A CD of the RPS - Nature Group 2008 Annual Exhibition, is now ready with copies of all of the Accepted Slides, Prints and Digital images from this years exhibition with a full commentary.

It will be ideal for a Club evening, as well as a great way for individuals to see the very best of Nature Photography from around the globe by British Photographers.

The cost is only £10.00 each inc p&p, payable to the "RPS - Nature Group".

All those interested, please contact me, referring to this site, by e-mail at: tremaine@photographer.net

Regards

Tremaine A O Cornish
On behalf of the RPS Nature Group

 RPS AV Group (Ireland) 

Next Workshop Day: Saturday 6 September 2008 

Venue: Railway Street Presbyterian Church Hall, Lisburn 

10.00am – 4.30pm 

Programme: Basic Sound Workshop

At our last workshop some members suggested we organise among ourselves a very practical hands-on workshop concentrating on all aspects of basic sound: equipment, software and how actually to do it (Audacity etc.) voice recording, creating the right environment for recording, recording sounds 'on location', sound effects, adding music, producing the final CD -- whatever help any one of us needs to get going and to improve quality -- all with the purpose of knowing the BASICS in preparation for the visit of Howard Gregory and Suzanne Walker in November.

PLEASE ALSO NOTE THE DATE(S):   SATURDAY 1 NOVEMBER 2008

Would any of your Clubs like to use their services on the evening of Friday 31 October?

And there's a possibility of their giving an additional session on Sunday 2nd, but I'll be tidying up the overall arrangements in good time to let everyone know by 6th September.

SUMMER PROJECT:

We've had several very good short AVs generated through our summer projects, e.g. Reflections and Dereliction. So here's our theme:

A '321' (3 minutes 21 seconds) sequence on 'Once Upon a Time.....'

RESULTS TO BE PROJECTED AS THE FIRST POST-LUNCH ITEM ON SATURDAY 6 SEPTEMBER.

SO GET CRACKING AND LET IMAGINATION AND CREATIVITY FLOURISH!

 

Best wishes to you all!

GORDON

Gordon Gray  028 2076 9722

E-mail:  rev6845@yahoo.co.uk OR gordon.gray@homecall.co.uk

DIRECTIONS to Railway Street Presbyterian Church Halls, Lisburn

From Belfast direction: leave M1at first exit.  Drive to town centre, through traffic lights and a roundabout.  At roundabout do not go up the hill but swing right and then first left (tall building – new Library will be on your right) Continue to T-junction (at KwikFit and garages).  Turn right and follow one-way system (passing Jessops on your right) and take next right at traffic lights.  Continue till you see the Railway Station on your left.  You swing right into Railway Street and the church is on the right.  Take the next right, just past the church, and you may be able to park in the church car part (again on the right).  More likely you will have to drive on a short distance to another T-junction.  Turn right and use the multi-storey car park on the left.

From South: at new Sprucefield roundabout system follow signs to ‘Lisburn’ and continue to town centre, past hospital on right, till you see the above mentioned KwikFit and garages on your left and continue as above. 

From North: continue as directly as you can to town centre, keeping straight on at first main roundabout (Tesco’s is away off to the right) and you will join the one-way system which will swing you left, passing Railway Station as above.

N.I.P.A AUDIO-VISUAL FESTIVAL 2009

Friday 20th  and  Saturday 21st  February 2009

at the

Courtyard Theatre, Ballyearl

 

Advanced news of next year’s AV Festival.  Entries may digital or slide. 

Full details of rules etc. and entry forms will be available from Nov./Dec. 

Special categories (your sequence does not have to fall within these): 

       Northern Ireland theme      

       Documentary/travel

       Music, poetry or song

       Best first time entrant   

Further enquiries to:

James Hamill 028 25641161 (slide/sound sequences)

Raymond Hughes 028 93341966(digital sequences)

There have recently been numerous articles deploring the increasing (and often illegal) attitudes being taken by officialdom, including the police,to photography.

