Welcome to Galway Camera Club online

Galway Camera Club has been running for over 20 years and is a diverse group of individuals interested in taking and viewing photographs. With a broad range of members from Professional to Amateur, we cater to all kinds of photography, from Digital to Film. We have members with interests in Infrared, Pinhole and Lomographic photography, along with more standard fare such as Landscape and Portrait photography.
There are also beginners classes available and new members are always welcome.
We meet on a Thursday night at 8pm in the White Room in Cluain Mhuire college (GMIT), Wellpark Road, situated a short walk from the junction at the Huntsman.
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Camera Club member's images shown in Black & White Photography Magazine

This month's issue of the UK and international Black & White Photography Magazine features photographs from the current club chairperson - Adrian Megahey.
There are 4 pages of images of Galway and Connemara landscapes in the readers section.
The magazine is available at Easons and other good magazine outlets.

SPRING & SUMMER 2010 PROGRAMME

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Please note that details are subject to change

The new season recommences on January 14th at 8pm and everyone is welcome back. It's the Spring & Summer programme but with us all still in the grip of midwinter it seems a long way off for spring & summer !

Attached is the programme which is virtually complete but there are still some spaces to be filled which will be announced as the season continues. You can download a copy here.

Our first guest is Maurice Gunning on Jan 21st - Maurice is photographer in residence at the Irish World Academy of Music & Dance, University of Limerick. He will be showing a selection of his portfolio.
Next up will be Mark Sedgewick in February - Mark is the current chairperson of the IPF and will be presenting his own work as well as the work of the IPF (this is the postponed presentation from last year).
Also scheduled is Peter Cox - Peter was the Irish landscape photographer of the year 2007 and will be presenting work from his portfolio.

Other highlights include:

• Michael Kelly Memorial Team AV competition in May. We will be arranging the teams & theme in the coming weeks to allow everyone a chance to put together their shows.
• Camp Claddagh club exhibition - we are looking to finalise the details on this charity event to exhibit and sell work in a Galway gallery for the Camp Claddagh Chernobyl charity.
• Lomographic night - a night devoted to all things lo-fi. Images taken on Holgas, Dianes, pinholes and other toy cameras.
• Field trips - we will be looking to organise outings through the season so keep a look out for these.
• Finally the competitions for this season are: Open; Decisive Moment (after HC Bresson); Galway Waterways; Landscape. Remember that prizes are available for these competitions courtesy of Davitt Photo Centre in Salthill for your processing and framing needs.
• Our final night in May will incorporate the Photographer of the Year; Nortel Panel award and Landscape Photo of the Year.

We look forward to seeing you all in the White Room on Thursday nights and Happy New Year to all.

Joe Cornish speaks about the work of Peter Dombrovskis

Joe Cornish is a quite a famous English landscape photographer. In the video in this post he talks about the work of the late Peter Dombrovskis, a Tasmanian landscape photographer. He takes us through one of Peter's books, and discusses the images therein. For those in the club that enjoy both looking and shooting Landscapes, this video is a must view. Peter shot is all weathers, and seeing this could well be the encouragement needed for those dreary days.

The Video

Winning Entries to Emotions Competition - 22nd October

Adrian Megahey - 1st Colour

Anna & Stas Kostomakha - 2nd Colour

Helen Finn - 3rd= Colour

Deirdre Deegan-McGee - 3rd= Colour

Michael Bourke - 1st B&W

Julia Puchowska - 2nd B&W

Willie Wade - 3rd B&W

Winning Entries to Open Competition - October 1st B&W

Paul Kelly - 1st B&W


Noel Cassidey - 2nd B&W


Natalie Herzer-Greer - 3rd= B&W

John McHugh - 3rd= B&W

Competition Rules Updated

Hi All

This is just a gentle reminder on competition rules.
There are 5 categories:

1. Colour digital
2. B&W digital
3. Colour Print
4. B&W Print
5. Slide

There is a maximum of 4 entries per person and a maximum of only 2 in any one category e.g. you can enter 2 colour digital, 1 B&W print and 1 colour print.

Prints must be mounted and not exceed 20" x 16" (50cm x 40cm) including the mount. They should have your name on the back and the orientation i.e which way up !

Digital entries should be no more than 1000 pixels on the longest length and should be submitted under the following filename format: username_competitionname_imageno.format (e.g.adrianmegahey_emotions_img1.jpg)

Slides should be dotted in the bottom left corner as you view normally.

Although new material is preferred, any photo which has not been entered into competion in the previous 10 years may be entered again. However, no previously winning image may be submitted again in any category.

Winning entries to Open Competition - October 1st

Enda Scahill - 1st colour

Conor Ledwith - 2nd Colour

Emilia Paczkowska - 3rd= colour

Paul Feeney - 3rd= colour

Ann Francis-Nee - 3rd= colour