Month: January 2013

<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" Revisiting West Beach and looking at things from a different angle. Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Day 377, X’ 2s f/20 ISO800 200mm

<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" The Adelaide City Council’s ‘Free Wall’ project creates spaces for graffiti artists to express themselves in prominent public places. This wall located under the Morphett Street Bridge has great visibility to passing traffic on North Terrace. It’s constantly changing so make sure you visit often. Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Day 376, Sign … Read more

<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" Moseley Square in Glenelg is a popular place on warm summer evenings where you will find a blending of shoppers, restaurant patrons, pub crawlers and beach goers. An interesting place for making images. Just after the sun has set the scene looking to the East is a confused mix of the … Read more

<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" ‘Mo’ might not be camera shy but he is deceptively hard to photograph! This bronze statue of Roy Rene, AKA ‘Mo’, sculptured by Robert Hannaford was unveiled in its Hindley Street location on March 2010. The deep creases and course textures create harsh dark shadows in the street lighting. At first … Read more

<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" In this tale of two trams I wanted to tell the story of that hidden space in among the houses and streets where the tracks lay seemingly detached from the craziness of suburban streets and traffic. Standing on the tracks during afternoon peak hour while waiting for a tram seemed surreal … Read more

<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" It seems every Christmas the decorations are being put up sooner and pulled down earlier. According to Christian traditions today is the last day the festive decorations should be up and indeed they still are up in Rundle Mall. I’ll check again tomorrow to see if they have been taken down! … Read more

<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" Usually window shopping is for things you want to buy rather than experiences you wish to have or share. Restaurants are a beautiful example of the later. When I pass a restaurant I have never been to (or even one I have not been to for a long time) I intermediately … Read more

<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" We just discovered this fantastic little bar hidden away in Finders Street in the city called ‘The Second Floor Lounge’. We nearly walked past this place looking for a cozy late night bar on the Eastern side of the city. Not only did we get to enjoy a couple of drinks … Read more

<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" Every single day for the last 4.5 billion years this scene plays out over and over again. Has it always been into the West I wonder? In any case, it will always be beautiful. Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Day 369, Into the West’. 1/160s f/22 ISO250 200mm

<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" Harsh light does not have to mean missing out on making a good image image. Yes, there is no substitute for great light but there are ways to get something you can take home when the sun is high in a cloudless sky. This image was created using 3 exposures 2 … Read more