AV News 175 - February 2009
What Colour is the Wind?
Lilian Webb AIPF
The 26th National Irish AV Championships were hosted by Shannon Camera
Club and the event was held on the 18th and 19th October 2008. The judge
for the competition was Eddie Spence FRPS and the results were:
NOVICE SECTION - ( *Denotes a first time entrant )
Commended
'A Journey Down Memory Train'
by Noel Doyle LIPF* of Photographic Society of Ireland
H Comm
'Pictures of a Farm Protest'
by Francis Monaghan* of Celbridge Camera Club
Second
'A Trip to Kerala India'
by Mary O’Reilly of Killarney Camera Club
First place and the George & Doreen Pollock Medal for first time entrant
'Fenloe' by Edwin Bailey* of Shannon Camera Club
INTERMEDIATE SECTION
Commended 'Journeys' by Tommy Kelly of Shannon Camera Club
H Comm
'A Celtic Klondike'
by Micheal Doyle AFIAP of Photographic Society of Ireland
Second
'Time Passages' by Tommy Kelly of Shannon Camera Club
First Place
'New Zealand, Land of Ice Fire & Water'
by Noel Mahony of Celbridge Camera Club
ADVANCED SECTION
Commended 'Tuscany' by Deirdre Gaffney of Malahide Camera Club
H Comm
'A Glimpse of the Big South'
by Geraldine Malthouse of Waterford Camera Club
Third
'Howth Harbour '
by Patricia Ronan LIPF of Malahide Camera Club
Second
'Fragile Dingle' by Alan Lyons AIPF HonAPSI
of Photographic Society of Ireland
First Place
'Where Rainbows Touch the Ground'
by Kieran O’Loughlin FI PF ARPS of Shannon Camera Club
Eddie gave very helpful advice, tips and his observations after each of the 24
sequences. Also we were treated to the showing of some of his sequences:
'Mary Myfanwy Evans', 'Sunday Morning coming Down', 'Chief Dan George',
'Winter Love', 'Isadora's Legacy' and 'This Native Land'. He explained why he
had made them and answered questions on how they were produced.
Congratulations go to our two successful applications for distinctions Geraldine Malthouse achieved her LIPF and Raymond Hughes his A IPF.
Eddie also showed 'What Colour is the Wind' but as I was tucked up in a
darkened room for a day and half acting as MC, I cannot answer that
question...but there was a lot of wind outside ...and maybe some hot air inside!
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