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Virtual meeting this Monday night - "People in Images" Competition Judging

 

See our exciting calendar of Summer Activities

 

Our first meeting back in the Autumn on 29th August 

 

Hybrid meetings will be dropped when we come back in the Autumn

 

See below for the details of these stories and more!

News

Next Monday Night – "People in Images" Competition Judging

Michelle La Grue FIPF/LIPPVA from Malahide Camera Club will judge the ‘People in Images’ competition. This meeting will be a virtual meeting with a remote joining Zoom option.

The meeting next Monday is our last meeting and this is the last Newsletter until the Autumn. We have an exciting agenda of outings lined up over the summer. Where needed, email communications will be used to advise members as required during the Summer months.

Emily will send out a link on Sunday evening. 

 

Autumn Meetings

Subject to any significant change in the public health situation, hybrid meetings will be dropped. So, most of our meetings will be held in St Brigid’s School without Zoom feeds. We will have a number of Zoom-only sessions to take advantage of the availability of remote and overseas speakers.

 

Our Club Exhibition

The Annual Club Exhibition returns this year and will be held in the DLR Lexicon over 6 weeks commencing 12th July 2022.

 

Thank you to all who have submitted their images, we have had a wonderful response with a fantastic selection of images. 

 

Thank you to everyone who has paid for their images so far, it is appreciated.

A launch party has been booked for the first night of the exhibition (12th July) at the Royal Marine Hotel in Dun Laoghaire – so please put that date in your calendar!

 

OffShoot Summer Plans – 2022

 

Summer Outings

 

During July and August, we will run a series of Monday Outdoor Meetings to take advantage of the longer evenings and, hopefully, summer weather.

 

The following are the planned meetings:

 

Monday 4th July – Street Art Walk in Town

Meet: Main Entrance to St Stephens Green Shopping Centre at 20.00

Organiser: Emily Gallagher

 

Monday 11th July – A Walk on the West Side (West Pier Dun Laoghaire)

Meet: At the start of the West Pier at 20.00

Organiser: Gerry Donovan

 

Monday 18th July – Alphabet Search in Dublin 2

Meet: Junction of Wicklow Street and Grafton Street at 20.00

Organiser: Trevor Stafford

 

Monday 25th July – Subject to be confirmed

Meet: To be confirmed at 20.00

Organiser: Liam Slattery

 

Monday 1st August – No Meeting / Public Holiday

 

Monday 8th August – Sunset / Light Painting

Meet: The Forty Foot at 20.00

Organiser: Jean Clarke

 

Monday 15th August – Panorama 

Meet: People’s Park Dun Laoghaire (Gate near Swimming Baths) at 20.00

Organiser: Pat Divilly

 

Monday 22nd August – Bullock Harbour Silhouettes

Meet: Bullock Harbour at 20.00

Organiser: Ian Gemmell

 

Summer Project

 

For those members who would enjoy a little challenge over the next few months, we will run a Summer Project:

There are two Themes on offer:

o Summer in Mono, or

o Sport and Pastimes

 

The objective is to produce a mini panel of 4 digital images on one of the themes.

 

These will be presented at our first scheduled meeting back in the school on Monday 29th August at 20.00.

What's On

Here are the next scheduled meetings and events for the Society:

Member's Photo of the Week

The Theme of the Week

Best of the Rest

Red Squirrel by Deirdre Irwin

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.

[Note. To join the Offshoot Flickr group, you must first be a Flickr member. Then send the email address used to join Flickr to webadmin@offshoot.ie. You will get an email when you have been added to the group. Please be patient as this is a manual process.]

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IPF Links & Events

Irish Photographic Federation Web Site:

https://irishphoto.ie/

Most recent news and articles posted:

https://irishphoto.ie/news/

Distinction Sittings and Availability:

https://irishphoto.ie/distinctions/assessment-dates/

Accessing Video Recordings of Meetings

You can access the recordings of past Zoom meetings from the OffShoot website.

These videos are available in the Videos section of the Member’s Area at https://www.offshoot.ie/member-area/. You will need to log in to the website to see the content of this section of the site.

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