OK, last newsletter before the summer break. And this coming Monday is our last Monday get together before the break. We will celebrate by having a BBQ. This year’s Summer BBQ is again at the Royal St. George Yacht Club in Dun Laoghaire. Food will be provided and drinks are for your own account. We look forward to seeing you there.

There will be plenty of activity over the summer to keep you going until meetings start up again in September. You’ll be getting emails about outings that are being organised, and don’t forget to keep an eye on the website and Facebook page to keep you up to date. Watch out for upcoming competitions and use the summer months to work on your competition entries.

Summer BBQ

The Summer BBQ has been booked at the Royal St. George Yacht Club, Dun Laoghaire on Monday 24th June - 8.00 p.m. 

Members with special dietary requirements please contact George Balmer at treasurer@offshoot.ie before 17th June.

As usual, we will provide the food and you pay for your drinks.

There are plenty of car-parks around if members chose to drive.

We will ask all members attending to “sign in” when you arrive so we can record the numbers for the bill.

Hope to see you all there!

Street Portrait By Barry Dillon

Just a note for new members – if you want any of your pictures considered for the photo of the week, you just have to post them to the OffShoot Flickr group at https://www.flickr.com/groups/offshoot_society.

There’s also the latest images published on Flickr that are displayed on the OffShoot home page.

24th June
Club Event – Summer BBQ

Details of the Summer Outings will be published soon.

Keep an eye on your email and the What's On (click here) section on the website for updates.

Our next competition will be after the Summer Break.

Which Hitchcock film masterpiece featured a photographer who used his camera to look into the lives of his neighbours, then began to suspect a woman had been murdered?

A.     Notorious

B.      North by Northwest

C.     Rear Window

D.     The Lady Vanishes

 Answer at bottom of the Newsletter.

Garden Photography Competition

Walk through a garden, and there is inspiration to be found with every step, whether it’s a beautiful open lawn with formal borders, butterflies dancing in a wildflower meadow or morning fog rising off a lake. What’s your inspiration?

Share your most treasured photographs of gardens to be in with a chance of winning great prizes. Find more information about the categories and how to enter the competition, see https://candidegardening.com/we-love-gardens/

FIAP Distinction Holders Exhibition 2019

The Irish Photographic Federation will hold an exhibition of prints from each of the 27 photographers who have applied for FIAP distinctions this year. The exhibition will open on Saturday 8th June 2019 at 3 pm.

It will take place in the Eddie Chandler Gallery – which is the only FIAP Exhibition Center in Ireland – at 10 Lower Camden Street, Dublin 2.

The exhibition will be on show until 29 June 2019 – and will be open each Saturday from 11 am to 5 pm.

C. https://the-artifice.com/hitchcock-rear-window-1954-voyeur/