Fillet of a fenny snake, scale of dragon, grind them smooth then into the pot! Double, double, toil and trouble fire burn and cauldron bubble … Well perhaps the ingredients for our pot won’t be quite so exotic as the three witches from Shakespeare’s Macbeth but I’m sure they will be put to equally good … Read more
There must be more to life than just chewing bones and sniffing crotches? I can just imagine the serious contemplation in Tin Tin’s philosophical reverie. ‘The Dawg’, is getting on a little now and seems to spend more and more time in such ponderous contemplation of all things canine. That being said it is almost … Read more
It seems our home has become a bit of a fast food outlet to a host of random visitors. The most colourful so far have been the Rainbow Lorikeets, Trichoglossus haematodus. Both this morning and late evening these noisy squabbling parrots fought and ate and fought some more over the sweet nectar of the palm … Read more
Tonight’s guest comes courtesy of the warm evening, the bugs outside the window and a yell from Jennifer exclaiming something cute to behold. My first reaction was to grab my camera and take a few quick shots holding the camera as steady as I could just in case the visitation was fleeting. It soon became … Read more
I have finally found a flower that makes my brain hurt! Neville and Elizabeth are well known for their prize winning dahlias and this beautiful example shows why. So why does this flower make my brain hurt? Try this; stare directly into the centre of the flower for about 30 seconds and then look away … Read more
Photo: Robert Rath, ‘366 Days of 2012, Day 106 – Up and Away’. 30 secs at 24mm f/5.6, ISO 400
Flowers are definitely overrated so I thought I’d change perspective. I started out with the idea of taking a macro photo of the centre of a yellow chrysanthemum, but all of the resulting images simply looked like broccoli gone terribly wrong! Then I noticed the subtle contrasts of the edge of the petals against the … Read more
I remember a time when I could not wait to own my very own watch. To an eleven-year-old boy, watches held an incredible fascination. I could not say which held the greater part of my awareness: the exquisite craftsmanship, the precision manufacturing, the sense of some control over time or the sense of affluence. My … Read more
So anybody want to guess the original? And yes this is severely cropped. Abstract realism is very simply achieved in macro photography where you are so close to the image that it is no longer recognisable. I think that good examples of this style attempt to find that borderline where once you realise the original … Read more
Long shadows and soft yellow lighting make for great photos. Every photographer knows this but why? And how can we use ‘why’ to make better images? Immediately we hit that value-based word ‘better’. So if you follow the progression we really need to come back to ‘good’. We hit another issue, ‘good for what’? So … Read more