My Leica M film rangefinder is locked in the past. I bought the analogue rangefinder on the basis of craftsmanship in the 1970s when it was already being marginalised by the innovative, Japanese SLR cameras. In 2022 the film M is technologically obsolete but it works.
I am no True Believer in Leica, its myths or seductive mystique. What I currently have is a well made, vintage film camera with a minimalist industrial design that requires a considered approach to photographing the world around me.
This picture was made in 2021 when I was starting to photographically explore the Spring Mount Conservation Park in the southern Fleurieu Peninsula in South Australia.
Spring Mount is a local stringybark conservation park in the ranges that run alongside the Inman Valley. It lies between, and separates, the Hindmarsh Tiers and the Inman Valley.