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Next Monday – SWM Showcase Spring 2023

 

Club Exhibition Images Requested by 12th June

 

Next Club Competition Theme is Movement

 

 

 See below for the details of these stories and more!

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Last Monday Night – SWM Showcase Spring 2023

Last Monday night was the first of our two Shoot With Me Showcases, where we saw the results of some fantastic projects. 

Next week's Showcase promises to be equally impressive. Well done everyone.

Next Monday Night – SWM Showcase Spring 2023

The Shoot With Me (SWM) concept is unique to Offshoot. If you have participated, you will know that you have been part of a group of fellow photographers gathered together with a common aim. We are sure you will have enjoyed the experience, met fellow members in a photographic and social environment, and learned a lot from the interaction.

So come along on Monday to the second of the showcases and share your experience with all our members and take home your prints in memory of the craic and photographic interaction. 

We run Shoot With Me twice a year in Spring and Autumn. Should you have an idea for a subject you would like to use for a Shoot With Me, please contact Pat Divilly, as time moves quicky and we would love to hear from you.

URGENT - Please Collect Your Printed Images

Thank you to everyone who picked up their images at our last meeting. It would be great if we could reunite the rest of the images with their creators. The images that we still have in our storage cupboard in the school include prints from the recent competition, previous Shoot With Me showcases, as well as earlier events, even before Covid.

So please come to collect your prints on Monday evening or arrange for another member to collect them on your behalf.

Plans for the 2023 Club Exhibition Developing

This year’s exhibition will be held between 12th July and 26th August on the fourth floor of the Lexicon in Dun Laoghaire.

We also plan to compile a book of the exhibition images that will be available at the time of the event, further updates on the book will follow in the next while.

Members may have a maximum of two images each in the exhibition.

The Dropbox link to upload images is here. Please upload your images in their full size in tiff format – this enables Steve to print your images to the best quality.

The images will be printed, mounted, and framed by Steve and his company 360dpi, this year like last year each image will cost €30.

The closing date for uploading your images is 12th June 2023.

So now is the time to start thinking about which of your photos you would like to see on display!!

What's On

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

Club Competitions

Next Competition

June – Theme MOVEMENT

The next competition will be projected and the theme is the Movement.

This is a very broad theme again to facilitate creativity and essentially movement refers to the act or process of moving especially : change of place or position or posture.  You can interpret as you wish.   Examples might be moving people, water, stars etc.  

As usual please save your images in  JPEG format and name them with your Level Number, Membership Number and Image Title:
eg. L2-001-Image title.jpg

This is a projected competition for all levels.    Hand in will be on Sunday 4th June to the Dropbox link here and the judging will be on Monday 12th June.

You can submit up to 2 images.  

The judging will be a physical meeting in the school and not via Zoom.

We hope you are all out there shooting and getting some good images.

Upcoming 2023 Competition Categories

 

September – Theme MONO

November – Theme STREET

Member's Photo of the Week

Oil on Water by Eithne O'Leary

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/

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