I’d thought the sunset was over when I looked into the sky above. This Long-billed Corella, Cacatua tenuirostris, showed me otherwise as the the last rays of sunset coloured his normally white plumage pink and orange. Photo: Robert Rath, ‘366 Days of 2012, Day 60 – Last Rays of Sunset’. 1/6400 sec at 200mm f/2.8, […]
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Many mornings I drive past the mouth of the River Torrens where I have often seen a a couple of fishermen surrounded by pelicans and other sea birds and wished I had my camera. This morning I finally remembered. Today I witnessed the most amazing interaction between a man and a pelican. As he packed […]
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They say that the eyes are the window to the soul but when I look closely I just see myself! There may indeed be some existential meaning to my observation but really the effect is quite ordinarily a simple reflection. There are however some strange effects in this image of Jennifer’s eye that I can’t […]
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So close and yet so far away. A mere 15 minute walk down the road is all it takes to be at the beach and to enjoy the sand, the salt water and the sea air. So why then does it seem so far away and requires a special effort just to be down there! […]
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Most of us including me live most of our lives in cityscapes or urban sprawl. Sure we have parks and other pretty places to remind us there’s more out there than concrete and steel but apart from birds we have these spaces pretty much to ourselves. So it comes as a wonderful surprise to find […]
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