Mallow Camera Club

Last week’s Patterns Around Us competition was a great success with a good attendance despite the abstract theme. There were a number of categories with winners picked from each category. Members were limited in the number of images they could submit, but as you can see by the results below, some of the same names come up again and again.

Print Colour

1. Sean Murphy
2. Morgan O Neill
3. Karen Fleming

Print Colour Novice

1. Morgan O Neill
2. Karen Fleming
3. Eamonn Looney

Print Black & White

1. Morgan O Neill
2. Sean Murphy
3. Sean Murphy

Slides

1. John Hooton
2. Jerome Coakley
3. Brid Coakley

Digital Images

1. David Lavery
2. David Lavery
3. Brid Coakley

Digital Images Novice

1. Donncha O Caoimh
2. Paddy Fennessy
3. Paddy Fennessy

You can find Donncha O Caoimh’s entries on his blog, and other entries will eventually make their way to the gallery here.

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.