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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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Spring/summer Programme Updated - 07/04/10

Here are the latest programme details for the remainder of this year:

April 8th - presentations by club members - Sava Rajkov, Brian Callagy & Mae Prendergast - also showing of last year's AV competition winning show,.
April 15th - Mark Sedgewick, president of IPF and entries for Galway Waterways competition
April 22nd - Aengus McMahon (local Galway professional - TBC) - waterways comp results
April 29th - Lithunian night - a night showing the work of Irish based Lithuanian photographers presented by camera club member, Dzerinaldas Lukosius
May 6th - Michael Kelly AV competition night
May 13th - AGM
EXTRA DATE May 15th - Exhibition opening night at Kenny Gallery
May 20th - Final night - presentation by Sean Reidy of Lmerick camera club and results of 3 competitions: landscape; beginners; photographer of the year.

Spring Programme Updated

Here's an updated version of the spring programme. Please note change in dates from both Mark Sedgwick & Peter Cox. There are still one or two spaces left and as usual, things might still change!


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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.

Winter 2009 Programme

The new season starts on Thursday September 10th at 8pm.

Attached is the winter programme for 2009, which is virtually complete. Highlights include a presentation by Mark Sedgwick, President of the IPF in November, a Photoblogs presentation from John Smyth and a presentation of the London Salon show. We are also looking to get some further guests for both the winter and spring seasons - we will keep you posted.
You can download a copy here - copies are also in the post.

There are also 3 competitions this season, Open, Emotions & Macro with prize funds sponsored by Davitt Photo of Salthill.
























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Club begins Jan 15th

The new season kicks off at 8pm Next Thursday Jan 15th in the White Room, Cluain Mhuire Campus, Wellpark Road.
The Newsletter is awaiting a final piece of text relating to the AV Competition and will be out shortly.

Spring Programme 2009

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Programme Changes for next week, Dec 3rd

Next week sees a slideshow from Michael McEvoy, some AV presentations from the late Michael Kelly (RIP), to show the type of entry for the competition that bears his name. Finally there will be a short Photoshop tutorial on using Layer Masks and Blending Modes from Sean McCormack.

18th Sept

A slight change to the program already. Coming up next week we have Cepta Byrne and Adrian Megahy. Adrian is replacing Ger Mooney.

Winter 2008 Newsletter

The new newsletter will be winging it's way to you shortly. Included is the programme for the year and details of club related events. The less patient among you can download a copy in PDF form.

Change of Day to Thursday

This year the camera club will be meeting on Thursdays. So all you Champions League lovers have no excuse.

Spring Program

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