Early morning preening

Taken at Emo Court:

A proud moment

Comments and criticisms welcome:

Some nature shots

Comments and criticisms welcome:

Photo Fest

Irish Photo Fest 2009 is taking place in the Crowne Plaza Conference Centre near Dublin Airport this coming Sunday from 10am.  Entry is €10, but all seminars are free once you’ve entered.  There will be a range of exhibitors displaying their goods and seminars go on all day, including some from Guy Gowan and DML.  More details at www.photofestireland.com

Rush Hour

Taken on the Aran Islands last summer:

Spring in the air

Spring is in the air – a great time for getting out there to take photographs!

Comments – good or bad – appreciated.  Thanks!

National Club Championships

The venue for the national club championships has been anounced.  They are to be held in the University of Limerick CSIS rooms on April 24th and 25th.

Stephen Davison – road race photographer

Legendary road race photographer Stephen Davison has done a piece for the BBC where he talks about his life as a motorcycle road race photographer.

You can see it if you click on the following link:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/nw200/watch/galleries.shtml?v=davison512

IPF Nature Finals

If anyone is going to the IPF Nature Finals on Sunday March 22nd, note there’s a free admission voucher for the zoo that can be downloaded from the Irish Photographic Federation website.

A selection of images

This was taken at the Miner’s Village in Glendalough:

This was taken in the Aran islands last summer:

This one I call “Tyres – waste or image?”:

Comments welcome!

Fireworks

I was emailed this link from the Canon website about advice on how to take shots of fireworks. Feel free to check it ou:

http://www.iop.ie/phototips/fireworks.htm

There is also a competition on the Canon website where the theme is the St. Patricks Festivities if anyone is interested in entering:

http://pix.ie/group/stpatricksfestival

Club Meeting – 25th March 2009

Don’t forget that the next meeting will be on Wednesday the 25th of March.

No agenda has been set so far, but the judging for picture of the month will take place.  This months theme is “night shots”.

As usual, the meeting will be held at 8pm in the MDA Centre in Mountmellick.  New photographers always welcome.

Steam Train

Just thought I’d post this photograph I took of a steam train:

Club Meeting – 11th March 2009

Dom, our chairman, will be away for Wednesday’s meeting so the meeting will be chaired by the assistant chair Paul Whiteley.

We will be looking again at the design of the web site.  Paul Lalor will bring in his laptop and we will be looking at other club web sites with a view to taking the best from each site and applying them to our own site.

For those who wish to try and upload pictures and are having trouble doing so we would like you to bring in cd’s, memory card or sticks and we will try and demonstrate how to upload a picture.

Some pictures of mine

This one needs some work in the darkroom:

What do you think?

Morning Glory

I was asked to put this photo online for club members to see – it is the photo that was awarded a bronze medal at the IPF shield last November. This image was also used in the Daily Mirror calender 2010

All the credit goes to Paul Lalor, as without his work there would have been no entry from the club and so no medal.  He even named the shot so thanks again Paul!

Club Meeting – 6th May 2009

Bryan O’Brien, the Irish Times photo journalist will be paying us a visit and giving us a talk about his career and he will be showing a number of his photographs on the night.

We will be starting this meeting at 8pm sharp but the room will be ready from 7.45 for light refreshments, all are invited for what will be an enjoyable evening.

March 2009 photo of the month

For members not at the last meeting this month’s theme for photo of the month is “Night shots”.

Any photo for judging should be in on the night of Wednesday, 25th of March.  There is a small monthly prize for the winner and the winning photo along with the other 11 monthly winners will be judged at the end of the year for photo of the year.

The prizes for this have been set at 100 euro for 1st prize 60 euro 2nd prize and 40 euro for 3rd prize .

Club Meeting – 11th March 2009

At the next meeting members will have their last chance to enter in their photos for the panel to judge them for the league.

Bring along all photos for judging and any members who may be looking for advice or a critique are encouraged to seek it.