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Next Monday Mary Louise Revese will talk to us about Abstract Photography.

Outing to Cabinteely Park at 11 am on Saturday 26th February

Return to Physical Meetings being planned from 4th April

Call for Images for the IPF National Club Competitions

Club Exhibition launch set for 12th July

Next Club Competition to be on the theme of Abstract Photography

2022 Club subs due to be paid by 28th February

See below for the details of these stories and more!

Next Monday Night

Next Monday night Mary Louise Revese will talk to us about Abstract Photography. Mary is a full-time, professional nature photographer with a degree in Electrical Engineering whose favourite subjects include abstracts in nature. So, join us on zoom for what will be an inspiring and educational presentation.

Last Monday Night — Monochrome Competition Winners

Last Monday evening Mike Smith showed us his successful IPF Associate panel on the subject of Horse Racing. He spoke of his photographic journey and the benefits of doing a distinction panel and showed us some post-processing techniques he uses.

Shoot With Me

Our Spring Shoot With Me programme is now up and running with 56 members participating in 12 groups covering a truly diverse range of subjects. We can look forward to two great SWM Showcase evenings on 23 and 30 May.

Return to Physical Meetings

The committee has now decided to work towards having our first physical meeting post pandemic on 04 April in St Brigid’s School. We have a few important issues to be resolved including:

Managing any conditions that the school Board of Management may set – we have already been in touch with the school in this regard
Developing a technical solution that might allow us to “transmit” our meetings to any members who might not yet wish to return to indoor physical gatherings
Finalising our own guidelines for such meetings.

We will keep you advised on how these plans are developing over the next few weeks.

Competitions

Our next competition will be under the theme of ‘Abstract’. You can interpret the theme as you wish from landscapes to people and anything in between.

This will be a virtual competition as our judge for this competition is Anne Cassidy MFA/FRPS/FIPF/AFIAP from Enniskillen Photography Society www.thephotographer.ie.

Please submit your images by 11pm Sunday 17 April 2022. As usual please save your images in JPEG format and name them with your Level Number, Membership Number and Image Title:

L2-001-Abstract image.jpg

You may submit two images for this competition. Please upload your images to the DropBox link below:

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

IPF National Club Competitions

The date has been announced by the IPF for this years national club competition as Saturday May 21st.

The exact format of the competition has yet to be announced other than it will be held over Zoom. While this date may seem some time away, there is quite a it of work to be done on selecting images for our panels and preparing the submission. So we would please our members to start reviewing images and send then to us via the dropbox link below.

https://www.dropbox.com/request/Gc8m8ftOr4yZpC9aa5oy

You may submit up to 5 each of colour and mono images, (More details on image size etc in a separate email). We will keep you updated on a closing date for submissions when more information becomes available from the IPF but please review your stock of images and start uploading your best to the above dropbox.

2022 Annual Subscription Fees Now Due

The annual subscription for 2022 for renewing members of €50 is now due.

Please ensure that you pay by 28 February 2022. Payment can be made by PayPal at https://www.offshoot.ie/subs or bank transfer. Please email treasurer@offshoot.ie for BIC and IBAN details.

Our Club Exhibition is Back

The Annual Club Exhibition will return this year and will be held in the DLR Lexicon over 6 weeks commencing 12 July 2022. You may now submit your images for the exhibition via this dropbox link:

https://www.dropbox.com/request/QiiYhKLD9LcFcbXbSfeD

The closing date for submission of images is April 30 – so now is a great time to start looking through your images to find something you might like to submit or go and shoot something new if you wish. It is likely that we will be able to accommodate two images from each member.

The launch party has now been booked for the first night of the exhibition (12 July) in Hardys Bar in the Royal Marine Hotel in Dun Laoghaire – so put the date in your calendar now!

IPF Distinction Sitting

The Irish Photographic Federation has announced the date for the first distinction sitting of 2022. The sitting will be on Saturday 26 March 2022. As with previous sittings, this will be an online assessment and will include Licentiate, Associateship and Fellowship panel assessments.

The deadline for applications will be Sunday 13 March and the application form is available in the IPF website.

A Lockdown Project

Member Robbie O’Leary had his own lockdown project with his images to produce coasters which are very attractive items. His email giving details is at www.irishwildlifecoasters.com.

Theme of the Week

This weeks theme is Spring. Anything spring related : weather, lambs, daffodils, nesting birds, blossoms, new shoots or if you are thinking outside the box small streams or coiled rusty metal.

Upcoming themes:

Pattern

Night time

Panorama

Clothing /Costume/Fashion

Shape

Accessing Video Recordings of Meetings

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!

What's On

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

26FEB

CLUB OUTING – NATURE AT CABINTEELY PARK

28FEB

VIRTUAL MEETING – ABSTRACT

05MAR

CLUB OUTING – RUGBY AT COLLEGE PARK TCD

07MAR

VIRTUAL MEETING – WHERE IN THE WORLD?

08MAR

CLUB OUTING – BOTANIC GARDENS GLASNEVIN

National Botanic Gardens, Botanic Road, Glasnevin, Dublin 9

13MAR

CLUB OUTING – RIGBY AT KIRWIN PARK, KILTERNAN

14MAR

VIRTUAL MEETING – STREET PHOTOGRAPHY

17MAR

CLUB OUTING – ST PATRICK’S DAY

21MAR

VIRTUAL MEETING – ICM

28MAR

VIRTUAL MEETING – SPORTS PHOTOGRAPHY

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/.

Member's Photo of the Week

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

Shallow depth of field - Sharp Needle by Hilda McInerny

Un-themed

Stag party at Dun Laoghaire Golf Club by Dave Whitaker

From the OffShoot Website

Club Competition – Mono

On the 14th February the first formal competition for 2022, ‘Mono’, was judged by Gerry Andrews. Thanks to all who took part in the Level 1, […]