AV News 183 - February 2011
Out of this outing, four sequences were entered in the festival, all different, from
'Empty Spaces' by Brendan O'Sullivan AIPF, to 'Lucy's Adventure' by Marie
McGuinness, to 'The Stolen Child' from Noel Mahony and 'I am still' by Lilian
Webb AIPF, all members of Celbridge Camera Club!
Pearl Walsh LIPF won the Novice section with 'Our Road to Santiago De
Compostela'. 'My Passion…' was the winner in the Intermediate Section for
Margaret Finlay LIPF, who also won the trophy for the best sound. Kieran
O'Loughlin FIPF ARPS won the trophy for the best photography for 'The Secret
Visit' and the overall winner and winner of the advanced section was Noel
Mahony with 'The Stolen Child', which also won the audience vote.
Rita Nolan gained her LIPF in audio visual. The winner of the best first time
entrant went to Brian McKeown LIPF for 'Flora in Detail' and was awarded 'The
George and Doreen Pollock Medal', kindly donated by the RPS AV Group.
Linda and Edgar showed sequences including 'Devon Delight', 'Deep
Beneath', 'The Black Chair' and 'Talbot House' following the judging. On the
Sunday morning they gave a sound workshop for two hours, with audience
participation and showed how they went about adding music, sound effects and
voice to several of their sequences. They also showed one image of a
farmhouse, fields, trees etc. and set the scene with sound effects of a cock, the
dawn chorus, a cuckoo, crows, cows and a dog barking. Fortunately, they did
not play this the following morning before breakfast when staying with me!
We had an awfully good time - and the next day we went to County Offaly.
I'll be getting a bad reputation - I'm Irish - a non drinker and yet I've taken the
Tullamore Dew tour with Linda and Edgar - marking their AV sequence - before
they participated in the tasting - and I also accompanied Richard Brown on a
previous visit to Guinness!
Left to Right - Brendan O'Sullivan, 4th in Advanced Section
Edgar and Linda Gibbs our judges
Noel Mahony, winner of the Advanced section, overall gold medal & audience vote
Rita Nolan, third in the Novice Section, who gained her LIPF in AV
Margaret Finlay, who won the Intermediate Section and the best sound trophy.
All are members of Celbridge Camera Club!
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