The Friends’ Photography Group engages with the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne through photography. The group meets monthly to either photograph a specific element within the gardens, such as a particular plant species or collection, buildings, autumn colours, or to practise certain photographic techniques such as composition, macro photography, black and white images.
To join the Photography Group you need to be a member of the Friends.
The group meets monthly in the Gardens, at 10am on the third Wednesday of each month, starting with a short formal meeting at Plant Craft Cottage, and at 2.30pm on the third Sunday of the month, starting with a short formal meeting at the Rose Pavilion. Members are welcome to attend one or both of these meetings each month. Over approximately two hours, group members have the opportunity to take photos reflecting the monthly theme, discuss possible future group activities and spend some social time together.
The group has developed a program for 2023 of monthly photographic themes and some other events.
It is a flexible program that will be updated during the year. The themes aim to respond to members’ interests and expand their photographic and botanic knowledge.
Many photos taken by members of the Friends’ Photo Group are presented on the group’s Flickr site: https://www.flickr.com/groups/14816701@N23
All members are encouraged to upload photos on the monthly theme to this Flickr page.
Meetings
The Photography Group meets:
The 3rd Wednesday of the month, 10am at Plant Craft Cottage
The 3rd Sunday of the month, 2.30pm at the Rose Pavillion