The title comes from a piece of graffiti I walked past daily back when pointless vandalism i.e. tags weren't a thing. Actual thought went into correctly spelled missives with weight and meaning.
The Hobart Town Rivulet was the reason Hobart Town was established in the first place. Clear clean water flowed down the Rivulet off the mountain - kunanyi - behind the town and supplied the first european settlement in Van Diemen's Land with potable water.
As the town expanded, business and industries like tanning and brewing moved up the creek. Unsurprisingly it became a polluted, stinky source of 'miasmas' and dysentery. Over time the town developed a new and improved water supply but the poor old Rivulet remained an open sewer prone to flood.
In the last decade or so the Rivulet has been cleaned up and gentrified with lovely walks, gardens and open spaces maintained by the city council. The process has been slow and one of the losses for me personally was that original text which appeared to have inspired the cleanup.
This pic is of the Rivulet's surface on a lovely day back in Autumn. Let this picture stand as an example of no matter how crappy we have made things in our petty mindless scrabbling on this earth, those things can be undone.
Fuji X-T1, Contax Carl Zeiss 28/2.8 G 'Frankenzeiss', 1/160th sec at f/8, ISO 200
The lens is a Contax Zeiss G 28/2 modified to Leica M mount by housing it in a Minolta PF 55/1.7 donor body with sundry fixings. I then use a close-focus M to X adapter. All very complicated but with Zeiss colour and contrast on the Gen 1 'pixie dust' X-T1 sensor I don't care much :-)
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