Mid-Week Group
Photo Albums: 2023 2024
*** Submission Policy ***
See below.
*** Updated Photo Albums ***
Thu 12 Dec 2024: Eureka Sky Deck
*** Photo Albums ***
Click an image, then click on the first image and use left & right keyboard arrows to view images.
*** Submission Policy ***
Photos of Photos or Paintings:
- Someone looking at the photo or painting, or similar
- A straight copy
Children make great photos.
But, images of children, where the children are identifiable, will not be added to the photo album. Even if you have asked for permission.
This is done to protect the children. Our album is available to all internet users, and we don’t know how the images will be used.
And for your own safety, we suggest that you don’t point your camera at children. Especially if you are male. You don’t know how a parent or grandparent will react.
Images of children on billboards will be allowed.
Titles:
If you want your image to have a title, put the title into the filename.
If you want special characters (eg: ! ? #) in the title, repeat the title in the email with the special character(s).
If you use a Mac and you attach the images to the email, you will need to type the titles in the email. The images end up being embedded in the email and we can’t see the filenames.
If you use a Mac, the preferred way is that you put your images into a folder and then attach the folder to the email. The folder is attached as a zip file and we can see the filenames.
eg:
Autumn Leaves.jpg
Spring has Sprung.jpg (In the email add: Spring has Sprung!)
(v07 2024-06-24)
*** Outing Details ***
Tue 6 Feb 2024 (1st Tue) – Blue Lotus Water Garden
Google Maps https://www.bluelotusfarm.com.au/
Trust everyone had a great festive season and that you are looking forward to our regular get-togethers with our cameras for some photography and the opportunity to see something different.
Our first outing for 2024 will be Tuesday 6th February to the Blue Lotus Water Garden in Yarra Junction. A little bit out of town, but well worth the effort.
The Blue Lotus Water Garden spans 14 acres. It is a tropical-themed garden with more than 40 different ponds, lakes and water features which produce the biggest display of lotus and waterlily flowers in the southern hemisphere. The grounds also contain an amazing array of exotic plants, garden exhibits, fountains, waterfalls, floral sculptures and scenic vistas.
Since we last visited, there have been a few changes, the main one being that this year the 3 Sugars Café in Warburton has taken over the catering, so we will have both our morning coffee/tea and our lunch at the Gardens.
Entry fee is $22 for seniors/pensioners, we are not attempting a group concession as the money is required up front, and it complicates lunch.
The Blue Lotus Water Garden is located at 2628 Warburton Highway, Yarra Junction.
The Garden is only open to the public during summer, that’s when the lotus and water-lilies flower, hence the February date for our outing.
We will meet in the café in the Gardens at 10.30 am, and after exploring and photographing the gardens will return to the café (menu) for lunch about 12.30pm.
Hope to see you there.
For further information send email to midweekgroup@melbournecameraclub.org.au
Jim W
Tue 20 Feb 2024 – Triennial NGV Exhibition
This month we plan to go to the NGV Triennial Exhibition.
I have been there and it is spectacular.
It occupies all the exhibition space of the St. Kilda Road building. The exhibition shows the work of 120 contemporary artists from all parts of the world. And, it includes a couple of rich photographic displays: an exhibition of large photographs by the Irish photographer Kevin Abosch illustrates how you can post-process photojournalistic images to increase their dramatic impact, and on the top floor there is ‘Megalopolis’, in which 10 photographers from cities as diverse as Tokyo, Sao Paulo and New Delhi show how they see their home city.
There is so much more to see – installation art, art making as a political statement, robotics, etc. There is something there to interest every one of us.
Free admission.
The NGV is located at 180 St Kilda Road, Melbourne.
Please come. As always, our Melbourne CC friends are also most welcome.
Time and place: we plan to meet at 10.30am in the cafeteria, on the ground floor behind the information counter on the left.
We’ll meet in the NGV foyer at 12.15pm and then proceed to lunch.
Joe H
Tue 5 Mar 2024 – Converging Lines, Architectural
Tue 5 Mar 2024 (1st Tue) – Converging Lines – Architectural – Melb CBD
Our first outing for March on Tue 5th March, will be something new.
We are going to have a themed outing: Converging Lines – Architectural
Normally we are encouraged to ‘fix’ converging lines. But for this outing, be bold!
A lens in the 10mm – 35mm range (FF equivalent) is useful to accentuate the converging lines.
Have a look on our Themes webpage for inspiration: MWG Themes
We will meet at 10:30am at Sir Osborn café at 1 Nicholson St, East Melbourne, on the corner with Albert St.
We will then explore the north-east corner of the CBD.
We’ll have lunch at 12:30 at the Elephant & Wheelbarrow on the corner of Bourke and Exhibition Sts.
Our booking is on the first floor.
