Prior to moving to Victor Harbor and the coast of the southern Fleurieu Peninsula in 2015 we lived in a townhouse in Adelaide's CBD for a decade or more. It was easy for me to wander the streets of the CBD with a digital and medium format camera on various poodlewalks. Slowly, ever so slowly as I got to know the city I began to start using a large format camera (an old Cambo 5x7 SC3 monorail) to photograph the streets.
The locations chosen were within easy carrying distance from the townhouse as I was carrying the gear. An example is this picture of Mill St, Adelaide, 2012, which was just a block away from where I lived in Sturt St.
The initial results were not good. I was embarrassed, then discouraged. It was just so different from walking the streets with a hand held medium format camera. I kept asking myself what was I trying to do with using large format, apart from making an individual photo? I had no idea. The camera had been used for the Bowden Archives project in the 1980s and it was sitting in a cupboard. So I decided to use it.