Every photographer loves the ‘golden hour’ for its soft light and golden tones let alone the beauty of the setting or rising sun. I was hoping for yet another beautiful sunset but all of the dramatic sky was to the north east so I headed out to the end of Henley Beach Jetty and looked […]
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Those poor unsuspecting photons never stood a chance as I pointed the trap away from the golden sunset. For thousands of years those photons had been bouncing their way from the heart of the sun towards its surface and finally they thought they were free from that fiery womb. For the last nine minutes of […]
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A big woolly blanket being pulled up from the south leaves a window of twilight sneaking in from the north. It’s easy to imagine those last vestiges of light disappearing as Henley Beach gets tucked in for the night. Soon it will be bed time for all. Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Putting Henley Beach To Bed’ […]
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It’s the end of a Rapid Bay dive and as all well executed dive plans end, another slow safe ascent back up to the entry point. Except this time I spent a little while under the entry platform and it is a microcosm teaming with life. Hard coral’s, sponges, snails, crabs, blennies and gobies all […]
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Port Noarlunga has lots of small abalone and normally they are seen as flat shellfish firmly attached to rocks as if welded to them. Come out and night and those innocent pretend rocks turn into predatory marauding green eyed monsters fit to give children nightmares. Good thing we are larger the a couple centimeters or […]
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