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Major Exhibition

If you’re in Dublin over the summer here’s a place worth visiting .... here and here

Fun Challenge - Top 100 Novels

OK everyone. Thinking caps on for the summer. The next challenge is Top 100 Novels.

The idea is to produce 3 images that represent either the title or the content of your chosen novels.

NB. Only choose from the list Joe has supplied.

We have 6 weeks to complete the mission and of course there’s an outstanding prize for the winner in September. Send entries as they become available ( you dont have to send all 3 at one go if you don’t want to ) to Geoff .

The list of novels is .......... here and you can see the entries so far ........... here

How does Joe decide the winner ? His judging tips ........ here

Club Annual Exhibition

Clonakilty Camera Club is holding its 3rd Annual exhibition of members’ work in the Round Tower at the Celtic Ross Hotel, Rosscarbery, Co. Cork.

The exhibition was opened by Lord David Puttnam on Friday July 9th at 8.30 pm, and was well attended by club members and the public.

In his opening speech, Lord Puttnam congratulated members for the high standard of images on display and talked of the beautiful quality of slanting soft light in West Cork.

He also mentioned the empowering nature of the image and the way it can generate an immediate positive response. “Without an image, an appeal for help to a disaster becomes so much more difficult”. He is a former Chairman of UNICEF.

He also spoke of his father, who was an ace Associated Press staff photographer and also War Office Official Photographer for the British Government during WWII.

See ......... here to search for Lt L Puttnam images in the Archives of the Imperial War Museum, London.

David Puttnam was agent to some of the world’s foremost portrait and fashion photographers, namely, David Bailey, Brian Duffy and Richard Avedon.

In 2000 Lord Puttnam was awarded the Centennial Medal by the Royal Photographic Society. Only 3 Centennial awards exist.

For 10 years he was the Chairman of the British National Museum of Photography, Film and Television.

It was a real honour for the Club to have him open this years exhibition and we thank him for making the time to do so.

The Clonakilty Camera Club was founded in 1981, and currently has about forty members. While most are amateurs some are practicing professionals. There is a great tradition of the accomplished helping those less skilled, so the standard is continually rising.

The photos in the exhibition both reflect the life and landscape of West Cork, but also there are scenes and portraits from further afield. The photographs are for sale at a very reasonable €90 each

There was a raffle on the night and all proceeds went to COPE Foundation.

Exhibition Gallery ................... here

Treasure Hunt

Treasure Hunt Results, pictures and clues are ........... here. Congrats to Thomas, Maja, Helene and Nadine for coming 1st.

Phil Pound AIPPA

Congratulations and a big “bualadh bos” to Phil Pound on achieving his Associateship Distinction with the Irish Professional Photographers Association. He becomes the first Club member to reach this distinction level with any professional photographic body. His panel can be seen ......... here

Clean Coast Competition

Clean Coasts Photography Competition 2010 - Photography Ireland are proud to be supporting the competition this year!

Sponsored by Coca Cola HBC Ireland with a total prize fund of €3000, the theme for this year's competition is;

"Essence of the Coast - What the Coast means to me"

Ireland has some of the most beautiful and spectacular coastlines in the world. The Clean Coasts programme which is operated by the Environmental Education Unit of An Taisce facilitates communities to learn about, manage, conserve and enhance this wonderful natural resource.

The Clean Coasts Photography Competition 2010 wants you to get out there and photograph what the coast means to you. To learn more about the Clean Coasts Photography Competition 2010 click ...... here.

To learn more about the Clean Coasts Programme click ........ here.

Galley Head Pictures 2nd June ................ here

Fin Costello

Legendary photographer Fin Costello, who gave a talk to the club in April, is having an exhibition in Cork Vision Centre till 28th July. Details are ...... here

Cheque Presentations

The €730 raised at last years Club Exhibition was presented to local charities on Wednesday 14th April ........ here

Fun Challenge Results so far

Congrats to Charlie on his brilliant capture of two rather friendly frogs in “Reflection”.

Congrats to Thomas on his deserved win in “ Less is More ”.

The winning image will be picked by the Competition Secretary and the winner will receive a prize. Entries can be either colour or b/w.

Send your images as jpgs with the longest side of 800 pixels to Geoff . Resizing tip here

There are no grades in these challenges.

Final Results and Presentations for POTY 2009

The results for the 3 Grades of “Photographers of the Year” are .... here.

SACC

The SACC competition took place in Cork on 14th March 2010 and the results and panels are ....... here

Melanie’s Blog

Melanie, her husband Ben and their 2 children, Sophie and Joe (aka The Clonakilty Wanderers), set off for 3 months to see South East Asia, taking in China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand and Malaysia. Their travelogue is ......... here

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