I have been resisting the temptation for quite some time now to play with High Dynamic Range (HDR) imaging. Tonight in a moment of weakness I finally succumbed, found a nice quiet dark location and captured multiple exposures. For the uninitiated, the naive and the innocent, HDR is a technique where a set of identical … Read more
I am a bit disturbed at the size of this cow relative to the chicken. Well at least I from this point of view anyway. Small realistic figurines placed in an environment normally associated with the full size object create some really odd perspectives. This pair of stall mascots at our local weekend market make … Read more
How many of us remember the old ‘Oils Ain’t Oils’ advertisements ‘back in the day’. Well, we won’t be pouring this lovely golden oil into our cars but it will sure go well in our bodies! Today we tasted this beautiful and fruity ‘Extra Virgin’ first press olive oil from Sorrells Vineyard and Winery down … Read more
Munch, munch, munch … Somthing was having a go at my Chili bush which now proudly displays it’s first baby chili. This thief clearly knows the dangers and was keeping clear of my Bhut Jolokia (see my earlier post, ‘366 Days of 2012, Day 93 – The Bhut Jolokia‘) so instead sough to denude it, … Read more
All great construction projects begin with the best building materials. In this case they are irregularly cut, orange and mushy but still the best for the task. As far as I am concerned nothing beats ‘Queensland Blue’ for pumpkin soup! And my, was it tasty! Photo: Robert Rath, ‘366 Days of 2012, Day 117 – … Read more
There’s a cookie thief in the house! Fresh from the oven, not even cold yet and there is a painfully obvious empty space on the tray. Ok, I confess that it was me. Guilty as charged but I swear it was in the name of photographic composition. The tray simply did not look right with … Read more
When it doesn’t rain, it pours and when it doesn’t pour it drips … Photo: Robert Rath, ‘366 Days of 2012, Day 115 – H to Zero’. 1/200 sec at 100mm f/22, ISO 100, + strobe
I finally found a dry and cosy place to take photos on this cold, rainy, wintry evening: under the new King Street bridge. For most of 2011 many locals lamented the closure of the old King Street bridge. So it was a wonderful relief back in January when the new bridge restored normality. A few … Read more
Goodbye to our wonderful Indian summer and greet in its place the wintery wet weather for cormorants (much more elegant than ducks) that has descended on us this weekend. This Little Black Cormorant ,Phalacrocorax sulcirostris seems quite at home here at West Beach. Clearly the photographer is more the concern than the rain! Photo: Robert … Read more
Humanity has spent centuries trying to turn coffee beans into the perfect cup of coffee. What could be more perfect than this! Photo: Robert Rath, ‘366 Days of 2012, Day 112 – Beanz Meanz Caffeine’. 10 secs at 105mm f/22, ISO 400