I have been on a break from my photography over the last 12 months, due to Suzanne being sick, acquiring a new standard poodle pup (Akira) and renovating the Kate Court cottage in the south-east corner of Adelaide in order to sell it. Apart from a brief trip to Tasmania my photography has been the odd snap here and there. I have not worked with a film camera on a tripod. I posted on Flickr and ignored the website/blogs.

Whilst the Tasmanian trip was to celebrate Suzanne’s return to health I thought that the trip could allow me to be more photographically serious by adding some photos to the Tasmanian Elegies project. Since I hadn’t been to Tasmania since my last photo trip in 2017, and I’d been writing the text (preface and essay) for the project, some supplementary images looked to be a possible way to complete the project.

One way I thought that I could supplement the archival images was to explore the industrial machinery in the Blacksmith’s area of the old railway workshops in the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery at Inveresk, Launceston.

I was hoping that I would be able to come across some material from this significant industrial heritage site — eg., 19th century industrial machinery —- as there was nothing like this industrial heritage in Queenstown despite the big investment in the railways to transport the ore to the coast.