Next Monday – Mike O’Toole on Food Photography

Last Chance to Enter the Club Competition – Open Theme

Weekend Away in Mayo this November

Drone Group

Car Boot Sale

Images for IPF National Club Competition

 See below for the details of these stories and more!

Next Monday

Dublin-based Mike O’Toole is one of Ireland’s leading food photographers. He has created a series of distinctive food books in addition to a busy portfolio of commercial work.

Next Monday, Mike will present his images and techniques to us. We should all benefit from his presentation in preparation for the Club Competition in April, when the theme will be Food 

Weekend in Mayo this November

The Outings Committee are organising a photo trip to Mayo from Friday 1st November to Sunday 3rd November.

The plan is to stay at The Mulranny Park Hotel and some other nearby accommodation.

If you are interested in joining the trip west, please refer to recent emails for all the details or contact any members of the Outings Committee. 

Drone Group

Peter Brennan is considering starting a drone group in the club. If this is a group that you would like to join, please let Peter know by emailing drone@offshoot.ie. 

Car Boot Sale

Our annual car boot sale will be held on the 4th of March. If you have any items you want to sell, please send Emily a list of your items and the prices you want to achieve at chairperson@offshoot.ie. 

Images for the IPF National Club Competition

Following our excellent performance at the 2023 IPF National Shield Competition, we intend to submit a strong panel of images for the IPF National Club Competition. To this end, we request all members to pull together any photographs they would like to be considered for inclusion in the club colour and mono panels.

Images from all club members are eligible for inclusion in this competition.

Please use this link to submit your images.

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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.]

What's On 

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

The judging for our next Club Competition has now been scheduled for 26th February. The theme will be 'Open', meaning you can send in any image you like on any theme, colour, or mono.

As always, we encourage you to enter, and the biggest benefit from entering is the feedback from independent judges to help you improve your photography. 

This is a projected competition for all levels.  Hand-in will be on Monday, 19th February, and judging will be on Monday, 26th February.

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

You can submit up to 2 images to this Dropbox link.

The competition themes for this year are: 

1. Open - February

2. Food - April 

3. Dereliction - June

4. Mono - September 

5. Open - November

If you come across one you want to share let us know at newsletter@offshoot.ie.

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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/

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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