Killarney

By Michelle Crean
<h3>There&#8217;s nothing like a bit of a creative challenge &#8211; and members of a local camera club sure produced some colourful results.</h3>
In its second competition of the season recently, Killarney Camera Club used the theme of &#8216;Bubbles&#8217; for the competition, which attracted 22 entries.
And although it may have taken the amateur photographers out of their comfort zone the fun competition produced so many innovative, bubbly, creative and technical entries.
Ade Desbrow made it two in a row by winning the Unrestricted Category while Anne Kelly won the Novice Category.
&ldquo;Using a bubble blower in the town park, this image was taken using a 50mm fixed lens in manual mode with an f-stop of 6.3 at 1/400 sec to give me some hope of getting some bubbles in focus,&#8221; Ade, who explained how he took his ethereal &lsquo;bubbles&rsquo; photo, said.
&#8220;I waited for the breeze to subside rather than chase the bubbles around the park and as I wanted a dark background to emphasise the bubbles this made it a bit easier.&rdquo;
The top three in the Unrestricted Category were:
1st Place: Ade Desbrow, &#8216;Bubbles&#8217;, 179 points Joint 2nd Place was shared by: Nikki Foley, &#8216;There&rsquo;s a witch at the bottom of my garden&#8217;, 178 points and Seamus Long, &#8216;Other Worlds&#8217;, 178 points 3rd Place: Keith Johnson, &#8216;The magic of bubbles&#8217;, 175 points
Check out all the competition entries on www.killarneycamerclub.ie. The club continues to meet fortnightly on Thursday night via Zoom. New members are always welcome. Anyone interested in joining can email secretary@killarneycameraclub.ie.

Creative concept wins photo challenge

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