Dundalk do it again
Dundalk Photographic Society has won the IPF 2012 National Club Championships held in the Institute of Technology, Athlone on Sunday the 20th of May.
Dundalk competed against 28 other irish camera clubs to take the coveted Rosebowl award with Drogheda Photographic Club coming in second place and Mallow Camera Club, the defending champions, in third place.
Rosebowl
Overall Winner – Dundalk Photographic Society
2nd Place – Drogheda Photographic Club
3rd Place – Mallow Camera Club
Monochrome Panels
1st Place – Drogheda Photographic Society
2nd Place – Dundalk Photographic Society
3rd Place – Mallow Camera Club
Colour Panels
1st Place – Dundalk Photographic Society
2nd Place – Drogheda Photographic Club
3rd Place – Cork Camera Group
Individual Awards
Monochrome
Gold – Gabriel O’Shaughnessy – Dundalk Photographic Society – Smoker
Silver – Des Clintion – Drogheda Photographic Club – Roma Family
Bronze – John Hooton – Mallow Camera Club – Rolling Wave
Highly Commended – Gabriel O’Shaughnessy – Dundalk Photographic Society – Hair Cut
Highly Commended – Declan Gernon – Dundalk Photographic Society – Laytown Races
Colour
Gold – Gold – Gabriel OShaughnessy – Dundalk Photographic Society – Molly
Silver – David Martin – Dundalk Photographic Society – Tranquility
Bronze – Bronze – Brian Hopper – Dundalk Photographic Society – Swan on the River
Highly Commended – Michael OSullivan – Cork Camera Group – Fallen Angel
Highly Commended – Adrain Parkinson – Drogheda Photographic Club – Lady with Poppy
All Panels Entered
Full Results
Club |
Monochrome Prints |
Colour Prints |
Total |
| Tallaght Photographic Society | 441 | 444 | 885 |
| Navan Camera Club | 0 | 414 | 414 |
| Kilkenny PS | 463 | 495 | 958 |
| Palmerstown | 431 | 0 | 431 |
| Dublin Camera Club | 449 | 470 | 919 |
| An Oige | 402 | 403 | 805 |
| Celbridge CC | 475 | 481 | 956 |
| Offshoot | 438 | 466 | 904 |
| Clonmel | 457 | 468 | 925 |
| Enniscorthy CC | 440 | 463 | 903 |
| Mid-Louth | 488 | 509 | 997 |
| Limerick | 469 | 456 | 925 |
| Drogheda | 537 | 529 | 1066 |
| Shannon CC | 417 | 438 | 855 |
| Dundalk | 535 | 542 | 1077 |
| Mullingar CC | 439 | 469 | 908 |
| Cork CC | 501 | 510 | 1011 |
| Wexford CC | 453 | 488 | 941 |
| Satsun | 0 | 381 | 381 |
| North Kerry | 427 | 480 | 907 |
| Malahide | 494 | 488 | 982 |
| Dungarvan | 445 | 464 | 909 |
| Mayo | 425 | 0 | 425 |
| Midlands | 432 | 464 | 896 |
| Mallow CC | 514 | 507 | 1021 |
| Blarney | 439 | 431 | 870 |
| Galway | 479 | 472 | 951 |
| Clondalkin | 477 | 505 | 982 |
| South Kildare | 408 | 462 | 870 |
I really enjoyed the club competition. People at it were very helpful and friendly. There were some fantastic images on display. Personally I enjoyed the Limerick Panels very much. Both black and white and colour contained some lovely images. Portraits seemed to feature very strongly in the winners. They weren’t as memorable for me as some other outstanding and creative images.
Great to see the results and the panels online so quickly – thanks Darragh.
Thanks a lot for making all the panels available and so quickly. It is a real pleasure to be able to look at all the panels again.
Fabulous to see all results & panels posted for all to see. Darragh, congrats on a job well done.
Brian, thank you but it was a collective effort of Deirdre Gaffney, Trudy Stafford, Sarah Nix, Mark Sedgewick and myself that lead to a very successfully run National Club Finals, Darragh
Having been involved in club photography since the very early days, it is sad to see that club competitions seem to be totally dominated by portraits nowadays – where has the creativity and willingness to try something different gone. Quite ridiculous to see entire panels of portraits entered – are we just glorified professional photographers now.
The judging of the distinctions was at a very high standard, congratulations to the judges on a job well done .
Adrian
Very well done to winners but I think it’s time we saw some other clubs taking the title. It’s getting sort of boring, Dundalk, Drogheda, Dundalk, Drogheda, Dundalk……….