When I watch a gull in flight above some beautiful landscape my eye is drawn to the movement and for a moment I feel I share in its effortless freedom. Thinking about it some more I muse the gull has no concept freedom so in that moment the freedom was completely mine. Photo: Robert Rath, […]
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We watched as the base of the setting sun touched the horizon. In two minutes It will be gone. You can’t measure the diameter of the sun as it appears in the sky but you can measure the angle it makes with your point of view, about one half a degree. So with a little […]
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With another extraordinary year racing towards the finishing line there is nothing more calming to me than looking out across the ocean to the distant horizon. Gazing out to sea washes away cares and worry and brings back to mind things that really matter. The next few days will be fun and crazy and a […]
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Below the boardwalk the sand is little bit cooler. Below the boardwalk the sun is a little more bearable. Below the boardwalk the shadows are a little less harsh. Ablaze in the not so soft glow of twilight, Henley Beach Jetty is none of the above when camera turns evening into day. Photo: Robert Rath, […]
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Just under two kilometers north east of Skellig Michael is the smaller of the Skelligs, ‘Little Skellig’. What struck me as the biggest difference between the two is that here on Little Skellig the sea birds ruled. Tens of thousands of gannets and other migratory birds clings to every usable surface of this barren rocky […]
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