Went to the relaxed session of Lightscape last night at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Naarm.

Whilst Ticketeks idea of accessibility is having to fill out a form for accessible tickets in order to receive a call to book in (I don't do phone calls so it ended up taking weeks to book), and the fact some parts of the Lightscape path had a warning that the incline might be too steep for wheelchair uses to access on their own (wtf), the music being pumped out being extremely loud, and the organisers idea of lower numbers is quite laughable (read, it was packed by 630pm), I really enjoyed the display.

I would have preferred more interactivity, like with the fire show they had a few years back, you can only stay on the path with this show, rather than wander through the exhibits, but for me, who embraces technology, I liked the use of qr codes to find out about the design houses/artists.

One tip, even if it's inconvenient, enter via the "pink" gate, via the Observatory Gate, Birdwood Avenue, so that you get to absolutely everything of the display. Also, our session started at 530, but it wasn't dark enough for at least 15mins (but Golden Hour/dusk was a light show in itself), so maybe book for 6pm.

I took over 200 images with my 35mm lens and Nikon camera - hopefully I can get my laptop working long enough to edit them!

#lightscape #RBGC #MobilePhotography #TLWVision #MastoArt