AV News 200 - May 2015
Raymond Hughes LRPS
N IP A A V F e s tiv a l
The Northern Ireland Photographic Association AV Festival was held on
13th /14th February 2015 at The Courtyard Theatre, Ballyearl. We were
delighted to have our esteemed AV News editors Jill and John as judges.
This was the first time that they had
visited with us in Northern Ireland so it was
important that we made a good impression
(don't want a bad review in AV News, do
we?) but being Friday 13th it just had to
happen, CRASH went the Festival
computer with 2 hours to go.
A quick substitution and it was over to
Jill and John who entertained the
Newtownabbey Mayor and the sizeable
Friday evening audience with a selection of their work and the much
anticipated appearance of Little Ted and friends.
A 2a.m. session on the laptop by the Tech Team to sort the problems and
the Competitions with a record entry started on time, Saturday morning. We
do like to work our judges, so Jill and John had Novice, NIPA Open (N. Ireland
club members only), All Ireland (including IPF club members), Inter
Federation competition and Special categori es to select. Wow! They got
straight to work and made constructive comments after each of the Novice
entries which were much appreciated by the novices.
Their deliberations resulted in Brian Hennessey's sequence 'Resurrection'
a sequence in mono and colour showing the renewal of a new church building
from the ruins of the old church, winning the Novice Tray.
Mark Allen's 'Iceland' a dramatic picture and
music
sequence
without commentary
featuring colour and mono images of Iceland
was judged the top NIPA sequence winning
the 'Open' competition and PAGB Gold
medal. 'Iceland' also won the Inter-federation
Neil Marshall Medal.
Mark Allen (left) Receiving the Trophy
from NIPA President Martin Spackman
'The Open Box' by James Hamill ARPS won the
PAGB Silver medal and also the audience vote. A
beautiful sequence featuring original images of the
aftermath of WW1, taken by the Uncle of his local
minister.
Lilian Webb IPF Vice-President presenting
James Hamill with the Audience Vote
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