The  b+w  picture below is of roadside vegetation in Waitpinga on the southern Fleurieu Peninsula. It  is from the archives,  and  it was made with a large format camera--a 1950's  Super Cambo 8x10 monorail. 

I used this  picture of the local landscape as my contribution to the online print viewing/sharing of the Melbourne based Friends of Photography Group (FOPG). I've linked up  with FOPG due to my isolation  as a large format photographer in Adelaide.  There are very few people doing this kind of slow photography in Adelaide, and I have little connection to, or empathy with,  the few that  are.  I decided to  share some of my photos I've made  of the local landscape in  Encounter Bay/Waitpinga  with FOPG,  since  most of the photography the members of  FOPG do  is orientated towards the genre of  landscape.    

I am on the fringe  of FOPG due to living in Adelaide. It's not practical  for me  to attend their face-to-face print viewing sessions in Melbourne, but I  did plan to go their field trip to Apollo Bay and the Otway Ranges in April. Unfortunately,  that field trip was cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic.  I plan to submit a photo of the  Waitpinga  landscape from those that  I have been making during the lockdown to their upcoming online exhibition.  

I do not know what will eventuate from  FOPG's online viewing/conversation in lieu of their face-to-face  print viewing sessions during  the Covid-19 lockdown,  with its stay-at-home, minimal travel  and  social distancing requirements. Maybe nothing will evolve via online conversation  and  the communication within the group  will stay in limbo until the lockdown in Victoria has been  lifted and   FOPG's activities (field trips, print viewing sessions and exhibitions) return to the way they used to be.  

This  b+w image of a melaleuca at the Hindmarsh River is  from the archive and was also made with the 8x10 Super Cambo: 

FOPG's  plan is  for an online exhibition  of  film based  photography  made during the lockdown to  be hosted in a gallery on their website.   They have shifted online  with the photos made on their Point Nepean field trip.   This kind of online activity could well point the way to the future for large format photography, given the  life will  not return to normal until there was a vaccine for Covid-19.  That minimally means keeping distance from each other. 

This is a time when the creative industries have been badly hit. Unfortunately, Australia  has a  national government  that is unwilling to support the arts and the creative industries through the Covid-19 pandemic. There is no indication that the Liberal/national Coalition  has any interest in a public arts programme, similar in scale to Franklin D Roosevelt’s Public Works of Art Project (PWAP) and Works Progress Administration (WPA) during the Great Depression.  Consequently,  many freelancers and small organisations will not survive this crisis.