Mallow Camera Club

Flickr, one of the biggest social photo sites around has a really useful mapping tool. You can view photos by location and it knows about many places in Ireland! Pay Cork a visit and click on some of the markers. You might recognise some well known spots as well as discovering a few new ones too.

I tried searching for Mallow as well. It is found, but I wasn’t able to link directly to it because the link didn’t work. Search for “Mallow, Cork, Ireland” in the box provided. There are a few photos there for your perusal.

If you’re interested, I wrote a bit more about exploring Cork on my own blog too so take a look there for links to other locations around the country and a few more photos I found around Cork.

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 is proud to host an evening with Des Clinton on Monday next. Des is one of the most distinguished photographers in the country and he will be in Mallow to judge the SACC Annual Competition and Exhibition on Sunday. His talk on Monday night is entitled ‘Best of Irish’ and promises to be a memorable night. Meeting will take place at 8:30 sharp in the Southside Community Centre, Bellvue, Mallow (behind Church of the Resurrection). All welcome, including non members and other clubs. There might even be a cup of tea afterwards.

Some of Des Clinton’s work can be seen in this gallery on the Drogheda Photo Club website.

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.

The club visited Pineapple Studios at the end of October 2006 where we were shown around by Jessica Jones and Tina. There’s a more detailed write-up on inphotos.org but here’s a photo Jessica took of the group. 1-2-3.. Say Cheese!

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.

A few days ago I received the following email from Geoff Pick of the Geograph Project. It may be of interest to members of the club:

Hi

I am one of several thousand amateur photographers who are contributing to the non profit-making Geograph project which aims to obtain at least one representative photograph of every half kilometre square of the British and Irish Ordnance Survey maps. To date we have collected over 250,000 images but are very short of Irish photos with only 7% coverage when compared to 58% of the UK. Can any of your members help?

The link is http://www.geograph.org.uk   Just zoom in on the map !!

Hopefully you will be able to give some publicity to this project which will provide a photographic record of our islands for many years to come

Many thanks

Geoff Pick

I may sign up and submit a few photos but it’s worth noting that images uploaded there will be bound by the terms of a Creative Commons licence. In a nutshell, what that means is that you retain the copyright of any photos you upload, but you must allow commercial usage, usually with an attribution clause so you will be identified as the copyright holder. You can read more about the various licences at creativecommons.org

For more information, please visit the Geograph Site.