Mallow Camera Club

Hi All

This years creative digital competition will be held in Late September and will be hosted by Waterford Camera Club.
Details of the exact date and location will follow in due course.

Creative Digital Photography is defined as follows:
This is the anything goes imagery. You may wish to remove unwanted elements of the original picture e.g leaves, branches etc., add creative blurring or use any of the other creative filters available. Your images may be composites and may be made any way you wish. They may be images produced by digital capture or on film or via a scanner but the final image must be generated digitally.

Can you please promote this competition amongst your members and post it on your websites.

Paul Maher Secretary SACC

Brid Coakley and John Hooton To Exhibit in Dublin!

Following the huge success of their joint exhibition in Mallow Library last January Brid Coakley and John Hooton have been invited by Dublin Camera Club to exhibit in the Dublin Photographic Centre, Camden Street from 14th June 2011.  The exhibition will run for four weeks.  There will be a total of over 30 framed images and will show a selection of both Brid’s and John’s latest work.

Tony Worobiec,Brid Coakly and John Hooton.

On Monday 9th of May,members will meet Outside the Protestant Church in Doneraile at 7.15 pm.

Please make an effort to attend,the craic is always good and you have your last chance to get your images in for the POTY 2011.

Mallow Camera Club Brings home The Rose Bowl

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

Overall winner, Micheal Howard, UL Photo society

Prints
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1st Micheal Howard, UL Photo society
2nd Noel Browne – Waterford Camera Club
3rd Patricia Ronan – Malahide

Projected
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1st Des Connors, Mid Louth
2nd Terry Mc Parland, Waterford
3rd N Whitty, Cork Camera Club

Best Insect – Michael Linehan, Celbridge Camera Club
Best Flora & Fauna – Jim Freeman, Thurles
Best Irish Nature/Mammal – Andrew Kelly, Navan
Best Bird – Ger Roche, Listowel

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Dear All,
Sean Casey, FIPF, MFIAP, EFIAP, will be retiring from the IPF National Council after over thirty years of working to ensure the success and direction of the organisation. He has held the role of National Secretary for many of those years and is also a past President. The IPF will be recognising this achievement at a special ceremony, coordinated by Deirdre Gaffney, in the Creggan Court Hotel, to be held on Saturday the 16th of April, just prior to dinner, at the National Club Finals weekend in Athlone. We would welcome all those who know Sean and the contribution he has made to Irish photography to join with us in celebrating this milestone.

Yours sincerely,

Mark Sedgwick FIPF EFIAP ESFIAP

President

Mary Magner, Mallow Camera Club was awarded a Licenteship Distinction from the Irish Photographic Federation recently.  Mary had to produce a panel of ten high quality images and present them to the judges at the National Distinctions Weekend held in Thurles.  The panel was a mixture of images from different areas, travel, portrait, landscape and interior.  There were seven judges on the distinction panel and they voted unanimously in favour of Mary’s panel.
Mr. Mark Sedgwick, President of The Irish Photographic Federation presented Mary with her certificate at a ceremony in Mallow Camera Club.  Mary now has the honour of joining other members of the club who may use the letters L.I.P.F. after their name.  Well done to Mary on her great success.
The camera club continues to celebrate its silver jubilee and further details can be had from their website.

Hi All

The start time for the Anne Greiner and Rod Wheelans event has had to be brought forward by 15 minutes as we need to finish at 9:30 as the premises has to be closed by 10pm.

It now starts at 7:45 sharp you would need to take your seats by 7:30.

There will be around a dozen tickets available on the door on a first come first served basis at €7.50 each

The event now starts at 7:45 sharp

Can the clubs receiving this mail please forward it to your members.

Paul Maher Secretary Cork Camera Group