This abstraction of a granite formation was made just west of Petrel Cove when I was on a poodlewalk with Kayla in the early morning:
I was working nearby on a series of salt abstractions at the time--mid February 2019--and I saw this rock formation.
This abstract photo was made in January 2019 whilst I was on a coastal poodlewalk along the southern Fleurieu Peninsula with Kayla. The picture or image was made in the early morning near from Petrel Cove in the summer light.
The word 'image’ often gets tied to the arbitrariness entailed in individual perception and opposed to the external solidity associated in the vocabulary of ordinary language philosophy with the ‘picture’. Susan Sontag held that images don’t tell us anything, they remind us what is important. This implies that the ‘image’ as a type of inner perception, or mental idea, impression or memory.
This can be interpreted along the lines that an image that exerts a hold and that lives beyond its medium presupposes an agent who is engaged by it, i.e., who finds it meaningful or significant. An image is a sensuous experience of meaning that organises a world. It possesses a communicative force that is surplus to its perceptible form.
This abstraction was made at the bottom of the western edge of Kings Head, Waitpinga. It is almost to the point. It was made whilst I was on an afternoon poodlewalk in January, 2018:
At the time I was struck by the light across the face of the granite as well as the complexity of the shape of the granite formation. The picture was made with a digital camera, and it was a study for a possible large format b+w photo. I've never been back to do the b+w photo session as the Sinar f1 camera wasn't ready.
This abstraction was a difficult image to make. I had to wait until the late afternoon for the light, and he quartz was tucked behind some granite rocks on the foreshore just east of Deps Beach and it was not possible to put my body in the space between the granite and the quartz to obtain a low view:
So I had to lean into the space, try and balance my feet on some sharp edges and hold the Sony NEX-7 camera low. Thankfully the camera has a fold out back and so I could focus the image using it.
This was made on an early morning poodlewalk with Kayla whilst we were slowly making our way to the Petrel Cove car park:
The touch of sunlight playing across the front of the granite caught my eye.
This abstraction was made on an early morning poodlewalk with Kayla
I just happened to see it whilst working on a still life nearby.
From late spring in 2017:
This was made on a poodlewalk amongst the granite rocks west of Dep's Beach.
This picture was made on an early morning poodlewalk with Kayla:
It is an abstraction of granite rocks near Petrel Cove on the southern Fleurieu Peninsula.