See eg the BBC website article:http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7351252.stm

The attitudes can be worse than those we used to ridicule in Russia. There is a Downing street website petition which photographers can sign...(which I have signed) http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/photographylaw/

and there is a document spelling out a photographer's rights in detail at http://www.sirimo.co.uk/ukpr.php

Incidents and anti-photography campaigns

:http://nycphotorights.com/wordpress/?p=110 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7351252.stm http://www.allensphotoblog.com/blog1/2007/09/photography_terrorism.html

or http://tinyurl.com/4owutd http://flash.popphoto.com/blog/2007/06/the-crime-of-ph.html http://flash.popphoto.com/blog/2007/10/the-crime-of-ph.html http://flash.popphoto.com/blog/2007/09/the-crime-of-ph.html http://flash.popphoto.com/blog/2007/11/the-crime-of-ph.html http://www.episcopalcafe.com/daily/war_and_peace/every_day_diplomacy.php

or http://tinyurl.com/3x5f6c http://www.boingboing.net/2008/05/14/bb-reader-two-fbi-ag.html http://www.andycarvin.com/archives/2008/05/almost_arrested_for_taking_photos_at_uni.html

or http://tinyurl.com/6dq3ea http://blog.washingtonpost.com/rawfisher/2008/05/union_station_photo_follies.html

or http://tinyurl.com/5rp2zb http://www.amateurphotographer.co.uk/news/Antiterror_police_defend_campaign_targeting_suspicious_behaviour_of_people_with_cameras_news_195594.html or http://tinyurl.com/28qq9x http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,23553587-952,00.html http://www.salon.com/tech/col/smith/2006/02/10/askthepilot173/index.html

or http://tinyurl.com/4x7v8zhttp://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/20/arts/design/20shat.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1210125984-qrPPfpI/kDlEi+wMrOvtEA

or http://tinyurl.com/5w9c3n  http://lightchasersphotography.com/blog/how-to-shoot-photographs-like-a-terrorist/

or http://tinyurl.com/58qz56 http://www.memphisflyer.com/memphis/Content?oid=oid%3A41348

"Nonsense":http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/03/uk-politician-c.html

Photographers' rights:http://www.sirimo.co.uk/ukpr.php http://www.krages.com/phoright.htm http://www.kantor.com/blog/2005/12/legal-rights-of-photographers/ http://www.artslaw.com.au/_documents/files/StreetPhotographersRights.pdf or http://tinyurl.com/6kyc7m

This essay originally appeared in The Guardian:http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jun/05/news.terrorism

Danny (Dr Daniel V.McCaughan OBE FREng,

McCaughan Associates, 20 Circular Road East, Cultra, Holywood BT18 0HA N.Ireland

Phone+44 2890 428366 Fax +44 2890 428367)

dvm@picatec.com

Landscape Photographer of the Year, Your Chance to win £10,000

Visit http://www.take-a-view.co.uk for details.

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IRISH PHOTOGRAPHIC FEDERATION
25th ANNUAL AUDIO VISUAL FESTIVAL.

The 25th IPF Audio Visual Championships were held in Collins Barracks Dublin from 12th to 14th October 2007
We are delighted to say that this event was made possible by the kind grant received from Dublin City Council, and the help and assistance of the staff of The National Museum at Collins Barracks.
 
The Competition was judged by Colin Balls F.R.P.S  F.I.P.F
The Results are as follows:
NOVICE:

1. Theatre of Dreams  Margaret Finlay Celbridge Camera Club.
2. Blooming Flowers  Mary O’Reilly     Killarney  Camera Club.

Highly Commended:   Overend Way    Margaret Finlay  Celbridge Camera Club.
           Commended:   Faces of Africa  Daniel Foley      Cork Camera Group.

INTERMEDIATE:

1. National Botanic Gardens. Patricia Ronan         Malahide Camera Club
2. A Cornish Pastiche             Brendan O Sullivan  Celbridge Camera Club.

Highly Commended:  Skellig Mhichil            Harry Reynolds          Malahide Camera Club
A Walk in the Woods  Sheamus O’Donohue  Shannon Camera Club

ADVANCED:

1. Where Poetic Champions Compose  Kieran O’Loughlin       Shannon Camera Club
2. A Day on Whistler Mountain              Alan Lyons                Photographic Society of Ireland
3. The Witch & the Bell               Sheilah Peel & Peter Coles   Castlebar Camera Club

           Commended:   Kolmanskuppe    Micheal Doyle & Sean Mooney   PSI/ An Oige
                                   St. Patrick’s Day  Lillian Webb                              Celbridge Camera Club.

BEST FIRST TIME ENTRANT: Theatre of Dreams                             Margaret Finlay         Celbridge Camera Club.

