The macro picture below of cuttlefish shells is from a recent poodlewalk amongst the coastal rocks with Maleko. It was in the late afternoon just prior to the Xmas/New year holiday break.
I was on the lookout for dried out salt ponds amongst the coastal rocks at the time. However, as the weather had been cool, overcast and windy, with only the odd bright, sunny days with high temperatures, the salt ponds were few and far between.
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.
On the Esplanade Beach in the early morning around sunrise.
It has been a while since kayla and I have walked along this beach. We have returned because the grass seeds in the bushland are all pervasive.
The sand on the beach at Petrel Cove in Victor Harbor comes and goes, and it does so quite regularly. When the sand is washed away during the winter months and only the rocks remain, an old, rusty engine is exposed.
My guess is that the engine was dumped over the cliffs as rubbish quite some time ago. It's more than likely that it is an old car engine, rather than a tractor engine due to its size. Then the sand returns and the engine disappears from view. The dumping of household rubbish on the side of the back country roads is still quite common around Victor Harbor and Waitpinga.
It was in the late summer and it is a constructed still life. After I had come across the crab lying amongst the coastal rocks I looked for a suitable background to photograph it. I looked for a site that would be protected from the tide and wind so that I could return and re-photograph it if necessary.