Next Monday's Food Competition Judging

 2024 Club Exhibition

 Images For the IPF National Clubs Competition

 Next Club Competition - Dereliction

 See below for the details of these stories and more!

Next Monday

We have the judging of our latest competition - Food.

Bring a snack as you're sure to get hungry!

2024 Club Exhibition

Our 2024 Club Exhibition will be held in Deansgrange Library in May.

Our exhibition is always a wonderful success and seeing so many of our members’ images presented together is fantastic.

Thank you to all members who have submitted images for printing. 

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.

Please name your files as follows: C (for colour) or B (for black & white) followed by membership number plus Title separated by "-". eg. C-123-Title

Irish Mountain Hare - Jerome Fennell

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 – Theme “Dereliction”

The next club competition will be on the theme of Dereliction. You can interpret this in any way you like as long as something is falling apart and neglected in the image.

As usual, please save your images in JPEG format and name them with your Level Number, Membership Number and Image Title in the following format:

L2-001-Image title.jpg

 You may submit up to 2 images to this link 

This is a projected competition for all levels. Latest date for uploading your images is Monday 08 April with judging scheduled for Monday 15 April.

The remaining competition themes for this year are: 

   Dereliction - June

   Mono - September 

   Open - November

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

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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.

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