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.