Our year is split between a mixture of club competitions throughout the winter months and outdoor activities when the weather is better. September to June, we usually meet on Thursday evenings at 8pm on Zoom, or at the Pembroke Hotel, Kilkenny.
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2024 Programme
of Events
Where possible, KPS host a number of activities for members, including studio lighting and practical workshops. From June, our outdoor calendar commences and the club aim to meet for photo-walks, visiting local areas to photograph and other group activities. Members are advised via email notifications on meeting times and locations.
Jan 25th
8pm | Pembroke Hotel
Kevin Lim
Street Photography
Feb 1st
8pm | Pembroke Hotel
Rory O'Connor (FIPF and AFIAP), Blarney Photography Club
Rory is a landscape and wildlife photographer and will be showing us his Distinction panels including his recently awarded Fellowship Panel of seascapes
Feb 8th
8pm | Pembroke Hotel
Discussion Night
Member discussion based on short videos of different genres, styles & perspectives of photography, debating the value, originality, usefulness, creativity, imagination & techniques employed
Feb 15th
8pm | Castle Entrance, Parade
City After Dark
Outdoor meeting, bring your camera, tripod, shutter release, flash and any other useful accessory
Meet at the Castle
Meet at the Castle
Feb 22nd
8pm | Pembroke Hotel
Denis O'Reilly
Denis will share with us his planning and execution of creating images with flowers / studio still life
Feb 29th
8pm | Zoom
Sarah Howard
Sarah will give a presentation entitled "Capturing mood and atmosphere in landscapes discussing what we mean by ‘mood and atmosphere’ in our photographs. What sort of conditions we can look for to help us create atmospheric images and how can we work with them, plus telling a story in our photographs
Mar 7th
8pm | Pembroke Hotel
Liam Moylan
Liam will speak to us of his process of choosing, developing, executing and completing a photographic project.
Mar 14th
8pm | Pembroke Hotel
Hugo Reidy
Hugo will take us through workflows in Photoshop & Lightroom, concentrating on some of their new features
Mar 21st
8pm | Pembroke Hotel
Members' Night
Members show their recently captured night-time images
Mar 28th
Closed
Easter Break
No scheduled activity for this week
April 4th
8pm | Pembroke Hotel
Emmanuelle Galisson
Emmanuelle of Portlaoise Camera Club holds IPF distinctions and is an accomplished nature, landscape and macro photographer.
She will be concentrating on her portraiture in this talk
She will be concentrating on her portraiture in this talk
April 11th
8pm | Pembroke Hotel
Outcomes of Stage 1 PotY
Feedback/results for participants of 'Open Colour' in Stage 1 of PotY 2024
April 18th
8pm | Zoom
Hugh O'Connor
Hugh O'Connor, actor, writer, director and photographer will give a presentation showing some of his insight and stories of photography (essentially portraits and landscape and people in the landscape)
April 25th
8pm | Zoom
Andrew McCarthy
Andrew is an award-winning nature photographer and professional ecologist. From Devon, he will present his macro work on insects
May 2nd
8pm | Pembroke Hotel
Members' Night
Members show samples of their work / work in progress, seek feedback where necessary, discuss their practice or compare & share
May 9th
8pm | Pembroke Hotel
Outcomes of Stage 2 PotY
Feedback/results for participants of 'Environmental Awareness' in Stage 2 of PotY 2024
May 16th
8pm | Zoom
Paul Sanders
Paul will give a presentation called 'Solace' where he traces his career from fashion photographer to news photographer and picture editor before embarking on a journey of mindful landscape photography.
His presentation reveals what motivates his thoughts and image making, how he links wellbeing to photography and the impact it has had on his life.
A truly moving and inspirational presentation, covering landscape, architecture and portraits
His presentation reveals what motivates his thoughts and image making, how he links wellbeing to photography and the impact it has had on his life.
A truly moving and inspirational presentation, covering landscape, architecture and portraits
May 23th
8pm | Pembroke Hotel
Paul Stanley
Paul Stanley (FIPF), of 'Dublin Camera Club, and his wife Helen will visit us in the Pembroke.
Paul who gained his FIPF in travel photography, will talk about all things 'salon', what they are / how to enter them and his wife, Helen, will be presenting a selection of her own work.
Paul who gained his FIPF in travel photography, will talk about all things 'salon', what they are / how to enter them and his wife, Helen, will be presenting a selection of her own work.
