<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" The historic Port Adelaide Lighthouse has an amazing history, Prefabricated in England, installed in 1869 at the entrance to the Port River. Moved several times and served until 1985 on South Neptune Island overlooking the seals and the great whites. In 1986 the Lighthouse was moved to its current location here … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" There is something in the water down there at Rapid Bay. Everything seems to be pregnant! Well this Leafy Seadragon is not exactly pregnant. In fact it’s not even a girl but a male expressing its fatherly love. The male Leafy Seadragon takes care of the eggs immediately after they are … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" Rapid Bay is finally starting to clear up again after a few weeks of northerly swell turning the water into milky white. This dive was very late in the day and as much as I would have not thought there was an undersea equivalent to ‘the golden hour’. Well now I … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" At first it was the reflections in the window that caught my eye; the cafe across the street, the roadside bench, the exit sign. Then I noticed the textures in the window itself; the misaligned frame, the scratches in the wood, the distorted panes of translucent glass, the dribbled stain of … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" This is my favorite time of the day when the colours in the western sky take on the most gorgeous and saturated hues of red, orange, blue, green and purple. In fact it is one huge rainbow wall. What a perfect back-light for a twilight silhouette. Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Day 647, … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" I can easily imagine this place in a rural town with adjacent cemetery. In reality it is on a very busy main road in Port Adelaide. I am not really a big fan of this style but once I saw the grungy drama I got a little carried away. After that … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" Is it possible to make blur look interesting? For various technical reasons a panning shot of passing cars with an FE lens was never going to produce the classic ‘speed’ look. For starters the radically changing geometry of the subjects through the panning sweep as absurd. Still it was worth some … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" This guy was sitting perched atop a structure of sponge and ascidian encrusted twisted jetty wreckage. Like many of our wrasses the brownspotted wrasse (Notolabrus parilus) behaves around divers with a mix of curiosity and timidity. Not one to anthropomorphise our local critters I still can not help see the resemblance … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" What’s the most intimidating badass camera you have ever seen? The bane of every suburban motorist is the speed camera lurking in out of the way 50km/h limit backstreets. Oddly enough most mobile phones these days have higher resolution cameras than these brutes. It’s only 11 megapixels but seems to do … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" When the doors are closed, locked, uninviting there is not need for a ‘sorry we are closed’ sign. Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Day 642, Closed For Business’, 1/250s f/6.3 ISO400 15mm