<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" This forest is like non other. It’s enchanted. Take a stroll though any old forest anywhere else and the birds fly out of reach, the rodents hide out of sight while the larger animals just run away. Take a swim through this forest though and it’s like animal wonderland. Fish fly … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" With the festive break over it’s back to non-photographic endeavors but at least I got to dive with this guy today to cap it off on a wonderful note. I usually see at least one Leafy Seadragon when I dive at Rapid Bay however for a while it looked like we … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" Mr. T’s got a dark secret. Underneath that shiny gold foil-thin facade lurks another creature, a darker creature seldom seen until the very last moment. He’s not made of that insipid brown milky stuff some use as a poor excuse for chocolate. He’s dark, really dark and in a moment he … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" Dreams of the ocean fade in the waking of dawn only to becomes dreams again as day fades to night. Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Henley Dreaming’ 1/6s f/18 ISO500 15mm
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" I know absolutely nothing about this man sitting here under this tree. There he was in his strange garb with with his collection of potatoes just watching the world go by. Strange perhaps! Not here in the Garden of Unearthly Delights. Photo: Robert Rath, ‘My Potatoes’ 1/250s f/2.8 ISO800 200mm
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" I first experienced Marcia Hines on stage at … well let’s just say a long time ago. So it was a wonderful surprise to see the once crowned Australian Queen of Pop again after all these years fronting the Fringe Festival show Velvet. Velvet was as a spectacle I would have … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" On the land leave only footprints. In the ocean leave only ripples. If only we could always live by these rules. Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Leave Only Ripples’ 1/640s f/11 ISO160 200mm
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" There are many fishes local to a region that you will never find in an aquarium or in the fish markets or even in National Geographic. They are either poisonous, uninteresting, commercially unviable or just plain ugly. The poor Little Scorpionfish (Maxillicosta scabriceps) seems to fall into all categories. Those eyes … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" Our Rapid Bay night dive was meant to be about little critters, especially nudibranchs smaller than half my little finder but when this Southern Calamari (Sepioteuthis australis) came into my view I was suitably distracted. In fact I was so distracted in the strong current that I had drifted 70m or … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" This beautiful creature keeps me coming back over and over looking for nudibranchs under our local jetties. There is nothing really exotic about Ceratosoma brevicaudatum. They are common, easy to find and come in a range of sizes from the size of my fingernail to the length of my hand. In … Read more