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Wensleydale CC’s online show

Harpenden’s annual

Like many clubs, Harpenden PS has successfully adapted to the lockdown by holding virtual meetings. HPS ran its annual themed competition night using Zoom, with over 50 HPS members joining in. The theme was ‘movement’ and the external judge was Colin Harrison FRPS who sent back critique and scores on each image. On the night itself, HPS showed each image, while reading out the judges’ comments and scores. The winning images were: colour print: Watching theWorld Go By by Paul Johnson; mono print: Passing By by Iain Fry; and digital projected image: A Little Tipple by Peter Wilson. Club chairman Peter Stevens FRPS comments: “We’re privileged

Wensleydale CC launched its first online annual exhibition on 15 May, which runs until 30 June. The ‘ANNual EXhibition’ will be hosted in an ‘AnnEx’ to the club’s website and is free to visitors. “We use the site mainly to communicate with members,” said club chairman, Andrew Fletcher, “and we thought, why not open it up to a bigger audience?” In another first, the club has teamed up with the Wensleydale Railway Association, a heritage rail charity. “We heard they were really struggling financially with not getting any visitors and we wanted to help. So the exhibition welcomes visitors to Wensleydale, virtually, and invites them to make a donation if they can to the charity.” wensleydalecameraclub.co.uk/ ann-ex

that HPS has such an incredibly enthusiastic and passionate membership, and we were determined to find a way through the current lockdown to ensure we continue our excellent programme.” harpendenphotographicsociety.co.uk

LichfieldCC’s leagues

Lichfield CCmembers have been keeping creative by entering a weekly PDI league. The brainchild of competitions secretary, Graham Slight, three leagues have been established based on the experience of members. Each week, members enter one image and have it judged by other members. Points are awarded and the image with the highest total after four weeks is the winner of that round. Members can enter any image for the first three weeks, but the fourth week is a themed round to add a little spice! At the end of each round, promotions and demotions occur. Club chairman, Darron Matthews, said: “Participation rates have been excellent, with well over 60% of members involved. The club

Sheffield PS

Sheffield PS has been hosting weekly meetings using Zoom, with over 60 members regularly attending. The success of these meetings has also encouraged the club to hold its critique groups on Zoom, too. The club’s annual exhibition has been cancelled, but following an initiative with the local weekly newspaper, The Sheffield Telegraph , it is publishing ten images per week

from the club’s exhibition portfolio. Publicity officer John Gorman said: “I am hopeful with the extended lockdown that the paper will continue with the arrangement, and I have offered to supply images to the end of May. To date I have achieved my goal of featuring an image from every member who achieved acceptances into the exhibition.” sheffield-photographer.org.uk

BHPC, based at Canford Magna near Bournemouth, has won the annual Fordingbridge CC Challenge. Competing against seven other local clubs, BHPC came top with a score of 72.5 out of 80 for eight images. This year saw the competition held online and over 120 photographers joined the virtual event to view 64 entries, with judge Louis Rumis MPAGB scoring each image. “We are delighted to have won this prestigious trophy against strong competition, and will be using similar technology in our own club for the foreseeable future. Thanks to the Fordingbridge team for their huge efforts in running the event,” said BHPC chairman, Ian Byers. bhphotoclub.co.uk BHPCwins annual contest

has also welcomed some guest photographers, who we hope will join us when normal meetings resume.” lichfieldcameraclub.org

Sodbury&Yate PC

Calling all clubs

Sodbury & Yate Photography Club is based near Bristol and meets every Monday night of the whole year, and does not have a typical September/May season. SYPC embraced Zoom from day one to maintain contact with members, putting on a full Monday- night programme since lockdown, including virtual member evenings

and committee meetings. Club chairman, Stuart Lewis, is an IT expert and ensures visiting speakers and judges are well acquainted with Zoom prior to the call. The club also runs a weekly Thursday morning Photoshop training class run by club president, Ray Grace ARPS for 20+ members. sypc.org.uk

We would love to hear from all clubs with your lockdown stories. Please send emails to clubnews@photography-news. co.uk . The deadline for the next issue is 7 June.

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