Early tomorrow morning I leave Adelaide city for a short photographic/holiday trip to Broken Hill and hopefully to the Menindee Lakes via Mildura. It is only for several days as I return to Adelaide late Tuesday. Lack of time means that the Menindee Lakes are tentative.

Broken Hill is our base from which we explore the region. I do not hold out much hope for access to the internet in Broken Hill, as this regional city is a broadband blackspot with backhaul problems, so my posting may be sparse and dependent on internet cafes. I'll do my best.

The processes in this regional space around the Darling River is regional Australia ---are based on irrigated agriculture along the Darling River and mining at Broken Hill. How do you take a photo that critically expresses the values embodied in humans' relations to the natural environment in an agricultural/mining region of Australia?

This understanding of the river ---as a resource to exploited for regional development by those who resist an ecological science-- is so very different from my eco-philosophy perspective, which mourns a dying River Murray caused by the excesses of irrigated agriculture, celebrates biodiversity and deconstructs the conventional opposition between humans and nature.

Our subjectivity's are so radically different.