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Mon 22 Apr 2024: Fitzroy Streetscapes
2024 Contributors
Alan Scott
Bob Clothier
Carolyn Brandt
David Davidson
David Dyett
David Marriott
Doni Baz
Greg Earl
Ian Spence
James Mexias
Jim O’Donnell
Jim Weatherill
Joe Hajdu
Ken Gosbell
Leif Andersen
Mandy Reston
Marg Huxtable
Michael Brown
Michael Osborn
Michelle Brasington
Norman Blaikie
Paul Palcsek
Peter Stuchbery
Richard Faris
Rick Lang
Rob Lewis
Robert Fairweather
Sara Wigney
Simon Beaven
Simon Springate
Sony Varma
Stuart McMurtrie
Sue Rocco
Terry Noske
Val Earl
Tue 6 Feb 2024 (1st Tue) – Blue Lotus Water Garden
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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 Weatherill
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 Hajdu
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 Clothier
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 Scott
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’Donnell
Tue 16 April 2024 – Fitzroy Streetscapes
