During the late  autumn early winter  months of 2025 winter  I spent some  time walking along back country  roads. The littoral zone along  the Encounter Coast was  pretty much off limits in this period,    due to the effects of the  toxic micro algae bloom (karenia mikimotoi) caused by marine heating since March.  

  I started photographing  the side of the  roads that I was walking along in the early morning and late afternoon poodlewalks. Prior to the late autumn rains these country roads were extremely dusty,  and some of the roadside vegetation was just hanging on.

Occasionally,  I photographed  the insignificant objects  lying on the ground that caught my eye:  eg., a bunch of dead leaves as  their colour  stood out from  the layers of dust. 

On other occasions I photographed  the dead grasses along  the edge of the road.   Normally I would not even notice these grasses,   but the summer heat and absence  of the autumn rains gave them an  increased  significance:

The modest roadside photographs   were an attempt to bring into presence the being of the humble  roadside entities (eg., dead leaves and grass) that are  normally concealed. The roadside itself is not usually seen as a photographic object, especially when it an unsealed with  dead  vegetation.  

Dead vegetation dead marine animals both  caused by conditions exacerbated by  the accelerating impacts of climate heating.