Achill Island Photo Shoot Itinerary Published

Members of Boyle Camera Club will participate in a Weekend Photoshoot on Achill Island from Friday 5th - Sunday 7th June. Members should meet at the Achill Head Hotel on Friday night at 10pm where the itinerary for the shoot will be discussed.

Full Weekend Itinerary available HERE.

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Canon Camera - FREE Demonstration and Training Day

Canon are holding a FREE Canon demonstration and training day on Cameras, Lenses and Printers on Saturday June 13th.

The day is Free.
Venue; Milestone Electric, Golden Island, Athlone, Co Westmeath.
Phone; Dermot Kelly at 090 6478269 or 090 6478372 or 086 3552969

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Online Resources

Whether you are a beginner or of intermediate or advanced standard, there is a vast amount of information on all aspects of photography for you in the Internet. There are written and illustrated tutorials and probably best of all, many mini-movie tutorials available.

TIP/// Use the Google Search Engine to find what you would like to view!

Advanced Photoshop Users and those interested in Graphics may be delighted with sites like

http://www.planetphotoshop.com/

Thoughts From The Web 01

"Think of a landscape photograph as a jigsaw puzzle, with dozens of different pieces demanding your attention. If you arrange all those pieces in the right order you'll end up with an organised, structured image that makes sense and looks good. But if you put them together any old way, the end result will be a muddled mess of shapes, colours and details that's difficult to make sense of."
http://photoinf.com/General/Lee_Frost/The_Art_of_Composition_-_Landscape.htm

Safety & Health at Work - Photo Competition

The European Agency for Safety and Health at Work would like to invite you to take part in their new photography competition. This competition encourages everyone and anyone to send in their photographs on the theme of Safe and Healthy Working Environments.

They want participants to be as imaginative and creative as possible, and to explore ways in which photography can highlight the need for safe and healthy workplaces.

WHAT’S YOUR IMAGE OF SAFETY AND HEALTH AT WORK?

The competition challenges everyone living in the EU to grab their camera and capture their own image of safety and health at work. Place the human being at the heart of your photograph and share your perspective on what it means to be safe in the workplace.

The public will select their favourite photograph through an on-line poll. The deadline for submission of entries is 15th of August 2009.

More details on how to enter, prizes, etc, HERE.

Thanks Paraic for bringing this to our attention.

Club Meeting - Wednesday 13th May

We had a full agenda to cover at this month's meeting which was chaired by Peter Boalch and was very well attended despite the beautiful Summer evening.

In this month's presentation, Tony Murphy addressed the mystery that is Digital ISO, in the third and final element of talks on 'The Exposure Triangle' series.

Conor Dowling presented the club's first Photo Competition, the theme was Springtime and members photos were judged by photographer, Anthony Hobbs, Head of Fine Art Media at the NCAD. Anthony's critique on the members photos and the competition results can be viewed HERE. He was particularly impressed by the quality of entries in the Intermediate and Beginners categories.

Conor announced the competition for 'Summertime' and encouraged members to make the most of the coming weeks to considers submissions before the closing date on 31st July.

June Motivation and Arts Festival Exhibition

The Motivation theme for June is 'Love Where You Live'. Members are asked to submit 2 images to info@boylecameraclub.com before 3rd June.

Boyle Camera Club will be presenting a Photographic Exhibition of members images as part of this year's Boyle Arts Festival. The theme of the exhibition is also, 'Love Where You Live'.

Members images will be selected from this month's Motivation for inclusion in the exhibition, so members that have not been regularly sending in their work, do make an extra effort this month to make a submission!

More details on the exhibition will follow. The club hope to establish a sub-committee to help organise the event, interested members can contact the club secretary via info@boylecameraclub.com.

At this month's meeting, members broke into groups to discuss issues relevant to Beginners, Intermediate and Advanced categories. The outcome of these discussions will be catalogued and addressed by the committee and communicated to membership at the next club meeting.

Club member and globe-trotter, Paraic Brennan, concluded the meeting with a very fine presentation showing images he has collected from his travels in Ireland and abroad. It was very much a case of 'every picture tells a story' and Padraic kept members entertained, as much by his fine stories as looking at his excellent images.

