Coastal SA Archives - Peter MacDonald Photo

The Jetty

Peter MacDonald — Sat, 05 Oct 2024 01:35:52 +0000

The jetty at my place is sort of the centre of the 2 kilometre radius that I’m primarily concentrating on.

The Mundoo channel is a highway for boats and fishermen. They’re out mainly for Mulloway and Coorong Mullet in the surrounding waterways. There’s a busy boat ramp a few hundred yards up the channel.

Fishermen are always looking for the information about where the fish are biting and my friend @simoncardonefishes on the right is always looking for the latest information.

Simon is often fishing the state’s waterway and his tips are regularly posted on Tackle World’s website and his articles appear in the Fishing SA magazine.

Cloudy Days

Peter MacDonald — Sat, 28 Sep 2024 10:37:56 +0000

Cloudy Days

Winter on the coast was an interesting transition from Outback South Australia. It was mostly grappling with overcast skies and marginal light…things that were a small percentage days in the bush.

I’ve got a target of shooting something every day and while I confess at times that has been somewhat difficult there were still opportunities to be had.

This is the Mundoo Channel a couple of hundred yards from my home on one such day. Soft colours but interesting light. There’ll be a few more of these along the way among the brighter days and interesting events around what is My Place.

My Place

Peter MacDonald — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 23:51:26 +0000

Sunrise on the Mundoo Channel. How peaceful can it get. Appropriate too for the start of something new….. a look at the pictures I’ve taken around where I hang out out now far from the Flinders Ranges and Outback that was my home for a couple of decades.

I must admit the transition wasn’t easy. However I reckon there’s images to be made here too, particularly when it comes to the amazing range of colours that change through times of day, weather and seasons.

The Mundoo Channel is part of a waterway linking the vast Murray River where it flows into the ocean. And it’s connected to the fascinating Coorong coastal lagoon ecosystem. It’s roughly 130 kilometres south of Adelaide.

It’s an area teaming with many species of birds and other wildlife and a mecca for boaties, fishermen, kayakers and nature lovers.

The images to come will mostly be limited an area about 1.5 to 2 kilometres from my place as well as excursions around Hindmarsh Island, the Coorong and the nearby river township of Goolwa.

Two Rocks

Peter MacDonald — Thu, 28 Jan 2021 20:00:06 +0000

Photography is an interesting pursuit. The bottom line though is an observation which brings me to this picture of two rocks or as I see it, father and son.

Probably a thousand people or more walk past here every week and I wonder if any see it like this or just two rocks in a bunch of others.

Port Eliot on the Fleurieu Peninsula, South Australia.

The image is one of the features in my gallery that is located at 76 Mundoo Channel Drive, Hindmarsh Island, South Australia. Open this weekend Saturday and Sunday 11am-3pm.

The Posing Egret

Peter MacDonald — Thu, 31 Dec 2020 20:00:38 +0000

It’s pristine white feathers perfectly offset by the darkened waters edge beneath the jetty. The shadow of its neck along the back atop two very long legs. This bird would look good on any catwalk. Its pose is well practised as it waits still and patient for some unsuspecting fish to swim by.

The image is one of the features in my gallery that is located at 76 Mundoo Channel Drive, Hindmarsh Island, South Australia. Open this weekend Saturday and Sunday 11am-3pm.

The Dead of Night

Peter MacDonald — Thu, 10 Dec 2020 20:00:53 +0000

Murray Mouth

Through storm, wind and rain the iron lady continues her task of keeping the waters flowing through the small outlet that is the Murray Mouth. Without the dredge that shifting sand would close the gap casing major ecological damage to the surrounding area and fisheries.

The image is one of the features in my gallery that is located at 76 Mundoo Channel Drive, Hindmarsh Island, South Australia. Open this weekend Saturday and Sunday 11am-3pm.

Cygnets

Peter MacDonald — Thu, 03 Dec 2020 20:00:29 +0000

Picture book image of mother swan and her young chicks along the Mundoo Channel.

Most of the year there are swans in the waters around here but in Spring the young cygnets are new arrivals protected by their two parents against the strong winds and violent storms that come with the season.

A Sense of Calm

Peter MacDonald — Fri, 27 Mar 2015 07:30:11 +0000

Less painterly than the image in the previous post. More minimal but a strong sense of peacefulness.
The people in the water are there just to break the transition from the calm waters to the sky.
I’m printing more and more images these days.
There’s something much more rewarding having a printed picture in your hands than a image on a computer screen
The size I most prefer is 50 x 40 cm but this one, in the right location has the potential to look most effective printed quite large.

Painterly

Peter MacDonald — Mon, 23 Mar 2015 07:30:34 +0000

There are two elusive qualities that can make a good landscape.
One is a painterly-like feel to the image.
The other is a sense of peace about the scene.
This image taken of Port Willunga on Adelaide’s southern beaches comes reasonably close on both counts.
Perhaps its the beach-gowers that add that little extra touch even though they are so small.

If there was the luxury of painting the scene, the clouds would probably have looked a little more effective positioned closer to the horizon.