The new season kicks of on Monday the 12th of September with our club AGM. This is your opportunity to have your say and cast your vote to decide the new club officers.
It is also a great opportunity to review the club program and see what is planned for the new season.
Looking forward to seeing you there.
Rodney O’Callaghan and Morgan O’Neill have been chosen for the Irish team to represent Ireland in the 2011 Bienniel ”Movement”.
They are amongst twenty of the top images that make up the team.
Ireland has gained a very high standard in International competitions in the last few years,hopefully they will do well in the 2011 Bienniels.
Best of luck !!!!!
Morgan O'Neills ''Rock''
Rodney O'Callaghans ''Motion''
Mallow Camera Club Brings home The Rose Bowl
Camera Clubs from all over Ireland took part in the Irish Photogrpahic Federations National Clubs Finals held in Athlone this weekend.
The Irish Photographic Federation (I.P.F.) is the umbrella body for amateur photography in Ireland.
The two day event, held at the Athlone Institute of Technology is the biggest competitive event in the amateur photography calendar in
Ireland. This year the judges travelled from Holland, Crotia and Northern Ireland.
Each club is eligable to enter two panels, one monochrome and one colour with each panel having ten images. Judging of
the monochrome panels took place on Saturday but final results were not announced until Sunday afternoon following the
judging of the colour images. Mallow Camera Club took second place in the monchrome section and achieved first place in the
colour section. As overall winners of the competition they were also awarded the coveted “Rose Bowl” This is the first time a
club from the Southern Association of Camera Clubs has won “The Rose Bowl” and it is especially significant this year as Mallow
Camera Club celebrates its Silver Jubilee.
There were also a number of individual winners with John Hooton winning a gold medal for the best colour image in the competition,
Morgan O’Neill winning a silver medal in the colour section and Brid Coakley winning a bronze medal also in the colour section.
John Hooton and John O’Flynn also received an honourable mention in the monochrome section while Brid Coakely and Morgan O’Neill both received honourable
mentions in the colour section.
There was further success for club member, Mark Heffernan who was awarded a Licenteship Distinction from the I.P.F. following judging of
his individual panel. Congradulations to Mark.
Overall a tremendous weekend for all the members of the club.
More news soon.
Mallow Mono Panal
Mallow Colour Panal
Mark Sedgwick,President of the IPF is coming to Mallow Camera Club to show us some of his work.
Mark is a Member of the Celbridge camera club who were placed 3th in the world cup competition this year.
He is a very respected photographer throughout Ireland and abroad and know as a gentleman of the sport.Mark has been very sucessful over the years winning his fair share of gold medals nationally and internationally.In 1997 Mark won two gold medals for Ireland at the European Exposition of Photography in Holland. One was for best national image and the other for best international image – his compilation prints comprised six images in traditional monochrome. Mark’s successes were the first won by an Irishman on the international circuit.
Check out his website at: http://www.theremarkableimage.com/
All members from surrounding clubs are very welcome on this coming Monday 14th March.
The FIAP clubs world cup results are out with super results for Ireland.
Congratulations to Dundalk who have won the 5th FIAP world cup and to Celbridge who came 3rd,a dream acheivment,
and of course our very own Mallow camera club who came 21st.
Also congrats to Drogheda who came 55th.
The FIAP is an international federation which affiliates as operational members, the national associations of photography. FIAP counts more than 85 national associations in the five continents and represents the benefits of nearly one million individual photographers.
The top clubs all over the world enter this competition and to get these results are just brilliant!!!!Well done all.
http://www.fiap.net/Rworldcup.php?param=5FWC&lang=en
FIAP in association with the PSS (Photographic Society of Singapore) are running an international competition and exhibition to celebrate the 60th Anniversary of both FIAP and PSS. The competition will be open to all national federations around the world which are Operational Members of FIAP and based on the theme “Children of the World”.
The IPF are requesting images for consideration as part of the Irish entry by the IPF. Each person can submit up to 3 images with a max. of two images to be included in our panel. Images must 8bit digital JPEG format and be minimum 2000 pixels on its longest size with minimal JPEG 10 compression.
Entries on CD to be sent to
Sean Casey, FIPF, MFIAP, Hon EFIAP
161 Ard Easmuinn, Dundalk.
This is a qualifier for the national Print & Projected images competition to be held on the 19th of February 2011 in Athlone IT.
A minium of 50% of the images that enter the competition will qualify for the national finals.
All images must be in a 16inch x 20inch (40.64cm x 50.8cm) mount.
All images that do not adhere to this will not be accepted.
All images must have a backing board. Images with no backing board will not be accepted.
The date is Sunday the 5th of December
The venue is The Park Arms Hotel, Clonmel, Co.Tipperary
Entries will be taken from 10am to 12am
Judging will begin at 2pm
The competition is run in conjuction with the IPF and will adhere strictly to IPF rules.
The SACC AGM will take place between 12am and 1pm.
15th Nature Projected Images Biennial – INDIA, Bangalor
The FIAP nature Bienniel was held this year in Bangalor, India and Ireland had an entry. This entry was chosen from images entered in the 2009 and 2010 IPF national nature competition. The Irish panel consisted of 20 digital images and 10 prints from 20 different photographers.
Well done to our own John Flynn on been selected to join the Irish team with his image”Damselfly”.
This year the Irish entry did extremely well coming 8th in the Projected Image section and 6th in the Print section.
This means that each individual image is awarded an honorable mention.
Well done to John and the rest of the Irish Team.
John Hooton and Morgan O’Neill have been chosen to join the Irish team to compete in the 2010 Celtic challenge.
John with his image”Cappagh Evening” and Morgan with images”one eyed jack” and “Sorry!”
Ireland won it last year,lets hope we can do it this year.
To read about last years success please click on web page.
http://irishphoto.ie/index.php/2009/10/ireland-wins-celtic-challenge/
Morgan O’Neill won a PSA (Photographic Society of America) gold medal and a PSA Ribbon at the recent Celbridge International Salon.
This was the first Celbridge International Salon which was successfully judged on Sunday the 6th of June in front of a live audience at National University Ireland, Maynooth.
Please click on link to view results.
http://www.celbridgecameraclub.net/?page_id=437
