<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" Here is is what our home town looks like in the dead of night! Beautiful Adelaide under the Southern Cross of the southern skies. Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Day 996, Under The Southern Cross’, 6s f/9 ISO320 17mm
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" I am sure I’d not find anyone who would disagree on the grace and beauty of black swans. There was once a time when I thought that swans were white until as a small child I came across a postage stamp in my mum’s stamp collection. This 1954 commemorative stamp was … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" Ever wondered how in these virtually black retail decors the merchandise is always brightly lit and full of texture and colour? Well I do and I have to say I love the effect almost as much as I love vibrant colour. T2 has yet again a perfect example with a tea … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" But who’s eyes are you? This guy is probably a masked stingaree (Trygonoptera personata) but it is hard to tell with all that sand and shell-grit. Whoever’s eyes you are we stared at each other for some time before both going our separate ways. Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Day 993, Eye See … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" Photographing the gurnard perch would have to be the low hanging fruit of a Rapid Bay Jetty midnight dive. They sit there on the sand at the start and end of the dive and let themselves be photographed from any angle you want. Not the prettiest fish among the amazing diversity … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" There is something special about a beautifully set table. Regardless if it is Christmas dinner with family, an evening dinner party with acquaintances or wine tasting with friends, the setting tells all in attendance that this is an event to be remembered. What one actually sets the table with however is … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" As a child I always preferred silver over gold for its understated beauty and its lack of being tarnished with any colour. Oh how things have changed with the burnt yellow-gold of a sunset on the water becoming my most favourite colour. Silver still lingers in the whites and greys of … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" This place always feels so desolate even when it is packed with cars and every large shopping centre has one just like this one. The dungeon of car parks. Some places with shops above. Some places with more car parking above. Always at the bottom. Always glad to leave. Photo: Robert … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the square Not a creature was stirring, there was nobody there. All the presents were laid ‘neath the tree with great care, But with no Christmas lights ’twas completely bare. I never expected to see our city’s beautiful Christmas tree completely in the … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" There is nothing like a wall for making a public statement and in this case a sanctioned graffiti wall in a highly visible location under the Morphett Street Bridge. Thousands of people drive past Bad Santa every day. Does anyone wonder what Bad Santa uses his ‘Naughty List’ for? Perhaps they … Read more