This photo was taken when we were on holidays in the Clare Valley in South Australia early this year. We were having lunch in a restaurant called Skillogalee, and there was a moment between the main course and desert when 'the time was right' to take a photo in the cottage garden around the restaurant.

Gary Sauer-Thompson, Agtet, Suzanne, Ari, 2006

The image is a portrait as a snap within the tourist flow of everyday life of the urban middle class holidaying in the tourist world that is the Clare Valley. It's what people do isn't it on holidays? Take snaps of themselves as tourists?

The Skillogalee restaurant sits amidst the vineyards in the rolling hills that shape the region and valley. We stayed in a wooden cabin in the bush covered hills for a couple of days, and so I had some time to take a few photos:

Gary Sauer-Thompson, Tree Trunk, Clare, 2006

Nature is seen as what is.--as wildeness. Yet the whole valley had been shaped and transformed into a wine area. In reality there were only isolated pockets of wilderness that had not been deeply scarred by grazing and farming.

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