The photo below was made on an early morning poodlewalk with Kayla in 2022 in the local bushland in Waitpinga on the Fleurieu Peninsula in South Australia. The photo was made around the same time as this black and white one.
Kayla and I did a lot of our early morning walks in this particular bushland, as it was one of her favourite places to walk in. We would come across foxes, rabbits and kangaroos in the winter/spring months and so there were lots of scents for there. She would wait whilst I photographed. On this occasion I was attracted by the subtle colours of the bark and the leaves.
This image is produced by a form of lens-based photography as distinct from the photographic. Then former involves creating images using light, a camera and film. (Digital technology replaces film with a sensor.) We need to make a distinction between photography and the photographic and to see them as two distinct entities, given the emergence of AI-generated images. Our photographic language has become a free floating entity separated from (lens-based ) photography and it now has a life of its own.
That is our starting point in the current situation.