This scoping picture of a small alley off Bank St was made whilst I recently wandered around Adelaide's CBD in the late morning. I had driven the car from Encounter Bay to Seaford Meadows, caught the train into the city, had a coffee in Leigh St and then started wandering around.
The alley in Bank St was an old haunt, as I remembered that I used to clean the offices in the building next door in the early days of doing the PhD. I would put the rubbish into the bins in the alley each morning. This would have been in the early 1990s. There were no cafes in Bank St then, and the street was not pedestrian friendly. I thought the alley would make a good subject for a large format b+w photo to show the grittiness as well as the history of the city.
I have been keeping an eye out for possible large format subjects, such as liminal spaces like this one:
Judging from the above scoping study this looks to be a possibility that is worth exploring. Another possibility for photographing in the city with a large format camera is the train travel option. Though the travel time was getting on to 2 hours it was more relaxing than driving into the city in the car and then looking fora carpark. What I do need is some kind of gorilla cart to carry my gear around the city instead of lugging it. I can carry the 5x7Cambo etc but the combination of the 8x10 SuperCambo, Linhof Pro tripod and associated gear is too heavy and bulky to lug around the city.