Next meeting

Our next meeting is on wednesday 23rd of September where we will have the photo of the month competition .The theme is b&w and the subject is left open so it can contain any subject . We are hoping to have as many photos as is possible so that we can take from these images and add one or two more  for future panels such as the national shield . The photos will be judged on the night . Also we have a work shop on the night on B & W to be given by Dom . The workshop will be on how to take b&w photos and methods of converting from colour to b&w, any members with photos that might want them converted can bring them in on a flash drive / disk and Dom will show us a couple of ways of doing so, we will try and do as many as we can. Doors open at 7.30 on the night for tea and a chat before the meeting starts at 8 o clock .

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 .

Club Exhibition

The next club meeting is on wednesday the 9th of september and we will be trying to find out how many members want to show their work at the club exhibition which will take place around the october bank holiday weekend. For this reason we hope as many members as possible turn up on the night so that we can get an idea of how many members will be interested in putting up their work and a rough guide to the number of images they will have to display.

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.

Glendalough Trip 23rd August

Meet in the upper car park at 10am. To get to this car park continue past the hotel for about 1 and a half miles. The code for the car park used to be 1928, it may still be the same, try 1928a, if these don’t work make sure that you have €4 in coins. For those wanting to car pool, members will be meeting at 8am in the square in Mountmellick. Bring a tripod & a polariser.

Club Outing 23rd of August

Change to the “Ballycotton Outing”, we’re putting this on the back burner for a short while, instead we’ve a trip planned to go to Glendalough for Sunday morning. We’ve a few options here, there is no real sunrise here because this is a valley and the sun has to be pretty high in the sky before it  clears the sides of the valley. One idea would be to meet in the valley just next to Glendalough.This valley is between Brockagh and Camaderry mountains.This is just before the “Vale of Glendasan” and has great opportunities. We could meet here at sunrise, we have fast running water, a waterfall and derelict buildings,(some great black & white possibilities). After this we could go to Glendalough, the lake here is great for reflections and is wide with high steep valley walls. From here for those who want to hike you can make your way to the miners village, this would take about 45mins, again this area is great for black and white. Weather permitting this would be a great area for a grub break. When we finish here for those who are still peckish a restaurant in Laragh serves all day breakfast. We’ll confirm meeting places and times closer to the day, this journey is about 1 and a half hours from the Gandon Inn. For those interested text me @087-9064000

Meeting 29th July

Our meeting on the 29th will consist of two competitions, Landscapes & Still Life, also Ronan who built our web site will call down to help with any problems up loading images to the members gallery, all are welcome, doors open @ 7.45

Meeting 29th of July

Tonights meeting will have two competitions, last months Landscapes and this months Still Life, doors open 7.45pm, new members always welcome

Club Meeting – 24th of June

The photo of the month competition is being judged tonight, theme “Landscapes”. We’re going to devote part of this meeting to uploading some images to the new web site. Those wishing to try this will need to have images and passwords ready. Please remember to resize your images – no bigger than 1024×768.

Doors open from 7.45pm.

Club Outing – 3rd June 2009 – Emo Court

An evening workshop is planned in the grounds of Emo Court.  This location provides a multitude of opportunities from macro to landscape to wildlife.

Approximate meeting time is 7.30pm in the main car park, all welcome.

Weather permitting

Club Meeting – 20th May 2009

The next club meeting on 20th May will consist of a talk on landscape photography by Paul Whiteley and Paul Lalor will discuss preparing images for upcoming competitions such as the shield (and of course our own internal ones).

We will have the judging of this month’s competition also  – the theme being Wildlife/ Flora & Fauna.

Room open at 7.30, tea from 7.45 and the meeting starts at 8pm.

Club Meeting – 6th May 2009

Talk with Bryan O’Brien.

Just a reminder that our meeting on the 6th of May will consist of a visit by Irish Times photographer Bryan O’Brien, he will be on hand to do a talk and show some of his many award winning pictures, all are welcome, talk starts at 8pm sharp, room ready from 7.45m come early for what wll be an enjoyable evening.

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.

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.

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.

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.