OffShoot win National Shield

We are proud to announce that OffShoot Photography Society has won the overall award, the National Shield for Best Club, at the IPF 2009 National Shield. The club placed 1st in the colour panel category and 4th in the monochrome panel category. Well done to everyone who had images in the panels (click the images below to view large panel of images and the photographers).

Colour Panel (1st place) First row: 1 Ian Murphy, 2 Ian Anderson, 3 Peter Whittaker, 4 Fran Byrne.  Second row: 5 Des Cannon, 6 Richard Eibrand, 7 Kazi Ushioda, 8 Maik Sinkovec Substitute images: 9 Leslie Byrne, 10 Stephen Holmes	Monochrome Panel (4th place) First row: 1 Paul O'Donnell, 2 Kazi Ushioda, 3 Fergus McNally, 4 Maik Sinkovec   Second row: 5 Olive Gaughan, 6 Des Cannon, 7 Matthew Roche, 8 Peter Whittaker Substitute image: 9 Stephen Holmes

Congrats

Congratulations to the colour category winners: Dublin Camera Club (2nd) and Clondalkin Camera Club (3rd); and the monochrome winners: Celbridge Camera Club (1st),  Midlands Photography Club (joint 2nd), Drogheda Photoraphic Club (joint 2nd), and Malahide Camera Club (3rd).

Thanks

We would like to extend a huge thanks to all members who submitted images for consideration, and the selection committee; Ian Murphy (external competition sectretary), Fran Byrne, Matthew Roche and John O'Connor; who did a fine job of choosing and assembling the final panels.

Judging and Result Links

• Individual photograph scores for the OffShoot Panels
• Video of the judge's comments on OffShoot's colour panel
• Video of the judge's comments on OffShoot's monochrome panel
• Club scores
• Other panels at the competition

The National Shield

The National Shield is a novice level national camera club competion run by the Irish Photography Federation (IPF). Each year clubs from across Ireland submit panels of images in the colour and monochrome categories. This year twenty two clubs competed showing work of a very high standard across the board.

Thanks everyone,
The OffShoot committee

Congratulations to Kazi Ushioda who won the OffShoot Photographer of the Year League 2009. 

The final standings in the league are:

OffShoot Photography Society is delighted to announce that our new programme will be starting on the 7th of September in a fantastic new venue.

Our new venue is the very modern St Paul's Parish Centre behind St Paul's Church on Silchester Road in Glenageary. 

The meeting room in the new venue has a capacity of 60.
Directions to the St Paul's Parish Centre are available on the website - http://www.offshoot.ie/directions
The parish centre is 2 minutes walk from Glenageary Dart Station.
There is ample car parking available on Silchester Road which is free after 7pm

Congratulations to the following members who received their Licentiateship distinction at the spring 2009 sitting:

This result brings the number of distinctions awarded to our members to 8 in our first 8 months.

We actively encourage our members to apply for their distinctions and look forward to future success at the autumn sitting.