Thoughtfactory’s Notebooks: The Littoral Zone

An attempt at a rock pool in the late afternoon light whilst on the way to Dog Beach.

Once again it was made on a poodle walk. 

I carried the 5x7 monorail around to Kings Head early one morning before I came to realise that I was really making a rod for my own back using a monorail. 

After this  exercise I started using a 5x4 Linhof field camera when I had to walk a far away from the  car as I  I could carry the Linhof  in a back pack. 

A view of the coastal environment at Port Willunga, South Australia. It is a very popular place in the summer time.  

The photo  was made in the late afternoon near the Star of Greece  restaurant.  

The sandstone cliffs at Port Willunga intrigued me because they were in a process of disintegration. Their base was being eaten away by the rising sea levels.

I had an idea of using the 8x10  Cambo and colour film to photography the erosion.  This was the first scoping exercise. That was before I knew that the Council kept clearing away the rubble on the foreshore and how difficult it would be to  carry the 8x10 over the rocks. 

I've always been intrigued by abstract patterns on the coastal rock face. 

I have no idea how these  marks were formed or made. I just snapped them.