Tag Archives: Vintage

How I Took That Shot – Finbarr O’Shea

Taking his second first place in a row, Finbarr O’Shea had plenty to spare this time around when he won Grade A in our fourth internal competition of the year, by the substantial margin of 47 points, with the steam train image below. The theme was ‘Vintage’ and this is how he made it:

08_Finbarr O'Shea

As part of their tour of south munster, the Railway Preservation Society of Ireland (RPSI) ran a train pulled by steam engines 85 & 461 to Midleton on Sat.9th May and members of the East Cork Camera Group went to various locations along the route.

I joined a few of them at Midleton station where we got a few shots of the train arriving, pulled by steam engine No. 85. Shortly after, engine No. 461 came to pull the train on its return journey.

It was now time for us to go to our cars and find a vantage point for the return leg. I settled for the level crossing at Waterock just outside the town, where I got my picture.

The camera settings were f5.6 1/400sec, ISO200, lens 24/70 at 70mm.

Well done Finbarr

See also:
How I took that Shot – Kevin Day
How I took that Shot – Noelle Lowney
Competition Gallery
Competition Results and 2015 League Table

Innishannon Steam and Vintage Rally – 31/05/15

Innishannon Kevin Day-26

On Sunday last, members of the Group gathered at the Inishannon Steam and Vintage Rally, held in aid of The Irish Cancer Society.

We were very lucky with the weather, and some of us even got  a bit sun burnt!

Steam Rally Jim Curtin-8There was a huge array of steam engines, vintage cars, trucks, fire engines and many of the steam engines were powering other machines, stone crushing, wood cutting saws, grinding barley and milling wheat etc.

The site covers  40 acres and it was well able to cater for  the  1,000 plus  number of exhibits.

One novel event was ploughing  a field using a steam engine parked at the top of the field, pulling  a plough the length of the field by a steel cable, attached to a horizontal  drum under the steam engine. Hard work ploughing in those days!

We found the engine operators very accommodating for us photographers and were only too willing to show off their well-polished machines.

More members intended to travel on bank holiday Monday, but the extremely bad weather put paid to that idea unfortunately.

Click here to access the gallery from this shoot. Enjoy!

– Kevin Day

 

 

ECCG ‘Vintage’ Competition – 02/06/2015

‘Vintage’ was the theme of the fourth internal competition of 2015 held at the Midleton Park Hotel on Tuesday 02/06/15. Following two viewings of the twenty two entries, marks were awarded which yielded the following results:

Results

Finbarr O’Shea was, once again, the winner of Grade A by a margin of 47 points with a fantastic steam train image made at Waterock, Midleton on 9th May last. Anthony O’Connor took second again while third place went to Karen Fleming.

Kevin Day had his third win of the year in Grade B with Trevor O’Connell again in second and Joe Keniry in third.

Noelle Lowney took first in Grade C while Jim Curtin and Catherine Millad took second and third respectively.

In the overall high scores across all three Grades Finbarr O’Shea, Kevin Day and Anthony O’Connor took the honours.

Well done to all entrants, especially those new members entering for the first time, and congratulations to those who occupied the first, second and third spots in each Grade who will get 12, 10 and 8 points respectively towards this year’s Photographer of the Year competition.

The image below is the overall winning entry by Finbarr O’Shea. Click the image to see all the entries. Enjoy!

08_Finbarr O'Shea

See also:
How I took that Shot – Finbarr O’Shea
How I took that Shot – Kevin Day
How I took that Shot – Noelle Lowney
Competition Gallery
Competition Results and 2015 League Table