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Club Programme Jan 21st – Mar 21st 2016

Posted by Sheamus on Mar 7, 2016

Programme January 11^th – Mar 21st 2016

Jan 11th Photo League. My Christmas.

Jan 20^th Hosting visit of Robert Thompson, Nature, Landscape, & Macro photographer.

Jan 24^th SACC Nature regional round, Celtis Ross Hotel, Rosscarberry.

Jan 25th Photo League. Printing a basic overview. Remember calendar photos for December.

Exercise: Street photography for February 15^th.

Feb 1st Photo League. Lighting workshop. Bring cameras. Show results March 14^th.

Feb 8^th Photo League, Mono only. Photoshop Tutorials.

Feb 15th Photo League. Bring back Street Photography, 3-5 on memory stick.

Exercise: Ireland 2016 for March 7^th.

Feb 20^th/21^st IPF Photographer of the Year and Nature Photographer of The Year, Kilkenny.

Feb 22nd Photo League, Gerry Butler presents a selection of his work.

Feb 29th Photo League. One print illustrating John Lennon’s song, ” Imagine”

Mar 5^th Distinctions, Dumamaise Arts Centre, Portlaoise. Ls & As only.

March 7^th Photo League. Return Ireland 2016, 3-5 on memory stick.

March 14^th Photo League. Announce Spring Trail. Show results of Lighting workshop or similar photos.

March 17^th – 20^th Shoot Spring Trail.

Mar 21^st Speaker.

Exercise: Abstract Photography for April 11^th.

March 28^th Easter Monday, No Club return after Easter for Spring Trail on April 4^th

April 4th Spring Trail judgement night with the usual trimmings.

The Venue Workshops

Posted by Sheamus on Feb 9, 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.

Robert Thompson FIPF, FRPS, Lecture Tour.

Posted by Sheamus 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.