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On Tuesday 17th April we had the second of our annual print battles, this time welcoming CB Camera Club to CPA. Our judge for the evening was Brian Maguire from BPIC. We followed the same format introduced last year: four rounds, two mono and two colour, with each round containing 10 of our prints and…
On Wednesday 11th April we had our annual print battle against City of Belfast Photographic Society. It was City of Belfast’s turn to host the event and they invited Billy Leahey along to judge. Each club brought along 15 mono and 15 colour prints and Billy commented on all 60 images, scoring them out of…
Friday 6th April saw the 2018 NIPA Novice Competition held at The Fountain Centre in Bangor. Thank you to all our members who supported the competition and submitted entries, both in projected and print format. We’re delighted to report that, for the third year in a row, CPA members had winning images. In the Mono…
On Tuesday 27th March we had the two special competitions for photographs taken on Practical Nights at CPA and for those taken on Club Outings during the year. As usual for our in-house competitions, the winning images were selected by the club members who each voted for their top five images. We had only three…
On Tuesday 13th March we were very pleased to welcome Stephen Wallace, perhaps better known as Hibernia Landscapes, to CPA. Stephen gave a wonderful presentation of his images and the detailed planning that goes into each of his shoots. We have a lot of members with an interest in landscape photography and so there was…
On Tuesday 6th March we had a club competition on the theme of Flora & Fauna. There were 27 prints entered with the members each voting for their favourite images. The placed images were as follows: 1st) Steve Haydon 2nd) Chelle McGaughey 3rd) Chelle McGaughey 4th) Robert Sergeant Congratulations to Steve on retaining the AES…
On Tuesday 16th January we had Gabriel O’Shaughnessy MFIAP, FIPF, FRPS, EFIAP/b at the CPA. Following Gabriel’s presentation at the NIPA 50th and his reputation as one of the leading photographers from the Dundalk World Cup winning camera club, this had the makings of being a well-attended night by all NIPA-affiliated club members. Unfortunately…
On Tuesday 27th February we had the last round of this year’s Wex Photo Video Interclub Competition, with the much-anticipated genre of Food Photography. Our judge for the evening was one of our own members, Darren Brown. Earlier in the month Darren gave us a presentation that he had also given at his other club,…
On Tuesday 20th February our own Ernie Patterson LRPS gave a workshop on freeze frame water-themed photography. He brought along an ingenious homemade system for triggering a flash to allow members to capture spectacular images of a dart (again homemade) bursting a water balloon. Ernie had rigged up a trigger in which the weight of…
On Tuesday 23rd January 2018 we had Round 4 of the Wex Photo Video Interclub Competition. Our judge for the evening was Colin Ross of Catchlight Camera Club. Colin commented on many of the 36 mono and 42 colour images that made up the print entry, finding that the mono entry was particularly strong. This…
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