This is another picture in my little experiment in a black and white poetics:
The picture is of a small salt pan near Petrel Cove on the southern Fleurieu Peninsula. It was made in the summer of 2023. The two earlier pictures in the experiment are here and here
The pictures below and over the page were made in 2021 whilst Maleko and I were on an afternoon poodlewalk in the littoral zone in Waitpinga in the southern Fleurieu Peninsula of South Australia. We often walk along this section of the coast in the late afternoon. Photographically speaking, this littoral zone works best in low or flat sunlight. It is no good in the bright afternoon sunlight of summer.
The pictures were made with my Leica M4-P with a rigid Summicron 50mm pre-asph lens. As mentioned in an earlier post the rangefinder recently became salt damaged from a rogue wave surging over me whilst I was photographing. Leica in Germany have since informed me that the lens is kaput (ie., unrepairable), but that they can repair the camera body. I have given the go ahead to repair the camera and I am hoping that the insurance will cover most of the cost of buying a second hand Summicron 50mm pre-asph lens.
That decision means that I remain committed to what some call vintage photography that many understand in terms of being wrapped up in nostalgia. Though not born into a digital world, but subsequently embracing it, I accept that I am a nostalgic photographer whose optimistic belief in the digital future is becoming outmoded. What then is analogue nostalgia?