Photo of the month (2010)

Rules & Themes

• January 27th      ”Winter”
• February 24th      ”Night Shots”
• March 24th      ”Still Life”
• April 21st      “Portraits”
• May 19th      ”Wildlife/Flora/Fauna”
• June 30th      ”Macro”
• July 28th      ”Action”
• Aug 25th      ”Landscapes”
• Sept 22nd      ”Reflections”
• Oct 27th      ”Black & White”

General rules

• Points for 1st 10
• Points for 2nd 8
• Points for 3rd 7
• Points for entering 4
• Print size 8X6 only (cd’s,lap tops usb sticks no longer accepted)
• League table to be posted on line as a private viewing only
• One print per person
• 1st,2nd & 3rd winning prints to be left behind so that they can be scanned and posted on the front page of the club web site, they will be returned at the next available meeting
• Prints can be given to other members in the event that you can not attend a meeting

Prizes will be presented at our awards night in December

1st prize will be a framed & signed Mike Brown print 

Results of internal competition 2009

Category A winner: Dominic Reddin

Category B winner: Con Murphy

Category C winner: Anilkumar

Photographer of the year:    1st Dominic Reddin    2nd Anilkumar     3rd Derek Traynor

Photograph of the Year 2009; Dominic Reddin

Internal Competition 25th Nov

Our internal competition this year will be run over one night only. Two members of Mullingar Camera Club will judge all images. Bob Morrison and another member of their club will judge on the night. Please have your images ready for 7.30pm so that the judges will have as long as is possible to view all the prints. If you haven’t got your competition letter yet please contact Dom on the night.

Please have all your images correctly lettered and numbered,  you may require a felt tip marker for this. Have your i.d as clear as is possible on the back of your print. Remember the max size is A3 and the min is A4, the border on your mount should not exceed 3 inches.

Best of luck to all.

Anilkumar, Silver medal winner in the monochrome section, sheild

Anilkumar Won the Silver medal in the Sheild

Congratulations to Anilkumar for winning the Silver medal in the national shield competition. Anil won his silver medal in the black and white section. A big well done from all the members

Internal Competition 25th November

Doors open 7.30pm, please have your prints in at 7.30, so that they can be organised and the judges have an extra few minutes to view them. Please insure that you have your prints ready with your letter on the back and each print numbered. Judging should be finished just before 10pm. If it is your first time to enter the competition please note that you are not allowed to make comments from the floor about how your prints are being marked. Bob Morrison and another member of  Mullingar Camera Club will be on hand to judge all prints.  Bob is a very fair judge and each print will be judged on it’s merrits regardless of subject or style.

IPF National Shield

Programme of events as per www.irishphoto.ie

9am-10am Venue open to hang panel

10am-12.30pm Venue closed for judges to view all panels

12.30pm-2pm Lunch

2pm-3pm Venue reopens for judges comments on panels and results

3.30pm-4pm Launch of IPF yearbook

4pm Take down panel

Full directions to the venue at www.irishphoto.ie

Internal Competition 2009

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September 2009 Black & White Competition winner

Congratulations Anilkumar for winning the Black & White Competition September 2009

Congratulations

Congratulations to Noel Coss on his win in the Aon bikecare skerries 100 amateur photo competition. Noels photo was chosen over all the others and he wins a weekend away for himself and his wife Ellen .Well done Noel keep up all the good work . Noel has worked hard at his photography and its good to see one of our club members rewarded for his efforts.

National Shield 2009 14th /15th of November

The club are trying to get a panel of images ready for this event. Any member that has not got a distinction can enter images so will members new and old start bringing in photos so we can gather them and start to make up the two panels . One panel will be in colour and the second will be black and white. We entered the shield last year and did quite well but with the standard of the images coming into the club we know we can improve on this.This is a great chance to show our work and to judge our work against other clubs.So please start bringing in photos as soon as possible .

August 2009 Sport competition winner

July 2009 Still life competition winner

Meeting 26th August 09

Our meeting tonight will have two “photo of the month” competitions, first will be july’s, “still life” and the second will be august (this month) the theme “sport”. The theme sport can include not only images of competitors but also images of those who may be a spectator and also items that symbolise sport. Hints include, images of equipment, uniforms and spectators. All images welcome, as they say “if your not in you can’t will”. We hope to have our date for the exhibition announced tonight, from here on in it’s planning and preparation. Doors open at 7.45pm, all are welcome.

June 2009 Landscape competition winner

IPF National Shield

The IPF national shield will take place this year on the weekend of the 14-15 of November. We had a very strong colour panel last year with Con winning a bronze medal for his image of a deer. This year we’d like to enter again so start checking your images, a strong black and white panel can really bring in points.

March 2009 competition winner

The winner of the March 2009 photo of the month competition was Jason Maher.  The subject was Night Shots.  The winning photograph is of the headquarters of Ulster Bank in Dublin, with the River Liffey in the foreground.

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.

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.

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

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 .