<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" I nice evening for a Saturday night romantic stroll he said! Take a few snapshots from the bridge he said! Thirty minutes later we were both chilled to the core as an icy Southerly wind racing down the Port River blew on our exposed vantage point, the Birkenhead Bridge, and somewhat … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" Can you imagine an escalator with a moving ramp rather than steps? Actually that’s not what we see here at all, it’s just the long exposure. Throw in some extra exposures for HDR processing and all sense of there being individual steps at all has been totally lost. This style of … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" A moment earlier this image maker and camera were engrossed in the macro opportunities of a local vineyard. I had at first planned to capture a candid shot but there is nothing flattering about an image maker, head down and bottom up peering through the viewfinder. I’m glad I got this … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" Here’s a scene alien to the nature of this land. It is a product of agriculture. Driving through the outer parts of the Barossa Valley at the moment you will see alternating fields of wheat (deep green), canola (bright yellow) and budding vines (aka vineyards). I love those vantage points along … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" Photo walks in the city at night are great for really interesting images. The combination of low light and long time exposures creates a limit on how many images you can capture. A singe final image can take up to 20 minutes to capture especially if multiple exposures are needed. This … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" This is another of those wonderful images which was never planned. I was simply there with camera in hand and captured the moment as I saw it. Of the hundreds of people I shared this space with in Bonython Hall I am sure no one else saw this moment as I … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" I love coffee and that’s a passion I share with most people I know. I love grinding the beans, packing the cup and pouring the shot. I even love the taste though many times the flavour does not quite match the aroma. The next obvious thing is photographing it! Yes I … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" Indigenous to South Africa, the ‘Soursob’, Oxalis pes-caprae is an introduced noxious weed throughout all of Australia. That being said I am particularly fond of soursobs as they bring back childhood memories of chewing on the acidic stalks and screwing up our faces from the intense sourness. Another interesting aspect of … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" The last couple of evenings has seen the most amazing colour in the twilight sky. I love this time of evening when the conditions are right where a twilight rainbow graduating from red through indigo seems to hang above the Western horizon. As I was driving through the city I just … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" Sunsets are always beautiful but often clichéd. Creating a sunset image which is different is really about just seeing differently. Looking for the relationships between horizon, foreground and the setting sun. Seeing an unusual combination come together perhaps only for a brief moment as the sun rapidly descends though the scene. … Read more