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 […]
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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 […]
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Number six on the hopscotch grid has one foot in the square but she’s going the wrong way not aware that’s there. A portent of summer has hit us with a fiery vengeance and with that people have come out to play in the sunshine here on Brighton Jetty. Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Hopscotch’, 1/2000s f/11 […]
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Little mounds of stones seem to be part of arid landscape walking trails, at least all of the arid walks I can remember. I wonder how the scattered rocks and stones come together apparently all on their own because I have never seen anyone actually build one. There was nothing special about this cairn over […]
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Spending time with my 50mm lens is like learning to see all over again (not that I ever stopped). I think that I had become lazy with zoom lenses, enamored in the impact and drama of extreme wide angle and in many cases was relying on extreme perspective to draw attention to a scene. The […]
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