One Eyed

I’m rather one eyed about Sigma’s 50mm ART lens. This shot at f/2.8 shows just how circular that aperture stays as it stops down which directly translates to beautiful out-of-focus background textures. This one’s definitely a keeper. As for the subject material … Photo: Robert Rath, ‘One Eyed’, 1/60s f/2.8 ISO320 50mm … more at […]

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Blue-Ringed Denizen

The Blue-Ringed Octopus, Hapalochlaena maculosa, has one of the deadliest toxins of all sea creatures! Its venomous bite can easily kill a human despite its diminutive size of less than 12cm. Fortunately human deaths are very rare as long as effective treatment is close at hand. Edithburgh has a large population of these fascinating critters […]

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The Devil’s In Town

In many years of diving Edithburgh Jetty is my first every encounter with a Western Blue Devil, Paraplesiops meleagris. One of the most visually striking in both form and colour of all the southern Australian reef fishes, the Western Blue Devil normally is found lurking in caves and under ledges of deeper offshore reefs. This […]

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