I have captured a few images like this one with seaweed washed up on the beach. The challenge in an image like this is depth of field. It is not easy to have both that jetty shelter in focus as well as the bedraggled clump of tangled weed in the foreground. Even though choosing the […]
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Yes it really is just the overhead power-lines across from our place. However … It was the very last golden light from the setting sun which sneaked through a rent in the grey sky. Just for a the briefest of moments the light it produced was surreal and brought this ordinarily dull and grey power-line […]
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Day 622, The Watcher, http://wetshutter.com http://robertrath.com #photooftheday #selfie #shadow #photographer As I stood in the darkness peering through the viewfinder of my camera I could not help feel as if I was being watched. I raised my head and looked around, … nothing. Then I thought to look up and towering over me I saw […]
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A diamond encrusted crater rim encircles a crimson volcanic lake bubbling with ancient gases. It could easily have been a seen from another world. Instead it was just a unique view of the dining room table and glass of sparking shiraz not long for this world. Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Day 621, Another World’ 1/25s f/16 […]
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Another chance find. George Court, just off Sturt street in the Adelaide CBD. I initially tried a stitched panorama for this image but due to the acute angles and tight space I could not get the paving the match up. My solution in the end was to take a single image from one long diagonal […]
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