This is a 6x4 card that will be part of a series of cards in the Mallee Routes exhibition in the new gallery space at Atkins Photo Lab in Adelaide. The exhibition opens on Friday, October 7th, at 7.30 pm.
There are just under 40 cards---Postcards from the Mallee, as it were.
I spent several days camping at Wallaroo on the Yorke Peninsula with Gilbert Roe, a fellow photographer based in Adelaide. We spent the time exploring the region with our cameras: Gilbert was using his pinhole camera and I was working with my large format cameras. I concentrated on the silos.
This is one image that I made in the late afternoon with both the Cambo 8x10 (using black and white film) and the Cambo 5x7 (using colour film):
It was a trial run for me in terms of camping whilst being on the road with the large format equipment. Renting a house, staying in a cheap motel, or a cabin in a caravan park, is too expensive these days. Camping was a trial run because our camping gear is very old and basic, and I haven't been camping for 20 years or more. So I needed to see whether this mode of accommodation would work for me as a way of doing the photography road trips.