Trees the subject of photo competition
“Shoot the Gardens” is a Durban Botanic Gardens' photographic competition in celebration of Arbor month.
GET your cameras out and start shooting photos of the magnificent trees in the Durban Botanic Gardens this national arbor month.
The Durban Botanic Gardens Trust is launching an exciting fundraising photographic competition coinciding with the start of arbor month, entitled Shoot the Gardens, which will run from 1 September until 30 October.
“In celebration of arbor month, we have selected 'trees' as the theme for this first competition and are inviting all keen photographers and Durban Botanic Garden enthusiasts to 'aim and shoot' and to capture the best images they can of their favourite trees in the Durban Botanic Gardens,” said curator of the Durban Botanic Gardens, Martin Clement.
The Durban Botanic Gardens Trust is a public benefit organisation whose mandate is to raise funds for the Durban Botanic Gardens, for general maintenance and special development projects. The Durban Botanic Gardens Trust has teamed up with generous sponsors Sappi, Nikon, Vega and The Blanket to launch this competition.
“Shoot the Gardens will be a photographer’s delight! Many of our trees have significant heritage value and many are more than 100 years old. Trees are fascinating subjects with an endless array of varying colour, form and texture with the added magical movement of light through the canopy of the gardens. Shoot the Gardens will serve an important education purpose in that regular visitors and the public will be invited to re-visit or re-vision trees in new ways through the creative medium of photography,” he said.
The competition is open to all South Africans, whether you are a photographer, student or a general garden enthusiast, at a cost of R100 per image entered. Images are submitted via the online registration form on the Durban Botanic Gardens website (www.durbanbotanicgardens.org.za)
You can shoot your picture using any digital device that takes photographs. There are great prizes to be won including Nikon digital cameras, Vega photography courses, the new technology driven Sappi bird book with callfinder, picnic goodies and Music At The Lake concert tickets.
