Kurrawonga up close: recapping a great day of exploring the art of macro nature photography
NGT’s first Art in Science workshop took place recently at Kurrawonga, our conservation property in Nelson, Victoria.
A warm and sunny day provided perfect conditions to spend a day focusing on insects. Ockert le Roux and Eugene Coscarelli introduced us to macro-photography and provided us with some handy tips on how to shoot artistic images of insects before we had some time exploring the world of tiny creatures at Kurrawonga.
For the scientific part of the workshop after lunch Bryan Haywood and Andy Lines introduced us to the art of preserving and pinning of insects. Fascinated by the diversity of Bryan’s private collection and infected by Andy’s passion some of the participants gave the pinning a go and are now keen on starting their own collection.
The first Art in Science workshop was a great day and it was wonderful to see how generously knowledge and experiences were exchanged amongst everyone involved.
We would like to thank everyone involved and all participants for spending their day with us at Kurrawonga exploring, appreciating and learning about our wonderful environment.
If you are interested in any NGT workshops or have some particular topics you are interested in feel free to send us an email.
You can find out more about the Kurrawonga property and the generous donation of the Moore family here.
Art in Science Gallery (click an image to enlarge and start slide-show)
- Image by Wayne Bigg.
- Image by Sue Carrison.
- Image by Sue Carrison.
- Image by Andrew Moore.
- Learning how to preserve insects. Image by Ockert Le Roux.
- Image by Ockert Le Roux.
- Image by Graham Carter
- Image by Ockert Le Roux.
- Image by Ockert Le Roux.
- Image by Angela Lamond.
- Image by Ockert Le Roux.
- Image by Wayne Bigg
- Image by Angela Lamond
- Andy Lines in his element. Image by Ockert Le Roux.
- Image by Angela Lamond.
- Image by Wayne Bigg
- Kurrawonga close up. Image by Ockert le Roux.
- Image by Angela Lamond
- Image by Angela Lamond
- Image by Andrew Moore.
- Image by Angela LAmond
- Image by Angela Lamond
- Image by Graham Carter.