Day 622, The Watcher, http://wetshutter.com http://robertrath.com #photooftheday #selfie #shadow #photographer As I stood in the darkness peering through the viewfinder of my camera I could not help feel as if I was being watched. I raised my head and looked around, … nothing. Then I thought to look up and towering over me I saw […]
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A diamond encrusted crater rim encircles a crimson volcanic lake bubbling with ancient gases. It could easily have been a seen from another world. Instead it was just a unique view of the dining room table and glass of sparking shiraz not long for this world. Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Day 621, Another World’ 1/25s f/16 […]
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Another chance find. George Court, just off Sturt street in the Adelaide CBD. I initially tried a stitched panorama for this image but due to the acute angles and tight space I could not get the paving the match up. My solution in the end was to take a single image from one long diagonal […]
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I looked up and noticed a spider on my screen. It was so small at first I thought it was a clump of pixels. As I normally do I grabbed a shot glass and business card (my standard spider catching kit) and placed it over the spider on the screen. Then I watched in disbelief […]
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Perhaps the most famous of all fractals is the Mandelbrot. Fractals have the curious aspect of becoming more and more complex the closer you inspect them, infinitely so. Back out however and look at them from a distance and all that complex random detail becomes ordered and seemingly simple. From far away I am intrigued […]
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