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<p>The club got off to a great start at this weekends IPF National Club Finals when club members John Hogan, Bríd Coakley and Morgan O&#8217;Neill all achieved photographic distinctions in the Saturday sitting. John Hogan gained his Licentiateship of the Irish Photographic Federation (LIPF) with a panel of ten colour images, representing a variety of [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Some of these web sites may stretch the definition of &#8220;education&#8221; slightly but even looking at photos is an education if they inspire you. Here are the links I talked about at last night&#8217;s club meeting: Google Reader is a feed reader where you can subscribe to websites that have a feed. See the video [&hellip;]</p>

<p>On Sunday next, March 9th, a number of photographers will meet at The Lough in Cork for a photowalk around this scenic area. I&#8217;ll be there for 3pm and all are welcome to come, no matter what type of camera you have or your skill level. For further details and a map, take a look [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Due to family reasons our special guest Gerrit Groshart, who was due to visit the club on Monday night 10th March, has had to cancel his visit.  Gerrit will not be judging the IPF Natioal Nature Finls on Sunday 9th March either.  Apologies for any inconvenience caused. An alternative item will be included in the club programme. </p>

<p>Theme:  TODAY&#8217;S IRELAND The Irish Examiner has teamed up with Ford to give amateur photographers the chance to win a new model Ford Mondeo Ghia. There are also prizes for under 12 years of age category, and 12 to 18 years of age category. Simply take a photo of anywhere, anything or anyone that you [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Mallow Camera Club members Denise O&#8217;Connor and Seán O&#8217;Riordan travelled to South Africa last November to work with the Niall Mellon Township Trust. Both worked extremely hard but managed to take some photographs to document their experiences on the trip. They presented their shots to Mallow CC on Monday night last, 18th February, which generated [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Mallow Camera Club are delighted to announce that Gerrit Groshart will give a talk to the club on Monday 10th March. Gerrit hails from the Netherlands, has an EFIAP distinction, and is a renowned nature photographer. He will be in Ireland for a short visit which includes judging the IPF Nature Competition in Dublin Zoo [&hellip;]</p>

<p>It has been another great weekend for the club.  Following on from the recent successes in the SACC Nature Competitons, the club and club members have scored more wins over the last few days. On Saturday club members travelled to Dublin to participate in the IPF National Print and Projected Image competition.  Veteran club member John Hooton won a Gold Medal [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Summary notes and links for my talk last night. I&#8217;ll expand a little on this as I find time over the next day or so. Get the GIMP from gimp.org. It&#8217;s a free download. The Windows version weighs in at around 16MB, but it also runs on Mac OS X and Linux. (On Mac OS [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Last December 3rd, ten members of the club travelled up to Cahir to attend the SACC AGM and Print &amp; Slide Competition. The club did very well in the competitions with a number of winners: Colour Print John Hooton Morgan O&#8217;Neill Seán Murphy In the Black and White Print section Sean Murphy came second and [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Last week&#8217;s Patterns Around Us competition was a great success with a good attendance despite the abstract theme. There were a number of categories with winners picked from each category. Members were limited in the number of images they could submit, but as you can see by the results below, some of the same names [&hellip;]</p>

<p>A few days ago I received the following email from Geoff Pick of the Geograph Project. It may be of interest to members of the club: Hi I am one of several thousand amateur photographers who are contributing to the non profit-making Geograph project which aims to obtain at least one representative photograph of every [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The next club competition, &#8220;Patterns Around Us&#8221; will be on Monday, November 27th. The theme of the competition is patterns. There are four sections: Black and white/monochrome print Colour print Slide Digital Images Digital images need to be handed to John Doheny before Thursday the 23rd of November. Bring them along to the meeting next [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Tomorrow is the big day when photography clubs around Ireland descend on Portlaoise for the Irish Photographic Federation&#8217;s National Shield Competition. This year Dunamaise Photographic Society is hosting the competition. It&#8217;s on in the Heritage Hotel, Portlaoise but if you don&#8217;t know your way there a map of the town is online too. Mallow Camera [&hellip;]</p>

<p>This is a test message to fill up some space on the Mallow Camera Club website. There is also a small gallery but it&#8217;s all just work in progress right now.</p>