http://www.sligocameraclub.org News, Views, Events and Photos from the club Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:25:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The next meeting will be held in The Scout Den on Thursday November 19th at 9pm, the main feature will be a competition on an "Autumn" theme followed by a guest speaker. http://www.sligocameraclub.org/2009/10/26/next-meeting-2/ Drogheda Photographic Club have launched a photo competition. Entries are to be submitted by email. More information here. http://www.sligocameraclub.org/2009/09/14/drogheda-photographic-club-open-competition/ Sligo Camera Club will return on Tuesday 15th September, meeting up in the Scout Hall, The Lungy (behind the Hawks Well Theatre) at 8.30pm MAP A programme of events for the period up to Christmas will appear here shortly. New members are very welcome. http://www.sligocameraclub.org/2009/09/14/the-return-of-camera-club/ Photography programmes on RTE1  from 9th to 14th August ‘Fergus Bourke: In His Own Words’ 9th August, 11:10pm, ‘Day by Day by Day’ 10th August, 7:30pm, ‘The Day Before Yesterday: The Birth of a Nation’ 10th August, 8:30pm, ‘David Farrell - Elusive Moments' 10th August, 11:05pm, ‘Riviera Cocktail’ 11th August, 11:30pm, ‘Sweet Cork of Thee - ... http://www.sligocameraclub.org/2009/08/10/the-look-of-the-irish/ We will be having a Photo Walk in Strandhill on Tuesday 25th May, meeting up at the cannon on the sea front at 7.30. All Welcome.   Also I can really recommend the Volvo Ocean Racing festival in Galway if you can make it next weekend. There's a great buzz around the place ... http://www.sligocameraclub.org/2009/05/25/photo-walk-in-strandhill/ The Volvo Ocean Race is coming to Ireland and to celebrate, Galway is hosting a 15-day festival of sailing, music, culture and craic and all for free! This takes place from 23rd May to 6th June.  Highlights include free concerts, street performance, an attempt to break the world record for Céilí dancing, a ... http://www.sligocameraclub.org/2009/05/19/volvo-ocean-race-competition/ The next Camera Club Competition will be held on Tuesday 19th May and the topic is 'Picture Within a Picture'. Let your imagination run wild. The only stipulation is that your entry must contain another picture within it, your own or sombody else's, be it print, painting, grafitti or something from ... http://www.sligocameraclub.org/2009/05/18/club-competition-picture-in-a-picture/ Thanks to Tim from thepicturecompany.ie, we have a prize for Tuesday's competition of a 12" x 16" canvas print. They are a small Monaghan based company that supply photographers with canvas and acrylic prints and are giving us the prize in exchange for us distributing information about their services to our members. So ... http://www.sligocameraclub.org/2009/04/19/prize-for-yeats-competition/ The theme for the next club competition (which will be held on Tuesday 21st April) is 'Yeats'. Entries should be inspired by the title or a line from a poem by William Butler Yeats. Since Yeats himself took so much inspiration from our locality, this is a great opportunity to get out ... http://www.sligocameraclub.org/2009/04/15/next-club-competition-yeats/ Here are the details of some competitions, exhibitions etc that have been brought to our attention: Tallaght 19th International Salon of Photographic Art. Details can be found at www.tpssalon.com   Belgrade is the World, which includes a category 'Cities of the World'. Details can be found at http://www.fotosavez.com/doc/pdf/BELGRADE%20IS%20THE%20WORLD%20A.pdf   Humanity Photo Awards (email me for address ... http://www.sligocameraclub.org/2009/04/15/356/