I took a break from sitting in front of the computer working on The Bowden Archives and Industrial Modernity book by wandering around the local bushland on a poodlewalk with Kayla. Sitting in front of the computer was getting to me.
Kayla and I made a brief return the local patch of bush in Waitpinga last week. We had not walked around there since late spring. We had stayed away over the summer months because of the brown snakes. In early autumn I decided that it would be safe early in the morning around sunrise as the early morning temperatures was cool.
So Kayla and I had a quick poodlewalk one morning when it wasn't heavily overcast to check things out. It is quite dark in this patch of bush early in the morning, and the heavily overcast skies make it difficult to take photos handheld. It was safe. We haven't been back since because of the heavy cloud cover in the morning.
This branch of a pink gum ( Eucalyptus fasciculosa) is in the local bushland in Waitpinga adjacent to Depledge Rd on the southern Fleurieu Peninsula in South Australia.
The picture was made in the early morning in mid-Spring (ie., October) about 15 minutes after sunrise. I often walk down Depledge Rd on a poodlewalk to avoid the strong, south-westerly winds off the southern ocean. The bush on the west side of the road provides us with protection from the wind.
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 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.