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Thank you to the members who have volunteered to be Group Leaders. We are almost there and on schedule to kick off the Spring SWM in the first week of February.

To do so, we need a few more Group Leaders. It is a great and very enjoyable way to make your contribution to the success and vibrance of the club for 2022. You can still join any other group of your choice, so you are not missing out on anything. 

There is no special skill involved, just enthusiasm and a desire to get out shooting and socially interacting with a group of likeminded club members. 

Don’t put it off!  Drop an email to swm@offsheet.ie with your name, the group theme/topic, and a short description of the theme/group.  Do it NOW!!

Next Club Competition – “Monochrome”

Our next competition will be a Monochrome competition with an OPEN theme – which means using differing amounts of light instead of different colours to capture and represent images. It includes black and white but can also be achieved using varying shades of other colours like sepia or cyan.

You can interpret the theme as you wish from landscapes to people and anything in between. Street and architecture also work well in monochrome.

Our judge for this competition is Gerry Andrews FIPF, ARPS, AFIAP from Dublin Camera Club. (See note below)

Website: www.gerryandrews.com / https://www.flickr.com/photos/gerryandrews/

Please submit your images by Midnight, Sunday 06 February 2022. Judging will take place on Monday 14 February 2022. As usual, save your images in JPEG format and name them with your Level Number, Membership Number and Image Title:

L2_001_Mono image.jpg

You may submit two images for this competition to ensure everyone receives useful feedback in a reasonable timeframe.

Please upload your images to the Dropbox Link below:

https://www.dropbox.com/request/OrQrMDWhsCHVkzqTm9XQ

Gerry Andrews – Shaped by History

The FIAP Photo Academy Online Events is pleased to announce a presentation from the renowned Irish photographer Gerry Andrews EFIAP FIPF ARPS on Saturday 22 January 2022 at 14.00 GMT.

The presentation is based around images of the Limerick Milk Market taken in the early 1970’s and newer work captured 50 years later in 2021. His combination of old and new images are a unique social documentary of a developing Ireland, capturing the nation’s transition from austerity to prosperity, through the lens of one photographer, at one market, in the midst of a global pandemic. 

Shaped by History is an intimate environmental portrait of the people who represent Ireland’s past and those who symbolise its vibrant future.

You may register to attend this presentation by filling the form at this link:

https://forms.gle/vKoBBR7yzfvPTAKGA

Club Competition Themes for 2022

To help you plan your photographic journey through the year ahead, it is proposed to have 5 Club Competitions with the following themes and timings:

• February: Monochrome (open)
• April: Abstract
• June: People (Street / Sports / Candid / Silhouette / Portrait)
• September: Smartphone (open)
• November: Reflections

This is not a competition rather an opportunity to learn a bit about an area of photography or try a different type of photography. The photo selected each week can be picked because it's technically excellent or equally because it's unusual, funny, creative or thought-provoking.

To enter your shots just upload from your Flickr page to the OffShoot Flickr page before 7 PM the following Friday. Please title your shot with the theme of the week + your own title.

Wishing you an enjoyable and educational 2022 from the Flickr theme pickers.

For those who may not have engaged with this yet here's how it works. Each week a theme/topic is set.

During the week you shoot or process an image in that theme. and load it on the Flickr site. One image will be selected as the "theme pic of the week" and published in the following week's newsletter.

Why bother? The theme pic gives you an opportunity to explore and try out many different styles and types of photography. It increases the variety of images on our site and is an excellent opportunity to expand your creativity and photography skills and you get your picture in the weekly newsletter!

This week's theme is "Shoes" 

• The Blue Hour
• Texture
• Weather
• Shallow DoF
• Night Time

Here are the next scheduled meetings and events for the Society:

Members will be able to attend our outings by registering for specific outings. Keep up to date with the latest events at https://www.offshoot.ie/whats-on/.

Just a note for new members – if you want any of your pictures considered for the 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 the latest images published on Flickr that are displayed on the OffShoot home page.

 [Note. To join the Offshoot Flickr group, you must first be a Flickr member. Then send the email address used to join Flickr to webmaster@offshoot.ie. You will get an email when you have been added to the group. Please be patient as this is a manual process.]

Themed - Shadow photography by Hazel McLean

Open Theme -  "A lake carries you into recesses of feeling otherwise impenetrable." William Wordsworth by Deirdre Irwin

If you come across one you want to share let us know at newsletter@offshoot.ie.

Amsterdam - My Home 4K | Timelapse Film by Albert Dros

I've been doing panoramas WRONG this whole time! by Kaitlyn MacLachlan

You can access the recordings of past Zoom meetings from the OffShoot website.

These videos are available in the Videos section of the Member’s Area at https://www.offshoot.ie/member-area/. You will need to login to the website to see the content of this section of the site.

Every member has a login to the site. If you don’t remember your login details go to https://www.offshoot.ie/login/ and select the ‘Forgot your password?’ link. Enter the email address you received this newsletter with and reset your password. Once you’ve reset your password you can login and catch-up on speakers you missed. Happy catching up!

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