Previous Events – Club Events, Outings & Guest Speakers
Club Outing – Cloughlea Wood
On a bright morning on 9th October 14 members went down to Cloughlea Wood just outside the village of Manor Kilbride, in County Wicklow. The Cloughlea river tumbles down through the trees through a seasonal carpet of gold to join the Liffey just downstream creating a...
Club Event – Flash Night
Flash night at the club proved to be a very active and enjoyable working session, with members posing for each other to facilitate further exploration of the use of flash for portrait photography. Everybody came armed with cameras and flash equipment. There was a...
Club Outing – Hot Air Balloons
On Monday 24th September we left Dublin at 4.30am. It was an icy cold and crisp morning as we arrived to find the Castle gates locked and after some scouting happened upon a pre-flight briefing in the local hotel as to flight plans, maps, weather, hazards etc. It was...
Club Outing – Liffey Descent
On Saturday 15th September a number of our members headed down to County Kildare and the River Liffey to capture pictures of canoeists going down the rapids of the River Liffey starting at the K Club in Straffan ending at Islandsbridge near Phoenix Park. Over the 11...
Club Outing – Laytown Races
On Thursday 6th September 7 members ventured on to the beach to watch the 150th running of the Laytown Races. Racing on the beach at Laytown takes place just once every year and the spectacle draws crowds from all over the world. It is the only racing event run on a...
Club Outing – Streets of Dublin
The end of summer, sunset by 8:45 pm, the light falling fast when 12 OffShoot members met under the burnished Molly Malone at 8:00 pm on Monday 27th August. Lenses creakingly opened up to their widest. ISOs in the thousands the members toured the lanes and streets of...
Club Outing – Kilmacud Crokes Hurling
On 18th August, as is usual, Kilmacud Crokes in Stillorgan host this event on the day before the All Ireland final. This year between Galway and Limerick. It is fast, very fast, and furious and each half lasts 10 minutes and too few members turned out to capture the...
Club Outing – A Carlow Trilogy
On Tuesday 14th August 9 members gathered at the Delta Sensory Garden in Carlow a bit late having passed through a Garda roadblock where they were all breathalysed! After a stroll around the gardens and a snack we adjourned to the Lonely Tree on the Kilkenny road and...
Club Outing – Model at Killiney Beach
For the 3rd in our programme of Summer Outings, on Monday 16th July about 20 OffShoot members headed down to Killiney Beach to take some outdoor pictures of a model. With the help of Steve and his lights, Tom and his bike and Lucy our stunning model we were able to...