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March 4, 2013

a leaf

Our poodlewalks are severely restricted whilst we are in the city.

We walk down Sturt St to Whitmore Square around 9am; take the car to Veale Gardens at 1pm and walk to Veale Gardens at 6pm. We are restricted by the long spell of the late summer heat and Raffi not being able to walk very far in the heat. So we just go to places like Whitmore Square and Veale Gardens where he can safely play off lead in the shadows of the trees.

I take what photos I can, but my options are very limited as I am basically a dog carer. This picture was taken on a day late last week when it rained. Now we are in a 14 day heatwave.

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February 2, 2013

Gouger Street

I wandered around the Adelaide Central Market precinct on Friday morning trying to make sense of all the activity as a photographer. The neon lighting inside the market makes it very difficult to make photos of the fruit and vegetables in the stalls, so I tend to hang around just outside the market.

I mostly avoid pictures of people as I am not a street photographer. I search for the more off beat images or for subject matter that would be suitable for making abstractions:

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January 4, 2013

heatwave

It was 30 degrees (C) last night in Adelaide. As it is going to be over 44 degrees (C) today, I made some photos very early in the morning. I took a break from working out in the gym around 6.15am and went to take some quick photos before the very bright early morning sunlight hit the streets. Then I went back to the gym.

I wasn’t really interested in The Wave per se. This was a snap I did on the way to photograph the deserted building on the King William Street and Gilles Street corner. This used to be a Chinese restaurant before they bought The Brecknock pub on the opposite corner and converted it into a restaurant.

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December 26, 2012

Xmas

The afternoon poodlewalk on Xmas day was after a long and luxuriant lunch with family friends in Adelaide. We needed some exercise after that lunch, and so Suzanne, Ari and I walked around the parklands. There was hardly anyone around, and so we had the space to ourselves.

I took a few pictures of leaves and bark on the ground with an eye to texture and colour. Suzanne and Ari weren’t willing to stop and wait for me to dilly dally with the photography, the time I had was short.

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December 22, 2012

Esplanade, Victor Harbor

Our holiday at Victor Harbor started today with Suzanne and Ari walking around Petrel Cove and Rosetta Head whilst I did an early morning walk in the township with a camera. I was waiting for the Farmers Market to open at 7.30am so that I could buy some fresh vegetables and fruit.

This style of beachside house–from the 1940s or earlier?— will soon be history. It will eventually be pulled down to make way for a beachside style McMansion that will probably be rented out.

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December 18, 2012

Wright St, Adelaide

I walk past this building almost everyday and I’ve been wondered how to photograph it. This photo was made early on a weekday morning around 6.30am before there was any one around. There was just a security guard collecting money from the parking meters and she was hostile. Security guards are just suspicious of photographers these days.

I also look at the beginnings of the redevelopment of an open car lot to its left along Frew Street. It is an affordable housing project. Most of the year has been taken up with digging out the contaminated soil and replacing it.

I understand that the development will done in several stages, and it will allow low and moderate income households to live in the CBD. It is part of the Council’s strategy to encourage more people to live in “a vibrant, populous and sustainable Capital City built upon Adelaide’s heritage and lifestyle”.

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December 13, 2012

it’s too hot to do much

It’s very hot in Adelaide at the moment. The temperature is around 38 degrees on our evening walks and 28 degrees during the night. There are no cool gully winds at night now. So Ari and I just mooched around the shade in Veale Gardens yesterday evening. The sprinklers only come on in the early morning.

We sat for a while by some of the trees that I wanted to photograph. These were abstractions of the bark currently peeling off the trunks of the eucalypts. The colours of the bark and trunk are soft and subtle:

I took some hand held close-up photos with the Rolleiflex SL66, since this medium format camera system doesn’t need closeup rings. Then we move on to the next tree taking care to remain in the shade. We pretty much just sit in the shade and watch the world go by.

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December 12, 2012

Adelaide: early morning

It was my day off from the gym this morning so I went out photographing in the early morning around the Central Market Precinct from about 6.30 am to 8am. It will be about 36 degrees today and tomorrow. By 8am it already was hot and the light was very bright. The city was very quiet between 6.30-7am. People were having their morning coffees and reading newspapers at the cafe’s in Gouger St.

I was interested to see this precinct of the city in the early morning summer light, as I generally only see it in the late afternoon light.

I basically reworked familiar ground to see the difference that the early morning light made. I was pleasantly surprised. The light highlighted the modernist buildings that are emerging above the low rise nineteenth century ones.

The Adelaide CBD skyline is changing from being that of a small quaint village or just another suburb.

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December 7, 2012

Central Market precinct

I went for a quick a walk around the Central Market precinct this morning after breakfast. It was overcast, muggy and the light was soft. I had a coffee at The Marquis amongst the lawyers, and glanced through the AFR for possible material to bounce off for my public opinion blog.

I put some medium format film into Photoco to be developed, and then started exploring the central market area itself.

Would this picture work as a large format shoot I wondered? I was unsure. I’ll keep coming back to it to have a look.

The market is very dark without the artificial lights, and the neon lights in the various stalls makes the light that falls on the produce contrasty and really ugly. I was looking for an area with vegetables and natural light. I had in mind some sort of still life.

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December 6, 2012

organic abstract

The weather is warming up again. It was a gentle meandering walk amongst the eucalypts in the parklands looking at the tree trunks this evening. The trunks of the eucalypts are to loose their bark and to change colour.I started looking for possible abstracts:

I was interested to see if I could take abstractions with the Sony NEX-7 with a Leica Summicron 35m asph lens. This functions as a 50mm lens on the NEX-7, due to the crop factor of the smaller than full frame sensor and it doesn’t allow you to get very close to the object.

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