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.  

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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.  

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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.  

The light has changed dramatically--I discovered that there is very little time between sunlight on the trees and no lighting on the cusp of autumn and winter.   I had taken a film camera and tripod with me, but I  wanted softer light. so  I went walking.  When I returned there  was no  time to set up  the camera and tripod. The soft light just vanished--there one minute, gone the next.

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. 

 It is digital black and white. The soft light in the clearing caught my eye. 

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.

This tree is roadside vegetation.  It  is on Baum Rd, Waitpinga. Baum Rd is a back country road that I often walk along on our poodlewalks. 

The photograph was made in the autumn of 2018. I have photographed it before, but I've never been happy with the results. So I had another go recently. 

This was made in 2011 on a poodlewalk along Jagger Rd in Waitpinga:

 You walk up a rise with farmland on either side. The road side vegetation is sparse.  

This scene is on  a part of the Heysen Trail in Waitpinga. I often walk along this section on a poodlewalk  as it is a strip of bush between farmland. 

I thought that working on this tree project that was working towards a photobook  was a waste of time. Then I came across the Melbourne Photobook collective  and William Stewart's On the Making of Trees-- which is an article about the process of making a photobook based on him  photographing trees over a number of  years.  

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