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OffShoot Newsletter - 20th January 2018

This Monday 22nd January is the AGM. Always an important evening in the life of any club, the AGM is an opportunity to get an overview of the past year, discuss what’s coming up, and be involved in the running of the club that depends on its members to stay alive and active.

Nominations for 2018 Committee

We will be holding our AGM on 22nd January 2018 at which we will be electing a new Committee for the 2018 year. If you wish to nominate someone for a position on the Committee (with their consent), or if you yourself would like to put yourself forward to serve on the Committee please email the Secretary at secretary@offshoot.ie.

Interesting Articles Recommended By Our Members

We wish to thank Wendy Hannan for suggesting the following articles.

Andreas Gursky on the photograph that changed everything: Link This is thought provoking and maybe change your views on landscape photography.

A "Trip Report from the Falklands" by Denise Ippolito provides some great images of the local bird life. Link.

Annual Subscription 2018

Please ensure you renew your membership by paying your subscription by 28th February 2018.

The subscription can be paid at the door before the meetings either in either cash or via a cheque made out to 'OffShoot Photography Society'.

Payment can also be made via PayPal. You can do this by either logging into your PayPal account and by making a once off payment of €80 to paypal@offshoot.ie or via the Society's website at the link https://offshoot.ie/subs/.

Any queries you wish to make on this matter should be sent to subs@offshoot.ie.

Just a note for new members – if you want any of your pictures considered for photo of the week, you just have to post them to the OffShoot Flickr group at https://www.flickr.com/groups/offshoot_society/.

There’s also a link from the OffShoot home page.

22nd January 2018: Club Meeting – AGM

27th January 2018: Club Outing – Masterclass with Peter Gordon in a Short Workshop

29th January 2018: Club Meeting – Assignment #4 Hand In + Strobe Lights Tutorial and Practical
4th February 2018: Club Outing – Sunrise at the 40ft

5th February 2018: Club Meeting – FIPF Roseanne Baume / Assignment #4 Judging (Kyle Tunney)

12th February 2018: Club Meeting – Terry McDonagh (Sailing)
13th February 2018: Club Outing – Wicklow Gaol

19th February 2018: Club Meeting – Competition #1 Hand-in / Camera Types and what each is good for

26th February 2018: Club Meeting – Competition #1 Judging (Ita Martin)

Keep an eye on your email and the What's On (click here) section on the website for updates.

The theme of our Shoot With Me was 'Multiple Exposure'. Multiple Exposure is a photographic technique that combines 2 to 9 different exposures …

It was a bleak January morning and rain fell from the low clouds. Just the sort of day for a photography outing! It got no better and promised …

Initially our location was Lough Boora in Offaly however due to logistics and weather we decided midstream upon Glendalough …

The ground had taken some rain and there was an early morning inspection to see if racing could take place. Fortunately, the inspection was …

Congratulations to David Whitaker for being awarded his Fellowship of Society of International Nature and Wildlife Photographers at the …

The theme of our Shoot With Me was 'Long Exposures'. The intent of the SWM was to introduce the concept of Long Exposures to those who perhaps …

Forthcoming competitions/critiques are as follows:

Jan 29th Assignment 4 hand-in, with judging on 5th February.

The first competition hand in will be on the 19 Feb 2018 and is a projected competition. The judge will be Ita Martin who will also be presenting at the club in early January.

The theme is ‘Nature and Wildlife’. There are 2 sections B&W and colour. You may submit up to 2 (two) entries in total. The entries can be distributed one in each section or 2 in one section.

There is no theme, it is an open competition. There are 2 sections B&W and colour. You may submit up to 4 (four) entries in total. You may submit up to 2 entries per section.

Circles of confusion are most prominent in:

B. Offshoot Meetings

Answer at bottom of the Newsletter.

ZEISS Photography Award 2018 "Seeing Beyond - Untold Stories"

Details here. Closing date 6th February.

A couple of photography workshops in Clonmany, Inishowen, Co. Donegal

Krass Clement | The Light Gleams an Instant: Photographs from Ireland, Gallery of Photography

Danish artist Krass Clement’s photographic work emerges from two traditions: Scandinavian melancholy and the ‘flaneur’ tradition from the Parisian school. Clement’s work is concerned with reflecting interior states of mind rather than with documenting real-life situations. His dark, stripped-back aesthetic combines with a stream of consciousness approach to evoke introspective, psychological landscapes that sit somewhere between fiction and reality

Drum was photographed over a single evening in a small pub in Drum, County Monaghan. With only a few rolls of film (and a rumoured five pints of Guinness), Clement created one of the most important contributions to the international canon of contemporary photo books. Through subtle shifts in focus and masterful filmic sequencing, the book comes to concentrate on one principal character in the shadowy pub: a hunched, weather-beaten man sitting alone with his drink. The work is a quiet meditation on community, the outsider, alienation and the terrors of being alone.

The exhibition also includes the world premiere of work made in Dublin in 1991.

http://www.galleryofphotography.ie/exhibitions/recent/current/

Photographer Of The Year Updates

Regional Rounds:

Dublin and South Leinster Region - Nature and POTY - Grand Hotel Malahide, Collection on 13th of January, Judging 20th of January.

The national finals of the IPF Nature Photographer of the Year competition will be held on Saturday the 17th of February with the IPF Photographer of the Year competition on Sunday the 18th of February 2018.

As always, please check regularly on the IPF website and Facebook page for updates on the competition and dates for regional rounds.