BPIC members Gareth O'Cathain LRPS and Mel Boyle both had images displayed on the BBC yesterday.
Keep up the good work boys!
Gareth O'Cathain LRPS
Mel Boyle
News
Paul McGivern LRPS
Huge congratulations to BPIC Committee member Paul McGivern whose L panel was successfully recommended today at the RPS Licentiateship Assessments. Paul's panel will now go forward to the Advisory Panel for the seal of approval.
Collective Spectacle Curated by Northern Ireland Photographic Association
"This group show of selected works offers a variety of interpretations of visual spectacle by a range of Northern Ireland based photographers."
This exhibition comprises of 33 prints and 8 triptychs.
Of the 33 prints a staggering 11 of them are from BPIC members;
- Brian Bennett - Flowers
- Helen Weir - Suncatcher
- Mark Winning - Chasing Pigeons
- Mark Winning - The Cranes Belfast
- Mark Winning - The Peace Camp Downhill
- Mark Winning - Titanic Quarter Belfast
- Matthew Jeanes - Rough Skin
- Matthew Jeanes - The Rise
- Ryan Wilson - Cotopaxi Dawn
- Stephen Wilson - A Dark Tree
- Suzi McBride - Ghost Train
Congratulations everyone!
Please take a minute to stop by The Belfast Waterfront and view this exhibition, it is on display until the 29th June.
This exhibition is part of the 2013 Belfast Photo Festival.
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
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
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!
Coming Up: 23rd May - 13/14 Season Programme Planning
This week is your chance to help shape the programme for next season, so come along and let us know what you'd like to get up to next year.
This is also the last week of the season that we'll be at Morton, so make sure you come along and get your last taste of Helen's tea for a few months.
Photographer Of The Year 12/13 - Advanced Category Winner
BPIC's Photographer of the Year competition was held over three rounds, 2 PDI and 1 print.
Congratulations go to Dermott Sweeney LIPF who is the 12/13 advanced category winner and to Barry Lau ARPS who came runner up.
Here are Dermott's entries from the three rounds.
Photographer Of The Year 12/13 - Novice Category Winner
BPIC's Photographer of the Year competition was held over three rounds, 2 PDI and 1 print.
Congratulations go to Roger Eager who is the 12/13 novice category winner and to Gareth O'Cathain who came runner up.
Here are Roger's entries from the three rounds.
Photographer Of The Year - Round 3 Results
Last night saw the 3rd and final round of BPIC's Photographer of the Year 12/13 competition.
The theme for this round was Panoramic Landscapes and was chosen by last year's round 3 winner Roger Eager.
In the novice category 1st place went to Roger Eager;
And 1st place in the overall category was awarded to Stephen Wilson;
Congratulations to Roger and Stephen!
Advanced Category Submissions
Novice Category Submissions
Coming Up: 16th May - POTY Round 3
Hi All,
To finish up the season as we have the final round of POTY! The theme is panoramic landscapes and as previously mentioned this can include seascapes, cityscapes etc.
"This will be images shot in an abnormal format to what we are use too. To create a panoramic shot, this is typically done my taking a series of photographs along the same plane and stitching together in post production. For those who may find this a daunting task you can create the same format by cropping in on an image. This round can include seascapes, cityscapes as well as landscapes.
Submissions: This will be a PDI only round with entries uploaded to the website (Link will be provided week prior to round) with images resized to 1400px along the landscape edge."
Please upload your submissions (max of 3) no later than 8pm Wednesday 15th May.
Thanks,
Barry Lau
Vice Chairman