This bark study was made in February 2019 whilst I was on a poodlewalk with Kayla along the Heysen Trail in Waitpinga:
I went back a couple of days latter with a film camera and tripod to re-photograph the bark. Sadly, a couple of days of strong south westerly winds had torn the bark off from the trunk of the pink gum (Eucalyptus fasciculosa).
This picture of the trunk of a pink gum (Eucalyptus fasciculosa) was made whilst I was on an early morning poodlewalk with Kayla in early October this year. The picture was made prior to the sun breaking through the cloud cover:
The pink gums are situated at the low point of Halls Creek Rd. This creek only runs when there has been a very wet winter. This did not happen in 2019.
This particular pink gum on Jagger Rd is close to the corner of Jagger and Baum Rds in Waitpinga. It is an area where we often go for our poodwalks.
On this occasion we were returning to the studio via a back country road in the Forester. We had been at a photo session on agricultural landscapes and as we came to the corner I saw the last rays of afternoon light falling across the trunk of pink gum. I stopped the car, picked up the digital camera and made the photo.
This picture of roadside vegetation along Depledge Rd in Waitpinga on the southern Fleurieu Peninsula is from the archives--around 2011 and made in the late afternoon whilst on a poodlewalk. Since then I have continued walking the back country roads and photographing the roadside vegetation.
Whilst doing so I become slowly aware that the roadside vegetation in this region is slowly becoming less healthy. When trees die, are strangled by box mistletoe infestation, or fall over in a storm they are quickly chopped down for firewood. There is very little natural re-growth taking place within the roadside vegetation between the agricultural paddocks. The thinning tree canopy is noticeable, as is the overall poor condition of the pink gums in this rural part of the Mt Lofty Ranges.
This picture of two eucalypts standing at the Tugwell Rd entrance to Halls Creek Rd in Waitpinga was made on an early morning winter. I was on a poodlewalk with Kayla:
I also photographed these trees with a Rolleiflex SL66 in both colour and black and white.
This picture of the corner of Francis and Pitkin Streets was made whilst I was on an exploratory poodlewalk in Waitpinga. Pitkin Rd runs off Waitpinga Rd. This is the road you take to go to both Newland Head Conservation Park and the surf beaches---Waitpinga Beach and Parsons Beach.
I was looking for different places close to the studio to walk as I was bored walking along the usual back country country roads. Both Pitkin and its side road--Francis Rd-- are no through roads, as they just lead to various farms or properties.
This picture was made in the early autumn along the Heysen Trail in Waitpinga whilst I was on a poodlewalk.
It was made just after I'd finished this photo session and we were returning to the Forester.
I made this photograph on the fly whilst I was scoping for another picture to re-photograph. I was on an early morning poodlewalk with Kayla on the Heysen Trail in Waitpinga at the time.
This picture of roadside vegetation was made on an early morning poodlewalk on a dusty road in Waitpinga with Kayla:
I have avoided walking in the bush or the country roads this summer because of the brown snakes.
This photography a roadside tree on Jagger Rd in Waitpinga is from the archives. It was made whilst I was on a poodlewalk, or more accurately, I'd scoped the tree whilst walking with the poodles in the afternoon, and I came back latter to photograph it with the 5x4 Linhof Technika IV.
I was interested in photographing the roadside vegetation at that stage, as this vegetation was part of the remnants of the native bush in the predominantly agricultural landscapes. I'd noticed that the roadside vegetation was slowly disappearing.