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Robert Thompson Lecture

Posted by on Jan 21, 2016

Shannon Camera Club the host Club for the night would like to say a big  THANK YOU  to Robert Thompson for his superb presentation on January 20th. We would also like to thank the SACC and Richard Dwyer in particular for inviting Robert to do his speaking  tour of three venues in the Region, i.e. in Cork, Shannon and Kilkenny.

The members of Shannon, Limerick and Ennis Camera Clubs present were hugely impressed with the manner of his presentation and particularly with the quality of his images, every one of which was no accidental good one but well and truly thought out before the  shutter was fired. The whole night was a lesson in everything that is good about great photography.

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Robert Thompson FIPF, FRPS, Lecture Tour.

Posted by on Jan 13, 2016

Robert Thompson Lecture Tour

We are delighted to announce that Robert Thompson FRPS will be conducting a lecture tour in the SACC region this January.  There will be a €5 cover charge for each talk.

Robert will be speaking across a range of photography topics including nature, landscape and macro, and discussing his approach to these genre. We are very excited to have a photographer of Robert’s reputation visiting us and we encourage SACC members to attend one of the talks.

The talks will take place at the dates and venue below – see posters at the end of article for full details:

  • Tuesday, January 19th at 7:30 pm in 36 St Patrick’s Quay, Cork.
  • Wednesday, January 20th at 8:00 pm in Oakwood Arms Hotel, Shannon.
  • Thursday, January 21st at 7:30 pm in The Pembroke Hotel, Kilkenny.Robert’s interest in natural history began during his childhood explorations of a large parkland estate where he grew up. He is a highly accomplished freelance natural history photographer and multi-author with a number of well-known publications to his credit on natural history and nature photography. He has also been a major contributor to many other natural history publications in Britain and Europe. He is widely acknowledged in the UK as a specialist in close-up and macro photography and is a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society and the Irish Photographic Federation.His work is widely published in the UK, Ireland and internationally, with numerous photographic credits in a wide variety of books, magazines, calendars and various other media sources through his library and agencies.He runs workshops in the UK and abroad and has travelled widely in Europe, photographing its flora and fauna with particular attention to its declining wild orchid populations
  • He is frequent writer and contributor to the photographic press and other natural history media. He has had several solo exhibitions of his work including the aerial landscape collection from the highly acclaimed ‘NATIONAL HISTORY OF ULSTER’ publication. His work has also been featured in Nikon Pro magazine and Nikon UK.
  • As an active conservationist, he has worked on several high-profile natural history recording projects in Ireland for the Northern Ireland Environment Agency, National Parks and Wildlife Service in the Republic of Ireland and television. He has a particular interest in dragonflies, butterflies and moths for which he has specialist knowledge.
  • Robert is a nature photographer, author and educator. He is the author of a number of books on photographic technique and it is hoped to have some of his books available to raffle at each of the above venues.

Robert Thompson-Shannon

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Congratulations Helen

Posted by on Nov 28, 2015

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Helen McQuillan   LIPF   receiving her Licentiate Certificate and Pin from Michael O’Sullivan President of the Irish Photographic Federation today.

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SACC, Regional Round IPF Photographer of the Year

Posted by on Nov 9, 2015

The regional round of the IPF Photographer Of The Year (IPF POTY) will be held in the Horse & Jockey Hotel, Co Tipperary on November 22nd.

Closing date for entries is Friday November 20th.
To enter, you must be a member of an SACC affiliated club.
Entry must be completed online via the online entry system.
As well as the Open category for the 3 sections, there are also the following themed categories :-
Colour Print –                People Creatively (Images that are out of the ordinary and with significant input from the photographer at whatever stage of the process he or she decides.
                                          “More than a straight portrait. Environmental, Travel,etc.”
Monochrome Print  –  Seascape 
 
Projected Image –        People in their Environment (Taken in any country)
Please note : New for  this year:-
        You must use the new colour coded labels on the back of your prints –  please print them in colour and attach securely to the back of you prints.
        Prints without these labels will not be accepted
      Label link SACC Label
  • You must upload a digital copy of all prints at time of entry
  • Make sure you enter the correct level as defined in the rules
Also see link to IPF website : 
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Programme Sept 14th – Dec 21st 2015

Posted by on Oct 26, 2015

Sept 14th         Welcome back. Photos “My Summer” 3-5 on stick.

Sept 21st        Photo League. Five members present their favoured photographers, websites.

Exercise:  Autumn 2015 to be returned on 12th October, 3 – 5 on memory stick.

Sept 26th           Distinctions, The Lifecourse Institute, NUI, Galway 

Sept 28th         Photo League. Photoshop Tutorials, Catchlight Videos. 

Oct 5th              Photo League, monochrome only. Bring in possible photos colour & mono for National Shield.

Oct 12th            AGM .  Photo League. Return Autumn exercise.

                        Exercise: Capture the character of a town for November 9th.

Oct 17th/18th     National Audio Visual Championships, Arus Chronan, Clondalkin, Dublin.

Oct 19th          Audio Visual Night with all the AV Group’s entries for 2015 .

                          Discuss night photography.

Oct 26th          No Club. Public Holiday

Nov 2nd          Night photo shoot, 7:30pm in Sixmilebridge..

Nov 7th            National Shield   Malahide Community School, Dublin. 

Nov 9th           Photo League, Portrait only . Return exercise ”Capture the character of a town.”

                          Photoshop: Watermarks, Layers etc..

Nov 16th         Guest speaker.

                          Exercise: Creative Images for December 7th.

Nov 21st          Distinctions Judging, Technology Institute, Thurles. 

Nov 23rd         Photo League:  Bring back night shots, 3 – 5 on memory stick

Nov 30th          Photo League.   Macro / Close up session. Bring cameras, lenses, tripods, lights and items to be photographed.

Dec 7th             Photo League.   Bring back Creative Images.

Dec 14th         Photo League.   Calendars.

Dec 21st           Christmas night out.

First Night after Christmas, January 11th, bring in 3 – 5 images of Christmas on Memory Stick.

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