I revisited Iron Knob in the Middleback Range in late 2023 whilst on a road trip to the Eyre Peninsula. I swagged there overnight on a bit of grass beside a few straggly trees in a space designated as a … Read More
I recently unearthed a few more 6×6 negatives in the archive from the Tableland Rd series in the eastern Mt Lofty Ranges that were made in the 1980s.
Whilst I was going through my large format archives I came across a black and white industrial topographical photo of the old Osbourne Power Station and the Penrice Soda Products plant. I’d forgotten all about it, even though I had … Read More
I recently scanned some more Bowden negatives. They are supplementary in the sense that they were rejected on my initial selection for some reason. An example is this image of the Adelaide Brass Castings factory,
I am moving on from primarily working on this website to the next stage of the project, which is to make a photo book.
An agricultural landscape with a tree and the Morgan-Whyalla pipeline
When going through my black and white archives from the 1980s I had come across some images of ruins in the eastern Mt Lofty Ranges. I just didn’t know where their location was. It wasn’t until I was on an … Read More
Another two photos from the roadtrip archives. They are from a 1980s road trip I made to Cambrai and Sedan on the Murray plains on the eastern side of the Mt Lofty Ranges. The picture of Australian history that I … Read More
I would frequently return to Melbourne in the early 1980’s to photograph. I used to catch the overnight Overland train, or hitch hike between Adelaide and Melbourne. I travelled lightly, with just a Leica M4 rangefinder and some 35mm black and white film.
As noted in some of the earlier posts in this blog the third section of The Bowden Archives and Other Marginalia consists of the various road trips of different kinds that I made whilst I was living in Bowden, then … Read More