<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" If I were to stare at this with my eyes for too long I am sure my eyes would never recover. With 700 Lumens of light coming from a single LED and even being behind a diffusing lens, all the eyes would see is blinding white. That’s where the camera can … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" Well after its long stint and now almost a landmark on the western Adelaide plains the Cavalia big top is being topped! The the company with its performers, the horse and its entourage are all gone, the internals have been cleared away and the gutted big top now stands like an … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" In 1848 a two-masted 225 ton wooden brig named ‘The Tigress’ set out from Scotland with a load of general cargo bound for Port Adelaide, South Australia. After such a long and difficult journey she made it to within 50 nautical miles of Port Adelaide before gale force winds swept her … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" The outer reef at Port Noarlunga is not dived very often as most divers prefer the protection inside the reef. Make the effort to climb up and over and large schools of playful big silver drummer Kyphosus sydneyanus will zoom in to investigate. Here the drummer like to play and feed … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" All the travel advertisements seem to espouse the beauty of white sandy beaches, the finer the sand and the whiter the better! I love beaches of shingle. They seem ancient and speak of harsh conditions where fine sand would have or has been completely swept away. The best part of all … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" Passing by the ‘Cavalia’ big top almost every day has given me the chance to see so many different moods of this curious structure. This view is just a little different with a wide open lens and intentionally out of focus. Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Day 685, Big Top Bokeh’, 1/13s f/2.8 … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" If you are a local and spend most of your time around the Adelaide metropolitan beaches then you could be excused for thinking we are looking south. Many Adelaide visitors make this mistake and then wonder why they can’t enjoy the sunset here. This view is looking west and now that … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" For some reason while standing here I could not get that childhood nursery rhyme out of my head. “Baa baa black sheep have you any wool? …”. Except these sheep only had black heads. Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Day 683, Three Bags Full’, 1/400s f/2.8 ISO640 200mm
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" We have some of the most colourful and interesting sea stars here in our Southern waters but I have to admit that I often overlook them as I search for the more ‘exotic’ creatures such as nudibranchs, cephalopods or dragons. Sea stars are everywhere and not just many of the same … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" Anyone who has dived Rapid Bay Jetty over the last 6 weeks would know how bad the visibility has been. There have been days there when you could not see more than 50cm through the milky brine which always seems to follow a period of northerly fetch. I have heard many … Read more