Beachside Glenelg and most people are looking at the gorgeous sunset, snapping away at the horizon or at themselves as it the current trend. I looked up and saw a different ocean. Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Surfing a Celestial Wave’ 1/2500 f/2.8 ISO160 102mm
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Someone Else’s Moment
Another image maker captures the twilight in their own vision. Whenever I see another photographer on the beach looking at the same sunset as myself, aiming their camera and capturing the scene I wonder how their vision differs from mine. I wonder if they see anything I do not and I wonder what the result […]
Read MoreWhat Sunset?
A family of four, two best friends, swimmers silhouetted and one lone aeroplane. Another amazing Henley Beach sunset and some are still completely unaware of the extraordinary sky show unfolding. Oh well, at least they are all doing something just as wonderful at the end of one very hot summer day Photo: Robert Rath, ‘What […]
Read MoreThe Swimmer
I watch in awe as the dark smudge in the ocean to the north finally reveals itself as a long distance swimmer. Unlike the robotic repeats of swimming pool confined laps the ocean is a very different place. With no bottom to rest on, no black line to follow, no turns to reset and no […]
Read MoreHat and Camera
As a photographer I have a fascination with capturing images other photographers. Just watch a photographer, especially a landscape photographer, for a while and you will see how absorbed into their craft we can get. One moment focused on a scene, the next lost in thought. We really do make excellent photographic subjects except we […]
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