Previous Events – Club Events, Outings & Guest Speakers
Club Outing – Street Photography
Despite the inclement weather ten hardy photographers braved the weather on Saturday 9th February for a Street Photography outing in Dun Laoghaire. This was organised in preparation for the forthcoming Dun Laoghaire themed exhibition. Thanks to Wendy, Nicky and Kevin...
Club Outing – Whale Watching
There She Blows! - Buoyed up by all the whale sightings reported on the RTE news a brave bunch of seafaring Offshoot photographers weathered the conditions off Hook Head on an expedition to capture these seasonal visitors in their Gathering for 2013.Led by our very...
Club Outing – Maritime
To kick off the new year around 25 members attended the outing on Saturday 12th January to the National Maritime Museum, housed in the former Mariners’ Church in Dun Laoghaire.The outing provided opportunities to photograph the many nautical artefacts on display...
Club Event – Model Night 2013
A model night with a twist - no models! ... the theme for the Club Night on Jan 14th was a practical photography evening for portraiture. We had 5 members who very kindly brought in various studio light setups and all attending - including 8 prospective new...
Club Event – Christmas Shots
So what did Offshoot members get up to over Christmas? One of the things they did was to prepare for a fun informal competition scheduled for our first meeting of 2013. This was a projected image nite when members brought along the pick off their Christmas...
Club Outing – Marlay House
Forget Downton Abbey - Marlay House was the perfect period setting for an old style photo shoot on Saturday October 20th. As part of our collaboration with Dun Laoghaire Rathdown Co Co Arts Department, Offshoot were thrilled to have the opportunity to shoot models in...
Club Outing – Deer Rut
The woods were dark and wet ... and so was Phoenix Park - very, very early on Thursday 18th October as a hardy handful of Offshoot snappers endeavoured to catch the stags and deer up to, well, you-know-what.Under the chirpy and enthusiastic leadership of Mike Smith we...
Guest Speaker – Brian Hopper
Brian Hopper of Dundalk Photographic Society was our speaker on 15th October. He showed us a large selection of his excellent prints including his portrait composites from Cuba that won him a Visual Arts Associateship from the Royal Photographic Society – as well as a...
Guest Speaker – Des Connors
The weekly Offshoot meeting on the 8th of October saw us leaving our normal abode for the periodic splendour of Marlay House. Special thanks to the Arts department of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council for inviting Offshoot to be part of their programme of events...