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Camera clubs in lockdown

Peter Highton ARPS, Programme Secretary, Richmond & Twickenham Photographic Society

‘It’s important to keep members’ interest and enthusiasm going through this period, and to give them something to think about other than COVID-19! At this point we are pretty close to running a full programme, which has been achieved by inviting speakers and judges to link to us using virtual meeting software (Zoom). We run a familiarisation session with speakers beforehand to make sure that they are comfortable with the software before presenting to the group. One thing we’ve learnt is that you need to take the burden of presenting images away from

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