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  Sue Leonard

  Guest Speaker/Photographer

  Hi, I’m Sue Leonard and I live in West Yorkshire, England. I’ve been taking photographs for many years and in April 2015, after many hours of hard work I was awarded Licentiate Membership of the Royal Photographic Society. My photographic interests are landscapes and architecture. I am not a professional photographer but would class myself as a keen amateur. I have my own website because I like to share my photographs with other people. www.sueleonardphotography.co.uk I have been able to take more photographs since I took early retirement back in 2008 after spending 20 years as a computer programmer. Most of my photograph taking has been carried out in other countries - travel being a passion of mine. I’ve taken photographs of glaciers in Iceland and Alaska, canyons in Utah and Nevada in the USA, architectural elements in many cities both in the UK and on my travels - again my website shows a great variety of destinations. In fact, depending on which cruises you take part in, you will be able to see slideshows of my photographs taken on some of my travels: the Cruise and Maritime Baltic Cities and St. Petersburg trip, C&M Norway trip, as well as photographs taken on an independent trip to Iceland as recently as March 2015. I hope to meet you on one of the C&M cruises - bring your camera and if you are hoping to take photographs of the Northern Lights bring a tripod. I’m going to be giving general advice on the basics of your DSLR (the exposure triangle), bring your camera along to that, and specific advice on taking photographs of the Northern Lights (if you are on that cruise). If there’s time I will also be demonstrating how I edit my photographs in Adobe Light room, feel free to bring your own photographs along on an SD card and we might have time to edit one or two of those as well.

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  Mary Loggie

  Craft Instructor

  Mary started adult life as an Auxiliary Nurse working in Occupational Therapy, hence her introduction to teaching using sewing and craft exercises. After marriage and a family of three boys, she qualified as a Nursery Nurse to N.N.E.B. standard, then, following a divorce, went back into nursing which took her to Germany for three years as a Nanny/Housekeeper.

  On returning to the UK she decided to broaden her career outlook and entered Catering & Hotel Management. After being involved in a car accident, she decided to teach Patchwork & Quilting full time and became qualified to C & G standard. She holds an F.A.E.T. certificate which qualifies her to teach adults etc. in the art of crafts and sewing techniques. She is an active committee member of "Save the Children" charity's local branch, bringing her expertise to helping to produce costumes etc. for their fund raising Shows & pantomimes.

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  Childhood TV Legends

  Themed Cruise

  With Peter Purves, Mick Robertson & Baroness Floella Benjamin

  Enjoy a trip down memory lane with legendary star presenters Peter Purves (Blue Peter); Mick Robertson (Magpie), Baroness Floella Benjamin (Play Scool & Playaway) and many others. Relive childhood joys meeting those who brought us such children's classics as The Magic Roundabout, The Woodentops, Mr Ben, Thunderbirds and many others on this fascinating and nostalgic cruise.

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  Adrian Cooper

  Guest Speaker

  Dr Adrian Cooper is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, a Consultant to the BBC’s Natural History Unit, and a Writer / Presenter on the BBC World Service – so if you listen to the World Service radio programmes, you probably know his voice already! Between 1992 – 2013, he was an Associate Research Fellow in the Department of Geography, Birkbeck College, and London University.

  In Norway, Dr Cooper’s work has focused mainly on the beautiful northern forests. In those extraordinary environments, he has researched the population dynamics of larch trees and the fungi which grow around them. He has also done many years of research on bird populations such as the nut crackers, warblers, bramblings and great grey owls. Among the animals, he has studied communities of lemming, Arctic hare, roe deer and wolverine. To the north of Norway’s amazing forests,

  Dr Cooper has also led expeditions which analysed areas of dwarf shrubs, sedges, grasses, mosses and lichens in Norway’s tundra region. Dr Cooper is also fascinated with many aspects of oceanography. In particular, a lot of his work focuses on the deepest parts of the oceans. Overall, Dr Cooper has worked and lectured in 94 nations across six continents. Where ever he goes, he loves mountains and every kind of wilderness. From those interests, he wrote a series of three books for general readers beginning with Sacred Mountains: Ancient Wisdom and Modern Meanings.

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