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National Club Championships 2018

June 15, 2018 by Gerry Leave a Comment

The IPF club competitions came to an end for 2017 / 2018 on the weekend of May 19th and 20th in the Atrium of the County Buildings in Mullingar with the National Club Championships . The concensus of opinion among the participants and the audience was that the weekend was  a resounding success. 

I think it is a great pity that a photographic competitions  or other photographic events  such as this one get hardly any media attention. When one picks up the paper any day or listens to the radio or looks at television and notes the massive attention that is given to all kinds of sports both amateur and professional whether it’s hurling or gaelic football or soccer and at this time of year, tennis, or anything else I think it is lamentable that no correspondent even those whose speciality is the arts  ever visits or reports on photographic events.

Twenty four of the possible seventy five clubs affiliated to the Federation competed in the National Club Championships this time, but while more entrants would have been very welcome the quality of the images on display, the Monochrome on Saturday and the Colour on Sunday was, by any standards, extraordinarily high.  Going  around the panels I could only marvel at the huge effort that was put into creating , photographing, post processing  and superbly  printing the four hundred and seventy images on display.  (One club did not have a Monochrome panel)

The judges for the event were  Tom Dodd, FRPS, FIPF, DPAGB, ,Russell Lindsey, FPBE, EFIAP, MPAGB from England  and Bjarne Hyldgaard Pedersen, EFIAP/p MSDF/b NMiFM from Denmark. Speaking to them privately and in their public remarks they stated that in their opinion  there was not a bad photo in any of the panels and that the standard of photography was as good as anything they had seen anywhere.

In every competition there are Winners with a capital W and non winners but in an event such as the National Club Finals everyone is a winner because to be there  representing  your club is a success in it’s own right. The winning clubs in the Monochrome were 1st Place Catchlight Camera Club, Belfast, in 2nd Place, Dundalk Photographic Society and in 3rd Place, Drogheda Photographic Club. In the Individual placings  Joe Vize and Laurie Campbell of Catchlight Camera Club got Honourable Mentions as did Dave Martin of Dundalk P. S. The Gold Medal was won by Keith Elgin, the Silver and Bronze by Ross McKelvey all of Catchlight Camera Club.

 

Catchlight Camera Club Presented with the Trophy for Overall First Place & Sean Casey Memorial Trophy at the IPF 2018 Club Championships

The winning clubs in the Colour were 1st Place, Catchlight Camera Club, 2nd Place, Dundalk P.S. and in joint 3rd Place Drogheda Photographic Club and Blarney Photography Club. In the colour Individual Awards Ross McKelvey received two Honourable Mentions. Joe Carberry also got an Honourable Mention, all from Catchlight Camera Club. The Gold Medal went to Mark English, Dundalk Photographic Society, the Silver was won by Gregory McStraw of Catchlight Camera Club and the Bronze was taken by Hugh Wilkinson also a Catchlight Camera Club member.

Dundalk Photographic Society Presented with the Trophy for Second Place Colour at the IPF 2018 Club Championships

The Sean Casey Memorial Trophy was won for the second year in a row by Catchlight Camera Club, Belfast with Dundalk Photographic Society in second place and Drogheda Photographic Club placed third.

Heartiest congratulations to the clear winners Catchight Camera Club and to Dundalk and Drogheda and to all the other participating clubs also.

 

Drogheda Photographic Club Presented with the Trophy for Overall Third Place at the IPF 2018 Club Championships

The National Club Finals happen every year but this was no ordinary year because the Irish Photographic Federation had reached a very important milestone having been founded forty years ago in 1978 and to celebrate the fortieth anniversary all the founding members and all the former Presidents were invited guests at the annual Saturday night dinner hosted by our  current President, Dominic Reddin. The former Presidents who attended on the night were Des Clinton, Cliff Hutchinson, Podge Kelly, Paul Stanley, Eamonn McCarthy, Mark Sedgwick, and John Cuddihy. James Finn, Ciaran O’Keefe and Michael O’Sullivan were unable to attend. Dominic Reddin having introduced  each of them spoke about the progress of the Federation from it’s beginning to the present and then all of the former Presidents entertained all present with their recollections and anecdotes of their time in the hot seat. Des Clinton spoke especially about Sean Casey RIP who as President and in many other ways over the years played a major role in building up of the IPF from small beginnings to what it is today. Michael O’Sullivan (Mayo) a former long standing hard working member of Council and well known for many years as the Distinctions secretary was also a guest on the night as was Sean Cannon originally of Monaghan now living in Achill. Sean along with Sean Casey, Des Clinton and others were involved from the very beginning in the formation of the IPF and Sean regaled us with his stories from that time.

