Of all the things I like best about shopping (not that there are many) I love patterns and repetition. In supermarkets it’s beautifully faced shelves of jars and bottles. In book stores it’s stacks of perfectly aligned hardcovers beneath the display copies. In department stores it’s the piles of perfectly folded jeans, a display of […]
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The lookout from Mengler’s Hill is a place that has been special to me since childhood. I remember riding our bicycles up the steep road (no gears back then) and celebrating the ability to get all the way up without stopping to walk some of the way. More often than not we didn’t. After taking […]
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A simple tribute to a local legend of the wine industry in the Barossa. Peter Lehmann passed away Friday June 28 2013 at the age of 82. We will remember you Peter every time we drink a ‘PL’ wine. Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Day 549, Tribute To Peter’ 1/400 f/2.8 ISO100 135mm
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Adelaide, we have arrived home after our amazing time away. Most of Adelaide is in dawn shadow with the first hint of morning sun catching the hills in the distance. In 60 seconds we will have touched down, heralding the beginning of a return to normality. Or would we be? Our time in Ireland as […]
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Last leg or last legs? There is a real feel of travel weariness pervading the air. Hours of travel seem to have reduced the excited expectations of reaching a new or a final destination to nothing more than silent anticipation. … soon now. Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Day 547, Last Leg’ 3.2s f/16 ISO800 15mm
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