Month: August 2018

What would you call four young ladies flying hundreds of meters high above the village of Sankt Gilgen in the Austrian Salzkammergut? Angels of course. Photo: Robert Rath, ‘ A Box of Angels’, 1/320 f/10 ISO100 200mm

Here in the imposing space of Doha International Airport a single traveler makes her way alone amid the glass, the concrete, the marble, the plastic, and the metals. This rare found moment of punctuated quiet is really not scarce at all in those spaces between the disembarking throngs of travelers, just hidden between the pulse … Read more

There is a defining moment when the natural twilight over the land begins to dim and the lights of civilization briefly reach a balance. The timing of that moment can not be determined in advance. It depends on the way the daylight is drawn away in cloud and sky and haze and the waking of … Read more

What happens when you arm a technical robot with a glue gun, program it with the right code and set it to work on a sheet of stretched fabric? This stunning piece created by Anna Piecek and a Kuka robot at Kunstuniversität Linz is an interesting fusion of fashion and robotics that might just be … Read more

Looking down on Mozart’s own town I can almost hear the music that made one of Austria’s own renowned. To the left is the Festung Hohensalzbur standing proud over the Salzburg Cathedral and the old city while the river Salzach cuts through right through Salzburg dividing old and new. Ah the sounds, look at the … Read more

I’d been looking for a sunset in the western evening sky when a jagged crack of orange appeared. We watched as that blaze of zigzagging orange grew and grew and then shrank away into the grey it first emerged from. Oh well, not tonight I thought and put the camera away. Twenty minutes later after … Read more

Standing sentry to all passers-by, four of these these eagle sentinels adorn the Swiss Cottage Bridge over The River Suir. I wonder if their gargoyle like appearance was meant to instill some form of apotropaic magic to protect the cottage from ill. Probably not but it’s fun to imagine! Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Sentry’, 1/500s f/2.8 … Read more

This flighty little character will never compete with the absolute self assurance of Bugs Bunny himself. Still it is easy to anthropomorphically imagine a ‘what’s up doc’ in a thought bubble above this scene. Whats up indeed I thought as I pointed my lens and pressed the shutter. A single click later and my less … Read more

Even at 1/3200 of a second this incoming bumblebee’s wings are a blur. Short of using a high powered strobe I don’t think it is possible to freeze their motion completely. There were two kinds of bees hard at work on this patch of flowers. One was a slimmer and less hairy bee which methodically … Read more