Autumn has arrived at Encounter Bay. I've started to return to walking amongst the coastal rocks with Maleko on the late afternoon poodlewalks. This return happens when there is some cloud cover, the light is soft and there are photographic possibilities.
These walks are still infrequent. The morning cloud usually disappears during the day and the afternoons are clear and sunny. The strong coastal winds that marked the summer months have eased.
I have stayed away from walking amongst the coastal rocks. The cold, south-westerly winds have been continual and persistent. Some of the gusts have been close to gale force. I haven't been making many photos along the littoral zone as I have been walking in the bushland to shelter from the wind.
It was only occasionally during the late spring month of November that I would do the coastal littoral zone walk with a camera in the late afternoon: --- the conditions were that the wind had dropped, it was overcast, and there was some warmth.
I saw these two cuttle fish shells yesterday morning when I was walking with Kayla near Petrel Cove.
I went looking for them this morning when I was walking with Maleko but they'd gone. The tides had washed the shells away.
I've been going the archives of what I call my macro photographs.
The picture below was made about the same time (circa 2019) as the images on this post on Thoughtfactory's photo blog and with the same macro camera equipment. It was the colours of the quartz that initially caught my eye. Then I saw the seaweed strand lying across the quartz vein.
I thought that this moment wouldn't last very long, as the coastal wind would quickly move the shape and the line of the seaweed strand, then eventually blow it off the quartz. So I quickly made a photo.
I was on a poodlewalk at the time, and I was looking for some dried salt ponds among the granite rocks to photograph. We would have been walking in the late afternoon.
Winter is now easing into spring.The light is changing, sunrise is much earlier, the sun is shifting more to the south and the light is becoming much more intense and contrasty earlier in the morning.
We continue to stay close to home apart from going on the Lavender Trail camps. The final one is one is in September at Clare.
We experienced a big storm front that swept across South Australia in late August bringing rain, wild seas and gale force winds. Maleko and I wandered along the coastal rocks on the afternoon after the storm had passed.
