This macro photo was made yesterday morning whilst I was walking along Dep's Beach in Waitpinga with Kayala towards Kings Beach.
The recent mornings have been soft, with little wind and a soft haze. Surprisingly so, for late summer. It has been a gentle summer so far. There have been no 14 fortnight long heatwaves.
This pile of cuttlefish shells was at the western end of Dep's Beach on the southern Fleurieu Peninsula. I stumbled upon them whilst I was on a late afternoon poodlewalk with Kayla and Maleko. I presume the shells had been collected and piled up by kids during the recent school holidays.
I came across the shells around the time of this excursion to Granite Island. The shells were packed up between the rocks in deep shade.
I wandered around exploring the western edge of Deps Beach whilst waiting for Suzanne to finish chatting with a friend one Sunday morning. I started photographing the various strips of seaweed lying in the sand with my makeshift macro camera:
I was fascinated by the colour of these seaweed strips in the early morning light. I had never seen this type of seaweed before. It was all over the sand at the western edge of the beach.
A still life in an open air studio consisting of granite rock, a feather and a fragment of cuttlefish shell:
I was on an early morning poodlewalk with Kayla. It was towards the end of summer.
This macro study of quartz was made on an afternoon poodlewalk with Maleko during the Xmas break:
It was slightly overcast that afternoon in mid-January and the usual high contrast light around 6pm was softened.