Get Your Pictures In!

If you were at the Lough Allen Photo Shoot last weekend, then you have until Sunday, October 31st to get your photos in for the competition. Up to three entries per person, sent to
info@boylecameraclub.com with 'Lough Allen Comp' as the subject of the e-mail. Files should be named with the title of the image and your membership number, nothing else. Format the photos in the usual way, but remember to keep a copies of your originals. The results will be announced at the next club meeting, which is on Tuesday, November 9th. Don't forget that images for the Monthly Motivation, 'Natural Frames' need to be submitted by Tuesday, November 2nd.

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Come rain or shine!

Join us for the competition photo-shoot on Sunday next (October 24th) - meet for car pooling at the Crescent car park in Boyle at 9.15am, or at Drumshanbo Mart at 10am. This is where there will be a briefing, when you'll receive a map and information about where to go, what to look for and where and when to send your images. More details are in the posting below or you can go http://www.loughallenbasin.com/ and follow the links there. Be sure to bring suitable clothing and footwear - wellies may be an idea, if you want to get up close and personal with the water!
Good luck! The judges for the competition are David Farrell of LoughAllenBasin.com and David Knight and colleagues of Willow Design in Cootehall.
The winners will be announced at the next club meeting, November 9th.
LGC

The Late Late Show

Boyle Camera Club Member John Reynolds sent us the following message: "If you're spending this Friday night in, be sure and watch the beginning of The Late Late Show on RTE1 at 9.30, where I'll be appearing to promote one of my non-wedding photo projects with some of my "models". We're the opening item on the show. I'd like to tell you more right now, but it's all very hush-hush. I know you'll enjoy it though!"

Your Images Can Win Prizes!

Fancy your chances as a prize-winning photographer? If so, you are invited to join us in a Photographic Competition at Lough Allen on Sunday, October 24th. Members will meet for car pooling at 9.15am in The Crescent, Boyle, and then on to Dumshanbo Mart for 10am for a briefing at the start of a project to capture the flora, fauna, landscape, buildings and people of Lough Allen on that day.
The best digital images will win prizes, including dinner with wine for six people at the Ramada Hotel, Drumshanbo; a year's subscription to Outdoor Photography Magazine; a family ticket to the Cineplex in Carrick on Shannon; or a year's free membership to Boyle Camera Club.
Club member Frances Farrell and her family are behind the competition, which arose from their passion for the wonderful natural landscape in and around the Lough Allen area. Frances and her husband David run http://www.loughallenbasin.com/, which promotes the area as a exceptional place to live and work – with a unique ecology which supports species of birds and animals that are rare not just in Ireland, but in the whole world.
Although the light and unpredictable weather conditions of late October will pose certain challenges to everyone taking part in the competition, there will still be opportunities to capture images that will highlight the natural beauty of this special place. The best photographs will then be used on the Lough Allen website, although the copyright remains with the photographer.
Photographs, WHICH MUST BE TAKEN ON THE DAY OF THE COMPETITION, should be sent to Boyle Camera Club via e-mail (info@boylecameraclub.com) by October 31st for judging. Details of how to do this will be circulated at the briefing , when non-members can join us for the day at a cost of €10. You will need your membership number in order to enter the competition!
Our thanks to the Farrell family for the time and effort they have invested in this competition – please help to make it a success by turning up on the day and by spreading the word to others who may be interested.
LGC

October Activities

At our October meeting there was news of our forthcoming Winter Exhibition in Boyle, when members can sell their images, just in time for Christmas! The show will be from December 10th to 13th (to be confirmed) and members are asked to start preparing the pictures they would like to submit. This will be a different type of exhibition to our Summer event – this will be for any ready-to-hang photographs which will be for sale at a price set by the individual photographer. More details will follow.
Our speaker for the evening was Castlebaldwin photographer John Daly who enthused us with the range of creative possibilities using commercial printing services. John showed samples of different materials and techniques he has used for best effect on some of his own images. More from John on http://www.lumicreative.com/.
Peter Boalch gave a short slide show of pictures from a recent holiday in Spain – other members who are willing to share their images in this way are invited to come forward. Peter's show, set to music, ran for just three and a half minutes, and such shows offer us the chance to discuss each other's work, techniques and equipment.
Information about our next outing was revealed, the competition to shoot at Lough Allen on October 24th for some great prizes (details here later).
Two camera courses are being run at Roscommon Learning Links in Boyle by Tony Murphy on Monday evenings, each five weeks long. One is on using digital SLR cameras and the other is for beginners using compacts. The first course starts on October 18th. More details from 071 9664510.
Members are invited to make suggestions for our Christmas meeting/party/AGM in December and to consider who they would like see on the committee next year.
The Motivation for October was 'Trees' and it was interesting to see how inventive members had been in getting an original take on the subject. Next month, the challenge is to use 'natural frames' for any subject, and Joe showed some examples taken from the internet. The deadline for entries is November 2nd.
LGC

October Meeting

The theme of our October meeting next Tuesday (12th) will be printing - and there will be a reason for this, which will be revealed during the course of the evening!

We have a change to the planned schedule in as much as Tony Murphy is unable to join us for his talk on printing your images. This will now become a hands-on workshop at a later date, when Tony will help partipants get to grips with printing their images on their own home printers. Details of the date and venue of the workshop will be announced shortly.

Meanwhile, we are pleased to welcome to Tuesday's meeting, Castlebaldwin photographer John Daly, who has many years experience in the business and will talk to us about his work and the possibilites available using commercial printing services.

We will also have news of our exciting competition to win dinner for six at the Ramada Hotel Drumshanbo, or a year's subscription to Outdoor Photography Magazine, or tickets to Carrick Cinemaplex. Details of the competition, which takes place on Sunday, October 24th, and has been organised by the Farrell family and www.loughallenbasin.com, will be announced at Tuesday's meeting.

As always, the meeting starts at 8pm in St Joseph's Resource Centre, Boyle, and new members are welcome.