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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,...
Club Outing – Lough Ennell Murmuration
With our two previous outings falling foul of the recent floods, the pressure was mounting for the next one! Again, it was outdoors, by a lake and with no indoor option as back up, what could possibly go wrong!! The plan was to visit Lough Ennell, Co Westmeath on...
Club Outing – Royal Hospital Kilmainham Outing
On 17th January, we set off on the second outing of the year in again dubious weather. However, we did manage to get periods of dry so everyone could make the most of the options outdoors. The brief for this outing was to photograph the stunning 17th century classical...
Eithne O’Leary – LIPF
Congratulations to Eithne O'Leary for attaining her LIPF Distinction at the November 2025 sitting of the IPF.