Mallow Camera Club

Club members Bríd Coakley and John Hooton both had success at the IPF Nature Finals held in Lucan, Co. Dublin on Sunday last 25 March.  Bríd won her first IPF medal (silver) for coming first in the flora section of the slides competition while John won a bronze medal by coming third, also in the slides competition.   Congratulations to both Bríd and John.

IPF Nature Results 2007

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 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.

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.

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.