Day 852, A Bridge By Any Other Name

This recent addition to Port Adelaide’s waterscape is actually a pair of bridges, one rail and one road. The two are unusual not only for being single leaf drawbridges but also for the history of how they came to have their current names, the Mary MacKillop and Tom ‘Diver’ Derrick Bridges respectively. Both were originally […]

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Day 851, Pan’s Melody

Pan is normally associated with green fields, mountains, wild places and the shepherd of flocks. The grey indistinct void, the ethereal light and the strange indistinct background artifacts somehow seem out of place. I am sure though Pan’s melody would beguile no matter where he was. Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Day 851, Pan’s Melody’ 1/4000 f/3.2 […]

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Day 850, Concrete Helix

So white, so clean, so empty. This concrete helix provides access to the various parking levels at the Adelaide Airport terminal. I like the fact that vertical traversal has been separated from the congested maneuvering of car parking space. Not that there is any mayhem this time of the morning. For now at least its […]

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