Growing up in a country town far from the ocean pelicans were exotic and beautiful birds that belonged to far away places and movies like ‘Storm Boy’. Now I delight in finding them live where ever they please, even alongside busy suburban transport routes. I see many tens of pelicans a week now on the […]
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Look At Me
Imposing, majestic, graceful, serene, beautiful, and elegant all come to mind where swans are concerned. When it comes to being photographed they are not so different from people. Here’s looking at you! Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Look At Me’, 1/640s f/2.8 ISO320 200mm
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My very first memories of this place come from photographs taken by my father when I was too young to remember. Swans on the Danube, misty fog in the autumn and snow in winter. Memories of photographs of feeding swans, of sledding through the streets of Aschach and bright eyes full of wonder. For 25 […]
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At first glance this image of geese strutting up from the shore of the not so blue Danube River seems to be just that, waterbirds with attitude. And then you might think, by locals I mean the geese and the ducks, the gulls and the swans. In the background there is a bridge that was […]
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Well it’s the first day of our southern summer and the ducks will rejoice because it may as well be winter again. It’s windy, rainy, cold and generally uninviting to go diving. I am hoping the weather will quickly recover so we can get back in the water again. In the mean time this Pacific […]
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