Coober Pedy in outback South Australia is a very strange place and that strangeness begins in the desert landscape well before you arrive. Like some alien landscape the white and brown cones of unearthed soil, the dumped mullock heaps of opal mining, dot the landscape. Each little mound tells of an abandoned search into the […]
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Arguably sunset on Uluru (formerly Ayers Rock) is Australia’s most famous, most iconic and most photographed event. When I finally got to experience this for myself, watching the colours changing as the sun fell in the west, I felt intimidated by every image I had ever seen and if I could capture even a glimpse […]
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Dreams of the ocean fade in the waking of dawn only to becomes dreams again as day fades to night. Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Henley Dreaming’ 1/6s f/18 ISO500 15mm
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There is an imaginary line running through the north of South Australia called Goyder’s Line which it was determined that farming above the line would be unviable to early settlers. Following a long period of yearly above average rainfall many farmers decided to shun the warning and establish cropping farmland well to the north of […]
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Sydney is one of those cities I just love being in, wandering the streets, sailing the waterways and taking in the bold and brassy spectacle of high-rise and harbour sights. Although there are plenty of high priced harbour cruises on offer, for just a few dollars you can jump on one of the harbour ferries […]
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