<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" I remember the first time I laid eyes on this scene 25 years ago as vividly as if it were yesterday. This sweeping stretch coastline from Normanville to where the road heads inland and down on to Cape Jervis overlooks Lady Bay out to sea and Rapid Head out to the … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" Capturing movement in water is a tricky business. If you are too fast the water looks like frozen ice. Too slow and it looks like mist. Somewhere either side of these extremes there is a range of exposure times where the movement simply makes the water look blurred. Then there is … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" This amazing sponge has been a deep water landmark for me since the first time I cam across it more than 4 years ago. We really do get some big sponges here in South Australia and have some incredible sponge gardens which leave anything tropical in their salty wake. What we … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" We all like to see symmetry in nature. Animals balanced from left to right are common place but most curious of all are animals structured as a prime numbers. Whether we realise it or not prime number configurations are common in plants and we see them everyday so they just seem … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" Rapid Bay is becoming a bit of a regular drawcord for me not just for the diving but for the land and seascapes as well. Here at the eastern end, fishers perch precariously on the rocks while a gentle sea laps on the shingled beach. It’s great to have a moody … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" The Adelaide City Council’s ‘Free Wall’ project and this space under the Morphett Street Bridge is a place I come back to photograph over and over. There is always something different and you never know who you might meet. Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Day 695, The Wall’, 2.5s f/8 ISO100 40mm PanoX3
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" How do you know you have entered the personal space of a Victorian Scalyfin (Parma victoriae)? Easy, because he comes out and starts headbutting your camera! On the plus side is that you get plenty of photo opportunities before pretending to be chased away. Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Day 694, Bossy Scalyfin’, … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" I’m revisiting this protected location where I had previously noted a mated pair of Leafy Seadragons (Phycodurus eques) and to my surprise I found a new young adult while the original pair were nowhere to be seen. Although the water was quite clear with 8-12m visibility there was a roaring current … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" Lying on the ocean floor looking up at this school of Old Wives (Enoplosus armatus) I am treated to a moment where the school have created their very own jetty pylon. Their unfortunate common name refers to the sound made when a fish is caught on a fishing line. I wonder … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" Driving past this field of wheat south of the city near Maslins Beach I noticed a set of tracks running perfectly straight off into the distance. The rest of the field was completely untouched and it was this interesting feature which grabbed my attention and made me pull over to capture … Read more