Results: Roy Finlay Memorial Natural History Competition

NIPA have just announced the results of the Roy Finlay Memorial Natural History Competition and our congratulations go out to Vivienne Beck who was awarded 3rd place in the Projected Digital Images category with her image Blackbird on Blackberries.

Congratulations Vivienne!

From NIPA;

NIPA would like to warmly congratulate the winners of the Roy Finlay Memorial Natural History Competition. Here are the results:

FIRST and SILVER PLATE WINNER
“Got-Ya”
Josie Devlin
Dungannon-Cookstown Camera Club

SECOND
“Mates for Life”
Louise Borbely
Central Photographic Association

THIRD
“Red Deer Stag”
Alan Cranston
Carrickfergus Camera Club

HIGHLY COMMENDED
“Emerging Crane Fly”
Louise Borbely
Central Photographic Association

HIGHLY COMMENDED
“Stonechat & Beetle”
Nigel Snell
Bangor & North Down Camera Club

COMMENDED
“Emerging Six-Spot Burnet Moth”
Ted McKee
Ards Camera Club

COMMENDED
“Ajax Imperator in Flight”
Danny McCaughan
Donaghadee Camera Club

COMMENDED
“Living High”
Eileen McCausland
Dungannon-Cookstown Camera Club

Awards made for Projected Digital Images

FIRST
Fox, Yellowstone
Bob Given
Catchlight Camera Club

SECOND
Fang
S Lyttle
Antrim Camera Club

THIRD
Blackbird on Blackberries
Vivienne Beck
Belfast Photo Imaging Club

HIGHLY COMMENDED
Common Blue
Ted McKee
Ards Camera Club

HIGHLY COMMENDED
Bison
Anne Given
Catchlight Camera Club

COMMENDED
Salmon Fishing
Adrian McGrath
Banbridge Camera Club

COMMENDED
Mature Ursus Maritimus
Anne Given
Catchlight Camera Club

COMMENDED
Red Squirrel
Ted McKee
Ards Camera Club

Congratulations to all, well done!

12/13 Season Review

As the 12/13 season draws to a close it's a great opportunity to thank everyone for making it a great season and to look back over the highlights from the last 12 months.

June 2012

Club Trip: H.M.S. Caroline

July 2012

Club Trip: Ulster American Folk Park

August 2012

Stephen Wilson had an image selected as the runner-up in the BBC Countryfile Photo Competition
BPIC hung an exhibition at Belfast City Hospital

September 2012

Brian Bennett received an EAPU Panel Award at the East Antrim Open
Brian Bennett's mono print "Christine" was selected for inclusion in the NIPA entry in the Celtic Challenge 2012
Karen McCrea, Melissa Gordon, Martin Lamb and Brian Bennett each had images selected for the Celtic Challenge
Roger Eager's image came second in the Shorts Camera Club - My Titanic Belfast Competition

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October 2012

Guest Speaker: Janine Walker
Martin Lamb had an image selected for the Natural History section of the PAGB PDI competition
Gareth O'Cathain received a Highley Commended in the 'Best black and white' category of the Belfast Zoo 2012 Photographic Competition
In the NIPA Round 1 competition Stephen Wilson and Brian Maguire received NIPA stars, Brian also received the top Colour Print honours
Club Trip: Scott Kelby 5th Annual Photowalk

November 2012

For our inaugural Mentoring Competition, Mel Boyle achieved the top mono print and Saravanan Appukuttan had the top scoring PDI.
Club Trip: Belvoir Photowalk
In the NIPA Round 2 competition Stephen Wilson and Alan Lavery received NIPA stars

December 2012

Guest Speaker: Bobby Durston
Club Trip: Continental Market

January 2013

Vivienne Beck placed first in the PDI section of the Roy Finlay Memorial Natural History Competition
Club Trip: Donegal
Guest Speaker: Roy McKeown FRPS
Guest Speaker: Glenn Norwood
In the NIPA Novice Competition Gareth O'Cathain placed 1st in the Mono print section with "The Blacksmith", placed 2nd in the Colour print section with "Helen's Wool" and received a Commended for his PDI "Zimbabwe Danger".
Mel Boyle received a commended for his Mono Print "Indian Labourers".

