I've been re-looking at the film archives on the iMac and I came across these photos of Kings Head, Waitpinga. I haven't looked at this particular archive in years. I cannot remember when these two photos were made. They were probably made just before we moved down to live at Encounter Bay on the southern coast of the Fleurieu Peninsula.
That was roughly when I decided to return to photographing with black and film in response, or a reaction to, digital and colour. The latter had a tendency to make things look pretty --- too pretty. Would black and white film enable me to move away from beauty? To represent, through abstracting from colour, the more rugged features of the coastline's rock formations?
I hadn't photographed in black and white since the 1990s and I was hesitant and tentative. Could I see in black and white again? So I loaded the Rolleiflex's additional film back with slow b+w film (Ilford Pan F Plus 50 ASA) and when I was photographing in colour and just changed the film back and make a b+w photo. Eventually, that process became habitual when using the medium format camera.
There were a lot of failures along the way as I slowly re-learned the rudiments of b+w analogue photography that I'd forgotten. Often what looked good in colour simply did not work in b+w.