I've pretty much come to a cross roads with my photography. I've reached a plateau of sorts. The Flickr archive has been built up, photos are being taken regularly, and the quality of the images is improving. So where to next?

The answer I've generally given to myself is that the next stage is to shift to exhibitions and to producing books. I have some sets --eg., Port Adelaide and waste---that are beginning to develop into something more than a set on Flickr.

But what to say and what to write? That is where I come to a halt. The problem is that don't know what I'm going to say. Take Port Adelaide, an urbanscape dominated by empty warehouses, closed pubs and under-utilised shops. All the signs say 'it is happening' but the consensus is that in Port Adelaide not a lot is happening but it is full of promise.

The conventional way of interpreting the emerging urban renewal project at Port Adelaide is to construct it as bad development versus the need to protect good built heritage. There is a clear community concern that the heritage value and culture of Port Adelaide might be lost through the Port Adelaide redevelopment. This concern raises heritage, urban density, place and identity issues.

It is a crucial and pressing issue as Port Adelaide has been named one of Australia's top 10 heritage places at risk by the National Trust of Australia. There are so many derelict historic buildings--eg., the wool stores or Harts Mill-- that could become a cultural hub. An example of such imaging.

My work is not about heritage per se --it is more about the industrial sites, pollution (water and air) and urban decay. Port Adelaide is now a seedy, grubby, dilapidated port town with dirty industry that imagines its future to be a thriving tourist destination, but it is unable to make it happen. The land along Port River and on Torrens Island has been marked for new allotments for industry. So much for the dolphin sanctuary.

So I just plug away taking photos and putting them on Flickr, and dropping in bits of text into the comments section of the project on Flickr. I need to do some research to give the project a bit of a lift off or momentum so that it takes the form of an e-book broadening the issues out as I go--eg;--that of quarantine at Torrens Island.