These two beautiful gannets patrolling the waters off Little Skellig easily lived up to their reputation of Ireland’s most majestic seabird. For a a few moments they flew in to hold perfect formation alongside our ungainly craft. With wings beating in unison and the and effortlessly glide they showed us up a thousand times over. […]
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No, not the band but the city from which the Harry Potter stories emerged, Edinburgh. This guy was on a falconer’s arm in the streets as they thronged with festival goers. You can tell by the small pupils that this owl might prefer to be in bed at this time of the day. Still it […]
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Features almost hidden in the glowing gold of sunset, almost a silhouette but just enough light to make out the texture of the seagull’s feathers. This is a special time of the evening to be down on the beach watching the world fly by. Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Fly By’, 1/5000s f/2.8 ISO400 200mm
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My very first memories of this place come from photographs taken by my father when I was too young to remember. Swans on the Danube, misty fog in the autumn and snow in winter. Memories of photographs of feeding swans, of sledding through the streets of Aschach and bright eyes full of wonder. For 25 […]
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At first glance this image of geese strutting up from the shore of the not so blue Danube River seems to be just that, waterbirds with attitude. And then you might think, by locals I mean the geese and the ducks, the gulls and the swans. In the background there is a bridge that was […]
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