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Gallery 2018
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Backwell on camera
This is the programme for Backwell Camera Club into the new year:
is well into its autumn programme and here is details of its next meetings:
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Thursday, November 29 Thornbury Camera Club presents its best images; DONE
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Thursday, December 6 and its Working With Wildlife a presentation by Tesni Ward. A self-taught professional photographer, Tesni will share her experiences of the world of wildlife photography, the challenges that can be faced and how to overcome them; DONE
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Thursday, December 13 it Is the Christmas Show And Tell - an opportunity for club members to show small selections of work that they have produced during the year followed by festive drinks and nibbles;
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Thursday, January 3 an internal knock-out print competition for The Darwen Trophy. It is a fun knockout in which members' prints are pitched each other and the audience votes for the winner;
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Thursday, January 10 has Wildlife And Streetlife presentation by Clive Dodd. A club photographer who will share some of the wildlife, landscape, travel, and street photographs that he has taken over the past couple of years;
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Thursday, January 17 a presetation by John Chamberlin FRPS Near |And Far, a selection of recent images from the UK and around the world;
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Thursday, January 24 Reconsidering The Banal - an approach to photographing the overlooked and poetry of the everyday; and
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Thursday, January 31 Subverting The Everyday Through Photography a presentation by Tony Worobiec FRPS. He positively encourages to positively view all weather conditions as an opportunity to taking exciting landscape photographs.
The camera club has small exhibitions of its work displayed in the waiting rooms of Tyntesfield Medical Group at its Backwell and Brockway Nailsea surgeries, the New Chestnuts Dental Surgery at Long Ashton and the committee room of Backwell Parish Hall.
All are welcome at meetings at the WI Hall, Backwell at 7.30pm.
New members can learn about club activities with a display of prints, projected images and descriptions of its events and activities of the travel, photo-shoot and practical groups.
Member Mike West said: "Visitors are very welcome to our meetings."
Further details of the work of BCC click HERE.
The photo top was taken by Mike on a photoshoot at Clevedon swimathon.
Many members photographs feature on the archived Nailsea Community Christmas Fair 2017 page and on the this and other gallery pages on Nailsea People.
Nailsea Town Council
the good and the great say 'au revoir' to clerk Ian Morrell at retirement party
December 2018
Ian Morrell took several minutes to say thank you to the great and good of Nailsea who attended his retirement party on Friday, December 7.
Chairman Daivd Packham had said earlier: "Ian has been an exceptional town clerk and this has been endorsed by councillors.
"During the 13 years that Ian has been in post he has worked with a number of chairmen and councillors to deliver major projects that have benefited the town.
"These include the restoration of the Tithe Barn, the replacement of the skate park in Millennium Park, the preservation of the Nailsea’s glassworks and most recently the introduction of No. 65 in the High Street.
"This latter project will in particular be Ian’s legacy to the town and it reflects his desire to improve the quality of the lives of the residents of Nailsea.
"Ian has also supported many organisations within the town and fought in their corner when faced with the many difficulties that bureaucracy can generate!
"Ian has also undertaken sterling work behind the scenes within the offices of the town council and is responsible for Nailsea Town Council being awarded Quality Status.
"This award, along with updated procedures, puts us in a strong position and prepared for the future.
"Personally I have enjoyed working with Ian in my period as chairman. He has brought professionalism, with humour, into his role as clerk.
"No matter how challenging the task has been he has always acted in the town council’s best interests."
Ian credited his success as clerk to 'teamwork' and thanked everyone who supported him.
He now intends to work on an ad hoc basis helping at 65 High Street.
