only learned the news today and was told that her image will be on tomorrow 5th of  January on the 6 and 9 o clock news.

On speaking to Geraldine, she  is overjoyed to have made the final , so make sure you  tune in tommorrow and lend her your support.

Well done Geraldine and best of luck.

l to r , Barry , Jim ,Rodney, John, Margaret ,Neilly ,Terry and Bill

The club outing took place yesterday 28 of december in dingle under the guidance of John Flynn. Eight  members braved the weather conditions and travelled down . We had an early start leaving mallow from the arches at 6am . We visited cappagh,clogher,smerwick and kinard beaches. The weather proved challenging but also provided some great oppurtunities for good images to be taken

Events of the day.
Jim got wet, [again], Jim got a headache, Neilly forgot his wellies and there were reports that chairman Barry Linnehan was seen wringing out his socks .

All in all a great day was had , we had good craic and banter and everyone was glad they braved the weather.

Also a big thanks to john flynn for organising the day

The club outing to Dingle scheduled for Wednesday 28 will go ahead as planned . We will depart from the arches mallow at 6am sharp.

The weather forecast looks ok with a few showers forecast

A change of clothes ,wellies ,umbrella and a packed lunch would be a good idea to bring with you.

We will be leaving at 6am sharp so if you cannot make it or want to meet up later in Dingle you can ring John or Rodney

John Flynn 087/6528801
Rodney O Callaghan 086/8487875