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. 

The smartphone  has become  the dominant form of the camera today, and this juggernaught  is changing  the way we take photos and the way we consume them as well. Most photos are shared and viewed on smartphone screens. The print is unnecessary and only a small fraction of photos taken with the smart phone get printed. The great thing about smartphone cameras and smartphone photography is that the user can take a picture, edit it in camera or in  Lightroom Mobile, and then instantly post it online to various  social media sites.  

I barely used the iPhone to take photos on this trip.