<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" I never meant to take band photos tonight. It was supposed to be just a Christmas function with good friends but when the band started playing the most diverse collection of covers I have ever heard I was torn between dancing with friends and photography. Fortunately I was able to combine … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" Yes, this place in particularly! Here’s a mood of the Henley Beach jetty I have never captured before. It’s dark and grainy and very surreal in it’s austerity. There is no sunset, no waves crashing, no jetty lights. This is place is separated from our normal experience of it by the … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" I have been listening to articles and reading accounts of photographers who have described being in the creative doldrums. Some were just going through the motions, others were questioning their recent work and wondering if they weren’t just producing pretty stuff that people liked. A close friend of mine even wondered … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" Now that summer has reluctantly arrived there are more and more people coming to the beach in the evenings. The hot evenings are chaotic and I need to remind myself to arrive early and that I will not be getting a park anywhere close to where I want to photograph. My … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" Some people would tell you there’s no more gold left in the old diggings at Jupiter Creek in the Adelaide Hills. The problem is simply a matter of timing. Just make sure you head up there about 15 minutes before sunset and you will find all the gold you can photograph. … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" I stumbled upon this striking mural adorning a building in Compton street. Always curious I discovered this to be the work of Australian artist Angus Rayner titled ‘Weekend All Year’. As it turns out Angus Raynor has a fascination with depicting the female form and the stylized naked women in this … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" I am sure this recent appearance on the Adelaide city-scape is actually not the SAHMRI building at all but an extraterrestrial spaceship. All you need to do is go for a stroll around its base and nothing about it feels like a building. It could take off again without notice. So … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" There are so many subtle messages in this typical image from a typical beach in a typical metropolitan beach-side suburb. I wonder what this little girl is thinking as she holds her daddy’s hand tight watching the pounding runner pass by. Her dad too is caught in a moment of reflection … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" Yes I have a preoccupation with aircraft contrails. Looking up is more than just the visual drama. Up there are hundreds of souls entrusting their lives to the modern miracle of international air-travel. Up there adventures are being created or completed, business deals are in the offing, agreed on or have … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" Come the end of a hot Adelaide afternoon nothing beats cooling off better than playtime in the ocean. Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Day 963, Playtime’ 1/320s f/16 ISO1000 200mm