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Key Dates For Your Calendar
1st July - Summer BBQ at the National Yacht Club
12th July - Exhibition Opening and Social Event
24th July - OffShoot Presentation at the DLR Lexicon
8th September - Welcome back for the Autumn Season
7th November - Connemara Weekend Away
Summer BBQ
The Offshoot Summer BBQ will be held at the National Yacht Club in Dun Laoghaire on Tuesday, 1st July, commencing at 8 pm. As usual, this is a social occasion, with the costs of the BBQ food included in your membership. However, a cash bar will be in operation.
This is always an enjoyable and sometimes raucous event, and the craic is mighty, so put it in your diary.
Club Exhibition
The club's annual exhibition will be held at The Lexicon Library, Level 4, from July 12th to August 17th.
Please join us at the opening at 7:30 pm and later at the opening party at Walter’s on George’s Street, Dun Laoghaire.
Message from the Outings Committee
The Outings Committee would like to thank everyone who attended the various outings over the past six months.
We’ll be back in the Autumn with plenty more, including our weekend away to Connemara in November.
In the meantime, attend the Monday Summer Outings.
Club Presentation at the Lexicon
In conjunction with our annual exhibition, the Lexicon have invited the club to make a presentation. This will take place in the Library on Thursday 24th July from 6 pm to 7 pm.
November Connemara Weekend
Plans are advancing for a great photographic trip to Connemara for the weekend 7th – 9thNovember 2025. Details have already been circulated by email. If you require any further information, please don't hesitate to contact any member of the Outings Committee.
Next Competition
Our next competition will feature printed landscape images, capturing outdoor scenes that focus on natural features such as mountains, forests, oceans, and fields. It emphasises composition, lighting, and scale to represent the environment, often with little or no human presence. Landscape images can be rendered in either colour or black and white.
Since this is a printed competition, you should save your images in TIF format (Ideally in ADOBE RGB 1998 Colour Space) and name them with your Level Number, Membership Number and Image Title: L2-001-Image Title.tif e.g. L1-123-This is my image title and spaces are allowed.tif.
Note that JPEG files are acceptable; however, the image quality will be slightly lower.
As always, we encourage all of you (especially new members) to enter. The most significant benefit of entering is the feedback from independent judges, which helps you improve your photography.
You can submit up to 2 images, so get shooting. We look forward to seeing a great selection of photos.
Printing Images
If you are printing your own, the deadline for hand-in is Monday, 22nd September; please bring the prints to the club and give them to either Lionel or Jean. You can also send Lionel a digital copy via WeTransfer (Do not upload the images to Dropbox)
For those of you printing via 360-dpi (Steve) the process has changed and hopefully will be less work. The upload is now to the same Dropbox as for Projection. The deadline for upload is Monday, 22nd September.
The images from the Dropbox will be sent to Steve for printing, and submitting to the Dropbox means you are in agreement with your images being sent on to Steve for printing.
Payment
You will receive, by e-mail, a payment link from 360-dpi for the images you have submitted – with the names and paper type requested. Please pay shortly after receiving the link.
Paper Type
If you want your images on the standard Lustre paper there is no need to do or change anything, but if you wish to have a different paper type, you need to add three letters after your membership number in the file title. The payment line invoice you receive from Steve will indicate the price and paper requested.
| Paper Type |
Code |
Price |
| Lustre |
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€13.51 |
| Fine Art Pearl |
FAP |
€20.01 |
| Photo Rag Matt |
PRM |
€20.01 |
For example, if you wish to have your images on Fine Art Pearl you should name your file: L2-001-FAP-Image title.tif
If you omit these letters the assumption is Lustre Paper.
Upload images for printing here
https://www.dropbox.com/request/sLZJEgB245KFzBpAv8Oc
Judging of the prints will be in the Club on Monday, 6th October. Please note that on this night the judging will be by the members themselves; there will be more information to follow on this later.
Interesting Black & White Photos
See some excellent images at the reFocus Awards.
ExploreLight Big Day - 14th September 2025
Peter Gordon has just announced that this year’s Big Day will be on the 14th of September at the Royal Marine.
Once again, there is an opportunity for the club to get a group together at the early bird ticket price of €65 per person.
Please let Emily know if you would like to go in the OffShoot Social WhatsApp group, and she will collect the names and pass them to Peter, who will then individually email people a payment link.
Please find the information at ExploreLight Big Day - 14th September 2025.
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