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<p>Bring your camera gear &#8211; ask any questions you&#8217;d like to know about composition, focussing, lighting, technical stuff, useful or useless accessories. Anything really&#8230; Bring along your photos for advice and critiquing in small discussion groups of four or five people. Ask questions about anything you&#8217;d like to know or have doubts about. Don&#8217;t forget, we [&hellip;]</p>

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<p>Meetings of Mallow Camera Club will be held in the Mercy Centre, Mallow, from now until the end of May 2013. Training for novice members is from 8-8.30 every Monday night, followed by the usual club meeting. Our speaker on 8th April will be Bill Power, who will present a portfolio of his work including [&hellip;]</p>

<p>It&#8217;s a competition night with the theme &#8216;Broken&#8217;. Members can submit three print and three projected images. These can be brought in on the night. Subjects for the theme &#8216;Broken&#8217; could include glass, windows, old houses, closed businesses, broken bulbs, fallen trees, eggs, potholes, death, rusting cars, etc. One website defines broken as &#8220;reduced to fragments, not functioning [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Members are invited to our practical photography skills workshop which is being held in Killarney on Monday next. Anyone interested in traveling is invited to be at The Arches Bar in Mallow by 10am (if you wish to car share) or meet at Molly Dancy&#8217;s Pub at Mucross at 11am. We will be taking pictures on [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Mallow Camera Club came a very creditable 40th out of the 147 Clubs who entered from around the world. The International Federation of Photographic Art _____________________________________________________________ www.fiap.net Mallow Camera Club The following club members were also awarded an Acceptation. FLYNN JOHN    Driftwood. CURTIN NEILY      Anita O&#8217;NEILL MORGAN  Nervous girl BUCKLEY VIVIAN     The house O&#8217;NEILL [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Next Monday night is the first night of the club&#8217;s new Three-Month League. The theme is &#8216;Still Life&#8217;. Members may enter three projected images and three prints (colour and/or monochrome). Entries may be sent via email to mallowcameraclubinfo@gmail.com or can be brought in on the night of the competition. Email entries must arrive not later [&hellip;]</p>

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<p>Hello everyone,  I am pleased to be able to tell you that entries are now open for the Regional Nature Competition run by the Southern Association of Camera Clubs. This event is being held in the Newpark Hotel, Kilkenny on Sunday 27th January. Our friends in Kilkenny Photographic Society have kindly arranged to host the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The current programme is now up on the taskbar above these comments. Browse to see what is coming up for the rest of the club year.</p>

<p>The annual SACC Nature competition will take place next Sunday the 15th of January 2012. There are, unlike all other competitions, only two categories in it, i.e colour prints and colour projected images. This years competition is being hosted by Limerick and District Photographic Society it will be held in The Kilmurry Lodge Hotel, Castletroy, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>On Monday the 12th of December club members will be meeting outside the Opera House in Cork at 7pm. The group will then spread around the the city taking night shots. A great opportunity for new members to learn how to capture night images. Also a good chance for some of the more experienced members to [&hellip;]</p>

<p>&nbsp; Mallow pulled out all the stops last Sunday the 22nd of November in t he SACC Print and Projected Images competition. With a huge turnout from all over Munster and South Leinster, Mallow were amongst the winners in all the major categories.   &nbsp; The first category &#8216;Color Prints&#8217; saw our own John Hooton taking [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Mallow put forward two panels in the Shield competition last Sunday the 13th of November. Our chairman Barry Linehan and our competition secretary Neilly Curtin travelled to Ballyfermot early Sunday morning to put up the panels. Neilly also roped in some members of his family to help hang the images. Mallow put in a strong [&hellip;]</p>

<p>John Hooton  has once again proved that he is among the top international photographers. At the 7th Salon Mondail of Photography De Limours John took the top prize in the colour section and in doing so won a F.I.A.P. Gold Medal for his panel of four images. Nearly 1,000 photographers entered this competition with only [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The annual SACC Print and Projected images competition will take place on Sunday the 20th of November in the Kilcoran Lodge, Cahir,  Co. Tipperary. The competition is a qualifier for the annual competition. There are three section, Colour Print, Mono (black/white) print and  Projected Images. Each competitor can enter 3 images in each section. The [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Congratulations to everyone who entered the club competition last Monday. The mono (black/white) competition was a 3 way tie between Rodney O&#8217;Callaghan, Denis O&#8217;Leary and Vivian Buckley. The colour competition was a 2 way tie between Paki O Donoghue and Vivian Buckley, while Rodney O Callaghan and James Heffernan renewed their intense rivalry battling it out for third [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Weather permitting we will have a night shoot on Monday 21st November at Bridgetown Abbey in Castletownroche. Photographers should bring tripods if they have one, warm clothes and it would be no harm to bring a plastic bag to put over your camera if we have a sudden shower. Make sure your camera batteries are [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Morgan who has been consistently been amongst the top competitors in recent years continues apace  in the Irish Met.Society  national photographic competition. Morgan&#8217;s image of &#8220;Black Valley House&#8221; achieving 3rd place and will form part of the exhibition at the National Botanic Gardens from the 10th -18th November. Congratulations and keep up the good work. Congratulations [&hellip;]</p>

<p>First there will be no meeting this bank holiday Monday (31/10/2011), as is the norm for bankholidays. The following Monday the 7th of November we will have a change to the calendar, and there will be an open competition for all members. There will be 3 catogories, colour print, mono (black &amp; white) print and [&hellip;]</p>