May 30th
8pm | Pembroke Hotel
Seamus Costelloe
Seamus will give a printing workshop, taking us from setting up the camera, profiling in Photoshop, different types of inks to different types of papers to see the different effects
June 6th
8pm | Outdoors
Tramore
Interest points for many photographic genres
June 13th
8pm | Pembroke Hotel
Outcomes of Stage 3 PotY
Feedback/results for participants of '7 Deadly Sins' in Stage 3 of PotY 2024
June 20th
8pm | Pembroke Hotel
Seamus Costelloe
Seamus will give a demonstration of off-camera flash including maximising the use of speedlights
June 27th
8pm | Pembroke Hotel
Members' Night
Members show samples of their work / work in progress, seek feedback where necessary, discuss their practice or compare & share
July 4th
8pm | Pembroke Hotel
Outcomes of Stage 4 PotY
Feedback/results for participants of 'Nature' in stage 4 of PotY
July 11th
Closed
Summer Break
No scheduled activity for this week.
Self planned small groups
Self planned small groups
July 18th
Closed
Summer Break
No scheduled activity for this week.
Self planned small groups
Self planned small groups
July 25th
Closed
Summer Break
No scheduled activity for this week.
Self planned small groups
Self planned small groups
Aug 1st
8pm | Pembroke Hotel
Exhibition Preparations
Check emails for updates and more information.
Aug 8th
McDonagh Junction
KPS Exhibition
Hanging Exhibits
Official Exhibit Opening
August 9th
Aug 15th
McDonagh Junction
KPS Exhibition
August 9th - 18th
Aug 22th
Closed
No Activity
No activity planned.
Aug 29th
Closed
No Activity
No Activity Planned
Sept 5th
8pm | Zoom
Alison Mees
Alison will show us images from a trip to India. (street-life and wildlife)
Sept 12th
8pm | Pembroke Hotel
Members' Night
Members show samples of their work / work in progress, seek feedback where necessary, discuss their practice or compare & share
Sept 19th
8pm | Pembroke Hotel
Johnny Cuddihy
Johnny shares his unique perspective on Intentional Camera Movement (ICM) and discusses the work of other photographers who are perfecting their ICM techniques
Sept 26th
8pm | Pembroke Hotel
Stasia Clancy
Photography Appreciation & Discussion.
A facilitated evening of members viewing works of some unknown & renowned photographers, discussing them from their own perspective
A facilitated evening of members viewing works of some unknown & renowned photographers, discussing them from their own perspective
Oct 3rd
8pm | Zoom
Steven le Prevost
Steven will present his digital art. A surreal world - Everyday life with a surreal twist
Oct 10th
8pm | Pembroke Hotel
Outcomes of Stage 5 PotY
Feedback/results for participants of 'Favourite Song' in stage 5 of PotY
Oct 17th
8pm | Pembroke Hotel
Members' Night
Members show samples of their work / work in progress, seek feedback where necessary, discuss their practice or compare & share
Oct 24th
8pm | Pembroke Hotel
Larry Wemyss
Larry will take us through his project of building a pinhole camera, using it to create pictures a his process in the darkroom
Oct 31st
8pm | Outdoors
City Night
Meet at Pembroke before heading out with cameras for a night-time shoot
Nov 7th
8pm | Pembroke Hotel
Hugo Reidy
Hugo will take us through basic practical editing with Lightroom
Nov 14th
8pm | Pembroke Hotel
Outcomes of Stage 6 PotY
Feedback/results for participants of 'Blur, ICM, Bokeh' in stage 6 of PotY
Nov 21st
8pm | Pembroke Hotel
Members' Night
Members show samples of their work / work in progress, seek feedback where necessary, discuss their practice or compare & share
Nov 28th
8pm | Pembroke Hotel
Denis O'Reilly
Denis O'Reilly will take us through his workflow in creating still-life and flower photography
Nov 5th
8pm | Pembroke Hotel
Portrait Night
Dan Ryan & Ned Mahon will do a lighting setup for portraits
Please bring interesting props for the night
Please bring interesting props for the night
Nov 12th
8pm | Pembroke Hotel
Outcomes of Stage 7 PotY
Feedback/results for participants of 'Fashion on the Streets' in stage 7 of PotY
Suzanne Behan will show her Fellowship panel
Suzanne Behan will show her Fellowship panel
Nov 19th
8pm | Orchard Bar & Restaurant
Christmas Party Night
With lots of chat, finger food, drinks, a mini quiz and PotY Awards in the
Orchard Bar & Restaurant,
Orchard Bar & Restaurant,
Dec 26th
Closed
No Activity
No Activity Planned
Jan 2nd
Closed
No Activity
No Activity Planned.
Our 2025 Programme will kick off on 9th January with a Members' Night.
Our 2025 Programme will kick off on 9th January with a Members' Night.
Jan 9th
8pm | Pembroke Hotel
Members' Night
Members show samples of their work / work in progress, seek feedback where necessary, discuss their practice or compare & share
Jan 16th
8pm | Pembroke Hotel
KPS AGM
Kilkenny Photographic Society's AGM and election of new committee members. This meeting is open to members only