Welcome!

The Brentwood Photography Group is a community of photographers who learn by doing – sharing ideas, improving skills, and enjoying photography together. Whether you’re just getting started or have years behind the camera, you’ll find a friendly, supportive group that values learning, creativity, and connection.

If you’re in the Nashville area and looking for a photography club that’s active, welcoming, and engaged, we’d love to see you at one of our monthly meetings.

Check out what our very own Bert Laws contributed to the 3CT Newsletter (page 9)

Sloss Furnaces Workshop by Bert Laws

MONTHLY Meeting

Bird Photography from Wheeler Wildlife Refuge

Tom Ress

Tuesday, April 7, 2026

Tom Ress

We’ll take a look at Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge and the birds and other wildlife as well as best locations to photograph and give a brief look at other productive birding and photo spots in north Alabama.  We’ll look at photos from other destinations around the world to give a little variety.

Tom Ress is a volunteer naturalist and birding guide at Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge and serves as Vice President of the Wheeler Wildlife Refuge Association. An accomplished photographer and writer, he is the author of Images of America: Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge and a frequent speaker on wildlife and travel. He has visited all seven continents, photographing birds and wildlife around the world.

Images by Tom Ress

Next Outing

Mount Olivet Cemetery

Mount Olivet Cemetery 

Saturday, March 22, 2025
Mt. Olivet Cemetery, 1101 Lebanon Pike, Nashville
Meeting Place: Parking lot of the Mt. Olivet Funeral Home and Cemetery, just off Lebanon Pike. We can meet there and then drive up closer to the old sections.
 
Time: 8:00 am.  The cemetery is open from dawn to dusk if you want to come earlier.
 
Meet us for lunch 11:00 am at The Lost Paddy (Irish) https://www.thelostpaddy.com/  709 Spence Ln, Nashville. 
 
Mount Olivet Cemetery is a 206-acre cemetery established in 1856. It includes gothic revival architecture and many prominent people including governors and senators are buried there. A Confederate section includes over 1500 Confederate soldiers. Victorian details abound on markers, mausoleums and statues surrounded by rolling grounds. Landscape, nature and details are all good subjects for photos.
Note that sunrise is at 6:48 am that day. The PhotoPills app can provide info on sun direction for anyone who wants to arrive early!
 
Wikipedia listing includes a list of notables buried there
Calvary Cemetery is a Catholic cemetery located next to Mt. Olivet on Lebanon Pike
 
Don’t forget to complete the online Hold Harmless Agreement.
Mount Olivet Cemetery
Photo by Janis Tomanek