February 2013

In the NIPA Round 3 competition Matthew Jeanes received a NIPA star
Guest Speaker: Carrie Davenport
The winners in our internal Architectural competition were; Colour Print - Donal McCann, Mono Print - Russell Birch and PDI - Brian Maguire
Brian Maguire won our Donegal Trip competition
In the NIPA Round 4 competition Brian Bennett and Barry Lau received NIPA stars

March 2013

The following members had images selected for the 2013 Annual NIPA Exhibition; Alan Lavery, Brian Bennett, Mel Boyle, Barry Lau, Stephen Wilson, Gerald Gribbon, Russell Birch, Matthew Jeanes, Suzi McBride and Nolan Duffy. Nolan achieved a PAGB silver medal, Mel received a PAGB Bronze Medal and Alan Lavery received two PAGB Ribbons
Brian Maguire achieved his LRPS
Martin Lamb was awarded with a Neil Marshall Medal in the Natural History section of the PAGB 2012 Inter-Federation competition.
Guest Speaker: Ross McKelvey
Gareth O'Cathain had one of his images displayed on the BBC News website
Barry Lau reached the final of the Ballymena Rotary Club Young Artist of the Year 2013
Guest Speaker: Paul Hanley
In the NIPA Round 5 competition Saravanan Appukuttan received a NIPA star
In the BPIC Photographer of the Year Round 1 competition Vivienne Beck was the Novice winner and Barry Lau won the Advanced category

April 2013

Guest Speaker: Gerry Coe
Guest Speaker: Jim Moreland
Gareth O'Cathain achieved his LRPS
In the BPIC Photographer of the Year Round 2 competition Roger Eager was the Novice Winner and Dermott Sweeney won the Advanced category

May 2013

In the BPIC Photographer of the Year Round 3 competition Roger Eager was the Novice winner and Stephen Wilson won the Advanced category
Roger Eager was named as the 12/13 BPIC Novice Photographer of the Year
Dermott Sweeney was named as the 12/13 BPIC Advanced Photographer of the Year
The season wrapped up with a lovely dinner

Roy Finlay Memorial Natural History Competition Results

We're delighted to be able to share that BPIC member Vivienne Beck placed first in the PDI section of the Roy Finlay Memorial Natural History Competition with her fantastic image entitled Piggy Back Ride.

Congratulations Vivienne!

Here are the full results;

Prints

1st Place and overall winner of the Trophy was Alan Cranston from Carrickfergus Camera Club with a print titled Slowly Does It.

2nd Place awarded to Christine Cassidy of Pilots Row with a print titled “When The Tide Comes In”.

3rd Place awarded to Gregory Mc Straw of Banbridge Camera Club titled “The Serpent”.

Highly Commended went to Brian McKenna for a print titled “Shield Bugs Mating”.

Highly Commended went to Gregory McStraw Banbridge Camera Club titled “Four Spotted Chaser”

Commended went to Brendan Hinds of CBPPU for a print titled “Robin With Mayfly”

PDI’s

1st Place awarded to Vivienne Beck of BPIC for image titled “Piggy Back Ride”

2nd Place awarded to Alan Cranston of Carrickfergus Camera Club for image titled “White Stripped Anemone”

3rd Place awarded to Danny McCaughan of Donaghadee Camera Club for image titled “Okavango Reed Frog”

Highly Commended to Danny McCaughan of Donaghadee Camera Club for image titled “ Bats in The Rain”

Commended to Brendan Hinds of CBPPU Camera Club for image titled “Andy’s Flowers”

Commended to Alan Cranston of Carrickfergus Camera Club for image titled “Actinothoe Sphyrodote”

NIPA - 12/13 - Round 1

On Thursday the 25th October the round 1 judging night took place at Christian Brothers, here's how we fared.

PDI

Karen McCrea - Woodland - 11
Mark Davison - Mouse - 10
Brian Bennett - Field Ready - 10
Vivienne Beck - Piggy Back Ride - 9

Mono

Brian Bennett - Friends - 12
Karen McCrea - Freckles - 8
Alan Lavery - Milan - 8
Brian Maguire - Wondering - 10

Colour

Brian Bennett - Sunflowers - 10
Stephen Wilson - Lone Tree Sunset - 13 (Starred Image)
David Donnelly - Down The Duff - 11
Brian Maguire - Havana Dude - 14 (Starred Image - Top Colour Print)

After round one BPIC is sitting in 4th place with a score of 99 points, congratulations everyone!

Following is the top scoring image from each category, and here is the full round 1 submission.

Brian Maguire - Havana Dude - Starred Image - Top Colour Print

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