<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" Perhaps bokeh is a little overdone in abstract photography but for some reason I am always drawn to it in other people’s images. Bokeh is the shape and quality of they way a captured image blurs when a lens moves away from focus. The characteristics of what makes bokeh pleasant or … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" This was one big mean spider crab with attitude! At about 60cm across this guy put himself right in the middle of my return path to the exit . I went forward, he bared his mandibles at me. I went left, he went left. I went right, he went right. I … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" What better place to capture the new Henley Beach Surf Lifesaving Club than from the surf? Well it would be if the tide was not all the way out!! A wonderful combination of a still evening, a very low tide and and a huge bright moon. Night time beach photography does … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" There are two things I really like about opening a bottle of champagne, the pop and the vapor. For one reason or another I have not been about to capture that initial release of vapor in the way I envision. Here is a view looking directly into the bottle just after … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" This impressive mountain range is not all that it seems. In truth it is just a small crystal of gypsum catching the afternoon sun on the kitchen window sill. Aside from various glass household objects to craft the light the way I wanted no other tricks were involved. It’s just a … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" I have captured a few images like this one with seaweed washed up on the beach. The challenge in an image like this is depth of field. It is not easy to have both that jetty shelter in focus as well as the bedraggled clump of tangled weed in the foreground. … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" Yes it really is just the overhead power-lines across from our place. However … It was the very last golden light from the setting sun which sneaked through a rent in the grey sky. Just for a the briefest of moments the light it produced was surreal and brought this ordinarily … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" As I stood in the darkness peering through the viewfinder of my camera I could not help feel as if I was being watched. I raised my head and looked around, … nothing. Then I thought to look up and towering over me I saw the watcher. Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Day … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" A diamond encrusted crater rim encircles a crimson volcanic lake bubbling with ancient gases. It could easily have been a seen from another world. Instead it was just a unique view of the dining room table and glass of sparking shiraz not long for this world. Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Day 621, … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" Another chance find. George Court, just off Sturt street in the Adelaide CBD. I initially tried a stitched panorama for this image but due to the acute angles and tight space I could not get the paving the match up. My solution in the end was to take a single image … Read more