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!

NIPA - 12/13 - Round 3

On Friday the 1st February the round 3 judging night took place at BPIC, here's how we fared.

PDI

Gareth O'Cathain - Passing Through - 9
Stephen Wilson - Looking Up - 9
Julie McGovern - Triangles - 7.5
Dermott Sweeney - Light Triangle - 7

Mono

Matthew Jeanes - Rough Skin - 10.5 (Starred Image)
Stephen Wilson - Windows - 9
Gerald Gribbon - Doomsday - 9
Mark Davison - Triangles - 9

Colour

Russell Birch - Sunshade - 10.5
Brian Bennett - Titanic Triangles - 10.5
Gareth O'Cathain - Head For Heights - 9
Gerald Gribbon - Titanic Triangles At Sunset - 7.5

After round three BPIC is sitting in 4th place with a score of 277 points, congratulations everyone!

Following is the top scoring image from each category, and here is the full round 3 submission.

Gareth O'Cathain - Passing Through

Matthew Jeanes - Rough Skin

Russell Birch - Sunshade

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

PAGB PDI Competition Results

In the Open section NIPA came 13th out of 15 federations. 492 images were entered with only 210 being selected to make up an exhibition. Of the 210 in the exhibition only 5 came from NIPA. Of those 5, 2 came from BPIC's Ross McKelvey.

In the Natural History section NIPA came 14th out of 14 federations. 317 images were entered with only 75 being selected to make up an exhibition. Of the 75 in the exhibition only 1 came from NIPA. This image came from BPIC's Martin Lamb.

NIPA may not have performed well, but BPIC were extremely well represented in the NIPA entry. Well done guys!

Shorts Camera Club - My Titanic East Belfast Competition

BPIC member Roger Eager entered the Shorts Camera Club - My Titanic East Belfast Competition and I'm delighted to announce that his image came second overall in the colour section.

Roger's print is one of the 20 successful entries that will be displayed in an exhibition over the coming months, details of which, as well as the full selection of 20 images can be found here.

BPIC Photographer of the Year - Round 3

Tonight saw the judging of the 3rd round of the BPIC Photographer of the Year competition. The subject of this round was Narrative Photography and was a print only round.

There was a fantastic selection of prints submitted making the job of our guest judge Stanley that much harder.

In the Novice category Roger Eager placed first with a maximum 20/20, followed closely by Brian Maguire who scored 19.

In the Advanced category first place was taken by Ross McKelvey with 19/20 and second place want to Karen McCrea with 17.

It was a great show from the club Novice category, with both members scoring higher than their Adcanced counterparts :)

Congratulations to everyone who took part.

Roger Eager

Brian Maguire

Ross McKelvey

More images from this round can be viewed here.

BPIC Photographer of the Year - Round 1

Thursday 29th March was Round 1 of the BPIC Photographer of the Year Competition. Entries were submitted as PDI's and the Judge was Peter Knott from Ards and City of Belfast Clubs. The theme for Round 1 was 'Evening Colours.'

The standard was high, and 2 people scored the maximum 20 points - Laure Leman and Karen McCrea, with Laure taking the main prize!

Here's a selection of other entries:

Shadows Interpretation

BPIC won the Top Club Title with a strong performance in the Final 'Shadows' themed Round of the NIPA Inter-club competition. The members put a lot of effort into producing creative pictures with shadows as the main theme - the brief given to members was to produce pictures where a neutral person would say 'that picture is all about shadows' - rather than producing a picture that simply had a shadow in it. The distinction is crucial to success in a themed Round!

The following are some of the images which members produced, some of which were selected as part of the Club entry, and some of which were not selected - but the Club Committee would like to extend its thanks to members for putting so much effort and imagination into the Shadows Competition.

Ross McKelvey

Chairman