Mallow Camera Club

Please note the following changes to the club programme.

As Monday 19 March is a Public Holiday, there will be no meeting that night.  John Hooton’s Personal Portfolio has been rescheduled for Monday 26 March.  The annual Club Quiz night has been deferred until 23 April.

The IPF Nature finals take place in the Spa Hotel, Lucan on Sunday 25 March.  Entries will be accepted at the venue up to 11:30 that morning.  [NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE]

The IPF Annual General Meeting will also take place in the Spa Hotel, Lucan on Sunday 25 March at 11:30.

The IPF National Photography Finals will take place in Dublin on 21 & 22 April 2007, Plaza Hotel, Tallaght, Co. Dublin.

The club will also host a special night with Roy Robertson, FRPS, on Thursday 26 April.  More details later.

At the SACC Annual Competition and Exhibition held in Mallow on Sunday 18 February, Mallow Camera Club swept the boards winning all but one of the top prizes, thus securing their place as the best club in the south of the country.

Stags Collide by Morgan O’Neill – Best Colour Print SACC 2007 

The club won the event outright and also took first place in each of the three sections, Colour Prints, Monochrome Prints, and Slides.  In the individual category club members Morgan O’Neill and John Hooton won first prize in Colour Prints and Slides sections respectively.

The competition was judged by Des Clinton, Judy Boyle and Seán Casey who are all award winning experienced photographers, and well known within the Irish photographic community.

Mallow now qualifies to compete in the IPF National Photography Finals which will be held in Dublin on 21 & 22 April.

Results – Best Club                   SACC Finals 2007 Club Results           

1. Mallow Camera Club
2. Kilkenny Camera Club
3. Clonakilty Camera Club
4. Cork Camera Group
5. Thurles Camera Club 

Results – Colour Print Panels

1. Mallow Camera Club
2. Clonakilty Camera Club
3. Cork Camera Group
4. Thurles Camera Club
5. Kilkenny Camera Club

Results – Monochrome Print Panels

1. Mallow Camera Club
2. Cork Camera Group
3. Limerick Camera Club
4. Kilkenny Camera Club
5. Clonakilty Camera Club

Results – Slide Panels

1. Mallow Camera Club
2. Kilkenny Camera Club
3. Clonakilty Camera Club
4. Wexford Camera Club
5. Thurles Camera Club

Well done to all concerned.

The competiton was a great success. The judges said they were very impressed with the quality of the photographs on display.

Fourteen clubs from all over the region traveled to Mallow to compete in the competition which is the most important in the SACC calendar.

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.

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.