Found amongst the coastal rocks at the end of Deps Beach, Victor Harbor:
I was on an early morning poodle walk with Ari and Kayla. We were hanging about the rocks waiting for some walkers and trail bikers to move on from the beach.
I came across this found still life early one morning whilst on a poodlewalk along Deps Beach, west of Victor Harbor.
It was just after sunrise and there was a lot of early morning cloud cover .
The big rolling waves, caused by the strong south-easterly winds, resulted in the southern ocean foaming up when it crashed against the coastal rocks. You don't see this very foam, or the extent of it, often along this coast of the southern Fleurieu Peninsula.
Of all the Australian beach icons ---the lifesaver, the beach belle and the beach bum, the surfer and the sunbather--- you occasionally see the surfer at this beach. There are no beachobatics as photographed on Bondi by George Caddy in the late 1930s.
The beach icon at Deps Beach is the dog walker in the early morning our later afternoon. It's not even families at play, since it is not a safe beach due to the strong rips along this part of the coast.
I am taking lots more photos along the coastal shore now that we are living own the coast at Encounter Bay, Victor Harbor. These are made during the morning and evening poodle walks with a digital camera (a Sony NEX-7) and I use them as a form a kind of visual diary.
This salt encrusted rock is an example:
I upload them to Lightroom and then look at them on the computer screen to see what works. In the past I'd go back and reshoot with a film camera if the image worked. But I don't anymore. I am happy just sticking with digital.
Cuttlefish + seaweed
This still life was made on Debbs Beach on a poodle week. The location is near Victor Harbor, on the Fleurieu Peninsula in South Australia