Is it possible to make blur look interesting? For various technical reasons a panning shot of passing cars with an FE lens was never going to produce the classic ‘speed’ look. For starters the radically changing geometry of the subjects through the panning sweep as absurd. Still it was worth some experimentation to see what […]
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This guy was sitting perched atop a structure of sponge and ascidian encrusted twisted jetty wreckage. Like many of our wrasses the brownspotted wrasse (Notolabrus parilus) behaves around divers with a mix of curiosity and timidity. Not one to anthropomorphise our local critters I still can not help see the resemblance to human traits. Anther […]
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What’s the most intimidating badass camera you have ever seen? The bane of every suburban motorist is the speed camera lurking in out of the way 50km/h limit backstreets. Oddly enough most mobile phones these days have higher resolution cameras than these brutes. It’s only 11 megapixels but seems to do the job well. I […]
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When the doors are closed, locked, uninviting there is not need for a ‘sorry we are closed’ sign. Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Day 642, Closed For Business’, 1/250s f/6.3 ISO400 15mm
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I am so used to seeing the moon set upon the ocean. Tonight’s setting moon was an unexpected delight. Almost all the light coming from this new waxing moon is coming from light reflected back from our Earth. Although a common sight it is one I never seem to capture. The only part of the […]
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