Interference Patterns

Interference Patterns You might think these black swans are just feeding on crustaceans and molluscs in the shallows of Lake Alexandrina. You’d be forgiven to dismiss this as just another nature image. What is really going on here is that these swans are delving into the deeper nature of existence itself by testing the wave […]

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Interference Patterns

Ripples of ocean swirl into the nooks and crannies of a sand bank rapidly vanishing under a rising tide. The patterns arising leave in their wake the simple ripples of stones thrown into water, instead complex patterns of superposition, construction and cancellation play out in chaotic beauty. A few almost solitary sea birds most likely […]

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Tubular

In Leigh Street there is a building with windows covered in these strange tubular cylinders like some crystalline lattice suspended in a void. Step back a little and this strange feature transforms into a gracious old stone building; the State Records Building of South Australia. I just like the tubes. Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Tubular’ 1/50s […]

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