<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" We have a lot to thank popular culture for the way it changes our thinking in the most bizarre ways. Here I am looking at a fountain that just isn’t doing its thing with any sense of enthusiasm. Half measures I thought! The moment that thought entered my head I was … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" The day began dreary and rainy and I had virtually consigned myself to a day in the office. Soon after lunch however the clouds started becoming patchy and my hopes were raised. By 3:30 in the afternoon the clouds with sparse and the sun began to dim. By 4:00 there was … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" Having a little fun with boats and ropes and pulleys and clouds and the last light of the day… Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Day 838, Rigged Silhouette’, 1/3200s f2.8 ISO400 200mm
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" This image is unashamedly inspired by recent black and white work of local Adelaide photographer Tony Kearney (please checkout his work). This time there was no studio or planned props (pun unintended). No control over the light or positioning of the subject. No imagined runway to land on. I just looked … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" With an ocean so golden in the dying hours it is easy to imagine being on a planet like Mustafar where volcanic lava flows instead of water. The birds however look out of place, too calm, too gentle and I am brought back to the Earth’s oceans again. Photo: Robert Rath, … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" I have always been fascinated by Port Adelaide’s Birkenhead Bridge. The idea that a bridge can decide to not be a bridge anymore, open up to let tall ships through and then transform back into a bridge again seemed to me to be a marvel of engineering. To be fair I … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" Who is this mysterious merwoman who adorns ‘The One And All’ as her figurehead? I have search high and low for her name but alas I am left none the wiser. In all the texts I have found she is simply referred to as ‘the figurehead’. I even found one reference … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" Even in the murkiest of conditions the spell of the Leafy Sea Dragon completely dissipates the gloom leaving us to marvel in wonder. All the effort, the preparation of the gear, the long drive, the poor visibility, the current and the strong surge seem just a distant memory down here. Photo: … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" Most of my environmental portraits have a connection with the ocean and the experience of being immersed in something we love to do; dive! I jokingly named this diver ‘Dives With Sponges’ after an old Kevin Costner movie but his real name is Herbert, a German friend come to Adelaide and … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" How small and alone our star seems in the daytime sky. Yet light enough it has for all. Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Day 831, Lone Star’, 1/800s f10 ISO100 15mm