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After all the sunny blue skies of the Christmas Holidays, our first outing of 2026 on 6th January was a somewhat damp affair. Rain forecast from 10 - 12!! However, 13 brave individuals, cameras at the ready, met at St Stephen's Green shopping centre at 10.30 am,...

The final outing of 2025 was to Duffy’s Circus on 18th December. This was our second visit of the year and it proved to be extremely popular, with one member even flying in from Germany for it. There was also a contingent from Dublin Camera Club, who were having their...

The annual OffShoot Christmas Lights outing took place on 13th December. A group of fourteen members gathered just outside Dublin Castle, with the focus of attention being Dublin City Council’s Winter Lights Festival. This consisted of 25 locations throughout Dublin,...

On Tuesday, 3rd December, 15 Offshoot members made the trip to the Henrietta Street Dublin Museum. The museum is a social history museum documenting the house from its Georgian beginnings to its later tenement times. It was built in the late 1740s. The grand rooms of...

On Tuesday, 18th November, ten OffShoot members attended a wildlife photography excursion at Dublin Zoo. The group arrived shortly after the zoo opened, utilizing the soft early light and the tranquil setting prior to the arrival of larger crowds. Throughout the...

Friday - 7th November Camera bags were packed, cars were loaded with the usual assortment of boots, wellies and rain gear as 23 of us headed west to the hills of Connemara for this year’s Offshoot Weekend away from 7th-9th November. The Leenane Hotel, on the shores of...

On Tuesday, 21st November, fifteen members assembled in Mount Usher Gardens to sample the autumn colours once again. Mount Usher Gardens occupies the site of a cottage and small mill once owned by the Ussher family, who gave the area its name. The gardens were created...

On the second Sunday in October, approximately 20 members went to the Phoenix Park for the annual deer rut. The meet-up time was 9 am, but as with other years, people generally arrived when they wanted. There had been the tantalising prospect of a morning mist, so...

On Thursday 9th October, 22 members met outside the big top of Duffy’s circus. We were there to avail of an ‘early access’ arrangement, whereby photographers and artists could attend the performers’ warm-up session before seeing the full show. This was the third time...

On Saturday 27th September, sixteen photographers gathered at Malahide Castle on a rainy Saturday for an outing focused on butterfly photography. The combined ticket included entry to the butterfly greenhouse and gardens, but poor weather kept everyone indoors....