Mallow Camera Club announced the winners of its Photographer of the Year 2020-2021 Competition. The competition, which is the Club’s premier competition of the season, attracted a substantial entry with competitors submitting a panel of three monochrome images and three colour digital images. The images are judges individually, rather than as a panel.
The judges for the competition were Barbie Lindsay MPAGB FBPE EFIAP/s AWPS, Ross McKelvey MFIAP MPAGB FBPE EFIAP/b FIPF, and Mark Sedgwick FIPF EFIAP/b ESFIAP.
The standard of entries was, as usual for MCC’s Photographer of the Year, very high and gave the judges plenty of food for thought. Our judges did not disappoint, providing excellent feedback to the authors on every image. A huge thank you to Barbie, Ross and Mark.
The winners were announced over Zoom at our weekly meeting of 29th November, and the winners are:
POTY Grade 1
Grade 1 Mono Panel
1st Place: Barry Murphy
2nd Place: Niamh Barrett
3rd Place: Eamonn O’Donnell
Grade 1 Colour Panel
1st Place: Eamonn O’Donnell
2nd Place: Barry Murphy
3rd Place: Niamh Barrett
Grade 1 Highest Scoring Image
“Peadar”, Eamonn O’Donnell
Overall Grade 1
1st Place: Barry Murphy
2nd Place: Eamonn O’Donnell
3rd Place: Niamh Barrett.
POTY Grade 2
Grade 2 Mono Panel
1st Place: Peter Tips
2nd Place: Fred Ward
3rd Place: Ann O’Mara
Grade 2 Colour Panel
1st Place: Fred Ward
2nd Place: Ann O’Mara
3rd Place: Kieran Cogan
Grade 2 Highest Scoring Image
“Sparring Boxer”, Fred Ward
Overall Grade 2
1st Place: Fred Ward
2nd Place: Ann O’Mara
3rd Place: Peter Tips
POTY Grade 3
Grade 3 Mono Panel
1st Place: Phillip Kerins LIPF
2nd Place: Tom Quish
3rd Place: Lisa Egan
Grade 3 Colour Panel
1st Place: Phillip Kerins LIPF
2nd Place: Breda O’Mullane LIPF
3rd Place: Lisa Egan
Grade 3 Highest Scoring Image
“Slytherin’s Wrath”, Phillip Kerins LIPF
Overall Grade 3
1st Place: Phillip Kerins LIPF
2nd Place: Lisa Egan
3rd Place: Tom Quish
POTY Grade 4
Grade 4 Mono Panel
1st Place: Vivien Buckley FIPF AFIAP
2nd Place: Pat O’Meara LIPF
3rd Place: Joy Buckley Flynn LIPF
Grade 4 Colour Panel
1st Place: Vincent Higgins LIPF
2nd Place: Pat O’Meara LIPF
3rd Place: Neil O’Mullane LIPF
Grade 4 Highest Scoring Image
“Golden Threads” Vivien Buckley FIPF AFIAP
Overall Grade 4
1st Place: Pat O’Meara LIPF
2nd Place: Vivien Buckley FIPF AFIAP
3rd Place: Vincent Higgins LIPF
Overall Winners
Overall Highest Scoring Mono Panel POTY 2020/21:
1st Place: Vivien Buckley FIPF AFIAP
2nd Place: Pat O’Meara LIPF
3rd Place: Phillip Kerins LIPF
Overall Highest Scoring Colour Panel POTY 2020/21:
1st Place: Phillip Kerins LIPF
2nd Place: Vincent Higgins LIPF
3rd Place: Pat O’Meara LIPF
Overall Photographer of the Year 2020/21:
1st Place: Phillip Kerins LIPF
2nd Place: Pat O’Meara LIPF
3rd Place: Vivien Buckley FIPF AFIAP
Congratulations to the winners and thank you to all the members who entered the competition.
A huge thanks to our Competitions Secretary, Lisa Egan, assisted by Viv Buckley FIPF AFIAP, who put in a huge effort to pull this competition together so professionally.
