Fungi Family By Bill Power

The SACC  Nature competition was held recently in the kilmurry Lodge in Limerick.  The  competition is a regional qualifier for the national nature  finals.   Mallow had a strong contingent of members present on the day ,12 in all, with everybody getting  at least an image or more through to the finals.

Bill Power kept the flag flying for Mallow  when his image  ‘Fungi Family’ won the ‘Best Flora’ category. Another image by Bill  ‘Kingfisher on Green’ was one of 8 photos to get a score of 18 in the printed section, but was pipped at the post. Well done Bill.

We wll also do a demonstration on uploading images to the club website

New galleries will be set up by the web administrator’s when your email address is recieved. Please forward your email to rodneyocallaghan@hotmail.com or jh74@live.ie

Once you recieve your username and password please follow the online instructions at the following link http://mallowcameraclub.org/how-to-upload-images/

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.

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''

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 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 judges were picked from the top shelf , Kevin Adlard FRPS, EFIAP www.kevinadlard.com
Rikki O’Neill FRPS, MPAGB www.rikoart.co.uk
Freddy Van Gilbergen AFIAP. Director of the FIAP Distinction Service.

The standard was exceptionally very very  high.

Mallow members done very well in the results.

In the mono section Brid coakley took the Silver medal above some very tough competition.

In the projected images John Hooton took the Bronze medal , Morgan O’Neill  won an Honourable Mention.

Lukasz Sadlak took the bronze in the intermediate section with Pakki O’Donoghue taken bronze in the colour print intermediate.

John Hooton took the theme medal for the best coastal landscape in the colour secton.

Overall it was a very sucessful weekend in Athlone.

Brids silver medal

John Hootons bronze medal

Morgan O'Neills honourable mention

John Hootons best costal image

LUKASZ SADLAKS,GHOST SHIP.

Pakki O'Donoghue's bronze medal image.

http://resultsof2ndgdpc.giadinhphoto.com/result-gdpc4.html

Minard Castle winner of a FIAP ribbon in Vietnam.