IMC Digital Photo Competition 2011 – the Results

(January 2012)
The 2011 IMC Digital Photo Competition was organised by Kieran Kelly, and judged by the members at a slideshow session the following January. Here are the entries. See if you can spot the winners!

Nature and Wildlife

Renland Takes a Powder	Seabirds	Plover, Nephins

Ibex, Aiguille Rouge	Lazy Days, Greenland, April 2011	Bottoms Up

Grass is Greener on the Other Side	In the Wilds of Spain	Lady in Red

Two Deer	Gannet Colony	That Tree, Glen Nevis

Rush Hour Traffic	Fly Agaric, IMC Hut

And the category winner is …

Climbing Action

Crooked Crack, Sheep’s Head	Be Not Afraid, Sheep’s Head	Mary Ascending Aiguilles Crochues, above Argentière

Margaret on Donkey’s Ears	Ireland’s Eye	Above Gorse
Terry Climbs El Jordi No Vol Caure, 6b	Terry on El Jordi No Vol Caure, 6b	Climbing Free in Renland

The IMC Versus Renland	Determination	An t-Oileánach

Through an Angled Crack	Hacking Away	Catch Me If You Can

Which Rope?	On the Edge	Safe Landing

Neil on the Swiss	Gerry Kelly and Dave Studdard on the Aiguillette d’Argentière

And the category winner is …

Climbing Funny

Which Way Do We Go Now?	Don’t Let the Bear Get the Gun!	Where’s My Tae?

I know He’s In Here Somewhere	IMC BBQ in the Mournes	Joe Showing Strain on Seventh Heaven

Living on the Edge	Lord Is This the Route?	Peek-a-Boo!
Sometimes I Sits and Thinks, Sometimes I Just Sits	Welcome to My Belay	Is This Lug or the Ben?
Ambitions are High!

And the category winner is …

Hillwalking

Coffin Stone, Djouce	Wicklow	Fast and Light on Lug

Strange Sight on The Ben	A Fine Spring Day on Lug	Lean on Me

Sphinx in the Snow	Drum-up at Cabane D’Orny above Champex	Sunrise on the Trient Glacier

Lug, 2010	Making Trails in Renland	At the End of the Rainbow – An Bóthar Fada, Srahnalong Valley

Mona Mia

And the category winner is …

Landscape

Conor on Camel, Vilanova de Meià, V, 170m	Spain: Perles Crag	Sunrise, Renland

The Rising is on the Wall	Belshade	Troutdale Pinnacle

Djouce, 2010	Sunset, Mont Blanc	Vallée Blanche

A Window	Edward Bailey Glacier, Greenland, May 2011	Sunset, Lug

Tranquility	Number 3 Gully	Rooms with a View

Lac Blanc and Chamonix Peaks, July 2011	Gleninagh Valley	View of Letterbreckaun

View from Ireland’s Eye	Ireland’s Eye

And the category winner is …

Overall winner

Congratulations to Maeve McKeever for submitting the winning picture, which was …

(click to find out!)

IMC Digital Photo Competition 2010 – the Results

(October 2010)
The 2010 IMC Digital Photo Competition was organised by President Kieran Kelly, and judged by the members at a slideshow session in October. Here are the entries. See if you can spot the winners!

Climbing Action

Alan ‘n’ Danny	Conquistadors	End of the Day at Ailladie

Finally at the Belay	Fruit Palace	G.M. Shows How It’s Done

Happy with Her First Lead	Hobnail Pyramid	IMC Meet Norway

Joe on Form	Joe Reville on Helvick Seacliffs	Just Great Here

Kuwaiti Sheikhi Flakey	Leap of Faith	Looking down from Grey Crag

Terry at Krokan	Pádraig on Pointe Louise, Ailefroide	Paradise in the Picture-House

Sé and Gerry	Smilin’ Joe on the Edge	Spiderman, North Prison, Lugnaquilla

The Odd Couple	We’re Only Here for the Craic	Willie Whelan, Bray Sea Cliffs

And the category winner is …

Camping

A Little Bit of Shade and the Girls Come Flocking	Ardmore (1)	Ardmore (2)

In-tents Weather	No Way Out

And the category winner is …

Funny Climbing

Accomodation in Rjukan	Attentive Belayer	Does My Bum Look Big in This?

