I’d been looking for a sunset in the western evening sky when a jagged crack of orange appeared. We watched as that blaze of zigzagging orange grew and grew and then shrank away into the grey it first emerged from. Oh well, not tonight I thought and put the camera away. Twenty minutes later after […]
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Standing sentry to all passers-by, four of these these eagle sentinels adorn the Swiss Cottage Bridge over The River Suir. I wonder if their gargoyle like appearance was meant to instill some form of apotropaic magic to protect the cottage from ill. Probably not but it’s fun to imagine! Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Sentry’, 1/500s f/2.8 […]
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This flighty little character will never compete with the absolute self assurance of Bugs Bunny himself. Still it is easy to anthropomorphically imagine a ‘what’s up doc’ in a thought bubble above this scene. What’s up indeed I thought as I pointed my lens and pressed the shutter. A single click later and my less […]
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Even at 1/3200 of a second this incoming bumblebee’s wings are a blur. Short of using a high powered strobe I don’t think it is possible to freeze their motion completely. There were two kinds of bees hard at work on this patch of flowers. One was a slimmer and less hairy bee which methodically […]
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