Lilacs in the Arboretum

Name: Lilacs in the Arboretum
Start: 2025-05-04T08:00:00-0400
End: 2025-05-04T10:00:00-0400
Location: Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University

Sun, May 4 2025, 8am - 10am EDT

Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University

boston, united states

Erik Gehring

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Event description

Photo opportunities abound year round at the Arnold Arboretum, but especially in the spring when the lilacs are blooming

Lilac Sunday (scheduled for Mother’s Day, May 11) is the Arboretum’s signature event, drawing thousands of visitors to view the collection and walk the grounds. On this workshop we will visit the Lilac collection first and then other parts of the park, like the nearby Maples collection. We will meet at the Hunnewell Building at 8 am and take a 10 minute walk to the lilacs

This is not an Arnold Arboretum sponsored event. $5 donation to the Friends of the Arboretum included for all registrants.

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Erik Gehring

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Erik Gehring is a freelance photographer who specializes in trees and natural landscapes. He is the Director at the Menino Arts Center, home of the Hyde Park Art Association in Boston and is a past President of the Boston Camera Club. He lives in the West Roxbury neighborhood of Boston with his wife Julie, sons Carl and William, and dog Comet. Although Erik enjoys photographing natural environments all over New England, his favorite destination is Boston’s Arnold Arboretum.

Erik’s work has appeared in Yankee Magazine, AMC’s Outdoors, Northern Woodlands, The Boston Globe, The Boston Metro, the Cape Cod Times, E the Environmental Magazine, and other publications. He has shown his fine art prints at galleries throughout Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island.

Erik also has lectured and taught workshops at the Arboretum, the Griffin Museum of Photography, the Photographic Resource Center in Cambridge, the Eliot School in Jamaica Plain, the Cambridge Art Association, the Concord Art Association, the Hyde Park Art Association, and at locations all over New England for BlueHour.

You can see his work online at www.erikgehring.com.