2024 Photo Album – Mid-Week Group – Melbourne Camera Club

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Photo Albums: 2023 2024

*** Submission Policy ***
See below.

*** Updated ***
Mon 1 July 2024: Rippon Lea Estate
Wed 10 July 2024: Fitzroy Streetscapes
Wed 10 July 2024: Australian Sports Museum & MCG
Wed 15 July 2024: Docklands Walk

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Fitzroy Streetscapes - 16 Apr 2024 (Mid-Week Group)

*** Submission Policy ***

Photos of Photos or Paintings:

The following does not apply to photos on information signs.

When we go to art galleries, we often see impressive photos or paintings.

There are two ways of taking photos of photos or paintings:

Someone looking at the photo or painting, or similar
A straight copy

The first option is unlikely to be an issue. Feel free to also take a photo of the name plate.

Email both images. We’ll use the name plate information to add the artist’s name & artwork title to the album.

The second option is a bit more difficult.

Your photo must be a good quality reproduction. Some galleries have low light, making copies low quality.

Also, please correct any distortions and make sure the white balance is correct.

And also take a photo of the name plate.

If possible, include part of the artwork in the photo of the name plate. That way we know which name plate applies to which artwork.

Email both photos. We will use the name plate information to add the artist’s name & artwork title to the album.

Please follow any restrictions specified by the gallery regarding photography.

Never use flash. If you are using a phone, make sure to turn flash off rather than having it on ‘auto’.

If we are at a contemporary artist/photographer’s exhibition, are straight copies OK? What do you think?

If you entered a print in a competition, and someone took a photo of it, would you be indifferent?

Your copyright will be asserted (ie: © added), unless it is a straight copy.

This is because you don’t have any rights over the artist’s work.

What about street art? If it is a straight copy, we’ll include ‘Artist unknown’ in the title.

Competition judges make this recommendation about street art: “Add something”

Eg: Include paving, include a person, etc.

Children:

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 5^th 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 (1^st to 24^th 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 1^st to 24^th 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

Our old inner suburbs are an exciting mix of formal terrace houses, small cottages, the remnants of factories and workshops, modern town houses and flats, not to mention traditional corner pubs and narrow lanes bordered by graffiti-covered walls.

They offer a great choice of themes to photograph.

We plan to venture into some Fitzroy neighbourhoods to explore this very interesting part of Melbourne.

Time and place: We plan to meet at 10.30am at Mario’s Café/Restaurant, 303 Brunswick St. Two doors up from the intersection with Johnston Street.

After walking around that neighbourhood, we plan to meet again at The Stone Hotel for lunch at 12.30pm

The Stone Hotel is on the northeastern corner of the Brunswick & Johnston St. intersection.

How to get there:

Tram no. 11 runs along Brunswick St., and it can be caught in the City on Collins St. Disembark at stop 16 – Johnson/Brunswick Sts.

Street parking in the area is difficult, but there is an off-street car park at the rear of Coles

Entrance is from Brunswick St. via Argyle St. Fee: $6 for 3hours.

Hope to see many of our Camberwell CC and Melbourne CC friends there!

Joe H

Rippon Lea Estate – Tue 7^th May 2024 (1st Tue)

Our outing for the first Tuesday in May (7th May) will be to The Rippon Lea Estate.

Rippon Lea is a large nineteenth-century mansion surrounded by 14 acres of Victorian pleasure gardens. It is listed on the National Heritage Register because it is one of the finest examples of an original suburban estate in Australia. The Rippon Lea Estate’s Garden is of national significance. It boasts an abundance of beautiful trees, sweeping lawns, a lake, a look-out tower, an orchard of historically significant fruit varieties, and a windmill.

The National Trust is responsible for the Rippon Lea Estate.

The address is 192 Hotham Street, Elsternwick.

Our visit will commence at 10.30 am at the gate house where National Trust volunteers will serve tea and percolated coffee & a biscuit, this is all included in our $15 entry fee.

At approximately 11 am there will be a half-hour open house when we can view and photograph inside the mansion. Please note that volunteers will be on hand to point you in the right direction and answer questions.

Mansion visits are usually guided tours, so to have this freedom is greatly appreciated.

After our time in the mansion, we will adjourn outside to visit and photograph the magnificent garden.

Photos taken at Rippon Lea are for personal use and are not to be used for commercial purposes.

Lunch will be at approx. 12.15 pm at the nearby by Elsternwick Hotel, 259 Brighton Rd, where there is a large car park.

Public transport options:

Train – the property is a five-minute walk from Rippon Lea station, on the Sandringham Line.

Tram – route 67 to Carnegie, stop 42, Glen Eira Road, then walk east along Glen Eira Road and down (south) on Hotham Street to the property.

Bus – route 216 or 219 – bus departs from city, southeast corner of Queen & Collins Sts., and depending on the traffic takes 30-45 minutes. Stops outside Rippon Lea Estate, ask the driver to set you down at the first stop after Glen Eira Road.

And by car – street parking, there is no onsite parking.

For those coming by public transport, we will arrange a ride to the Hotel for lunch.

Hope to see you there.

Sara & Jim

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)

As far as I can remember, we have never organized an excursion to Chinatown in the City. It is time we did, and that is where we will go in May.

