This is the 1st step in  starting to  scope for a large format  photo session with the Cambo 5x7 S3 monorail. I thought that this pink gum (Eucalyptus fasciculosa) in the local Waitpinga bushland could be  one possibility:

I haven't used the 5x7 Cambo monorail  since January 2025. Life has intervened: Suzanne was quite sick and I was renovating the cottage in Adelaide and my large format photography was put on hold along with my photography in general.  I need to find some way to get back into  making large format photographs -- an easy way -- and a  simple tree study in the local bushland seems a good place to start.

Update

That post was in May and  so late autumn.  It is now August and winter. It is  cold, wet and windy and  the light has changed.   

Nothing has happened in photographing that scoped digital photo. However, I have taken the plunge and recently purchased a  medium format digital camera-- a Fujifim GFX 100S 11 -- and I'm currently struggling to learn how to use it.  Yet I still want to persist  with large format photography and colour negative film despite all the difficulties I've experienced in the past.  

It is a different way of working to digital as it takes me around 15 minutes or so to set the camera up to make the photo.  Then I have to wait for the wind to stop. It is   much slower,  more contemplative and  in the moment.