<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" It’s a wonderful treat to capture a milestone in someone’s life. Congratulations to Josephine, Sue, Lea, Jennifer and Dy on completing your Masters Degrees! Photo: Robert Rath, ‘366 Days of 2012, Day 263 – Graduation’. 1/500s f/3.2 ISO160 70mm
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" Finding a place to eat late at night in Adelaide is a real challenge! We’d just had a great night out at the ‘Lee Marvin Readings’ and were ready to head out to dinner. The trouble was that it was 10:30pm on a Tuesday evening! Spats to the rescue! Spats on … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" It’s now Spring and with that comes magpie swooping season! I remember picnics as a child where invariably we would wander past a tree with nesting magpies. Usually the very first hint comes with a whoosh of air from behind causing you to duck for fear of magpie talons engraving furrows … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" I suspect that just like me, other photographers enjoy camera spotting! Today Jennifer and I participated in Adelaide’s ‘City to Bay’ charity fun run event and as you can imagine at any event like this the photographers are out in force. The perfect opportunity for camera spotting. This image is my … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" “Sign, sign, everywhere a sign Blockin’ out the scenery, breakin’ my mind Do this, don’t do that, can’t you read the sign?” Remember this 1971 hit from the Five Man Electrical Band? I guess the owner of this sign doesn’t either. Photo: Robert Rath, ‘366 Days of 2012, Day 259 – … Read more
Just maybe the state of this court is a winter aberration. Just maybe summer will bring with it calls of foot fault, out, duce and love all. Just maybe the cold asphalt warmed by a summer sun will give with the fall of Nike, Addidas or Puma. Or perhaps this once were tennis… Photo: Robert … Read more
The benefits of taking a wrong exit, getting lost in the hills and stumbling on a gem! Well that how this image came to be. I did indeed make a wrong exit off the freeway and found myself meandering through the hills finding a back way to my destination. I spied this old truck left … Read more
This year I took a couple of hours to wander through the fairground attractions of the Royal Adelaide Show. One of my regrets is that lugging a back pack of camera gear around means I miss out on all but the most gentle of rides (well that’s my excuse anyway)! This image from the top … Read more
There is something wonderful about HDR images which seem to be generating so much controversy in the photographic community. I love the idea put forward by a well known photographer Trey Ratcliff that an image should look and feel the way you remembered it, not the way the light simply fell on the sensor! This … Read more
I don’t often head out into the country for my work but this time I had a special reason to get as far away from technology as possible. A visited to a special test facility out near the back of Sedan, South Australia. The reason; to be in a very quiet environment (from radio frequency … Read more