Club Outings
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...
Club Outings
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...
Club Outings
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...
Club Outings
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...
Club Outings
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...
Club Outings
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...
