The club would like to offer sympathy to the family of Deborah McDowall (nee Lysaght). Deborah passed away on September 1st at Marymounth Hospice Cork. She was an active member of the club for many years and took part in many club outings and competitions. She will be sadly missed by all club members.
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The following text is courtesy of the ipf website
Closing Date for Tallaght Photographic Society’s 18th International Photographic Salon of Photographic Art.
IPF Gold Medals will be awarded for the best landscape and sports images in the competition.
This years event has approval from the Photographic Society of America this is the first salon in Ireland to have this kind of approval.
You can get further information and download an entry form from the TPS website.international-entry-form1
Attention all you flower photographers, there is a photographic competition on the Derek Mooney Radio Show.Please copy this link for details
http://www.rte.ie/radio/mooneygoeswild/competitions/garden_heaven.html
As we all know there are a few avid photographers within the club with strong images of flowers.Best of luck to all
The 2008 Irish photographic finals took place over the weekend, Thurles Camera Club hosted the event at the Tipperary Institute which proved to be a very good venue. Mallow Camera Club qualified for the event earlier this year by winning the SACC competion. The club displayed two panels, a monochrome and a colour print panel which was made up of ten images in each panel.
Of the 19 finalist Mallow Camera Club finished in fifth place overall behind the winners Dundalk Photographic Society. Mallow’s Monochrome panel finished in third place, while the colour panel finished in a disappointing ninth place. This result came as a surprise to many as Mallow have always been very strong in the colour print section.
The highlight of the final day was Sean Murphy’s silver medal in the Monochrome print section. The three distinguished judges from Northern Ireland, the UK & Turkey spoke highly of Sean’s image which portrayed difficult rural living conditions in Ireland.
All panels will be displayed at the next club meeting on 28 April 2008.
Due to family reasons our special guest Gerrit Groshart, who was due to visit the club on Monday night 10th March, has had to cancel his visit. Gerrit will not be judging the IPF Natioal Nature Finls on Sunday 9th March either.
Apologies for any inconvenience caused.
An alternative item will be included in the club programme.
Mallow Camera Club members Denise O’Connor and Seán O’Riordan travelled to South Africa last November to work with the Niall Mellon Township Trust. Both worked extremely hard but managed to take some photographs to document their experiences on the trip. They presented their shots to Mallow CC on Monday night last, 18th February, which generated a lot of debate and interest in the project.
Seán has produced photobooks of his images and supplied photographs to the trust for use in publicity, Christmas cards etc.
Niall Mellon is travelling to New York this weekend to meet Archbishop Desmond Tutu. During their meeting Niall will present the Archbishop with one of Seán’s photographs (above) overprinted with the pledge to build 7,000 homes in 2008.
Congratulation and well done to Seán.
Click for more information on the Niall Mellon Township trust.
Seán is travelling to South Africa again later this year. If you want to sponsor him he can be contacted at 086 2579830 or via email at sean@NOSPAMrota.ie (remove “NOSPAM” to email him).
All photographs in Mallow Camera Club’s Annual Exhibition held last September were donated by members for sale in aid of the Niall Mellon Trust, raising over €3,000 – Approximately the cost of building one house.
On Sunday the 27th January the 2008 SACC Nature Photography Competition was hosted by Limerick & District Camera Club. The competition was judged in two categories, Flora and a Fauna. Entries consitsted of colour prints and slides from members of SACC clubs.
Colman Culhane was successful in two categories. Coleman won best slide the Flora section with a lovely fungi image. He also picked up a silver medal in the colour print section of the flora category.
New members Jeremy Kingston & Paddy Feen both picked up silver medals in the slide section of the flora and fauna respectively.
Well done to all who participated.
The next club open competition is the IPF National Print and Projected Image to be held in Dublin on the 9th of February. On Sunday 10th February the SACC Annual Competition & Exhibition will be hosted by Limerick Camera Club. This is a qualifying round for the national photographic finals which will be held in April 2008.
It was another successful day for Mallow Camera Club at the SACC Print and Slide competition held in Clonmel on Sunday 09 December. There were 234 entries for the SACC competition which included three sections, Slide, Colour Print, and Monochrome Print.
John Hooton won the Seamus Scullane Memorial Trophy for the second year running for the best image in the competition. John also won the best slide image of the day for haunting image of a remote river in the Kerry mountains. John was also highly commended for a beach shot taken in Kerry. Morgan O’Neill received second place in the Colour Print (open section) for a dramatically lit abandoned house interior. Bríd Coakley was also highly commended for a low vantage point image of water rushing around a beach rock.
John Hogan (Club Chairman) was delighted when he came first in both the Colour Prints and the Mono Prints for the novice section. This was a terrific result for John as there was a very large entry. John Hogan’s colour print was of a spider guarding his web, while his mono print was a dramatic portrait of his daughter. Well done John.
This is Morgan O’Neill’s second prize within a few weeks as he picked up a first place prize in the recent Drogheda Photographic Club’s open competition in the colour section.
John Doheny also picked up a prize in Drogheda for best Mono print of a Portuguese beach. Both John Doheny and Morgan O’Neill fought off very strong competition to recieve these awards.
Well done to all prize winners.
The next competition for Mallow Camera club Members is the SACC Print & Slide Competition to be held in Clonmel Park Hotel on Sunday 9th of December.Prints and Slides can be brought to the venue on the day from 12.30pm.So fellow members please prepare your files/negs/slides and have them printed in time for this event.
Also its only 2 days left until the closing date for the Togher international Photographic Competition
so please get your entries in if you have forgotten about it.
The 16th year of the The Togher International Festival in upon us again.
The Themes for Experienced Amateurs and Professional Photographers are as follows
1. My Own Country. 2. Children. 3. Animals. 4. Celebrations 5. Sport. 6. My Favourite Snapshot.
The entries can be delivered to the following
Denis Mc Sweeny Photo Shop Oliver Plunket Street & Merchant’s Quay
Walshe’s Pharmacy The Lough Shopping Centre (next to SUPER VALU)
Togher Pharmacy Tramore Road, Togher
Or Post To :
Togher Festival Of Amateur Photography 2007
Eanriss 104 Walsh Road Togher Cork 4
Closing Date is November 21st 2007
See entry form attached
Entry form
