Photography Group

The RBGM Friends’ Photography Group

The Friends’ Photography Group offers members of the Friends of the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne the opportunity to:

• Improve their photographic skills and enhance their botanical knowledge
• Enjoy taking photographs in the Gardens with others who share similar interests
• Support the Friends by providing high quality images for promotional purposes and by participating in other Friends’ activities.

You can join the Photography Group as a regular member of the group who is on the group’s Flickr site and the Convenor’s email list and attends several monthly meetings.

Alternatively, you can just come along as a one-off attendee because the topic is of particular interest to you.

To participate in the Photography Group’s activities you must be a member of the Friends. To join the Friends, please contact the Friends’ Office on friends@frbgmelb.org.au or by phone on 9650 6398.

How the Photography Group works

The group meets at 10am on the third Wednesday of each month. The meeting point for each month is confirmed in the Friends’ weekly e-news bulletin and Events Program, as well as in the Convenor’s reminder email to group members.

Over approximately two hours (10am-12), group members have time to take photographs, discuss monthly themes and future activities, and spend some social time together.

The group has an annual program of monthly themes. See current program.

Each month the group photographs a specific element within the Gardens such as a particular plant species or collection, buildings, autumn colours, and/or we practise and learn more about photographic techniques such as composition, macro photography, black and white images, and artistic manipulation of images.

Many images taken by members of the Friends’ Photography Group are presented on the group’s Flickr site: https://www.flickr.com/groups/14816701@N23. All group members are encouraged to upload photographs to this Flickr page which is available for all Friends and members of the public to view. The Friends regularly use the group’s images from the Flickr site for promotional purposes and as illustrations for articles in Botanic News and the weekly e-news bulletin.