News Update - October 22nd 2009

Reminder: Deadline for the 'Autumn' competition is looming!

A selection of images from the Yeats' Country photo-shoot will be presented as a slideshow at the next meeting, which will be on November 10th in the Royal Hotel, Boyle. Meanwhile, members are reminded that the deadline for the quarterly competition, 'Autumn', is on October 31st, with the monthly motivation, 'Creative Light', having a deadline of November 3rd.

Members should send in up to two pictures for each competition, clearly named, titled, and re-sized for sending via e-mail (1024 pixel wide @ 72 dpi). Check out how to do this HERE, or ask someone who knows! Unidentified pictures will no longer be included in our club slideshows – you have been warned!!

A date for your diary: another Photo-Shoot is planned for November 15th. Watch this space for more details!

Drumcliff & Mullaghmore Photo Shoot Images available shortly HERE.

LGC

Photo Shoot - Drumcliff and Mullaghmore, Co. Sligo

The Colour Grey!

A group of 23 intrepid photographers from Boyle Camera Club braved the elements for a photoshoot this morning (Sunday, October 18th). It was a grey day all round, with visibility very poor as we met up at Drumcliffe Church, in County Sligo, burial place of the poet W.B. Yeats. Members did their best to be creative with what little colour there was around us in the drizzle, before we headed for the cafe for a welcome break and a warming cup of coffee. We then moved on to the harbour at Mullaghmore, which hadn't been in our original plan, but it was decided upon as a destination with marginally more to photograph on such a dismal day.

Our photoshoots are a great social get-together and are a popular way to meet with like-minded people, pick up ideas and swap technical information and camera techniques. Participants are invited to send in their photographs asap and they will be shown as a slide show at the next club meeting in November.

The new committee meets this week (on Wednesday evening) to discuss plans for the coming year. Information will be posted here in due course.

Members are reminded that although we have had the AGM, subscriptions are not renewable until January, after the club year was changed to run from January to December.

LGC

New Committee Elected at AGM - 13th Oct 2009

A Message to members from Louise Cole, Newly Elected Chairperson - Boyle Camera Club

"It was a wonderful honour to be elected Chairperson at our AGM earlier this week. I will do my best to steer the club onwards and upwards!

It has been a great privilege for me to be a committee member since the founding of the club back in September 2007, first as Secretary and latterly as PRO. I am taking the helm at a very exciting time in the club's development; we have a structured approach to meetings, almost 80 members are involved, we have regular photo-shoots, and a blossoming affiliation to the IPF.

We will, of course, miss the input at committee level of retiring Chairman, Sean O'Dowd, and Technical Adviser, Tony Murphy, co-founders of the Club. I thank them both for the enormous contribution they have made and no doubt will continue to make, since they have both promised to support us behind the scenes, but without the responsibility of committee duties.

At the AGM, two new committee members joined the team: Joe Kennedy and Paraic Brennan. Meanwhile, stalwarts Dermot Devine as Secretary and Kit O'Connor as Treasurer, continue their roles for the coming year, as does Peter Boalch as joint Competitions Secretary. Conor Dowling continues on the committee, although he has stepped down as joint Competitions Secretary to focus on developing our liaison with the IPF. I look forward to working with them all, on your behalf, in the coming year.

I hope to see many of you on Sunday (October 18th) for our next photo-shoot. We will be exploring Yeats Country – the parts of County Sligo made famous by the poet WB Yeats. We will be meeting first in the Crescent car park, Boyle, at 9am for a briefing and car pooling. If you miss that, join us at Drumcliff Church, burial place of the poet, at approximately 9.45am. As ever, because of insurance issues, this will be a members-only event. We plan to take in the beach at Lissadel, Lough Gill, and if we have time, Glencar Waterfall. We plan to be back in Boyle well before the start of the Terry Fox Run, which takes over the town, starting at 3pm!

Best wishes

Louise"

LC

Nobel Prize for inventors of the Digital Sensor

Boyle Camera Club members might be interested to know that on Tuesday 6th October, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics to Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith, inventors who worked with light. The two Americans developed the digital sensor that revolutionized photography. Boyle and Smith created the first successful Charge-Coupled Device (CCD) in 1969 while working at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey.

Boyle is a Canadian and U.S. citizen and retired in 1979. Smith is a U.S. citizen who retired in 1986. The two of them will share half of the 10 million Krona (U.S. $1.4 million) prize.

I thought you might find the Boyle association worth noting:-)

Read More HERE.

TM