From the archives: 

I came across these  pieces of fallen bark  lying on the ground in the reserve at Solway Crescent, which  was just across  the road  from the studio at Encounter Bay. The  bark  was from a lemon scented gum (Corymbia citriodora) that had been planted by  Suzanne's mother in the late 1970s when her parents retired to Encounter Bay in Victor Harbor  from Melbourne. 

The reserve was originally stripped bare  farmland apart from 3 isolated pine trees straddled across  a small creek bed. The original farmland has been sold and is covered in houses. The reserve It is now fully treed and  the birds have returned. 

At the time of the photo  I was experimenting with Ilford Pan F (50 ASA)  on the Leica M4 rangefinder.  I had purchased the film by mistake. I was wanting to buy Ilford HP5  (400 ASA)  but  I ended up buying the slow speed film.  That  camera store --Total Photographics in   Kent Town, Adelaide  -- is long gone. It was an  early sign of the slow, steady  decline of the camera industry after the initial  digital boom.  

Sadly there is also decline in  the public funding for art photography  in the digital era.