I really like the bokeh of some lenses and this is not one of them! This image was captured using the old Canon 100mm macro. I started out wanting to create some beautiful background bokeh but wide open this lens still shows impingement of the blades. This is especially noticeable in comparing bokeh images between […]
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Another failed image, I turn around and something unexpected happens! This evening I tried to capture the moonrise on the eastern horizon but it was a dismal failure. The moon came up in the right place and right on cue but it was so dim as to be almost indistinguishable from the sky. In fact […]
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Such a contrast to my ‘Nativity’ image but every much as Christmas in the culture I live in. I am not going to debate the moral dilemma of Christmas feasts and festive excess, just photograph it. Curiously this image is personally significant for an altogether different reason. It marks the anniversary of when I proposed […]
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I’d thought the sunset was over when I looked into the sky above. This Long-billed Corella, Cacatua tenuirostris, showed me otherwise as the the last rays of sunset coloured his normally white plumage pink and orange. Photo: Robert Rath, ‘366 Days of 2012, Day 60 – Last Rays of Sunset’. 1/6400 sec at 200mm f/2.8, […]
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Many mornings I drive past the mouth of the River Torrens where I have often seen a a couple of fishermen surrounded by pelicans and other sea birds and wished I had my camera. This morning I finally remembered. Today I witnessed the most amazing interaction between a man and a pelican. As he packed […]
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