Day 995, Black Beauties

I am sure I’d not find anyone who would disagree on the grace and beauty of black swans. There was once a time when I thought that swans were white until as a small child I came across a postage stamp in my mum’s stamp collection. This 1954 commemorative stamp was adorned with a black […]

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Day 993, Eye See You

But who’s eyes are you? This guy is probably a masked stingaree (Trygonoptera personata) but it is hard to tell with all that sand and shell-grit. Whoever’s eyes you are we stared at each other for some time before both going our separate ways. Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Day 993, Eye See You’, 1/100s f/11 ISO100 […]

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Day 992, Fish Portraiture

Photographing the gurnard perch would have to be the low hanging fruit of a Rapid Bay Jetty midnight dive. They sit there on the sand at the start and end of the dive and let themselves be photographed from any angle you want. Not the prettiest fish among the amazing diversity of life under the […]

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