This is a companion post to this previous one. 

That post explored the photographer being immersed in the bushland rather than separate from it. It asked the question: 'can the idea of  photography as poetics  provide a different conception of truth to the  indexical  correspondent one, which is  the traditional understanding of truth in photography.'

The photo can  disclose a moment in the bushland. Photography as poiesis is a mode of disclosure  (aletheia) of being. Discloses in the sense of opens up or unconceals. In doing so the photo is  both a poetics and is thoughtful.

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The picture  below is a representation of a landscape detail that was made  whilst  I wandering  in the Waitpinga bushland in the southern Fleurieu Peninsula on a poodlewalk with Maleko. At the time  I was exploring the  possibilities of  b+w poetics: 

It would have been in the late afternoon during the winter  months as I do not walk  in the bushland with the standard poodles in spring or summer in the afternoon because of the Eastern brown snake, which  are venomous. 

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