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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Photo competitions

Here is another list of competitions for all to enter.
As usual, check the T&Cs to make sure you are aware of the use of each entry by the organisaton.
Click each title for the link

Irish Met Society:
Weather related theme - no people
Closing date - 30th Sept
1st 150, 2nd €75, 3rd €50


Galway City Intercultural Competition:
Showing the cultural diversity of Galway City.

5 Themes:
Promoting an Intercultural City
Living Together
Planning for Diversity
Rejecting Racism
Buidling an Intercultural Economy

Closing date - 10th Sept
1st €400, 2nd €250, 3rd €100 + prizes for each of 5 themes

Clean Coasts Photography Competition:
Essence of coast - what the coast means to me
Closing date- 21st August
1st €750, 2nd €500, 3rd €250

Off you go and the best of luck to all.

Various online photo competitions

Here is a list of competitions that may be of interest to anyone:
All the competitions are linked in the titles

The Irish Forestry Commission - Forestry related themes (obviously)
Competition is open until midnight on 30th June
Prizes are various camera courses.

Burrard Lucas Blog - Landscape competition
Deadline is 1st August
Prizes include Canon EOS 7D, Lensbaby & SmugMug (webpage) account

RTE Weather - Summer competition
Competition is open until midnight on 2nd July
Prizes aren't stated but there is an overall trophy for the yearly winner.

Irish Times & Nokia monthly competition - this month's theme is called "Born Peformer"
Deadline is 5pm on 18th June - competition also requires a cation with the image
€1000 for winner and mobiles for runners up.

As with all competitions, make sure you read the small print and agree to the t&cs regarding the use & rights of your images.

Photo competition - Dubrays bookshop Thurs 22nd @ 5:30pm

Calling all photographers

Mac Ruairi Art Publishers are holding a fantastic photo competition for professionals and amateurs alike. The streets of Galway city will be plunged back inti the 1950's as a scene from "Egg Shells and Broken dreams" lifts right off the page and into Shop Street as a young, bare-footed boy is sent on a jurney with disatrous consequences.
€250 will be offered to the photograph that is deemed to best capture the scene.
All you need to do to be in with a chance to win is turn up in front of Dubrays Bookshop in Shop Street at 5:30 pm Thursday 22nd with your camera and get snapping.

Please e-mail all competition entries to katie.eggshellandbrokendreams@gmail.com or post them to the book's Facebook page, marked 'competition'.

Competition Scores - Updated 07/04/10

Here are the up-to-date scores for the club competitions - including the recent Landscape Competition.

Those in doube figures - names and points:

Adrian Megahey 55
Conor Ledwith 54
Willie Wade 53
Enda Scahill 45
Sean McCormack 44
Anne-Francis-Nee 33
Ger Mooney 30
Michael Bourke 30
Ann Sweeney 29
Paul Feeney 27
Anita Soszka-Szafran 27
Deirdre Deegan-McGee 24
John McHugh 23
Brian Callagy 23
Anna & Stas Kostomakha 22
Martin Whyte 20
Susan Thornton 20
Michael Corbett 18
Emilia Paczkowska 17
Martin Lynch 15
Anna Piwko 15
Martin Laheen 15
John Kearney 15
Natalie Herzer-Greer 14
Paul Kelly 14
Heinz Rohleder 14
Marie Larkin 12
Tim Bdulenko 12
Ronan McGearailt 11
Helen Finn 10
James Nevin 10


There is one competition left:
Galway City Waterways - entries on April 15th

Best of luck to all entrants - still a 5-way tie at the top & POTY still up for grabs.
Remember there is a €50 voucher for Martin Davitt Photo in Salthill for all comp category winners.

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

SOME COMPETITIONS

CRANN

The theme of the CRANN Open Photographic Competition is

Irish Trees & Hedgerows

This is open to all amateur photographers in the country.

There are cash prizes of €50 to €250 for the top three images.
Entry is free, however, only colour prints up to A4, mounted on card, will be accepted.
The closing date for the competition is Friday 30th October.
Please see the CRANN website for rules, requirements and where to send your entries

IRISH METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY

The IMS competition is fairly open ended - it can be of any Irish location but must have a seasonal or weather theme.
Enrty is by submission to their website - IrishMetSociety
Closing date is 30th November

Prizes
1st €150
2nd €75
3rd €50

Some rules:
Only one entry per person, only colour photographs and no people in the picture - see the website for any further rules.

More Volvo Photo competitions

There is another photo competition taking pace during the Volvo race stopover.

This one is being run by Fahfoto.
They are looking for images that best capture the spirit and atmosphere in Galway during the stopover period .

1st prize: Nikon D60 DSLR with 18-55 VR lens, 1gb memory card & holdall bag - worth €599.00

Top five images will be enlarged and displayed in their window in Shop Street.

Closing date for entries is 5:30pm Saturday 13th June and details and entry forms can be found here

Michael Kelly Memorial Competition

Team Audio Visual Presentation

Teams:

Teams must comprise of 3 Members (An effort should be made as far as possible for teams to include new club members)

Digital AV Presentation:

Each team must produce a 6-8 minute slideshow/presentation of photographs with an accompanying soundtrack and/or commentary.

