When I watch a gull in flight above some beautiful landscape my eye is drawn to the movement and for a moment I feel I share in its effortless freedom. Thinking about it some more I muse the gull has no concept freedom so in that moment the freedom was completely mine. Photo: Robert Rath, … Read more
One of the most idyllic ports in Ireland might very well be the old fishing town of Kinsale on the southern coastline of Ireland. I have been fortunate enough to visit Kinsale a few times now but each visit has been fleeting, not really creating an opportunity to photographically explore in any meaning way. Until … Read more
The first time I came across locks as icons of commitment was many years ago while travelling. On a bridge over the River Seine were hundreds of padlocks locked to the structure. Some were engraved, some were very old, some but not many had tags and all were resolutely locked in place assuming their keys … Read more
Looking down from observation level into the Céide Fields visitor centre is like looking into an old well somehow both shiny new and steeped in history. From the bottom the ancient tree from the bog rises from gnarled roots like some old rusty needle ready to impale any poor soul unfortunate enough to slip and … Read more
Ducks rock! Nothing more to say. 🙂 Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Because Ducks Rock’, 1/25s f4 ISO320 200mm
Perhaps there was a time when a bright zinc plated watering can tended lovingly to someone’s seaside garden. Perhaps it served faithfully until the handle broke and its owner discarded it for a new one. How it came to rest for a time in Galway Bay, be rescued and then set upon the rocks will … Read more
I was photographing amusement machine riders at a recent event and noticed their various emotional states immediately on disembarking. So I readied myself for the next group of disembarking riders, raised my camera, then this happened! Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Hands In The Air Like You Just Don’t Care’, 1/80s f/8 ISO100 70mm
The University of Adelaide Coat of Arms emblazoned with the universe motto ‘Sub Cruce Lumen’, meaning ‘The light (of learning) under the (Southern) Cross’, might indeed carry a hidden message. Perhaps the symbolic text represented on the feature book is nothing more than artistic scrawl. Or perhaps there is more to it. Look close and … Read more
It’s ironic how such dainty little white and yellow flowers have taken on the omen of death. Still, here they are all congregated in a suspiciously defined patch of open grass amid the old graves of Greyfriar’s Kirkyard, Edinburgh. You can of course look at those little white and yellow daisies see them for what … Read more