You are free to explore other themes as well.
Bob C
Tue 19 Mar 2024 (3rd Tue) – Photo 2024 Biennial – Melb CBD
‘The Future Is Shaped by Those Who Can See It’
Our fourth outing of the year will be a little different.
On Tue 19th March we’ll be going to PHOTO 2024, an International Festival of Photography (1st to 24th March 2024).
The award-winning biennale features free exhibitions and outdoor art installations to explore across seven Festival Precincts in Melbourne.
We’ll be exploring the Arts Precinct, starting off at Federation Square. Below is a map from the program and a list of exhibits for quick reference. I suggest you click on the links and decide what you’d like to see. You may also want to explore other sites around Melbourne over the duration of the festival.
Addressing the theme ‘The Future Is Shaped by Those Who Can See It’, PHOTO 2024’s expansive program invites audiences to discover the possible and parallel futures that lie ahead, and how current actions are shaping future realities.
PHOTO 2024’s events have tours, talks, film screenings and workshops concentrated on four weekends from 1st to 24th March 2024. The events allow photography lovers at all levels to participate.
We start at 10:30am at the NGV café in the Atrium at Federation Square.
We’ll return for lunch to Beer Deluxe at Federation Square at 12:30pm
Alan S
Map & Links:
Federation Square:
| 1 | Moustopia – Mous Lamrabat – A cross-cultural celebration of colour and joy. |
| 2 | Towards the Future – Film on the Fed Square Screen – six artists look to the future from very different standpoints. |
| 3 | Big Sky – Adam Ferguson – Fed Square Metro Tunnel Screens |
| 4 | Dissent Atlas – Jemima Wyman – Global unrest collaged into vast landscapes. |
| 10 | Distributed Consciousness – Memo Akten – A surreal, AI-generated mediation on consciousness and intelligence. |
| 11 | My Parents on their Fiftieth Wedding Anniversary, 1989 – Nan Goldin – Celebrating an icon of photography. |
Birrarung Lightboxes – Southbank Promenade:
| 5 | Warakurna Superheroes – Birrarung Lightboxes – The real-life superheroes of the remote Northern Territory. |
| 6 | The Dark Current: Blue screen – Angela Tiatia – Blurring the lines between real people and imagined scenarios. |
| 7 | human + x = φ L ∐ – filip custic – Playful imagery capturing our digital age. |
| 8 | In memory of stars – Amos Gebhardt – Hauntings of history. |
Swanston St, Melbourne:
| 12 | 7 Photographs That Shaped The Future – St Paul’s Cathedral – Visual turning points in human understanding. |
| 13 | Future Anterior – Blindside (Room 14, Level 7, 37 Swanston St, Wed – Sat, 12pm – 6pm) – Transforming how we order the past to see the future anew. |
| 14 | Scenario – Rozalind Drummond – Caves (Room 5, Level 8, 37 Swanston St, Wed – Sat, 12pm – 5pm) – Splicing time, space and collective movement. |
| 15 | Second Nature – Kaya and Blank – Melbourne Town Hall – Hiding ugly reality with fake aesthetics. |
Tue 2 April 2024 – State Library Victoria – Rennie Ellis
The MCC’s April mid week outing will be to the State Library of Victoria to see the extraordinary collection of Melbourne photographer Rennie Ellis.
Ellis had a unique ability to win the confidence of his subjects and gain access and to document a huge variety of social circles. This exhibition is a collection of iconic, unseen and everyday photographs from one of our greatest chroniclers.
We shall meet in the food hall of Melbourne Central at 10:30 for coffee. If you enter on the corner of Swanston & Latrobe streets, proceed up the escalator to the first level and then straight ahead to the dining hall/food court.
After coffee we will amble across Swanston Street to the Library to view the exhibition.
Members are also free to roam the library and see the many exhibits that are on display.
Lunch will be at the Oxford Scholar hotel, 427 Swanston Street Melbourne at 12:30pm.
Jim O’D
Tue 16 April 2024 – Fitzroy Streetscapes
Rippon Lea Estate – Tue 7th May 2024 (1st Tue)
To get to The Elsternwick Hotel you can either drive or walk.
To drive: north on Hotham St and left onto Glen Ira Road > Cross Brighton Rd onto Byron St > left onto Tennyson St > left onto Glen Huntly Road > Car Park.
If the car park is full, continue onto Brighton Road and park on Brighton Road.
To walk to Elsternwick Hotel:
Chinatown & Museum – Tue 21st May 2024 (3rd Tue)
University of Melbourne – Tue 4th June 2024 (1st Tue)
Australian Sports Museum – Tue 18th June 2024 (3rd Tue)
Free Tour – 1pm, Tue 18th June 2024: Australian Sports Museum, MCG
Tue 2nd July 2024 (1st Tue): Docklands Walk – Terry N – MCC
We’ll follow the course shown below for architecture and street photography.
