Getting comfortable with taking street images is not coming easy for me. Just the other day I was accosted by a man accusing me of taking photographs of his daughter. Rather than stand my ground I took the easy route of showing him the images I had been taking. No apology was forth coming, just […]
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Lunar Light
We are into the waxing crescent stage of the lunar cycle and moonlight photography is getting easier with more available light for those evening beachscapes. Bring on the lunar light. Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Lunar Light’, 2s f/10 ISO800 15mm
Read MoreNobody Saw Him Leave
Perception of the world is so intimately bound with time that things that happen outside of normal time perception go unseen, unnoticed. For thing that happen slowly like trees growing in the garden or large constructions sites this is obvious. What happens though when perception of time is slowed down? As time slows people going […]
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Some people can find the most odd places and times to get online. While strolling down Hindley Street on the way back from a show I spied this surfer grabbing a bit of online goodness in a cosy side-street nook. I hope he found what he was surfing for. Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Urban Surfing’ 1/30 […]
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As a photographer I have a fascination with capturing images other photographers. Just watch a photographer, especially a landscape photographer, for a while and you will see how absorbed into their craft we can get. One moment focused on a scene, the next lost in thought. We really do make excellent photographic subjects except we […]
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