Ross McKelvey - Portraits

Club Competition (Mono) Closing Soon

Please Submit Your Images for the IPF Shield Panels

Would You Like to Lead a Shoot With Me Group?

 See below for the details of these stories and more!

Last Monday - Member's Summer Images

It was fantastic to see so many people back at the school last Monday evening. It is always fun to catch up with each other and to see what people did over the Summer. Thank you to everyone who brought in such an interesting collection of images.

Next Monday - Ross McKelvey (Portraits)

Next Monday evening we will meet at St Brigid’s School at 8pm for a special session with Ross McKelvey MPAGB, from Catchlight Camera Club. There are link's to both Ross's own website and his Catchlight Member Gallery below. 

https://www.catchlightcameraclub.co.uk/rossmckelvey
https://www.rossmckelvey.co.uk/

IPF Shield Competition – Images Needed Now 

Offshoot intends to enter two panels of images (Colour and Mono) to the IPF Shield Club Competition this Autumn.

To get the process started, we are asking members to submit up to 5 colour and 5 mono images for consideration to be included in the club panels.

So please act now and submit your images to the following Dropbox link:

https://www.dropbox.com/request/MfgKdgvvk4w0TeJLtGB4

We request your images by 12 September to give us time to select the Club panels.

Thanks to everyone who has already sent images.

Time to Get Shoot With Me (SWM) Up and Running

Pat Divilly recently sent out an email seeking Group Leaders for the next round of SWM activities.

This is an opportunity for you to take an important part in one of the most popular activities in Offshoot.

The plan is to identify the leaders and their proposed group activity by the first week in September to allow the programme to get underway before the end of that month.

To volunteer to lead a group, please send a short email with the group title and a brief description to swm@offshoot.ie

Visiting Provence?

Are you going near the Camargue and want to shoot horses (sic)?

If you are planning a trip to Provence why not get a photoshoot in the Camargue? We found Cecile Domens brilliant on our recent trip and we have no reservations about recommending her – she is a photographer and has the respect of the horsemen. She also has shoots from 3 hours to 3 days. Her website is https://cecile-domens-photo.com/

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

Next Club Competition

The next Club Competition will be judged on Monday 25 September. It will be for printed images. The theme is as follows:

Level 1 Members:   Mono Open

Level 2 & 3 Members: Mono Architecture and / or Landscape 

Details of the entry date and Dropbox Link will be sent by email.

For those of you who may wonder how members move up the levels scale, the process description will be published on the Offshoot website shortly.

Upcoming 2023 Competition Categories

September – Theme MONO

November – Theme STREET

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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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