This neighbourhood provides us with some very interesting photo opportunities: street scenes, people photography, shop signs, colourful displays, etc.

Also, a visit to the Chinese Museum in Cohen Place, just off Little Bourke Street.

Meeting place: We will meet in the food court of Melbourne Central at 10.30am. The food court is up the escalator on the corner of Swanston and LaTrobe Sts., on the first level.

After coffee we will walk down on Swanston St. to the beginning of Chinatown in Little Bourke St.

Lunch: After having photographed our way through Chinatown and its museum, we will reassemble for lunch at 12.30pm in the Elephant and Wheelbarrow Hotel on the corner of Bourke and Exhibition Streets.

Hope to see many of you there, including of course our friends from the Melbourne CC.

Joe H

University of Melbourne – Tue 4th June 2024 (1st Tue)

Our outing for Tuesday 4th June will be to the University of Melbourne.

Initially we had planned for the City of Melbourne Art & Heritage Collection, at the Town Hall, but their security requirements made it too difficult for a large group. However, for smaller numbers it could be interesting, but pre-booking is necessary.

The University of Melbourne, suggested by Bob C, will certainly offer many more opportunities to use your camera with great subjects like the Old Quadrangle, the Old Arts building and clock tower, a number of contemporary buildings with very interesting architecture and The System Garden. The south lawn may also provide some photo-journalism images.

Those who have visited the university many times before may find the developments around the new underground Parkville Station and the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre (corner of Grattan Street and Royal Parade) of interest.

We will meet for coffee/tea at the Dr Dax Kitchen, 30 Royal Parade, Parkville, directly opposite the Royal Melbourn Hospital car park entrance, at 10.30 am.

Lunch will be at the Prince Alfred Hotel, 191 Grattan St., (between Roal Parade and Swanston St,) from 12.15 pm.

How to get there: the University of Melbourne is well serviced by trams, but no trains until the underground is finished.

As the Dr Dax Kitchen is on the west side of the university, if you are coming from the city, the North Coburg tram (no. 19) up Elizabeth St, and then Royal Parade, getting off at Stop 11, University of Melbourne/Royal Parade.

Jim W

Australian Sports Museum – Tue 18th June 2024 (3rd Tue)

*** Late News (Updated 17 Jun 2024, 16:31) ****************************************************

Free Tour – 1pm, Tue 18^th June 2024: Australian Sports Museum, MCG

One of our CCC members, Barrie, has offered to do a tour of the MCG at 1pm, after lunch. Barrie is a tour guide at the MCG.

(Note: You still need to buy a ticket to the Museum. Seniors: $25, card only)

If you would like to attend, let us know when we have coffee at 10.30am. We suggest that you have an early lunch at 12.15pm.

To help you decide lunch, the lunch menu is shown below. Order at the counter.

The tour will take around 1h20m and leaves from Paddock Cafe.

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Our 2^nd excursion this month is to the Australian Sports Museum at the MCG on Tue 18^th June.

It reopened this January after extensive refurbishment. The Museum now has a comprehensive display about most sports, including cricket, Australian rules football, horse racing and Olympic sport.

Many of the displays are very creative and highly photogenic.

The Museum is located on the north side of the MCG and the entrance is through Gate 3.

Meeting place: We will meet at 10.30am at the Paddock Café (cashless, card only), just inside Gate 3 of the MCG building. Inside Gate 3, turn left and a bit further along the cafe is on the right with views to the oval.

The Australian Sports Museum is very close to the Café. – entry seniors $25 & adults $35 – cashless, card only.

Lunch is at 12.15pm at the Trumble Bar & Café (cashless, card only). Walk out onto the forecourt and turn left.

The restaurant is located between gates 1 & 2.

Public transport:

The closest railway stations are Richmond and Jolimont Stations. Richmond is a bit further away but has more regular services.

Tram no. 48 (City – North Balwyn) or 75 (City – Vermont South) run on Flinders St & Wellington Parade and stop near Jolimont Station

Tram No 70 (City – Wattle Park) runs along Swan Street

Bus Route 246 stops in Punt Road

There is metered & time limited car parking.

Look forward to seeing many of our Camberwell members there, as well as our friends from the Melbourne CC.

Joe H

Tue 2nd July 2024 (1st Tue): Docklands Walk – Terry N – MCC

Our 1^st outing for July is the Docklands area.

We’ll start at 10.30am for coffee at Mr Collins at 747 Collins St.

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 6 Feb 2024 (1st Tue) – Blue Lotus Water Garden

Tue 20 Feb 2024 – Triennial NGV Exhibition

Tue 5 Mar 2024 – Converging Lines, Architectural

Tue 19 Mar 2024 (3rd Tue) – Photo 2024 Biennial – Melb CBD

‘The Future Is Shaped by Those Who Can See It’

Map & Links:

Tue 2 April 2024 – State Library Victoria – Rennie Ellis

Tue 16 April 2024 – Fitzroy Streetscapes

Rippon Lea Estate – Tue 7th May 2024 (1st Tue)

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)

Tue 2nd July 2024 (1st Tue): Docklands Walk – Terry N – MCC

Rippon Lea Estate – Tue 7^th May 2024 (1st Tue)