Mallow Camera Club

Mallow Camera Club members  continue to win prizes in major regional and national competitions. In the SACC Nature Competition held in Cahir in January, club members came away with four of the six medals up for grabs.

Club members also traveled to Portlaoise for the IPF National Print, Slide, and Digital Projected Championships on Sunday 11 March and again came away with medals and certificates.  This competition, which attracted over 400 entries, was open to photographers from around the country and was adjudicated by experienced judges from Scotland and Ireland.

John Hooton won gold and bronze medals in the Colour Slide section while Bríd Coakley finished in the top ten.  In the new Digital Projected Imaage section John Doheny won a silver medal with his seascape shot entitled ‘Algarve Sunset’ (below).

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.

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

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.

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.