The Short-Head Seahorse, Hippocampus breviceps, is one of the cutest seahorses in the sea and Edithburgh is great place to find and photograph them. I almost never see them during the day but at night a bit of hunting will soon find them. Photo: Robert Rath, ‘I Sea a Horse’ 1/100s f/14 ISO320 100mm
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Always willing to pose for an image is Edithburgh’s Gurnard Pearch. When nothing else seems to want to stay in the frame; when the hunt for a prettier subject is failing; when the surge is making midwater images impossible; there is always a gurnard perch, or three sitting on the sand patiently waiting for their […]
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The world of macro marine photography is full of life and colours and action that many new divers simply swim on by. However for photographers and those who take the time to look nudibranchs make wonderful subjects due to their diversity of colour and form. This bulldozer of a sea slug, Ceratosoma brevicaudatum, may only […]
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I found this beautiful mineral specimen recently while exploring the historic Barossa Goldfields. The most obvious thing about this mineral specimen is of course the gold but when I thought about it a little more I realised that symbolically the ironstone and quartz represented perhaps the real value. Without iron the world would have been […]
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Bright neon signage. A deep blue starless sky. Reds, greens and golden masonry. No lights on. The Stamford Grand Hotel in Glenelg almost looks abandoned but is really jumping at ground level. Just goes to show a picture can hide as well as it can reveal. Photo: Robert Rath, ‘The Stamford Grand’, 1/50s f/4 ISO1600 […]
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