Late afternoon at Port Elliot on the southern Fleurieu Peninsula was windy, with a strong south westerly wind blowing into the beach, stirring up the sand. The rain had been and gone.

Whilst taking the poodles for a walk along Boomer Beach around 6pm I looked for shots that would be suitable to take with my old 5x4 Linhof. I took a number of shots with my prosumer Sony R1 digital camera of rocks, grass and beach houses that were similar to this one:

Port Elliot, originally uploaded by poodly.

As an abstraction---- a simplification, a reduction, made in the service of some particular interest in my visual diary (Flickr), this is a sketch for a future large format photograph. The image works well enough for me to return with the 5x4 Linhof next weekend. This is an easy way for me to get back into large format photography before I go to Tasmania in early February.

I am surprised that the Alexandrina Council allows development right on top of the sandstone cliffs of Boomer Beach without any green wedge. Clearly, money rules in Port Elliot

The coastal edge are blighted by what real estate agents would call strategically located development, whilst the promises by the Victor Harbor and Alexandrina Council's to ensure greens wedges to break up the coastal development from Victor Harbor to Goolwa have been hollow. Development rules.

The reason to turn towards a large format is to break away away from that tendency in Western philosophical thought, from Descartes onward which has excessively privileged “clear and distinct” conscious perception whilst ignoring the ways that this perception is always already grounded in our bodies. Even when we do represent, we are also feeling our bodies, and feeling with our bodies. The image from a large format camera open up a space for us to feel the image with our bodies rather than minds.