Some parts of the world see only a cloudy sky and rarely see the sun set. Some parts of the work never see cloud, every sunset the same as the last. Here in South Australia we are lucky to see every sunset imaginable. Photo: Robert Rath, ‘South Australian Sunset’, 1/400s f/13 ISO320 50mm
Read More
The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is a nearby (on cosmological terms) galaxy clearly visible as a small cloud to the naked eye in the southern night sky. As a neighboring galaxy in our local group it is considered a suburb of our own Milky Way galaxy. At around 163,000 light year away it is humbling […]
Read More
This beautiful Leafy Seadragon posed for stills and video at Rapid Bay this afternoon. Despite big tides and a strong current the water is getting warmer, up to 14degC here now, and an 8-10m visibility dive day is was welcome change from the soup we have been diving in lately. Looking forward to more days […]
Read More
Looking North from the Adelaide Festival Centre over the River Torrens is the impressive structure of the new and vastly improved Adelaide Oval. It looks wonderful lit up at night although I wonder if its carbon footprint is worth the civic value. Despite all the arguments for and against I’m in favor of making Adelaide […]
Read More
The reason the Leafy Seadragon seems so elusive is that it blends so well into its environment. It does not matter if it’s in kelp or bubble weed or any other of the many species of yellow algae inhabiting our coastal waters, they just seems to disappear into the detail. For many years I dived […]
Read More