Month: June 2012

It must be cold, even the hard core skaters are packing it it to head for cosier places. Photo: Robert Rath, ‘366 Days of 2012, Day 182 – Too Cold To Skate’. 1/80s+1/20s+1/5s f/7.1 ISO-2500 17mm hdr

Cold winds sweeps off the sea chilling to the bone. A far cry from the Great Barrier Reef a few days earlier! Only a lone kite-sailor, a man walking his dog and a few people were out this evening. The sensible; cosy in nice warm cars as they drive home from work or settling into … Read more

When I looked down on these tracks and followed them through their industrial landscape I was struck by the beauty of four lines merging to a distant turn. Four parallel lines converging in perspective, curving to a new parallel convergence then curving to a single point marked by a single lit signal light. Photo: Robert … Read more

Water reflects perfectly on a breathless morning. It was one of those perfect, cold and still mornings doing the morning school run when I saw how beautiful the reflections were. Fortunately it was just as still on the way back. ‘Camera, … never leave home without it!’ Still on that stubborn water theme! 😉 Photo: … Read more

Reflections of suburban lighting on water can be just as pretty as the large city scape. Back in Adelaide again and I can’t seem to shed the water theme of my last 8 days. Here is Glenelg’s King Street bridge with the marina behind. Photo: Robert Rath, ‘366 Days of 2012, Day 178 – Glenelg’. … Read more

All good things must come to an end. The final overnight crossing from Lady Musgrave Island to Bundaberg was by most accounts ugly. By about 5pm the only souls left with stomach’s intact or not cowering in their bunks where the skipper and a four of us. Even the cook was nowhere to be seen! … Read more

Farewell said the lionfish but before you go let me pose for you so that the world may see my beauty. Well perhaps the thoughts of a lionfish are not quite so vain and complex but a poser it certainly was. For me it was a lovely way to end my last dive on this … Read more

We search over the reef and down to the depths, we looked far and wide and high and low. We searched the cays and then the lagoons till we finally found Nemo. Photo: Robert Rath, ‘366 Days of 2012, Day 175 – Finding Nemo’. 1/200s at f/4 ISO-400 38mm + 1.0 diopter

The dark and looming shape above is our lifeline, our home in this vast ocean, the mother ship! Photo: Robert Rath, ‘366 Days of 2012, Day 174 – The Mother Ship’. 1/100s at f/13 ISO-400 17mm + 1.0 diopter

Giant clams bring back childhood memories of movies with swimmers trapped by giant clams and rising tides! Scary movies aside, the magic, colours and gorgeous textures of giant clams has held a fascination for me ever since and will always remain up there for me in the highlights of diving the tropics. Photo: Robert Rath, … Read more