I returned to the estuary of the  mouth  of the Hindmarsh River  in Victor Harbor when I was there on the  weekend. 

This was at  the same time as  Peter Eastway  was running his  Fleurieu Peninsula  landscape (digital) photography workshop at Whalers Inn Resort in association with Ron Langman  Their  landscape locations (at dawn and dusk) were Petrel Cove and the coastal rocks around Port Elliot.  Eastway, is a magazine editor who  runs the Better Photography magazine,  as well as running landscape photography workshops around Australia and overseas photography trips/tours.    

Digital technology  makes these workshops  viable  because you can upload  the digital files to the computer after the dusk/dawn photoshoot, quickly process them, and  then discuss them in a workshop the next day. They are popular because you can have fun, enjoy good food and wine,  and socialise with other members of the group.  

I  returned to the Hindmarsh River estuary because I  had to give  up the previous black and white photo shoot  up a couple of weeks ago as  it started raining just as I was photographing the melaleucas. I was lucky this time. Sunday  morning was over overcast,  the light was soft,  the  cloud cover started clearing  slowly,  and the sun came out up just as I'd finished the photoshoot. 

The sunlight highlight on  the white trunk off maleuca's would have made the contrast  too great given the deep shadows in  the background. Film could not have handled the contrast.  Hence my  need for the overcast conditions. 

I now need to develop the 8x10 sheet film at the Analogue Laboratory that is located in The Mill, then scan the negative to create a digital file. Large format  photography  is a much slower process than the digital work flow of the  Fleurieu Peninsula  landscape photography workshop. Some of the sheets of HP 5  film that need to be developed are from my  Kangaroo Island trips whilst  others  are over a year old!