Fifteen minutes after sunset the colour in the west reddened and deepened becoming more and more intense. Despite the richness of colour on the horizon there was not enough light to remove the stormy gloom making he sky all the more surreal. … and then she ran out into the surf chasing the last of […]
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What colour is water anyway when it is supposed to be colourless. Yet we talk about the deep blue ocean, or sea green, or a golden pond at sunset or dawn. Water reflects and refracts and absorbs and distorts and yet colours our world without any colour at all. Actually this image really isn’t about […]
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Features almost hidden in the glowing gold of sunset, almost a silhouette but just enough light to make out the texture of the seagull’s feathers. This is a special time of the evening to be down on the beach watching the world fly by. Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Fly By’, 1/5000s f/2.8 ISO400 200mm
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From a cold Austrian winter to balmy Australian evenings the difference between these two worlds could not be more different despite only an ‘al’ in name. The place is Port Parham, a ramshackle collection of holiday shacks on the Gulf of Saint Vincent in South Australia and the the holiday destination of my childhood. When […]
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The most common natural colour in Ireland is green, green grass, green treas, green hills and green mountains. This twilight over Cork however was a blazing ochre yellow as the illusive sun finds a way into the evening clouds. To the right is Saint Fin Barre’s Cathedral with the Cork Christmas Ferris Wheel. In the […]
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