Mallow Camera Club

We are grateful to Mark Condren, PPAI photojournalist of the year for the past two years, for providing such an extremely interesting, informative, entertaining and thought provoking presentation at the Hibernian Hotel, Mallow on Monday 23^rd January. He showed over one hundred images covering  a wide range of topics and took questions from the large attendance on life as a professional photojournalist. He kindly provided a signed copy of his best seller  publication “The Guards” for the raffle. Thanks to all who turned up on the night. A total of 500 euro  was raised for Temple Street Children’s Hospital. Also thanks to all those members who worked behind the scenes to make it such a successful evening.

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.

Denis Wheleahan, Irish Co-Ordinator for P.S.A. in Ireland presenting John with his award

“Sand Shape”

“Coastal Edge”

John Hooton of Mallow Camera Club has once again achieved international acclaim when he took two of the main awards at the Tallaght Photographic Society International Salon of Photographic Art. In the Colour Print Landscape section John took the Photographic Society of America P.S.A. Silver medal for his print titled ‘Sand Shape”. The image was taken on Fermoyle Beach on the Dingle peninsula. He also won a much coveted F.I.A.P. (International Federation of Photographic Art) Blue Badge Award for the most accepted images in the exhibition.
Also in the Colour Print Landscape section John won a P.S.A. Ribbon and a F.I.A.P. Ribbon.
This is another major achievement for John. All images can be seen on John’s website www.john-hooton.com
As usual Mallow Camera Club meets every Monday night in the Southside Community Centre and everyone is welcome to attend.

The annual SACC Nature competition will take place next Sunday the 15th of January 2012.
There are, unlike all other competitions, only two categories in it, i.e colour prints and colour projected images.
This years competition is being hosted by Limerick and District Photographic Society it will be held in The Kilmurry Lodge Hotel, Castletroy, Limerick
For directions see: http://www.kilmurrylodge.com/location.html

The timetable on the day is as follows

9am to 11am Registration
12am to 1pm Judges Preview of images
1am to 2pm Lunch
2pm Judging commences.

l to r , Barry , Jim ,Rodney, John, Margaret ,Neilly ,Terry and Bill

The club outing took place yesterday 28 of december in dingle under the guidance of John Flynn. Eight  members braved the weather conditions and travelled down . We had an early start leaving mallow from the arches at 6am . We visited cappagh,clogher,smerwick and kinard beaches. The weather proved challenging but also provided some great oppurtunities for good images to be taken

Events of the day.
Jim got wet, [again], Jim got a headache, Neilly forgot his wellies and there were reports that chairman Barry Linnehan was seen wringing out his socks .

All in all a great day was had , we had good craic and banter and everyone was glad they braved the weather.

Also a big thanks to john flynn for organising the day

The club outing to Dingle scheduled for Wednesday 28 will go ahead as planned . We will depart from the arches mallow at 6am sharp.

The weather forecast looks ok with a few showers forecast

A change of clothes ,wellies ,umbrella and a packed lunch would be a good idea to bring with you.

We will be leaving at 6am sharp so if you cannot make it or want to meet up later in Dingle you can ring John or Rodney

John Flynn 087/6528801
Rodney O Callaghan 086/8487875

A new programme has finalised for the coming year , to view the programme click on the relevant tab in the bar overhead

Club member Neilly Curtin has hit the headlines of some of the major tabloids in the country with pictures of  a crash  he took over the weekend.Neilly heard about this crash early Sunday morning and emailed into the papers, both images were the main photos on the front page of the Examiner yesterday, the Echo had them yesterday evening and the Star had them today. Th Corkman are running with it also. Thankfully nobody was injured in the accident.

Neilly said that he was delighted to get such great coverage with the media and that the images had such an impact.

Well done Neilly

Unfortunatley due to a bad weather forecast tomorrow nights  shoot in cork city has been cancelled. There will be no meeting on monday night. Our next meeting will be on January 9th 2012 in the club room 

 There will be an end of year outing to kerry on the 28/29  of december with John Flynn , details to be finalised and posted on the site,anyone interested contact john on 0876528801.

Dont forget our christmas social evening in the Hibernian Hotel on next thursday 15 December at 8pm, everyone is welcome and bring your partners too

On Monday the 12th of December club members will be meeting outside the Opera House in Cork at 7pm. The group will then spread around the the city taking night shots.

A great opportunity for new members to learn how to capture night images. Also a good chance for some of the more experienced members to show off. Make sure you dress up warmly, bring a tripod if you have one and a plastic bag to pull over your camera in case it rains.

Also on the Thursday the 15th of December the club night out will take place in the Hibernian Hotel, Mallow. All club members and their partner/partners are welcome to come. The meal cost €19,95 for one or €39.90 for two. We will be meeting up around 8.02pm. Hope to see you there.