For those back on shore a brilliant yellow sun hovers precariously above a flat expansive western horizon. Like a dry swimmer testing the water it first dips a little into the water and then more and more as it’s seeming water confidence grows. Eventually it is gone beneath the distant waves. Here under the water […]
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The days are getting longer, and warmer and more and more people are heading to the beach after work, school or a day just chill’n. It’s late now, the air is chilly and nearly everyone has gone home but the tell tail signs are right there in that well trodden sand. Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Well […]
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Finally the winter gloom is beginning to fade, the days are getting longer and the temperature beginning to edge up. Little by little Spring is making its way into into our world giving tantalizing hints of a Summer to come. Not that you can tell any of this looking out into a Henley Beach sunset. […]
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The Magpie Morwong, Cheilodactylus nigripes is one of our most common reef fish and I just happened upon this one nonchalantly hanging around. Normally I can’t get this close (needed when using a wide angle lens ) but on this occasion this guy hung there as if just saying g’day. A real poser! Anyone not […]
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I’ve tried to work out who this guy is. It could be Echinaster varicolor or perhaps Pseudonepanthia troughtoni or even Nectria ocellata. I will leave that one up to the experts and concentrate on the shadows, the sunlight and the starfish. Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Star in the Spotlight’ 1/200 f/22 ISO800 15mm
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