Welcome Back Orion

For all of Winter I have missed Orion in the night sky and until Summer the hunter will remain out of sight for all but the most dedicated night owls. This is image of the hunter is quite special for me and realises, albeit only just, a goal I have had all my life. Gazing […]

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Right Under their Feet

It’s the end of a Rapid Bay dive and as all well executed dive plans end, another slow safe ascent back up to the entry point. Except this time I spent a little while under the entry platform and it is a microcosm teaming with life. Hard coral’s, sponges, snails, crabs, blennies and gobies all […]

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Great Southern Land

From halfway up Rawnsley’s Bluff in the mid Flinders Ranges and looking back to the southwest is a vista that is beautiful, stark and dramatic. A short 5 hour drive north of Adelaide is all it takes to get to this part of our diverse country and this time of the year is the best […]

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My Mussels

The way this teddybear star (Anthenea australiae) has latched onto that bed of mussels has a kind of possession quality. It’s as if she’s saying ‘Hands off,… My mussels!’ No sooner had I uttered that phrase and I was whisked away into a Sydney dentists office and to his the characters in his marine aquarium. […]

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Which Way?

This atrium of stairs in Adelaide University’s Ingkarni Wardli building is an open invitation to explore. Either exploring up or down I still wondered which way? In the end I had to leave this Escherian space and take the elevator. Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Which Way?’ 1/2s f/16 ISO800 15mm

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