Achill Island Weekend Photo-Shoot

Achill Island - Chris O'Connor

It won't be long now!! Members are very much looking forward to the Achill Island Weekend Photo-Shoot. Chris O'Connor has been busy organising the event and is finalising numbers for accommodation. The club will be staying at the Achill Head Hotel. So far 28 members will make the trip for a weekend that promises to offer spectacular photographic opportunities and a memorable time in one of Ireland's most beautiful locations.

Chris has drawn up a room allocation plan for members, view it HERE. Additional Information of room rates and what to bring for the trip HERE.

Participating members are asked to meet in the

Achill Head Hotel at 10pm, Friday 5th June.

Getting there; From Boyle, head for Castlebar and Newport. From Newport head for Achil/Achill Sound. On the Island follow directions for Keel. The hotel is on the main road between Keel and Dooagh as above.


Anyone interested in participating that has not already put down their name should contact Chris immediately!

The next meeting of Boyle Camera Club will take place in

The Moving Stairs, Boyle at 8pm, Wednesday 10th June.

TM

Solas Gallery Photo Exhibition

An Invitation to submit work for a Photographic Exhibition is open to members and non-members of the Solas Gallery, Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim, from June 19th to July 11th.

Submission date is Saturday, May 30th 2009

The Solas Gallery was opened in 2007 by the Ballinamore Community Arts Group and is assisted by the Leitrim County Council Arts Office and The Arts Council. Its aims are to promote a greater awareness, interest in and appreciation of all forms of visual arts within the area. Solas is an artist-led project with a membership from anywhere within the catchment area of Leitrim, Longford, Roscommon, Cavan, Sligo, Donegal and Fermanagh. New members are always welcome.

The Photographic Exhibition will be open to both members and non-members alike.

To request details and entry forms, please leave your name, address, phone number and email with Sandra 071 9625276 / sandra@solasart.ie or visit the website HERE. Forms can also be collected from the gallery.

LC

Conor Dowling Awarded LIPF Distinction in Limerick

'Kermit' by Conor Dowling

At the recent Distinctions Awards meeting held in Limerick University, Conor Dowling was awarded the Licentiate (LIPF) by the Irish Photographic Federation. This award is the first in the Distinctions series followed by the Associate and Fellowship.

Conor travelled down to Limerick on the 25^th April to present a panel of ten photographs. These were placed before a panel of eight judges who awarded the Licentiate. Conor will give a talk on the process of putting together a panel of pictures at a forthcoming club meeting to encourage other members to present their work for a Distinction at the next Federation gathering in November. Further details will be posted on this site.

Conor is the First member of Boyle Camera Club to be awarded an IPF Distinction, we are all very proud of his success and wish to acknowledge his achievement by extending our sincere congratulations, well done Conor!

TM

TOP Photo Calendar Competition 2010

TOP (formerly TOP Oil - not to be confused with STEWARTS Oil) are running a photography competition for their Photo Calendar 2010 which is open to all amateur photographers in the country.

Photos can be of any subject, taken anywhere in Ireland and the winning photos will be compiled to make the TOP Calendar for 2010 – distributed to 35,000 homes. So you budding photographers out there who want immediate exposure, get snapping! All information is on http://www.top.ie/Home/Photo_Comp/Photo_Comp.html and entries can be sent to photo@top.ie with the why, when and where the photo was taken.

Entries must include NAME and ADDRESS. The Closing Date for entries is the 31st May 2009.
Any queries to Paula Donaghy on 085 121 8495

TM

SPRINGTIME Competition

Entries for the SPRINGTIME Competition have been submitted and can be viewed HERE.

Boyle Camera Club's first formal Competition as opposed to our Monthly Motivation, is the first of FOUR competitions that will be held Seasonally and Annually - Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter.

This month's Springtime Competition will be judged by Photographer and Head of Media at the National College of Art & Design, Dublin, Anthony Hobbs.

Closing date for entries was; Thursday 30th April 2009.

TM