SLF Finals Day 2020

[Richard W]

I made contact with the SLF Committee this morning to enquire about the SLF Finals Day. As expected it has been cancelled but clubs have not been made aware (for some strange reason). They did have a contingency plan (??) but that has also failed.
Meantime for those who submitted prints they will be held by the SLF Committee until further notice.

[OPS Notices]

From the SLF tonight:


In light of the coronavirus situation, the federation's finals day event at Trinity School, Croydon, scheduled for Saturday 25 April, was cancelled on Monday 16 April.



But please be assured that all prints collected for the appropriate competitions remain in the safe care of the committee.



Prior to the cancellation we had been examining the possibility of holding instead a “behind-closed-doors” judging of the various competitions.



If possible, this would have meant that the 2019/20 programme would still have been completed before member clubs' normal summer recess.



Clearly, however, as the health of those involved is paramount, this is no longer feasible - particularly given the latest government measures to contain further spread of the virus.



Therefore, all scheduled federation activities are necessarily suspended for the immediately forseeable future.



Meanwhile, the committee will be keeping close watch on developments that may impinge on the federation’s activities once the current crisis is over.



Bill Yates

Chairman


· Please keep the federation regularly updated as to the those in your club with whom you would wish us to communicate on this and other relevant issues

[Fay]

David, was the SLF comp cancelled? will the entries all go forward to a better time,

Fay

[David Barnes]

Fay, I'm not aware of any plans. FSLPS website has nothing relevant.

[Alan Graham]

An update from Gill Peachey about the SLF finals.

The committee has given considerable thought as to how we can get the 2020 SLF Finals Day work judged. Currently, we can make no further progress on the judging of the print competitions, but we will continue to monitor the situation and get them judged as and when lockdown restrictions ease.

We are in the position to get the PDI competitions judged in the near future. Two of our planned 2020 Finals Day judges, Ron Tear ARPS MPAGB BPE3* PSA3* and Andy Smith LRPS CPAGB, have kindly offered their services to judge the 3 PDI competitions remotely. One will judge the inter-club final competition and the other will judge both the certificate winners and open competitions (to avoid having to judge any image twice).

Neither Ron or Andy are geared up to record their judging using Zoom, but they have both offered to produce a set of notes on the images they judge. This will be in the usual format for Finals Day ie comments for all images in the inter-club final and a selection of the entries in both the certificate winners & open competitions. These comments will be made available to clubs.

We will keep you posted with developments.