Mallow Camera Club

Photography entries are an important part of the indoor section of Clonakilty Annual Agricultural Show.
This year photography once again proved to be very popular with more than two hundred entries divided between fifteen classes some being for juniors.
Four members of the Mallow Camera Club featured prize winners in the four classes that were open to Camera Club members.

Landscape / Seascape:
1st John Hooton Mallow Camera Club
2nd Brid Coakley Mallow Camera Club
3rd John Hooton Mallow Camera Club
Birds or Animals:
1st Paddy Feen Mallow Camera Club
2nd Cora McCarthy Dunmanway
3rd Jeremy Kingston Mallow Camera Club
Nature:
1st Jeremy Kingston Mallow Camera Club
2nd Jeremy Kingston Mallow Camera Club
3rd Paddy Feen Mallow Camera Club
Black & White:
1st John Hooton Mallow Camera Club
2nd John Hooton Mallow Camera Club
3rd Brid Coakley Mallow Camera Club
Best Overall Colour:
John Hooton Mallow Camera Club
Best Overall Black & White:
John Hooton Mallow Camera Club

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.