This is Mallow Camera Club’s most prestigious competition of our annual season, and this years competition has not disappointed, with some fantastic talent on show. Normally this would be a print competition with 4 mono and 4 Colour prints entered, however, this year we had to yield to COVID and make it a digital only competition. This resulted in the biggest entry MCC have ever had for POTY, with 28 entries. Fantastic result, but a lot more work for the judges, with 224 images to judge.

We were seriously privileged to have had three top class judges to judge our POTY this year our judges were:

Ann Francis FIPF EFIAP/g from Cork Camera Group

Diane Seddon ARPS CPAGB BPE* from the UK

Gabriel O’ Shaughnessy MFIAP FIPF EFIAP/g from Drogheda Camera Club

Ann, Diane and Gabriel put in a huge effort in judging and providing scores and comments on all the images and panels, especially when you consider we had 28 panels comprised of 224 images to review. Their feedback was very much appreciated by each member of MCC.

A huge amount of work has gone on in the background with the Zoom presentation, Thanks to everyone involved, a huge Thanks to our Comp. Secretary Neil O’ Mullane and Assist. Comp. Secretary Lisa Egan who have put in absolutely trojan work in managing and administering the competition.

Congrats to all the winners and to everybody who went to the trouble of creating compiling and submitting such excellent work.

Photographer of the Year 2019-2020 Results

Grade 1 Mono Panel
1st: Ann O’ Mara
2nd: Brian Power
3rd: Anne Buckley

Grade 1 Colour Panel
1st: Anne Buckley
2nd: Ann O’ Mara
3rd: Brian Power

Grade 1: Highest Scoring Image: Ann O’ Mara

Grade 1 Photographer of the Year
1st: Ann O’ Mara
2nd: Anne Buckley
3rd: Brian Power

Grade 2 Mono Panel
1st: Kieran Cogan
2nd: Fred Ward
3rd: Peter Tips

Grade 2 Colour Panel
1st: Kieran Cogan
2nd: Peter Tips
3rd: Jason McAree

Grade 2 Highest Scoring Image: “Boxer Sparring”: Fred Ward

Grade 2 Photographer of the Year
1st: Kieran Cogan
2nd: Fred Ward
3rd: Peter Tips

Grade 3 Mono Panel
1st: Justyna Trzesicka LIPF
2nd: Phillip Kerins LIPF
3rd: Kieran Mangan LIPF

Grade 3 Colour Panel
1st: Justyna Trzesicka LIPF
2nd: Phillip Kerins LIPF
3rd: Julia Trzesicka LIPF

Grade 3 Highest Scoring Image: “A Man and his Camera” Justyna Trzesicka LIPF

Grade 3 Photographer of the Year
1st: Justyna Trzesicka LIPF
2nd: Phillip Kerins LIPF
3rd: Julia Trzesicka LIPF

Grade 4 Mono Panel
1st: Pat O’ Meara LIPF
2nd: Janeusz Trzesicki AIPF
3rd: Viv Buckley AIPF AFIAP

Grade 4 Colour Panel
1st: Pat O’ Meara LIPF
2nd: Janeusz Trzesicki AIPF
3rd: Jim Mc Sweeney LIPF

Grade 4 Highest Scoring Image: “The Sunflower” Pat O’ Meara LIPF

Grade 4 Photographer of the Year
1st: Pat O’ Meara LIPF
2nd: Janeusz Trzesicki AIPF
3rd: Viv Buckley AIPF EFIAP

Overall Winners

Overall Highest Scoring Mono Panel
1st: Pat O’ Meara LIPF
2nd: Justyna Trzesicka LIPF
3rd: Janusz Trzesicki AIPF

Overall Highest Scoring Colour Panel
1st: Pat O’ Meara LIPF
2nd: Janusz Trzesicki AIPF
3rd: Jim Mc Sweeney LIPF

Overall Photographer of the Year 2019-2020
1st: Pat O’ Meara LIPF
2nd: Janusz Trzesicki AIPF
3rd: Justyna Trzesicka LIPF