Perhaps this play on the word ‘atonement’ is not so obvious but I chose it for two reasons, the spiritual beauty of the circle and the seeking of a perfect balance of tone across its hemisphere. Ordinarily this lamp would do nothing more than light the space it occupies and hardly even be noticed unless […]
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I wonder if these bars on an old Port Adelaide building were meant to keep people out or to keep something else in. Perhaps neither. The owner may just have liked iron bars. Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Day 705, Iron Bars’ 0.3s f/16 ISO100 15mm
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The expression ‘fruit of the sea’ is usually a term used for the animals of the ocean such fishes, crustaceans and molluscs. There are in fact ‘real’ fruits of the ocean and the sea grass meadows of the coastal shallows are one place you can find them. The predominant seagrass of the Rapid Bay area […]
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The greater Adelaide area has been blessed with amazing sunsets these last few days which has got me to thinking about how they happen. When there are local high clouds and hundreds of kilometers of clear dry air off into the direction of the sunset magic happens. The light from the sun, now well below […]
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There is something post apocalyptic about his image. The dead rubble, the grey gloom, the line of steel posts running off into nothing and a lone cowfish missing most of her tail. This poor girl is a female ‘Shaw’s Cowfish’, Arcana aurita, and when I cam across her she was tucked in behind the steel […]
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