<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" I called this image ‘Reception’ for no other reason than it is the main reception entry to Mount Lofty House where a few of us spent a very pleasant afternoon with local photographer Hilary Hann sharing insights into her images, her travels and her thoughts on the ‘art’ of photography. I … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" This afternoon while photographing sunspots a favorite Pink Floyd song came to mind. “While you were hanging yourself on someone else’s words Dying to believe in what you heard I was staring straight into the shining sun” Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Staring Straight Into The Shining Sun’ 1/640s f/16 ISO100 400mm filter … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" What can you do with a mobile phone and a marble? … This! If I told you the image conveyed the book cover of a collection of short stories by one of my favourite writers you might just be able to work it out. The author’s name appears across the top … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" A moment later I was wet, my camera was wet and my evening on the beach was over. Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Salty Bathtime’ 1s f/20 ISO100 15mm
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" The afternoon sunlight caught my germinating chili plants in the window sill and I just had to capture it! It’s silly of course. Light can’t be captured but hopefully you get the same feeling I did. Now looking forward to the hot fruits of these little beauties in the months ahead. … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" The Short-Head Seahorse, Hippocampus breviceps, is one of the cutest seahorses in the sea and Edithburgh is great place to find and photograph them. I almost never see them during the day but at night a bit of hunting will soon find them. Photo: Robert Rath, ‘I Sea a Horse’ 1/100s … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" Always willing to pose for an image is Edithburgh’s Gurnard Pearch. When nothing else seems to want to stay in the frame; when the hunt for a prettier subject is failing; when the surge is making midwater images impossible; there is always a gurnard perch, or three sitting on the sand … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" The world of macro marine photography is full of life and colours and action that many new divers simply swim on by. However for photographers and those who take the time to look nudibranchs make wonderful subjects due to their diversity of colour and form. This bulldozer of a sea slug, … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" I found this beautiful mineral specimen recently while exploring the historic Barossa Goldfields. The most obvious thing about this mineral specimen is of course the gold but when I thought about it a little more I realised that symbolically the ironstone and quartz represented perhaps the real value. Without iron the … Read more