A very special thank you to our guest photographer last Monday night,the renowned photographer Morgan O’Neill. Morgan is a member of The Cork Camera Group and has numerous awards to his credit including a Fellowship of the Irish Photographic Federation (IPF). Only a handful of photographers achieve this award each year. Morgan not only achieved his Fellowship on his first attempt, but over the past few years the quality of his work has ensured his rapid rise through the ranks of Irish photography and he and and is also a seasoned salon competitor.
Morgan’s fellowship panel was on display on the night and consisted of photographs of interiors of old unoccupied Irish houses, and gave an intriguing insight into a time gone by, and how people lived. The superb composition, and use of colour, varying from subtle to vivid was achieved in difficult lighting conditions. Morgan also specializes in portrait photography for which he is very well known. His stunning portraiture is inspiring to anyone who has ever pressed a shutter button and his lighthearted approach to public speaking is always both entertaining and informative.
Thank you Again Morgan for for a wonderful night

Jim Heffernan from Fermoy and a member of Blackwater Photographic Society  being presented with his silver medal from John Cuddihy president of the IPF and Michael Maher of Maher’s  Photographic (sponsors). Jim won the silver medal in the IPF National Nature competition 2013/2014 colour print open intermediate in Kilkenny last Sunday.

Well done Jim.

Next Monday we are privileged to have as our guest renowned photographer Morgan O’Neill. Morgan is a member of The Cork Camera Group. Morgan has numerous  awards to his credit including a Fellowship of the Irish Photographic Federation (IPF).  Only a handful of photographers achieve this award each year.  Morgan not only achieved his Fellowship on his first attempt, but over the past few years the quality of his work has ensured his rapid rise through the ranks of Irish photography.
Morgan’s fellowship panel which will be on display on the night consists of photographs of interiors of old unoccupied Irish houses, and gave an intriguing insight into a time now gone, and how people lived.  The superb composition, and use of colour, varying from subtle to vivid was achieved in difficult lighting conditions. Morgan also specializes in portrait photography.

Do not miss this opportunity to see photography at its best.

The Blackwater Photographic Society currently have a  Photography Exhibition at Cork County library’s LHQ Exhibition Space, next to County Hall, which is generously supported by Cork County Council’s Art Office. The Exhibition which features images from the majority of our members will run for a month.If you are in town call in for a look.

Tomorrows scheduled outing to Ballycotton , Saturday 15th of Febuary will go ahead as planned , leaving from the Arches at 1pm .

There is an outing to Ballycotton this coming Saturday 15th of Febuary . We will leave the Arches at 1 PM . As always it will depend on weather conditions , if we have to cancel on Saturday we will reschedule to an early start on Sunday morning 16th of Febuary weather permitting . The plan for the outing will be posted on the Website by Friday night.

Congratulations to Jim Heffernan and Pakie O’Donoghue who were both awarded Certificates of Honorable Mention in the recent SACC Nature competition 2014. Jim was awarded his Honorable Mention in the Color Print Open competition and Pakie won his in the Themed Projected section “The Natural World”. Well done you both on a fantastic achievement. Congratulations are also in order to Yvonne Esaw, Sinead O’Connell, Sandra Saridonas Zeimyte and John Flynn who, along with Pakie & Jim, had qualifying images for the IPF Nature competition National Finals coming up in March. Well done to you all and best of luck in the finals.

On Monday night 10th Febuary there will be a Photoshop Tutorial . The images that we will be processing on the night can be downloaded from the following link https://www.dropbox.com/sh/wcsmp7gulk2t3hi/eECMLQl9ni    . The plan is to  download the images to your computer and you will be able to edit them as we go through the tutorial

On Monday 27th January we are delighted to have  press photographer Stephen Murphy as our guest. Stephen has been covering events in Mallow and the surrounding areas for some time and has accumulated a vast library of photographs.

Tea and coffee will be served on the night.

The scheduled outing to killarney for tomorrow Saturday 18 th January will go ahead as planned , leaving the Arches Mallow at 1pm or you can meet up at the car park  at Torc Waterfall at 2.30