Another seaweed form in low light:
It was made in mid-winter--in July-- when it was wet and stormy.
I haven't been able to walk along the coastal rocks between Petrel Cove and Kings Beach this past week. There have been huge swells, large waves, and very high tides in the late afternoon. There has been no access to the rocks on the afternoon poodlewalks.
It's a pity because Suzanne has been travelling around the Eyre Peninsula this last week and I have been walking the 2 standard poodles. The coastal rock walk would have been ideal as the poodles are contained by the sea and cliffs and so there is no racing off chasing rabbits, foxes or kangaroos, which is what happens when we walk a back country road.
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.
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.
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.