Fronting up to a desk job every day for a prolong period is a sure way to loose contact with photography. Or is it? Well it might be an easy excuse but really there is no reason why a quick lunch break and a 30 minute stroll away from your desk can’t be used to […]
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Freedom
When I watch a gull in flight above some beautiful landscape my eye is drawn to the movement and for a moment I feel I share in its effortless freedom. Thinking about it some more I muse the gull has no concept freedom so in that moment the freedom was completely mine. Photo: Robert Rath, […]
Read MoreMorning Songbird
Almost every morning we get to be serenaded by the most beautiful and complex birdsong of Australian Magpies. Our local front garden tenants have not always been here. Over the years we have had other birds take up residency. From miners to pigeons to parrots and even crows nothing beats the beautiful sounds of magpies. […]
Read MoreAn Omen on My Right
When I took this image outside of an Edinburgh pub the myths of ancient Greece could not have been further from my mind. Then I started reading the works of Homer. A recurring theme in both Homer’s ‘The Iliad’ and ‘Odyssey’ is the omen of a bird in flight. Even more powerful is where a […]
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Just under two kilometers north east of Skellig Michael is the smaller of the Skelligs, ‘Little Skellig’. What struck me as the biggest difference between the two is that here on Little Skellig the sea birds ruled. Tens of thousands of gannets and other migratory birds clings to every usable surface of this barren rocky […]
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