The next meeting of the Bromeliad Society of Australia will be on Saturday, 12th August at the Federation Pavilion, Castle Hill Showground, Showground Road, Castle Hill off Doran Drive. Bromeliad sales to the public from 10am with the meeting commencing at 12noon.
Guest speaker will be Glenn Smith, Photographer and his presentation will cover the basics of Flora, Fauna and Fungi photography, and will include getting clean shots and the removal of distracting backgrounds when using Iphones to High end Digital Cameras.
Glenn is an amateur photographer who shoots mainly in the Australian Botanic Gardens, Mount Annan. His interest in photography began at the age of ten, 46 years ago and but became more passionate about his hobby 9 years ago. He won the NSW Canon Light awards Photography competition in 2018.
Glenn has run the photography workshops at Mount Annan Botanic Gardens since 2016 and spends many Saturdays out and about attending to his two major projects, photographing each of the 197 bird Species that visit the Australian Botanic Gardens and to complete a photographic record of the 4,000 Native living collection of flora in the Australian Botanic Gardens at Mount Annan.
For further information regarding the Bromeliad Society of Australia please contact Ian Hook, President on mobile 0408 202 269, email: [email protected]
