I'm enjoying my time at Victor Harbor taking the dogs for a walk in the morning and the evening and thinking about, and doing, photography on a full time basis during the day and listening to music streaming from online archives.

flower study1, originally uploaded by poodly.

After all the expense in setting up the studio (Rolleiflex 6006; studio stand, light reflectors etc) I'm finally able to spend some time in the studio taking photos.

I can see why studio photographers have shifted to digital--it is so convenient. You take the shot then upload onto the computer, post process, then publish the image. But medium format digital is big money. It's for the big photography studios who do the expensive advertising work for large corporations or for the magazine shoots for those with deep pockets.

I'm just happy working away on a still life with film whilst listening to a Grateful Dead show at the Capital Theatre, Port Chester NY, on 24 9-06 1970--the high energy improvisation starts at track 33, Not Fade Away. The close up still life studies requires precision work --in terms of colour, light and shape--and the music is relaxing whilst I move things around. The plan is explore the Heliconia wagneriana plant in colour with a medium format camera, then switch to black and white with an 8 x10. view camera. That should get things in the studio moving.

The artist's studio--like the gallery and the museum--is an integral part of the art institution of system. The the studio is the unique space of production, the museum is the unique space of exposition and the gallery is the unique space of consumption.