I have started to go through my archive of the macro images that I made whilst I've been on the poodlewalks.
I need to start doing something with these images with their connection between walking and photography. This has emerged or come to the fore during the Covid-19 pandemic, and it has got me motivated to start looking at this body of work.
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.
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 picture was made on a recent afternoon poodlewalk with Maleko during October 2019. Maleko was looking for golf balls and I was wandering around the rocks with a camera. The location is just east of Kings Beach Rd on the eastern edge of Waitpinga.
It was a calm evening, with soft light and low tide. This combination doesn't happen very often. So I spend some time sitting quietly the rocks. I haven't been able to return to the location since because the tides have been too high.
This granite and quartz study was made whilst I was on an afternoon walk in Waitpinga with Maleko. We walked along Kings Beach, over, Kings Head, past the wilderness lodge, and down to the rocky outcrop close to the foot of the Newland Head cliffs.
We walked around the rocky outcrop so that I could try out my new digital camera--the Sony A7r111 in low light situations.