We’ll finish at The Nixon Hotel, 757 Bourke St, for lunch at 12:30pm
Terry N.
Tue 16th July 2024 (3rd Tue): North-West CBD Laneways – Joe H – MCC
ANZ Banking Chamber & Historic Collins Street – Jim O’D – MCC – Tue 3rd Sep 2024 (1st Tue)
(Details sent via mailout on 21 Aug 2024)
Our first outing for September will be to two historic buildings in the Melbourne CBD.
We meet for coffee at 10:30am at Cafe Rustica, corner Queen St and Lt Collins St Melbourne.
After coffee we’ll visit the ANZ Banking Museum at 388 Collins Street.
The building was opened in 1887 as the English, Scottish and Australia Chartered Bank. The chamber was recently restored and now contains many historical items including a Dalek from one of ANZ’s TV ads.
Photography is allowed in the Museum, but please no photos of staff or customers. It is also a working area for ANZ staff & customers.
After the ANZ Banking Museum, we’ll head to 333 Collins St. The building was completed in 1990 but retains aspects of the original building completed in the 1890’s. The original building was the home of the Commercial Bank of Australia. You can see a virtual tour here: Virtual Tour
We’ll have lunch at 12:30pm at Dr Watson’s Bar at 417 Collins St.
Jim O’D.
Brighton Beach Walk – David Da. – MCC – Tue 17th Sep 2024 (3rd Tue)
Our 2nd outing for September is a beach walk at Brighton.
We start at 10:30am for coffee at the Brighton Beach Hotel (Bistro), 4 Esplanade, Brighton.
We will return here for lunch at 12:30pm
Getting there
By train: Sandringham Line from Flinders Street to Brighton Beach station.
By car: Park at the Brighton Beach Hotel or at the Green Point car park (ticket via EasyPark app or credit card).
After coffee you can walk or drive to the bathing boxes.
Walking to the Bathing Boxes
Walk south to the South Road intersection (<2> on the map) and cross at the lights.
Walk north past the Railway Mural <3>
Continue to the Green Point reserve <4> with views south to Sandringham marina
At Brighton Beach Gardens <5> there are views of the CBD skyline.
Continue north on the beach or the Bay Trail to Holloway Beach <6> where you might see some black swans.
Then to Dendy Street Beach <7> where the bathing boxes start.
Continue north along the bathing boxes to the Brighton Life Saving Club <8> (2.2 kms return)
You can then continue along Brighton Beach <9>, a wide beach, to the Middle Brighton Beach <10> (3.6 kms return)
On the way back you can cross at the Dendy St lights <11> and continue south to the Brighton Beach Hotel <1>
Optionally you can detour via Kinane St, Tennyson St <12>, Were St and back to Esplanade/Beach Road and the hotel <1>
Driving to the Bathing Boxes
If you prefer not to do the beach walk, you can drive to Norwood Avenue or Dendy Street and cross at the Dendy Street lights <11> for the bathing boxes.
Lunch
We will have lunch at 12.30pm at Brighton Beach Hotel.
David Da.
Murals & Street Art of Frankston – Robert F – MCC – Tue 1st Oct 2024 (1st Tue)
2 Playne St
3 Thompson Street, Thompson Lane, Wells Lane
4 Wells Street
5A Gallery Lane
5B Rowy
6 Beach Street
7A Nepean Hwy
7B Wells Street
7C Long Island Drive
7D Kananook Creek Blvd
Fitzroy Gardens – Joe H – CCC – Tue 15th Oct 2024 (3rd Tue)
Meeting place and time: Kere Kere Café at 10.30am
The Kere Kere Café is part of the Visitor Information Centre, just south of Captain Cook’s Cottage in Fitzroy Gardens.
After strolling through the Gardens, we will meet for lunch at the Sir John Osborn Café at 12.30pm. This Café is on the ground floor of the Orica Building on the corner of Nicholson and Albert Sts. East Melbourne. After walking northwards through the Fitzroy Gardens, you reach Albert St. where you turn left.
Getting there:
The best way to get there is via public transport.
From Parliament station walk through Treasury Gardens to Fitzroy Gardens. Pause and have a look at the lake in Treasury Gardens.
From Flinders St Station you can take tram nos. 48 & 75. Disembark at the Lansdowne St. stop (stop 9).
There is some metered car parking around the Fitzroy Gardens.
Hope to see many of our Camberwell members and Melbourne CC friends there.
Joe Hajdu
Newport Railway Museum – Michael B – MCC – Wed 20 Nov 2024
Eureka Sky Deck – Norman B & Paul P – MCC – Tue 3rd Dec 2024
