Drone & WhatsApp User Groups

Car Boot Sale

Next Club Competition – Food Theme

Annual Club Subscription Due

Images for IPF National Club Competition 

 See below for the details of these stories and more!

Last Monday

Last Monday was a great start to our competition season. Mark Taylor judged 92 images. It was great that these were split reasonably evenly across the Competition Levels. 

Get ready for our next Club Competition in April, where the theme will be Food. 

Next Monday

Next Monday is our annual car boot sale. If you have any items you want to sell, please send Emily a list of your items and the prices you would like to achieve at chairperson@offshoot.ie. Come along and get some new kit at a bargain price.

Drone Group

We are setting up the drone group in the club. If this is a group that you would like to join, please let us know by emailing drone@offshoot.ie. 

WhatsApp Groups

Don’t get left outside the loop. Get inside a WhatsApp group. Here are all the groups just waiting for you to join:

Outings - Please get in touch with Eithne O'Leary (outing.whatsapp@offshoot.ie)

Social - Please get in touch with Ken McFarland (social.whatsapp@offshoot.ie)

Nikon - Please get in touch with Lionel Barker (nikon@offshoot.ie)

Fujifilm - Please get in touch with John Wiles (fuji@offshoot.ie)

Capture One - Please get in touch with John Wiles (captureone@offshoot.ie)

Affinity Photo - Please get in touch with John Wiles (affinity@offshoot.ie) 

Olympus - Please get in touch with Jerome Fennell (oms@offshoot.ie)

Canon - Please get in touch with Emily Gallagher (canon@offshoot.ie)

Sony - Please get in touch with Matt O'Brien (sony@offshoot.ie)

Drones – Please get in touch with Emily Gallagher (drone@offshoot.ie)

2024 Annual Subscription Fees now Due

For those that have not yet paid, it past the 29th February and your 2024 Annual Subscription Fee is now due.

As set at the AGM on 11th December 2023, the annual subscription for 2024 is €90.

Payment can be made by PayPal at https://www.offshoot.ie/subs, by bank transfer, or by card payment to the Treasurer at the meetings. Please email treasurer@offshoot.ie for BIC and IBAN details.

Images for the IPF National Club Competition

Following our excellent performance at the 2023 IPF National Shield Competition, we intend to submit a strong panel of images for the IPF National Club Competition. To this end, we request all members to pull together any photographs they would like to be considered for inclusion in the club colour and mono panels.

Images from all club members are eligible for inclusion in this competition. You can submit up to 5 colour and 5 mono images for consideration using this link to submit your images.

River Kingfisher (Alcedo atthis) - Lionel Barker

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 webadmin@offshoot.ie. You will get an email when you have been added to the group. Please be patient as this is a manual process.]

What's On 

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

Next Club Competition – Food

Our next Club Competition has now been scheduled for April, and the theme is FOOD. You can send any image you like on the theme of food in colour or mono. If you heard Mike O’Toole’s excellent presentation, you have a head start, but get your images together now.

As always, we encourage you (especially new members) to enter. The most significant benefit of entering is the feedback from independent judges to help you improve your photography.

You can submit up to 2 images and have lots of time, so get shooting. We look forward to seeing a great selection of photos. 

As usual, please save your images in  JPEG format and name them with your Level Number, Membership Number, and Image Title: L2-001-Image title.jpg

You can submit up to 2 images to this Dropbox link. 

The remaining competition themes for this year are:

    Food - April

    Dereliction - June

    Mono - September

    Open - November

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

7 Mistakes That Will Ruin Your Food Photography - Skyler Burt

6 Food Photography Tricks In 2 Minutes!! - Skyler Burt

Irish Photographic Federation Web Site:

https://irishphoto.ie/

Most recent news and articles posted:

https://irishphoto.ie/news/

Distinction Sittings and Availability:

https://irishphoto.ie/distinctions/assessment-dates/

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 log in 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!