This   picture of bark hanging from a branch of a pink gum  was  made on an early morning  poodlewalk with Kayla. The walk  was  along Baum Rd in Waitpinga on the southern Fleurieu Peninsula in South Australia. 

The picture  was made around the same time,  and in the same location,  as this  picture. Both  pictures were made using  an old, hand held,  film Leica rangefinder  camera during the Covid-19 lockdown. The negatives  from the anachronistic, unmetered, mechanical simple   Leica M4-P were scanned using Plutek Opticfilm 8100 scanner,  which is a dedicated 35mm scanner. The scan is a piece of raw material, for later editing in Lightroom. 

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This picture was made early in the morning  whilst walking along Baum Rd in Waitpinga on a poodlewalk with Kayla.

It is  a freeze-frame  of a transient moment   in early spring  that was with a handheld  Leica  M4-P rangefinder and Kodak Portra 400 ASA film.  The picture is an exploration of visual poetics.

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I've been going through  the archives looking for suitable images  (product) to sell  in the forthcoming online corner store on the Thoughtfactory website . I plan to to sell my photobooks and maybe some prints.   I came across the  pictures  below, which were  made whilst I was on  a Mallee Routes photo-camp at Hopetoun in Victoria in 2017. Hopetoun is in the northern part of Victoria's  Wimmera Mallee.  

The Mallee Routes project is currently on hold.

The first 3 years of the  collaborative section  has come to an end and the participants have gone their separate ways.  The next stage is a solo one to make a  future photo-book. The  Covid-19 pandemic then happened with its lockdown on travel outside one's postcode.  My energies shifted to establishing the online Encounters Gallery and kicking it off with making photos for  The Covid-19 exhibition.  Travel restrictions within  South Australia have now  been lifted for travel within the state, but the SA border remains closed to Victoria. 

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This picture was made whilst I was on a phototrip for the Mallee Routes project.  I stayed at Tanunda with the people walking  the Lavender Trail and travelled into the Murray Mallee each day. This road trip  was a little break from working on the aesthetic essay for the  Adelaide Art Photographers 1970-2000  book for Moon Arrow Press. 

I spent a lot of time driving across  to the Murray mallee on the eastern side of theRiver Murray, as well as  between Cambria and Sedan. I was trying to trace the old railway line from Sedan to Cambria. This is the railway siding at Sedan:  

 I read somewhere on my iPhone on the trip that camera sales  keep on shrinking or that the industry is in  transition, even though people are increasingly relying on imaging for stories in their  daily life.   The smartphone  with its touch screen has disrupted and transformed the entire photographic industry.  The iPhone vs Google Pixel vs Samsung is a  marketing battle,  much of which  centres on the camera, in-camera processing  and  computational photography. One consequence of this  disruption is   that entry-level APS-C style cameras (point and shoot) are  on their  way out.  That shifts the emphasis  to  the higher end or top shelf  full frame market. 

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I visited Whakaari/White Island  in the Bay of Plenty,  prior to attending Photobook/NZ  in Wellington in 2018. 

Suzanne and I were on a weeks holiday in the North Island,  which included exploring the GeoThermal Highway.  White Island was where we started the exploration. After the holiday  Suzanne then went on to  walk the Grand Traverse  in the South Island,  whilst I stayed in an Air BnB in  the Te Aro Valley  in  Wellington. I spend the  week walking  and photographing around the city for the Reconnections project.    

I could only go to White Island in a party  organised by the local  tourist operators at Whakatane.  I was lucky to make  it to island,   due to a cyclone that had swept across this part of the island a couple of weeks earlier.  It   flooded  the Whakatane River,  littered the mouth of the river  with  the trunks and branches  of trees upstream,  and made the swells around the island too dangerous  for the boats to  land. 

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This picture was made whilst I was wandering around an old Council rubbish dump in the late afternoon:

I was on a poodlewalk in Waitpinga, which is in the  southern Fleurieu Peninsula in South Australia. The dump is empty now.--its an edgeland. 

A picture of tree rings in an old rubbish dump  from late 2018 that I have  just got around to scanning.

 This abstract  was made in the late afternoon in Waitpinga whilst  I was on  a poodlewalk   with Maleko. 

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This picture was made whilst I was on  a brief visit to Sunshine,  Melbourne:

 I was there for an industrial photo session with Stuart Murdoch in North Melbourne.   We had a break from  photographing drosscapes  with Stuart taking  me for a walk along the Kororoit Creek trail in Sunshine.  

I saw this old, rusty  can lying amongst rocks in the walls of the Terrapinna Gorge in the Northern Flinders Ranges:

This picture was made whilst walking along the coast of the southern Fleurieu Peninsula:

It was made whilst on a poodlewalk during the early autumn of 2018.