Meritorious Service Award
John Earnshaw
John Earnshaw has been on the executive of the Ballarat Photography Group for 25 years, including being President and Vice-President for a total of 14 years. He has been the historian of the club for the last 20 years and has written and published a book on the club’s first 50 years. As publicity officer for over 25 years, he has arranged with the Ballarat Courier to publish some of the key activities of the club including annual awards, special events and a full report of the 50 year celebrations. He has organised to photograph all 200 different species of roses at the Ballarat New Cemetery. He has entered slides back in the day, and now enters small and large prints both for club competitions and interclub competitions.
He has been a willing contributor to the organisation of the club, organising full day and evening in-services for it. He has been involved in three major photographic activities mounted and shown in the Ballarat Gold Museum. One of these was “Old and New” - photographs of Ballarat from 1860 to the 80s.” The photos were provided by the Gold Museum and were not, obviously, John’s own work. The second was an exhibition of photographs taken today of old buildings and the third, “Portraits of Ballarat Lives – people from Ballarat”. The latter included a photo of the subject and a brief history of their lives.Yet another was “Faces in Ballarat” which was a collection of photos of workers, such as postmen, nurses, firemen etc.
His contribution to the social life of the club has been immense. He attends all excursions, BBQs, interclub activities, camps and in-services. He also attends all club meetings where he helps in the setting up of the meeting room. He is a great advocate for his club, always promoting it to any people who may be interested in joining.His long standing commitment to the Ballarat Photography Group is well deserving of a VAPS Meritorious Service Award.
Peter KewleyMargaret Zommers
Vice PresidentBadges and Awards Director