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Photographer of the Year competition on Saturday 19th  December, at St. Mary's Hall, Members must submit a panel of 8 mounted images to be considered for the competition.

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Blast from the Past I have just been sent this photo of a Society outing from early 1986 - from recent(ish) members are Tony O'Leary, Brendan Daly, Dave Lester & Conor McCloskey - see if you can spot who's who!

©Joe Healy

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Congratulations to Anthony Byrne and Morgan O'Neill (former member) who's exhibition
A Vision of Light is currently running in Douglas Library until 11th September.

More Details Here: http://www.avisionoflight.com/

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Wednesday 27th May @ 7:45 pm in St. Mary's Hall - Workshop with John Daly of Inspire Studios

John Daly of Inspire Studios will be giving a workshop on interior and exterior portraiture.
This should be of interest to all members. www.johndalyphoto.com

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Congratulations Anthony Byrne - Top 5 Goal/RTE Photo Competition

GOAL, one of Ireland's largest charities launched a photo competition on the Late Late Show on February 27th. The five finallists will be announced on the show this Friday, March 6.

Anthony was placed in the top 5 and he and his image "Past Times" were featured on the Late Late Show with much praise for Image & Photographer. SEE RTE CLIP HERE

"Past Times"

The overall winner was Sean Murphy from Mallow Camera Club with his image "Uncle Tim" and congratulations to Sean.

Anthony's Image & some others are also featured HERE

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CPS Exhibition 2009

The exhibition will take place on Feb. or early March, 2009 date to be finalised.

Any member of the C.P.S. who is a fully paid up member on the 31st of Dec 2008 will be eligible to submit prints for the exhibition.

Each member will be invited to submit a maxim of five prints, unmounted if possible.

Final date for submitted prints will be at the end of year competition on Jan 17th 2009.
More Details HERE

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Annual Competition

Annual Competition-Sat 17th Jan. St.Mary's Church hall 3pm More details & Rules HERE

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Wed 21st Jan – AGM St.Mary's Church hall 7.45pm

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Friday 23rd Jan 8pm – Annual Dinner - Winners of all competitions to be announced & prize Giving!

The venue for the annual dinner will be the Italian restaurant in Carrigaline. Please be advised that the date has been changed to Friday 23rd of January. If any member has a problem with this date can you please email Eric as soon as possible. Having taken feedback from members, the most popular choice was the Italian. However this is unavailable for Saturday 24th. The committee have therefore decided to opt for the Friday night.

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Calendar 2009

The selection committee for the calendar will meet in the Stables Bar, Carrigaline on Wednesday 17th September at 8 p.m..

Suitable Photo's on disc may be submitted on the night.

The CPS Annual Calendar is being sponsored again this year by Proscon who are providing the funds to print the calendar and by Signal Design who will design & produce the calendar - we will also be calling on Dave Lester's print management skills to ensure favorable terms with the printer and quality control.

To ensure consistent quality of images throughout the calendar images submitted should comply to the following standards:


Landscape format only. Minimum A4 size (210 x 297mm) at 300dpi.

Ideally Tiff or Psd file but if you have shot in Jpeg please leave file in Jpeg format at highest quality (low compression) settings.


Images should be submitted on disc with file names as titles and owners name printed on front of disc.

Anyone that has traditional prints or slides and can not scan them please contact Conor or a member of the committee well in advance of the submission deadline.

Submisson Deadline: September 17th more details at the August meeting.

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May weekend in Killarney

Weekend away in Killarney Friday 9th to Sunday 11th May organised by Mick Wall, staying in Killarney Lakeland Cottages Link Here with expenses shared.

Thanks to Mick for organising this outing, it should be a great trip. Come for one night or one day if you cant make the full weekend - for more details contact Mick.

Map with directions to Lakeland Cottages

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New Meeting Start Time

It was agreed at the AGM that monthly meetings will now begin at 7.45pm instead of 8pm to help facilitate the large number of entries in the monthly competition.

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Annual Competition

The CPS Annual Competition will be held in St. Marys Hall on Saturday Jan 19th at 3pm sharp.

The Competition categories are: Slide, Black & White Print, Colour Print, Photo Essay

Images which have been submitted for monthly projects throughout the year can be used,
but images submitted for previous annual competitions are excluded.

Only fully paid up members can enter so get your membership fee in quickly if it’s still outstanding.
Voting is as per the monthly projects but since this is a grand prix competition images
with the highest number of votes will be the winners, regardless of the photographer.

Download Full Competition Rules HERE

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Annual Dinner & Prizegiving.

The CPS Annual Dinner will be held in the Anchor Restaurant in Crosshaven again this year on Saturday January 26th at 8pm sharp. Please Note the venue has been changed from the Moonduster

Thanks to Margaret Philpott for organising the dinner again this year, Would members please confirm their attendance with Margaret as soon as they can.

Please note Margaret's new number

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August - Macro Workshop with Exotic Pets

Pascal was kind enough to bring along some of his exotic pets to the August meeting
allowing us an amazing opportunity to get close to a geko, a bearded dragon (below) a
tarantula and a python amongst other unusual species.

There was a very good turn out for the shoot and although it was a little crowded, everyone
managed to get shots of all the animals - some even daring to handle them and there were
no casualties!

Python

April Nightshoot

A group of six members braved the city streets at night in the begining of April, meeting at 8pm until about 10.30. Focusing around the city hall area we were able to get some great shots of the city hall itself (although the cranes in the background didnt help much) The new Clarion hotel which looks great all lit up, South Mall with the sun setting in the background, and up river towards the school of commerce. Later on Pascal was good enough to drive us to the top of Patrick's Hill where there are some interesting views over the city and also down Patricks Bridge & into Patricks street - Beware of passing cars and long exposures as the photo to the side illustrates some interesting effects from the mix. We Have plans to do another night shoot in the city in the coming weeks and will let you know when.

Dingle 2007

The weekend in Dingle went very well for the group of ten members, although warm & sunny on the Saturday weather conditions were not ideal for photography especially landscape photography with hazy skies etc. But if anyone didnt come back with at least one decent shot it wasn't for want of trying as we covered all basis including the town & harbour, the Slea Head drive, Conor Pass, Brandon and Inch Beach. In addition to photography there was a trip to the aquarium, good food, plenty of craic and a few pints and there is a rumour that some of the lads went to the night club but its unconfirmed at this point and no one is saying anything! Ciaran having a bit of a rest at Conor Pass

Dave Wyer setting up the shot or lovingly stroking his new camera?

For Anyone who missed the shot (and I'm sure there's not many)of the seagulls on the wall on the way to Slea Head!

Anthony's Crap Shot Can you figure it out!