Every Autumn I get to admire the amazing colours of the liquid amber tree my mother’s garden. I don’t remember the colours changing from green, to yellow, to orange. At least I got to see them these last days of autumn before winter’s chilly winds sweep them away. Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Last Days of Autumn’, […]
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For those back on shore a brilliant yellow sun hovers precariously above a flat expansive western horizon. Like a dry swimmer testing the water it first dips a little into the water and then more and more as it’s seeming water confidence grows. Eventually it is gone beneath the distant waves. Here under the water […]
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Four billion years from now our sun might look a little like this except for one striking difference. It will not have those ever changing sunspots that dance across the face of the sun as we see it in the sky today. Well at least you would if you were looking at it through welding […]
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I’ve tried to work out who this guy is. It could be Echinaster varicolor or perhaps Pseudonepanthia troughtoni or even Nectria ocellata. I will leave that one up to the experts and concentrate on the shadows, the sunlight and the starfish. Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Star in the Spotlight’ 1/200 f/22 ISO800 15mm
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How often have you sat on a beach gazing out into the ocean. Perhaps counting the waves in sets, perhaps looking for a breaking fin beyond the break, perhaps watching surfers shred it all to pieces. Now try turning it all upside down and imagine gazing on those waves from a completely different world. Better […]
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