Honest, It Was the Biggest Helmet They Had!	I am the Greatest and Most Fashionable	I’m a Little Teapot

IMC Stops the Traffic	Leon’s Sorrow on Gardener’s Joy	Lovers’ Leap
Pádraig is All Sole	New Shoes and Big Toes	Prayer Meeting
Sé in Another Hole	Swig Point	Three Happy and Hungry Climbers
Wait Until I Get My Gear from the Car

And the category winner is …

Hillwalking

A Long Way from Brisbane	Can’t Move Much	Celine, Solvig, Martin and Bryan

Scrambling on Brandon Peak East Ridge	Footsteps, Featherbeds	Ireland, a Rock or a Hard Place

Ladies’ View	Mass Participation	Me, Toubkal

Mountains and Mountains to Go Before We Sleep	Perfect Day, Lugnaquilla	Ring of Steel in the Mamores

Stuck at a Moment	What to do with a Broken Hand

And the category winner is …

Landscape

After a Great Day’s Climbing	Ardmore Seacliffs	A Winter Wonderland

Blue Water	Choppy Waters	Comeraghs Calling

Caught in a Snow Cloud, Mullaghcleevaun	Cronamuck, Bluestacks	Enjoying the View, Brandon Peak East Ridge

Figure in the Clouds	Howling Ridge	Langdale from White Ghyll

Madra Donn Cooley	Mournes Sunset	Narnia

On the Road to Nowhere	Plover, Nephins	Slipway Ledge

Slipway Ledge – Rock	Three Boys Go Ice Climbing	View from the Crag

Winter Sun on Mullaghcleevaun

And the category winner is …

Overall winner

Congratulations to Barry Denton for submitting the winning picture, which was …

(click to find out!)

And the spot prize for “most appropriate title” went to …

IMC Digital Photo Competition 2009 – the Results

(December 2009)
The 2009 IMC Digital Photo Competition was organised by President Kieran Kelly, and judged by the members at a slideshow session in October. Here are the entries. See if you can spot the winners!

Action Climbing

Cale Luna	Come On Up	Final Scavenger

Fingers Featuring	Grave	Into the Light

Irish Mournes	I think I can, I think …	Jameson Ten

King’s Chimney	Little Chamonix	Luggala

Nut Cracker	Scotty Going Boldly on Mweelrea	Skywalker – Howling Ridge

Sun Chaser	TD Gap, Cuillin Ridge, Skye	What’s that moving below?

Who Needs a Bouldering Mat?

And the category winner is …

Camping

Camping, Lunaquillia

Cold Morning at Base Camp

Howling Ridge

And the category winner is …

Funny

After a Wet Day’s Climbing	Any Which Way But Up	Bumming It

Does my bum look big in this?	Howls of Laughter	I came to climb rock, not trees!

Must have a leak!	This man means business!	Wasted!

And the category winner is …

Hillwalking

Aonach Mór	Benlettery Dusk	Clouds With Silver Linings

In Search of a Route	Macgillycuddy Reeks	Magnificent Mweelrea

Misty morning, return from Lugduff bivvy	Not dark yet but it’s getting there – Sheffrey Hills	Off on a Night Hike

Rowan in Contemplation	Scrambling on Tryfan	The Morning After

Top of Bencollaghduff

And the category winner is …

Landscape

A Summer’s Day in Autumn	Benbreen from Derryclare	Brandon Peak

Camaderry	East Wicklow	Faha Ridge

Garda	Gentle Breeze	How many IMC can you fit on a crag?

In the Bosom of Kerry, a Lone Walker	Line on the Horizon	Morning Mourne Raid

Mournes with Snow and Sun	Mournes with Sun and Snow	New Year’s Day, Slieve Donard

New Year’s Morning, Summit Slieve Donard	Roundstone Bog	Sky over the Mournes

Starting Gate	Still Lake	Still Life

Time to Reflect	View of Camp

And the category winner is …

People

A Right Tit! – Declan on East Pap	Cornellow, Upper Cliffs, 2nd Pitch	Crag Pixie

Gerry Moss at bottom of Bonsai	Hmmm People	Joe says “I think I’m gonna like this!”

Queuing	Self-Portrait	Shiny Happy Climbers

Shoulder to Shoulder	Social Climbing – Des, Helen and Sé, Ireland’s_Eye	Summits up for Niamh – Mweelrea

TD Gap, Cuillin Ridge	The Eyes Have It