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Mallow Camera Club held the live judging of its February League competition via Zoom. The competition theme was “Creative,” with each entrant submitting three digital images.

Mallow Camera Club announced the winners of its Photographer of the Year 2020-2021 Competition. The competition, which is the Club’s premier competition of the season, attracted a substantial entry with competitors submitting a panel of three monochrome images and three colour digital images. The images are judges individually, rather than as a panel.

Mallow Camera Club held its second League competition of the 2021-2022 season in October. The competition theme was “Monochrome” with each entrant submitting three digital images.

Mallow Camera Club held a Charity Night on 14th June 2021 in aid of Special Friends, Mitchelstown.  The event was held over Zoom, with an excellent attendance of members.

This was our last League competition of the 2020-2021 Season.

Theme: Open

Judge: Bob Given MPAGB EFIAP EPSA FBPE; a member of Catchlight Camera club.

Theme: Open

Mallow Camera Club Member, Viv Buckley, Achieves Fellowship of the Irish Photographic Federation

Viv Buckley, a long-standing member of Mallow Camera Club, is celebrating the award of the highest distinction that the Irish Photographic Federation (IPF) awards, i.e. Fellowship of the Irish Photographic Federation (FIPF).

Judging of entries and the announcement of awards for Mallow Camera Club’s Image of the year 2020-2021 Competition took place on 1st February 2021 via Zoom. This year’s competition also included the inaugural John Doheny Perpetual Trophy.

The theme for November was “Open Mono” meaning any genre, while complying fully with COVID- 19 restrictions. The competition was judged by the well known and distinguished photographer Dan Geary AIPF from Cork Camera Group. 

Theme “My Homeland”

It is with great sadness we announce the passing our our esteemed colleague and Honorary Member of Mallow Camera Club, John Doheny. He was a man of great integrity and a gentleman in every way and a true advocate for Irish Photography.

Our April competition marks the end of our League competition for the 2019-2020 season, which comprises of a total of seven monthly competitions. There is a huge amount of administration in a competition like this and MCC’s Competition Secretary and Assistant Competition Secretary, Neil O’ Mullane and Lisa Egan did a tremendous job on all our Monthly Competitions during the 2019- 2020 Season.

Mallow Camera Club are delighted to announce that we had 4 Club Members , Justyna Trzesicka , Philip Kerins, Vincent Higgins and Kieran Mangan successful in their LIPF Distinctions which were held in Portlaoise on February 29th 2020. we are very proud of your brilliant achievement. Please find their LIPF Panels and enjoy the photos.

Mallow Camera Club are delighted to announce that we had  4 Club Members , Justyna Trzesicka , Philip Keirns, Vincent Higgins and Kieran Mangan successful in their LIPF Distinctions which were held in Portlaoise on February 29th 2020. we are very proud of your brilliant achievement. Please find their LIPF Panels and enjoy the photos.

The results of the January 2020 monthly league competition were announced at our weekly meeting on Monday 3rd February 2020. The theme for the competition was “Emotion”, with each entrant submitting 4 digital entries.

The theme of the competition was “Still Life or Macro,” with each entrant submitting three digital images.

The competition was judged by Seamus Costelloe FIPF of Kilkenny Photographic Society. 

We're delighted with our results from the Irish Photographic Federation's National Shield Digital 2021 competition.

Mallow Camera Club held its first League competition of the 2021-2022 season in September. The competition theme was “Natural Waterscapes…From a Puddle to an Ocean,” with each entrant submitting three digital images, all of which had to be taken in 2021.

Mallow Camera Club’s annual League for the 2020-2021 season concluded with our May 2021 competition. This year’s League consisted of seven monthly competitions, some themed and the final three with an Open theme.

Mallow Camera Club had a fantastic result from the Southern Association of Camera Club’s (SACC) Interclub Cup 2021 competition.This is an annual competition run by the SACC, and this year’s competition was run as a digital-only competition, with each club entering a colour panel and a mono panel of 10 images each.

Theme: Open

Theme: Open, meaning any genre; but all images had to be in square format.

The Theme for December 2020  was " Abstract"  while complying fully with Covid- 19 restrictions.

The competition was judged by the well known and distinguished photographer Inaki Hernandez - Lasa FRPS. FIPF. AFIAP.

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.

An Informal Competition for a bit of fun and a distraction. Images must have been taken within the COVID-19 restrictions, complying with social distancing. At Home or in your garden, in the farm, within the 2km exercise limit, or within the revised limits issued by authorities Images had to be taken after the 9th March 2020.

The Theme for April was ” Open Theme ” meaning any genre, while complying fully with Covid-19 restrictions.

Mallow Camera Club are delighted to announce that we had 4 Club Members , Justyna Trzesicka , Philip Kerins, Vincent Higgins and Kieran Mangan successful in their LIPF Distinctions which were held in Portlaoise on February 29th 2020. we are very proud of your brilliant achievement. Please find their LIPF Panels and enjoy the photos.

Mallow Camera Club are delighted to announce that we had 4 Club Members , Justyna Trzesicka , Philip Kerins, Vincent Higgins and Kieran Mangan successful in their LIPF Distinctions which were held in Portlaoise on February 29th 2020. we are very proud of your brilliant achievement. Please find their LIPF Panels and enjoy the photos.

The results of the February 2020 monthly league competition were announced at our weekly meeting on Monday 24th February 2020. The theme for the competition was “Framed”, with each entrant submitting 4 digital entries.

The competition was judged by Niall Browen. AIPF EFIAP. and John Finn. ARPS. who did an excellent job of scoring and providing very useful feedback on the entries. Many thanks to Niall and John for their excellent contribution.