Adelaide is where I landed and where I'm learning to call home. These two photographs do not try to summarise the city. One looks up into a public celebration; the other looks down into a rocky gorge on a study break.
Fireworks over Adelaide
On New Year's Eve 2023, I framed the sky rather than the River Torrens itself. Orange fireworks open against deep navy; smoke catches stray red sparks; a row of street lamps remains at the lower edge. The bridge and skyline sit outside the picture, leaving light and haze to carry the event.
Morialta on a study break
Morialta changes the scale in the opposite direction. The camera looks steeply down across pale, fractured rock toward three hikers beside a small cascade. Dark water traces the stone below them, while dry scrub and grass trees fill the higher ground. The people are small, but they give the gorge its measure.
Placed together, the pictures hold two versions of home: a city night made almost abstract by light, and a nearby landscape made legible by human scale. Both reward looking a little longer.