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Club Outing – National Botanical Gardens, Kilmacurragh
On Saturday, 16th May, two Offshoot members attended the photography outing to the National Botanic Gardens, Kilmacurragh. The outing took place under unsettled weather conditions, with an occasional shower throughout the morning. Despite the rain, the changing light...
Club Outing – Bluebells at Killinthomas Woods
On the 5th May, the weather forecast had been a bit uninspiring. But on the day, we were blessed with blue skies and lovely cloud formations. However, we were only interested in the Bluebells! We had a choice of 200 acres and 10km of forest trails all displayed on a...
Club Outing – National Stud and Japanese Gardens
On 25th April, thirteen members of the club arrived at 9.30 am and went to the Gardens coffee shop before starting the day. The weather was very pleasant, warm with some cloud. Everyone then dispersed around the stud looking for the foals and stallions in the outside...
Club Outing – City Walk
With our trip to see the Bluebells looking very unlikely, as they still hadn’t shown their heads by the 7th April, we decided to postpone it for a while and do our City walk instead! Not as inspiring for our Nature lovers but at least the parks, gardens and buildings...
Club Outing – River Birch Hides
Over the Saturday and Sunday of the 18th and 19th April two groups visited the River Birch Hides near Mulligar. On Saturday, five people went, and on Sunday, two people went. The weather on both days was very good, dry and sunny. The visit on both days was spread over...
Club Outing – Sunset at Dun Laoghaire
On Saturday 28th March the sun was due to set just before 19.00 but the weather had been a bit erratic, clouds everywhere, high and low. Then all of a sudden, a suitable percentage of low and high clouds were forecast. It was all go. Six of us met at the pier head, as...
Club Competition – Abstract (Projected)
On Monday, 30th March, our second competition for 2026, Abstract, was expertly judged by Adrian Heindorff. The members benefited greatly from his insights on the images shown and discussed. Congratulations and thanks to all who entered, and in particular to those...
Club Outing – Hockey (Monkstown vs Pembroke)
On Saturday, 21st March, ten club members went to Rathdown School to photograph a hockey match between Monkstown Hockey Club and Pembroke Hockey Club. We were fortunate with the weather as we had blue skies and warmth. The match was fast and furious with action taking...
Club Outing – Collins Barracks
On 10th March the members of the club went to Collins Baracks for the Tuesday outing. Getting to Collins Barracks by public transport, Luas, is very straight forward as the Red Luas line stops outside the museum. It is an imposing granite building, three stories high,...
Club Outing – UCD Abstract
On 24th February eight OffShoot members visited University College Dublin (UCD) Belfield for a focused abstract photography outing. Blessed with dry weather and soft winter light, the group spent several hours exploring the campus’s striking modern architecture and...
Club Outing – Altamont Gardens Snowdrops
The outing on 21st February was again under threat of poor weather; however, we were lucky to experience mostly dry weather. Six members defied the forecast to drive the hour and half to the Gardens near Carlow. The brief for this outing was to mainly photograph the...
Club Competition – Smartphone Open (Projected)
On Monday 9th February our first competition for 2026, Smartphone Open, was expertly judged by Karl Bergin. As he pointed out, there are both positives and negatives in mobile phone photography and the processing of images. There were some exciting images on display,...