On Sunday, January 27th, the SACC held the regional qualifying round of the IPF National Nature Competition at The Newpark Hotel in Kilkenny in association with Kilkenny Photographic Society

Congratulations to all our winners on the day and to everyone who took part. Best of luck to everyone whose images qualified for national finals next year.

Thank you to our judges; Mark Sedgwick FIPF EFIAP and Des Connors FIPF who did an outstanding job not only scoring the images but also providing ongoing commentary and invaluable feedback to the audience on many of the images they were judging.

The competition was powered by Picturk and its online system once again proved itself on Sunday. Thanks to Paul Geraghty from Picturk who was with us for the day to ensure smooth running of the competition.

Thanks are due to the hotel for providing outstanding facilities and to Kilkenny Photographic Society who hosted the events and supplied a great team of volunteers for the event.

Huge thanks also to the SACC committee, without whom this event would not have taken place.  We look forward to our next event – The SACC Interclub Competition which takes place on March 24th and we’ll be posting details about it over the next few weeks.

Finally, full results available via link below:

SACC Regional Round of IPF National Nature Competition Results 2013

Happy New Year from SACC to all its members. We wish you health, happiness and stunning photography in 2013!

Notice for all clubs:

Membership fees for 2013 are now due. The fee remains unchanged from last year at €50. For more information and payment methods, we’ve added a fees section to the website (include paypal link for those who wish to pay online).

Please note that only members of paid up clubs will have access to SACC competitions and only paid up clubs will be eligible to enter SACC Interclub Competition.

We’re starting the new year with our first competition (SACC round of IPF Nature competition) taking place at the end of January.  We’ll be posting updates about that competition shortly, but in the mean time, please find below a list of some other upcoming dates that might be of interest.  Details subject to change, so please check our calendar for confirmation and also for details of venue.