This picture of the appearance or shining forth (Schein) of the quartz form amongst Cambrian Kanmantoo rocks along coastal Waitpinga on the southern Fleurieu Peninsula in South Australia is part of a long term, ongoing littoral zone series in my local area. This particular location is near a natural spring of fresh water that flows through the coastal rocks into the Southern Ocean.
Unfortunately, the picture is yet another example of me, as the large format photographer, making mistakes on location. The scanned digital file is over-exposed and the bottom half of the picture is out of focus. I cannot recall why or how I slipped up, as the file is from the archives, and I have no explicit memory of this photo session.
I've reworked the file into something that is ok as a place-filler for the absence of any memorials of the violent, early 19th century encounters along the coastal region of Encounter Bay; ie., one between the white sealers from Kangaroo Island and the first nations Ramindjeri people.