NIPA 13/14 Season - Round 1 Results

Round 1 was judged at Christian Brothers on 24th October 2013.

After round 1 BPIC sits in 2nd place with a score of 97.

Congratulations to Brian Maguire and Saravanan Appukuttan who were both awarded NIPA stars!

You can view the full results here.

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

End Of Season Dinner

Last night was the end of season dinner, there was good company, pizza and beer aplenty. There were even a few prizes given out!

NIPA - 12/13 - Round 5

Last night the judging took place for the final NIPA inter-club round of the 12/13 season, the theme for round 5 was Documentary.

Congratulations to Saravanan Appukuttan who was awarded a NIPA star for his Mono Print "Anti-social".

After all the scores were in, BPIC finished the season in a respectable 4th place, well done to all our members who took part this year.

Other images submitted to round 5 can be viewed here.

Architectural Competition Results

This month we held an internal competition just for fun.

Members were able to submit one colour print, one mono print and one PDI under the category of architecture.

All members who attended the judging night were given the opportunity to vote for their favourite as well as give feedback on the submitted images.

Here are the full results along with the top image from each category.

Colour Print

Donal McCann
Stephen Wilson
Saravanan Appukuttan

Donal McCann

Mono Print

Russell Birch
Donal McCann
Gareth O'Cathain

Russell Birch

PDI

Brian Maguire
Stephen Wilson
Dermott Sweeney

Brian Maguire

The full gallery of winning images is here.

Congratulations everyone!

Mentoring Competition Results

22nd November saw the exciting conclusion to our mentoring competition started on the 1st November.

Beginners entering the competition were split into two teams and each team was assigned a mentor. Barry Lau ARPS and Donal McCann FRPS were the mentors for this competition.

During November the entrants worked closely with their mentors who guided them in bringing out the best in their images.

Images were entered into two categories, mono print and PDI's.

The top scoring mono prints was submitted by Mel Boyle, and the top scoring PDI was from Saravanan Appukuttan.

You can see a fuller gallery here.

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