Day 982, Six Selfies

Christmas trees everywhere with tinsel and baubles and glitter and fairy lamps. Look carefully into every non-frosted spherical ornament and you will see what I see, a mini world surrounding a selfie. Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Day 982, Six Selfies’, 1/125s f/5 ISO1000 90mm … more at http://wetshutter.com

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Day 981, Nautilus Illuminata

While exploring important images from the last 100 years I came upon Edward Weston’s 1927 image “Nautilus” and was intrigued by its austere beauty. At first I set out to replicate the style of this image but as I played with my very own nautilus shell, peering at it from various perspectives I suddenly saw […]

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Day 980, My Very Own Fish Bowl

I actually created this image early in my 1000 images project but for some reason it never made it into the collection even though I have shown it before. On reflection it would be a pitty to not include one of Adelaide’s most popular and accessible dive sites so it’s now officially number 980. There […]

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Day 979, Celestial Whirlpool

While out looking at the Geminids I thought I would have a little play with long exposures to the South. During the middle of this exposure heavy cloud started rolling in from the South and the combination of stars and the reflected light from the towns of Mannum and Murray Bridge produced an effect I […]

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Day 978, Jenny

I once heard another photographer claim that ‘pets’ were the low hanging fruit of photography. In some sense it’s no wonder as unlike people, animals are not capable of being anything other than their genuine self. If the animal happens to be a dearly love pet expressing their personality then of course it is very […]

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