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Images Photography Group Covid-19 Challenges and Responses
By Bev McIntyre, Secretary Images Photography Group
WHEN NEW ZEALAND went into lockdown earlier in the year, it first impacted on our April meeting. Our scheduled judge for the evening was Geoff Beals APSNZ and he usually does walk-in critiquing for our club. He agreed to have the images sent to him over/through the cloud and to produce a slide show with voice-over critiquing. Once completed it was posted to the gallery page on our club website for all members to access. He also completed result sheets for us to be able to update our points table. We, as a club, were very appreciative of Geoff’s willingness to become creative in the delivery of his judging. The resulting slideshow is fantastic and very informative for our members.
May saw the country still in lockdown and our scheduled monthly meeting was to include internal judging, whereby members have the opportunity to comment on the image displayed and then vote on the award to be given. The challenge was to find a platform for this to still happen. Our solution was to have all the images put into a slideshow and posted to our website gallery. A word document scoring sheet was also posted to the website for download. Members watched the slideshow, awarded their scores and then sent in their completed score-sheets for compiling the final results. When the results were finalised they were sent to our club webmaster who updated the slideshow and reposted it to the website gallery. This collaborative effort worked well.
We did the same thing again in September as it was our bi-monthly Internal Judging night. The club is based in Auckland City, Pukekohe to be precise, so meeting in person was not to happen. The processes were in place, they had worked the first time, and they worked again. We just needed to have the ability to adapt to the constraints of what is called our new normal - and our wonderful members did just that.
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