a rare occurrence

This is   rare event  at Petrel Cove near Encounter Bay on the southern Fleurieu Peninsula:

 A 2.7 metre wide bump-head sunfish (Mola alexandrini). It hasn't been attacked.

I initially thought that the waters of the Southern Ocean would have been too cold as they mostly live in temperate and tropical oceans and interpreted this an indication  of  increasing marine temperatures.  However, I was informed that  the waters along Australia's  southern coast are temperate and these waters  in the southern hemisphere are its habitat. 

I returned a few days latter and it had gone. The tides had swept it back to the sea. 

cuttlefish, seaweed, granite

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. 

rock abstract #7

Another picture from the 5x7 Cambo monorail shoot near Kings Beach, Victor Harbor.  

It is a large format version of the 6x6 one in this earlier post. I was thinking more in terms of abstractions and modernism  than just rock studies and snap shots.  I was starting to reconnect with the art history past. A retro Australian modernism as it  were, which referred back  to the rock studies made by John Cato in the 1970s. 

Cato's abstractions developed the vocabulary of his own inner landscape and can be seen as expressions of his subconscious. I have no interest in this kind of transcendent photography that links back to Kandinsky.