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This Week's Headlines

Drone Presentation

 2024 Club Exhibition

 Images For the IPF National Clubs Competition

 Next Club Competition - Dereliction

Outings

New Equipment

 

 See below for the details of these stories and more!

News

Last Monday

Congratulations to everyone who entered the Food competition and in particular to those who were placed or won their levels. Well done!

Next Monday

We have a presentation from Ian Kiely on Drones. 

2024 Club Exhibition

Our 2024 Club Exhibition will be held in Deansgrange Library in May.

Our exhibition is always a wonderful success and seeing so many of our members’ images presented together is fantastic.

Thank you to all members who have submitted images for printing. 

Please use the club bank account to pay for the exhibition prints. Please add a note to the payment saying it is for the exhibition. 

Images for the IPF National Club Competition 

At this moment in time, we may not have enough images to make an entry, so we are extending the deadline for image submission to Friday 26th at 7 pm.

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. You can submit up to 5 colour and 5 mono images for consideration using this link to submit your images.

Please name your files as follows: C (for colour) or B (for black & white) followed by membership number plus Title separated by "-". eg. C-123-Title

Upcoming Outings

The club has a busy calendar of outings coming up. Today we will be going to the Three Waterfalls in Glenmalure, Wicklow, at 10:30. 

On Tuesday, there is an outing to the Clontarf Baths for moonrise at 8:30pm.  

Please check your email for the invitations for these outings.

New Equipment

Earlier this year, we bought a new projector and then promptly damaged it. Since then we have been trying to replace that projector with another one. We should have that projector available at our next meeting. 

We have also renewed our audio system, thanks to Gerry Moloney for designing it and setting it up for the club.  Between the audio, the projector and our new screen, the committee believes that the overall experience of presentations has improved for all our members. The committee feels that this investment is a good use of club funds. 

Website Members Area

We have a well maintained website with a lot of interesting information available in the Members Area of our Website under the document heading. 

Member's Photo of the Week

 Evening Sun~2 - Michael Flanagan

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:

Club Competitions

Next Club Competition – Theme “Dereliction

The next club competition will be on the theme of Dereliction. You can interpret this in any way you like as long as something is falling apart and neglected in the image.

As usual, please save your images in JPEG format and name them with your Level Number, Membership Number and Image Title in the following format:

L2-001-Image title.jpg

 You may submit up to 2 images to this link 

This is a projected competition for all levels. Latest date for uploading your images is Monday 10th of June with judging scheduled for Monday 17th June.

The remaining competition themes for this year are: 

   Dereliction - June

   Mono - September 

   Open - November

From the OffShoot Website
Interesting Videos

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

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.

Every member has a login to the site. If you don’t remember your login details go to https://www.offshoot.ie/login/ and select the ‘Forgot your password?’ link. Enter the email address you received this newsletter with and reset your password. Once you’ve reset your password you can login and catch-up on speakers you missed. Happy catching up!

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