Creative Photography – Gallery

Photos kindly submitted for your enjoyment by members of the “Creative Photography” class.

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‘Guardian Angels’ at Box Hill Cemetery, February 2025. ©2025 Raewyn Axup
Three Clydesdale horses ploughing a field at the National Steam Centre, Ferntree Gully Road, Scoresby. 10th March 2019. ©2019 Felix Menke.
Emmylou paddle steamer, Port of Echuca. 11th January 2019. ©2019 Felix Menke.
Victorian Government House with Governor in residence. Taken from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne. 9th March 2021. ©2021 Felix Menke.
Wedge Tailed Eagle, captured at Healesville Sanctuary, ‘Sprits of the Sky’ bird show, it’s well worth a visit! ©2024 Jennie Foley
Steam Tractor with Australian Flag. Taken at the National Steam Centre, Ferntree Gully Road, Scoresby. 10th March 2019. ©2019 Felix Menke.
Colorful bathing boxes near Dendy Street, Brighton. 4th November 2017. ©2017 Felix Menke.
Drake and Duck Ducklings. Surrey Park Lake, Box Hill. 7th July 2020. ©2020 Felix Menke.
Photo of part of the Melbourne Central Business District. Taken from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne. 9th March 2021. ©2021 Felix Menke.

U3A Box Hill – Creative Photography

Course code: ART07

This course is for beginners through to advanced photographers. The basics of how to take good, interesting, well composed photos is covered and practiced in class. The class goes to different places around Melbourne every 2 – 3 weeks to take photos or visit photo exhibitions, and then shows them to the rest of the class at the next meeting. The class goes out on longer photo trips for 2-4 days once or twice during the year. This will all be explained.

2016 — Outdoor Art

 The Oil Painting Class had a change in its normal routine on Friday, 11 March. We took to the playground in the vicinity of Strabane Hall to watch a painting demonstration and to learn how to paint outdoors. The demonstration was by multiple award-winning artist, Pauline Stewart.

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June 2018 — Tai Chi

 On Wednesday 27th June the Creative Photography class went to Dunloe pavilion to photograph our TaiChi group under the instruction of Lee Ann Green.

Below is a collection of their works.     

2018 — Puffing Billy



On Tuesday 17th June the Creative Photography class went on an excursion to Puffing Billy in the soggy Dandenong Ranges. Twelve well rugged up souls made their way to the Puffing Billy (“Puff” for short) Railway station at Belgrave, where we were met by Fleur, who took us on an inspection tour through the locomotive workshop near the station.

Before we went in we were able to watch and photograph Puff shunting a string of carriages into the platform ready for the second train of the day. The workshops housed 3 locomotives being repaired, and has a variety of heavy machines used for such repairs, including a lathe capable of turning 2m diameter wheels (that's 6ft in steam talk), a heavy hydraulic press, milling and grinding machines, and lots of different tools. We wandered through the workshop, snapping away, for about 45 minutes.

We then wandered back up the platform, photographed the train waiting there, then collected our cars and met again at the trestle bridge to photograph Puff as he went by. The driver made lots of steam just for us.

After that we headed for a level crossing to photograph the train again, but unfortunately we missed it. We did however capture another train that was going back towards Belgrave a short time later. We then drove just a little way to Menzies Creek station for some more snapping – quite a pretty spot and good for some more creative photography.

By then it was well past lunchtime, so we went a bit further along the road to the excellent Paradise Valley Hotel at Clematis, where we spent a pleasant hour or so chatting and eating before saying our goodbyes and heading back down the hill to Melbourne.

Photos and text by Jim Maunder.

Video by Mary Quarrell.

Web page by Stanley Barker