The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is a nearby (on cosmological terms) galaxy clearly visible as a small cloud to the naked eye in the southern night sky. As a neighboring galaxy in our local group it is considered a suburb of our own Milky Way galaxy. At around 163,000 light year away it is humbling […]
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Looking North from the Adelaide Festival Centre over the River Torrens is the impressive structure of the new and vastly improved Adelaide Oval. It looks wonderful lit up at night although I wonder if its carbon footprint is worth the civic value. Despite all the arguments for and against I’m in favor of making Adelaide […]
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The expression ‘on the rocks’ can be good or bad depending on whether you are in a bar or on a boat. In this building there are both and being on the rocks just adds to the effect for both. The recently rebuilt (from the rocks up) Henley Surf Life Saving Club is welcome development […]
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Out for dinner or my play time with the 50mm lens? I like to think I can always combine the two but enthusiasm has its limits and sometime it’s best to take a quick shot and then put the camera away. Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Out For Dinner’, 1/80s f/1.8 ISO640 50mm
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For all of Winter I have missed Orion in the night sky and until Summer the hunter will remain out of sight for all but the most dedicated night owls. This is image of the hunter is quite special for me and realises, albeit only just, a goal I have had all my life. Gazing […]
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