There is no limit on the number of photographs per presentation.

The soundtrack may be music or spoken word or a combination of both.

The photographs and soundtrack should complement each other and reflect upon the theme of the presentation.

The choice of theme is the decision of each individual team.

Judging

Presentations will be adjudicated along the following guidelines (not an exhaustive list):

Theme

Photographic Quality

Relevance of Soundtrack/Music

Artistic Interpretation

Innovation

Originality

Registration and Judging Dates

All teams must be registered with the Competition Secretary Willie Wade in writing.

The Competition will be judged on a special commemoration night in Spring 2009.

The deadline for entries will be announced shortly.

Prizes

The prizes for this competition will be announced shortly pending confirmation of sponsors.

Emotion Competition Winners

The winners of the Emotion competition as judged by Willie Wade are:

Monochrome
1st: Sean McCormack
2nd: Michael Corbett

Colour Print
1st: Sean McCormack
2nd: Michael Corbett
3rd: Sean McCormack

Slide
1st: Martyn Whyte
2nd: Adrian Megahy
3rd: Adrian Megahy

Digital
1st: Enda Scahill
Joint 2nd: Adrian Megahy + Michael Corbett
Joint 3rd: Adrian Megahy + Michael Corbett

Podge Kelly | AGM

Hi Folks,
Podge Kelly will be with us this Wednesday. He'll be showing a series of slideshows and prints, along with a demonstration of Nik Filters.
He's suggested that if people bring along images on disk/USB drive, he'd have a go at using Nik on them as part of the demo.

This is the last full meeting before the AGM, which I'm quite looking forward to.

The AGM is the following week and the night includes Prize giving and 2 competitions.

Prizes for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place as Photographer of the year will be awarded, based on points from the competitions throughout the year.

For new members there is the Nortel Trophy. 6 images are required for this panel. Ann Sweeney has more details on this panel and I suspect we'll be announcing these at this weeks meeting.

The other prize on the night is the Trophy for the annual Landscape Print competition. Each member can enter 2 images for this Trophy. Last years total number of entries was not great, and with the wealth of talent in the club, I think there should be much more. Photos can be B&W or colour. They must be mounted. There is no maximum or minimum size and the entries will be judged on the night

Finally, the AGM will give people a chance to have their say in the running of the club. If you feel you have something to say or want to join the committee, let us know. If we have a list of potential committee members, the process of nominating and seconding will go much faster. If you have gotten benefit from the club, I think it's your duty as a member to give something back.

See you on Wednesday,

Sean McCormack
Chairperson

Landscape Competition Results.

Thanks to Neil McShane (www.nmsphoto.com) for judging the competition last night & showing us a selection of his work.

Great to see such a large entry. The winners were:

Mono Print:

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1st Ronan Bree

2nd Adrian Megahey

3rd Enda Scahill

Colour Print:

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1st Conor Ledwith

2nd Enda Scahill

3rd Ronan Bree

Digital Projection:

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1st Conor Ledwith

2nd Chris Tierney

3rd Sava

Slide Projection:

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1st Martyn White

2nd Ann Sweeney

3rd Ann Sweeney

Well done to all the winners.

Galway Camera Club 2008 Team Competition

This is a photographic competition for teams of 3 to produce a cohesive panel of 10 mounted photographs on a Theme of their choice.

The photographs should work together as a panel and complement the theme, tell a story etc.

The panels will be presented on the 23rd April 2008 at a special Team Competition Night.

First prize for each member of the winning team will be a photograph of their choice mounted and framed. (Standard sizes up to 16x20)

The competition prize is being generously sponsored by Raymond Lyons, The Framemaker, 10 Cross Street, Galway 091-563219

Normal competition rules apply. This is a competition for mounted prints only. No digital or slide panels.

Members are encouraged to include new camera club members in their team of 3.

Street Photography Competition.

Just to let you know, Digital Beginners (a training company based in Dublin) have teamed up with Spectra to run a Street Photography Competition. 

The rules are fairly specific (ie has to be taken outside a Spectra store, etc), so check out www.digitalbeginners/streetcompetition.htm. 

Competition closes on Dec 31st.

Good luck!!

Trevor.

Athenry Historic Walled Town Photographic Competition

Participants are invited to summit photo(s), which they think best meets the theme of the above named competition:

“‘Stone Mad’; A Photographic Competition to capture what the historic Town Walls mean to you”

The objective of the competition is to select a photograph, which best captures this impression in our Walled Town.

Entries will be divided into two categories:
• Adults (18 and over)
• Children (under 18)

A prize of €500 will be awarded to the winner of the adult category and €200 for the children’s winner. All entries must be in printed format.

More details and entry form in this Word document file

Irish Walled Competition 2007

The Heritage Council has launched the 2007 Irish Walls Photography competition which will see the local winner pick up a cheque for €500.

All details can be found here

HSE West Healthy Ageing Photo Competition.

Thought you may be interested to know that HSE West are running a photo competition. All details and an entry form are in the file below. Note that entries are due in by 31st August.

PhotographyCompetitionFinal.doc