Rowing race from Crosshaven to Cork city on June Bank Holiday kick starts a 10-day long summer maritime family festival

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Ocean to City 2012 Photography Competition

This year's Ocean to City photography competition will be held between 2nd June - 10th June 2012.

The categories include:

1. Cork Harbour landscape

2. Faces / Images of the day

3. Sports / Action

4. Experimental / Alternative

There are 8 prizes in total (1^{st &} 2^nd in each category) to the value of €100, €75 respectively including vouchers for services & framed & printed winning images.

Photos should be taken over the duration of the festival dates with submission via email to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it by Sunday 15thJune.

Our media partners include 96FM and the Evening Echo.

Winners will be announced online by 27th June and 1^st place winning photos of each category will be published. All winning entries (1^st, 2^nd) will be on public exhibition at Cork City Library, 2nd July – 13th July.

Winning entries and other selected images will be displayed on an Ocean to City’s website slideshow & gallery.

The judging panel will include Trish Brennan & Roseanne Lynch (Crawford College of Art & Design), Harry Moore (St. Johns College) and competition sponsors.

For further information, contact Diarmuid Mulcahy ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) - 086 2046357

Meanwhile the 2011 winners & images are below!

The 2011 winning entries can be viewed here:

01/12

Judges comments -Trish Brennan, Roseanne Lynch (Crawford CIT), Harry Moore (St. Johns College)

Overall a wonderful range of photos, particularly images shot from boats giving us a feel for the energy, joy and sheer exhaustion of the day.

We were looking something that were more than pure description – images of 3 guys exhausted had a wonderful comic element while describing the feeling of pure exhaustion of partaking in an event such as this – while the winner in Pictures of the Day, lady in head wrap – captures the sense of exultation of finishing – both these images also achieved a ‘good photograph’, with a sense of composition and use of light to seduce the viewer.

With the harbour shots, we were impressed by the range of images taken from sea-level at entrance to Corks magnificent harbour giving those of us not partaking a sense of rower’s point of view.

To view all entries to the competition, view the gallery here.

Entry Submissions

Entrants will email photos as a compressed ZIP or Stuffit file to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

A maximum of 2 entries per category per photographer will be allowed.

As there are 3 categories, this means that a photographer will be able to submit 6 files in total in the ZIP file.

Each file can be <=2mb in size.

To simplify the ‘house-keeping’ of image files, a unique file naming convention will be used as follows and can include JPG, GIF, PNG, etc.

FILE	Naming convention	E.g.
Zip file	Entrants Email address (replace ‘@’ & ‘.’ with ‘_’).zip	jsmith_example_com.zip
1^st Category: Cork Harbour landscape, 1^st entry	Entrants Email address (replace ‘@’ & ‘.’ with ‘_’). + _C1_1	jsmith_example_com _C1_1
1^st Category: Cork Harbour landscape, 2nd entry	Entrants Email address (replace ‘@’ & ‘.’ with ‘_’). + _C1_2	jsmith_example_com_C1_2
2nd Category: Faces / Images of the day, 1^st entry	Entrants Email address (replace ‘@’ & ‘.’ with ‘_’). + _C2_1	jsmith_example_com_C2_1
2nd Category: Faces / Images of the day, 2nd entry	Entrants Email address (replace ‘@’ & ‘.’ with ‘_’). + _C2_2	jsmith_example_com_C2_2
3rd Category: Sports / Action, 1^st entry	Entrants Email address (replace ‘@’ & ‘.’ with ‘_’). + _C3_1	jsmith_example_com_C3_1
3rd Category: Sports / Action, 2nd entry	Entrants Email address (replace ‘@’ & ‘.’ with ‘_’). + _C3_2	jsmith_example_com_C3_2

Both digital and non-digital cameras may be used. However, non-digital images will have to be digitally scanned.

A basic set of rules will be made available on request.

Winning entrants may be asked to be re-displayed for 2012 exhibition event.

Photographers wishing to take photos ‘on the water’ are advised to take out their own insurance if not covered by their own personal or associated camera club insurance.

Information that will be collected from entrants will be as follows: Name, Address, Phone, Email, Camera Club, Rowing Club, Camera used and what entry categories are being submitted.