To mark the occasion all Presidents, Michael O’Sullivan and Sean Cannon were presented with  IPF commemorative medals.

Finally,as the co-ordinato

r of the Championships this year I would like to thank Dominic Reddin for  putting his trust in me to run the event. Organising something like this could never be done without the cooperation of others and in that regard I thank Liam Beattie, Brian Deering, Gerry Kerr, Denis Whelehan,  Ita Martin & Des Clinton for meeting the judges Russell Lindsay his wife Barbie, the speaker on Sunday morning, and Tom Dodd at Dublin Airport & delivering them to Mullingar, Bill Power who Liaised with Bjarne Pedersen. Thanks also to Helen McQuillan the competition referee Lilian Webb & Frank Condra, and to all for making the weekend a pleasant one.

 A very special thank you to Bob Morrison and his team in Mullingar for the work they put in setting up and taking down the boards on Saturday morning and Sunday evening and particularly to Bob himself  for all he did locally in Mullingar making the accomodation arrangements with the Mullingar Park Hotel and for  the very special fortieth anniversary dinner.

Winning Panels and images

Colour_Bronze_Medal_Hugh_Wilkinson_Catchlight_Camera_Club_Fox_with_Quarry Colour_First_Place_Catchlight_Camera_Club Colour_Gold_Medal_Mark_English_Dundalk_Photographic_Society_Wise_Soul Colour_Highly_Commended_Joe_Carberry_Catchlight_Camera_Club_Captain_Kevo Colour_Highly_Commended_Ross_McKelvey_Catchlight_Camera_Club_The_Red_Hat Colour_Highly_Commended_Ross_McKevey_Catchlight_Camera_Club_Autumn_Cape Colour_Second_Place_Dundalk_Photographic_Society Colour_Silver_Medal_Gregory_McStraw_Catchlight_Camera_Club_Kirkjufell_Waterfall Colour_Third_Place_Blarney_Photography_Club Colour_Third_Place_Drogheda_Photographic_Club Mono_Bronze_Medal_Ross_McKelvey_Catchlight_Camera_Club_Ebony_Dove mono_First_Place_Catchlight_Camera_Club Mono_Gold_Medal_Keith_Elgin_Catchlight_Camera_Club_Crash_and_Splash Mono_Highly_Commended_Dave_Martin_Dundalk_Photographic_Society_Pilgrim Mono_Highly_Commended_Joe_Vize_Catchlight_Camera_Club_Watchman Mono_Highly_Commended_Laurie_Campbell_Catchlight_Camera_Club_Mona_Lisa_with_Vulture mono_Second_Place_Dundalk_Photographic_Society Mono_Silver_Medal_Ross_McKelvey_Catchlight_Camera_Club_Mischkah mono_Third_Place_Drogheda_Photographic_Club Overall_Winner_Colour_Catchlight_Camera_Club Overall_Winner_Mono_Catchlight_Camera_Club

All colour panel entries

Athlone_Photography_Club Blackwater_Photographic_Society Blarney_Photography_Club Boyne_Valley_Photographic_Club Breffni_Photography_Club Catchlight_Camera_Club Celbridge_Camera_Club Clondalkin_Camera_Club Cork_Camera_Group Drogheda_Photographic_Club Dublin_Camera_Club Dundalk_Photographic_Society Ennis_Camera_Club Kilkenny_Photo_Society Malahide_Camera_Club Mallow_Camera_Club Mayo_Photographic_Club Mullingar_Camera_Club Navan_Camera_Club OffShoot_Photography_Society_(South_Dublin) Palmerstown_Camera_Club Portlaoise_Camera_Club Shannon_Camera_Club Wicklow_Photography_Club

