The noticeably warmer days during this last week in August suggest that spring is arriving. The sun now rises before 6.45am and it sets just before 6pm. It is also warmer and have started going on the early morning and late afternoon poodlewalks without a coat. I am also now able to enjoy breakfast on the balcony in the early morning sun. I am sure that the wet weather weather will soon return.
Surprisingly, my poodlewalk photography during the cusp of spring/winter in 2018, when the light becomes special, is becoming darker:

The reason is not just the low light capabilities of the Sony digital camera. I spend a lot of time being in the coastal space of the southern Fleurieu Peninsula, but as I am isolated in Adelaide with this kind of photography, I have been searching to find what other artists representing coastal Australia in their work have been doing. I notice that some work in the dark mode with their explorations of impending storm clouds towering over the land or the wild stormy seas.
The dark mode appeals, and I have started looking at group exhibitions to find a visual affinity with the ways that some artists have approached representing the ocean, waves, rocks and sky. Continue reading “Spring has arrived”