<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" According to common expression, the last thing you would want is to be ‘led up the garden path’. Unless of course there is a well stocked bar, a cosy fire and a live band up there. Which there was! So much for common expression… Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Day 507, Up The … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" The last tenuous rays of an already set sun catch the tail of Corporate Aircraft Charter’s Beech 200 BB-1150 (VH-URU) as it prepares to land at Adelaide Airport. I discovered a little incident 5 years ago where this very same plane become the spectacle of the day by landing here on … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" This weekend we were privileged to share in the wedding of two of our very dear friends. The location was kept secret and as late afternoon became evening we were whisked away on a chartered bus to enjoy a wonderful evening. The McLaren Vale winery ‘Maxwell Wines’ turned out to be … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" The afternoon sunlight during late autumn and winter add a golden magic to images made with evening approaching. This image shows that beautiful combination of yellow light from the setting sun and dark greys of the sky. This is another example of using a fish-eye lens for a landscape by placing … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" Time and time again I am drawn to jetties. Historically the role of jetties is quite clear in being a way for boats and ships to operate out of a beach with a gradually sloping sea bottom. I suspect that the re recreational thing just evolved from there. For most jetties … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" I often wonder what is on board a ship I see on the distant horizon. In this image I captures a second smaller vessel cruising past the larger container ship. It was moving a quite pace as it seemed to race by the larger ship. With the dramatic sky behind it … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" I have been back to this same location a few times now to try and capture one specific image. Each time the light was not right due to the recent heavy cloud and unpredictable light around sunset. I have seen the image I want to capture a few time while driving … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" I watched for some time as this man stood leaning over the railing. He was already there when I arrived late in the afternoon. I wondered what he wondered about up there on the jetty staring down into the water. Perhaps it was more of an idle curiosity than a true … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" When I was child ‘Mother’s Day’ was a special occasion to make a big fuss about our Mum with flowers, presents and breakfast in bed. I remember a time later in life when I had become cynical of these ‘invented’ occasions and the commercial hype and activity that sought to wring … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" I often hear about ‘the golden hour’, that last hour before sunset where everything becomes bathed in the soft remaining sunlight. Sure this is a lovely time to create images but then there is that last 2 minutes. It begins the moment the sun touches the horizon, the last moment when … Read more