Latest Club Update April Meetings

Welcome to all of our members on this update to the  Coronavirus/COVID-19   virus and how it is affecting our Club activities.

Your committee has been active and things are progressing on the next 3 months program for the club.

The newly formed committee aided by other senior members have been successful in using the video conference software called Zoom.  We will be using this method of communication in order to keep us together on Tuesday nights.

Firstly, the point score competitions will continue,

The only changes will be for print workers with early closure of the entry times each month and no prints will required until the crisis is finished. Hopefully in the next 3 to 6 months. 

The Judges will also have their biographies available to you prior to the competition and we have asked for comments to be recorded online if possible for all your entries.

We also hope that more members will review each entry after the competition is published and add comments where possible.

The 2nd Tuesday of the month presentation of meetings will to be held online,

The presentation meetings are to be held using the Zoom portal on Chrome. A help page will be published to help you manage your Zoom meeting at home.

Here the presenters will be live with you and present their talks sharing the images on Zoom. You can also chat with them during the present presentation.

You will need to have installed zoom on your PC laptop or iPad you can also use your smartphone but please be aware of the daily data usage. We are currently investigating this issue.

To assist you in enjoying the zoom meetings we will be offering a few training sessions using your zoom software.

In order for this to happen there are still a number of members who have not installed Zoom at home. If you haven’t already replied to the email sent to you , would you please advise me and I will resend the email to enable you to join.

The first meeting to be held will be on the 14th of April and this will be Presentations by chosen Club members and will start at 7:30 pm prompt. I think you will be pleased at the content of these presentations, as we will learn more what drives photographers to do what they can to get good photographs. The session will last as long as is necessary and feedback on how it has been received by you will be welcome.

Details of the presentation will be advertised as soon as arrangements have been completed

This is all work in progress and very new to everybody so I would ask that you accept that there will be the odd hiccup but if we all work together I am sure we can all learn and benefit.

Looking forward to meeting you all soon

Brian Harvey

President

by Brian Harvey, April 7, 2020