![]() ![]() So I walked up to the Pound – which is beautiful, but not so much in the rain. I guess I figured if I’d walked up at sunrise I should make a frame. Same spot but this is actually next morning. I’ve shot it many times but never with low cloud before. This is a well-known view near Ikara/Wilpena Pound. I thought it would rain later so I got a safety shot. But still gotta love a window shot from a moving vehicle eh? It’s how we say #roadtrip. It was an interesting view from the window but a dud shot. ![]() ![]() Nice bit of motion blur from the window AND I got the horizon level. Here I’m still perfecting the “shoot out of the out-of-van-window-while-driving” method. The sky looked interesting though – anything that looks like it might rain is a novelty. The plan was to stay in the van and do day-rides on dirt roads and fire trails in the Flinders. In September 2018 I put my bike in the van and drove by myself up to Ikara/Wilpena Pound in the Flinders Ranges in South Australia. (Which I did – there’s a link to the essay at the end so you can see which shots I used for that) So as well as testing out the camera, I had in mind I would record my trip and tell the story of my long weekend in a photo essay. I guess I didn’t want to waste a roll of Portra in an untested camera, but I never buy 24 exp. The film: Kodak GC 400 (Ultramax) 24 Exposures (Cheap as). After this trip I modified it so it now shoots 24mmx24mm. I liked it because the viewfinder is huge, because it’s easy to switch off the flash, and it takes AAs. It’s actually a pretty usable camera for this sort of thing. I recall I had just found this at the shop near where I live – so it’s also the first roll with this camera. Fixed focus 35mm f4.5 lens Shutter speeds 1/45 to 1/200 Auto DX of 100 and 400. The camera: a $5 op-shop Canon Snappy LXII. It’s a holiday – buy a roll of film and away we go! This roll records the time I went away for a long weekend and shot one roll as a record of my trip. I decided to stay away from the pretentious shit and leap in with a roll of good old-fashioned snapshots. So – I jumped in to my LR catalogue and had a look. How do we gauge the success of an image? Is it tied purely to purpose, or can we hope for something that lies beyond the specific and is universal?Īll that stuff and more went through my mind as I read the first post in the #FullRollFriday series. Why do we make photos? What is our intent? ![]()
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