All Mono Panel entries

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Adrian DES Gabriel Group John-B John Judges Judy Mark-Tony Michelle Holy Cow - Judy Boyle Orphans - Gabriel OShaughnessy Big Doors Small People - Ciaran De-Bhal Indian Girl - Ruth Kelly Annie - Des Clinton An Tsaoi - Adrian Parkinson Star of the show - Michelle McNally Lady in Straw Hat - Tony McDonnell Barber to The Famous - Brian Hopper The Workshop - Des Connors 05.-Motion-R-OCallaghan-Mallow 06.-Dreams-John-Holmes Bohs v Carrick Utd - U-11 (A) League SONY DSC 09.Red-Coat-_Judy-BoyleFIPF 1.Train-PassT_Teddy-Caffrey 10-Good-Evening-John-Holmes 11-Running-Gordon-OReilly-Mid-louth Downhill 13.Explosion-Natalja-Murphy Breathe! 15.-Amys-Twirl-B.Hopper 16.-Dont-Look-Leap-Lorraine-G 17.-Jetty-Ciaran-Der-Bhal- 18.-Rising-High-michael-Crean 19.Lughnasadh-Michael-OSullivan 2.Boys-of-NYPD-Madej-Przemyslaw-DCC 20.-Rock-Morgan-ONeill-045 3.-Biker-Michael-Crean-041 4.-Kingfisher-desconnors 140_Runners 141_Holly-Bush 142_Quiraing 143_Benbulben-And-The-Heather- 144_ZIG-ZAG 145_Classiebawn-Castle-Mullaghmore 146_Autumn-in-Birr 147_Kingfisher 148_On-Reflection 149_Singing-Horse 14_Eye-on-the-Ball 130_Snowy-Sunset 131_WetWetWet 132_Late-Tackle 133_40-SHADES-OF-GREEN 134_Black-Cuillin-from-Egypt 135_Dawn-at-Glendalough 136_Gladiolus 137_Bee 138_QueenoftheCastle 13_LooksLikeJack 120_Abandoned-in-New-York 121_Into-The-Lighthouse 122_Catch 123_Mandawa-Farmyard-India 124_The-Twins 125_Laura 126_Early-Morning-Tram 127_eagle-head 128_River-in-Flood 129_The-Calm-Sea 12_Stag_In_The_Park OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA 111_Liffey-Descent 112_Italian-Sunflowers 113_South-Bull-Wall 114_Church 115_Oh-No OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA 117_Well-Done 118_Durty-Bird 119_Target 11_Resting-Place 150_Hazy-day-at-Pontoon 151_Monte-Carlow-Style 152_Dockland.Tony-Murphy 153_Ulster-Bank-Sligo 154_Sharapova 155_GT-350 156_Rebel-Flowers 157_Summer-Soltice 158_The-Preacher 159_Boat4 15_gotic-lady 160_Smoke-signals 161_Samuel-Becket-Bridge 162_Strawberry-Splash 16_Red-Wreck OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA New England 10_Kids-on-cart 20_the-poor-horse 21_Boss-lady 22_Soft-Dawn 23_Navvy-Bank-Sunrise 24_Childhood-Memories 25_Maria 26_passing-time 27_Blowing-Bubbles 28_Rough-Waters 29_Red_Eye 30_Stare_Martin_Daly_TPG 31_Red-Boots 32_Fashion-Guru 33_GREENCHURCH-with-snow 34_PiercingStare 35_Blue-Bedroom 3_A-Bright-New-Day 09_Landing-a-catch 17_Fun-on-the-Beach 18_Photo-Finish 19_Orange_Tip 1_Muddy-Waters 4_Face-of-Retirement 5_LaDolceVita 7_Leaning-Tree-in-Snow 8_Midtown-Blues 139_Lift-Off 2_LunchTime 6_Hunter 163_Grafitti-Artist 164_Trio 165_Loyal-Follower 166_Jack_Russel 167_The-Lord-Mayor 168_Cheeky 169_Beaded-Masai 198_Through-the-looking-Glass 199_We-go-back-a-long-way 200_Galway-Man 201_John 202_Aidan-Aidan 203_Jojawar-Local 204_Loving-me-Loving-you...... 205_Philip 206_At-The-Barber-Ghanerao

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