Twilight reflections on the ocean go hand in hand with amazing Great Barrier Reef sunsets. A dappled beautiful sea beckons more fantastic diving ahead. Photo: Robert Rath, ‘366 Days of 2012, Day 172 – Reef Twilight’. 1/8000s at f/5.6 ISO-800 290mm
Grey hunter of the sea glides past me on Hackies Reef. Half curious, non-perturbed, sleek and beautiful. The grey reef shark, Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos, is a beautifully proportioned shark. Everything about it speaks of speed and efficiency. This is my first shark encounter on an amazing Swain’s Group, Great Barrier Reef adventure. Photo: Robert Rath, ‘366 … Read more
Our home for the next 8 days. The MV Venus II. Built in 1961, later acquired and re-fitted by George Christensen as a live aboard dive charter vessel. The beginning of out Swains Group, Great Barrier Reef odyssey. Photo: Robert Rath, ‘366 Days of 2012, Day 170 – The Good Ship MV Venus II’. 0.6s … Read more
It’s a beautiful ride along the Torrens River which meanders down from above Gorge Road in the Adelaide Hills, past the city itself and under the bridge I am standing on before emptying into the sea. It is quite dark, the sun having recently set and I have made a simple long exposure image of … Read more
I am so fortunate that we live near the beach and I get to drive along it every day. I don’t however spend anywhere near enough time actually down on the sand or even better still actually in the water!! Plans are afoot to rectify this but in the meantime here is an image I … Read more
Powerful, beautiful, of form, formless, life giving, simple, turbulent, movement, life taking, breathtaking, water. It falls, it flows, we complain there too much then we complain there is too little. We must respect it’s partnership with all life on this planet. I love being in it, under it, drinking it, watching it. From vast ocean … Read more
Batten down the hatches, get off the streets, shutter your windows and hide under the bed! Were up for a big one! Well perhaps all is not quite so bad here but with a forecast of 60-90km/h winds and gusts I am happy not to be out in it. This image is not so much … Read more
For a subject of amazing colour and form I have chosen to leave colour completely out. This is my first truly monochrome image in this series. I generally resist the temptation to use monochrome as tool to create a surrealness where an image could not stand on its own. In this HDR image however the … Read more
There is something intriguing about multiples of things. Walk down any supermarket isle or meander through a grocery store and there are plenty multiples to photograph. The problem is most such place do not like big cameras pointed at their merchandise! Next time I visit Foodland or Coles I’ll have to see what I can … Read more
I have not been in deep blue for longer than I care to admit. A chance meeting with my friend Terry yesterday, some reorganisation of my schedule and before I new it I was gliding once again effortlessly beneath the dappled surface of the ocean just off Port Noarlunga. I’d nearly forgotten how much I … Read more