This picture was made whilst I was on a photo trip to the Cotter River when I was in Canberra in mid-2015 whilst on a photoshoot with Judith Crispin:
It was here that I became away that it is not about the accuracy of representation of the optical designs (the way that Leica choose to stay ahead of the competition and carve out a profile of excellence for their image). Its a move away from the metaphor of the lens is something we see with (a focusing or fiteringinstrrument), rather than something we look at to being about the poetics of the situation in the here and now of making a photo.
That situation is a junction of acting forces and is in flux, is dynamic, and full of energy. The poetics is a representation of the intensity and immediacy of our experience of that local moment in the context of the history of that habitat.