BEST SOUND:                        Where Poetic Champions Compose  Kieran O’Loughlin       Shannon Camera Club

BEST PHOTOGRAPHY:           National Botanic Gardens  Patricia Ronan       Malahide Camera Club

BEST OVERALL:                     Where Poetic Champions Compose  Kieran O’Loughlin       Shannon Camera Club

AUDIENCE VOTE:                    Where Poetic Champions Compose  Kieran O’Loughlin       Shannon Camera Club

 

INTERNATIONAL:

1. The Way Forward.           Peter Coles                                   United Kingdom
2. A Point of View               Mike Kersting / Brendan Murphy      United Kingdom
3. Exiled Mind                     Ron Davies                                    United Kingdom

Very Highly Commended:   The Least of the Faithful           Raymond Hughes     Northern Ireland
          Highly Commended:   the Big Apple                           Frank Malthouse      Ireland
                                                A Love Affair                            Maggie Imhoff          United Kingdom

 AUDIENCE VOTE:                    The Sadness Will Last Forever   Eddie Spence        United Kingdom

DISTINCTIONS:
           
LIPF: Margaret Finlay  Celbridge Camera Club.       Theatre of Dreams  &   Overend Way                                                     Granted
AIPF: Alan Lyons Photographic Society of Ireland   A Day on Whistler Mountain, FeedingTime 50,& Salthill Airshow 2005   Granted

Special thanks to all who helped to make the event a success.
The IPF Audio Visual Team are:
Frank Malthouse      Chairman
Lillian Webb            Secretary
Alan Lyons             Technical Team
Kieran O’Loughlin    Technical Team  

Special Mention to Brendan O’Sullivan who compiled the Introduction Sequence and assisted the Technical Team, but especially for shedding light upon us all as and when we needed it.

Very Special Mention to our newly discovered star. Our MC for the weekend, the legend that is Vincent Murphy!      

17 October 07
Sadness and Success

Once more I must begin this notice with the announcement of the deaths of two well-known and valued members of the AV community in Ireland. Last week Sean Mooney took ill suddenly during the night, was admitted to hospital but sadly died. His funeral took place in Dublin last Friday, 12th October. A keen member of our Group and regular participant in our Workshops, he usually had a sequence to submit, whether in response to one of our competitions or just for general critique. The latest of these, on the worked-out Namibian mining town, Kolmanskuppe, co-produced with Michael Doyle, was shown at our last gathering on 15th September. Last weekend it was ‘Commended’ in the Advanced Section of the annual IPF AV Festival in Dublin. We will all miss Sean’s genial personality as well as his productions. His partner Meadhbh O’Leary is assured of the deep sympathy and affection of the RPS AV Group (Ireland)

Earlier, on 21st August, the death took place of Michael Kelly, FIPF, of Galway Camera Club and the IPF National Audio-Visual Group. Producer of many outstanding sequences, he was a frequent prize-winner of the IPF competition. While I don’t have the details to hand, on at least one occasion his sequence won the annual IPF/NIPA battle.. The IPF Festival Programme carried the following tribute:

‘Michael was a gentleman and a great promoter, especially west of the River Shannon, of audio visual. He willingly gave of his time and experience to everyone. He was a mater of the craft of audio visual; and his stunning landscape images captured the light of the west of Ireland together with very slow dissolving images to very appropriate music let him produce wonderful “third images” to which we all aspire”.  Some years ago, I had the privilege of judging the IPF competition, held that year in Mallow, and I had great difficulty separating first and second, in the end awarding first place to John Hooton, another master of landscape/seascape and spectacular dissolves. Again, we extend our sympathy to Michael’s wife and family

But now to happier things—a notable success! 
For the first time, and to mark their 25th anniversary, the IPF Festival added an International section. The twenty-one entries included some top names – Enrico Bernasconi of Italy, Malcolm Imhoff, England and Chair of the Jury at last month’s UK National AV Festival in Leicester, and Robert Albright, Chair of the RPS Distinctions Panel. The top award went to Peter Coles for The Way Forward, an imaginative interpretation of ‘Alice’, blending complex images with superb sound. Second was A Point of View – dramatic images of the worst aspects of the Northern Ireland Troubles by press photographer Brendan Murphy made into an AV sequence by Mike Kersting (UK), while third went to Ron Davies’ The Exiled Mind – his moving and beautifully photographed sequence on his nostalgia for his native Wales. Then came our own Raymond Hughes with his NIPA 2007 winning production on St Patrick, The Least of the Faithful. This receivedthe award of ‘Very Highly Commended’, the Judge being none other than Colin Balls. Those who know Colin are aware that he does not hand out such accolades lightly. To Raymond: hearty congratulations!

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