Alison Coppe singing solo at the Wheatsheaf Hotel. Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Day 944, Alison Coppe’ 1/50s f/2.8, ISO200 2000mm

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Bokeh is one of those things that confuses the question of what is real in a photograph. It’s absolutely what what was captured by the lens. There are no Photoshop effects, no Instagram filters, no mathematical convolution. It’s exactly what the lens saw. So why can’t we see a bunch of fairy lights in the […]

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Sometimes something is so colourful that it almost becomes painful to look at, ….ah that’s better. Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Day 942, Colourful’ 1/125s f/20, ISO100 200mm

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Does anyone remember mirror balls and disco’s. I was always reminded of little worlds with oceans of light and dark reflections of terrain. The sparkling points of lights tracing walls and ceilings like the projections in a planetarium are the stars in a world of a very different creator. Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Day 941, Planet […]

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Putting a camera to my eye changes not only what I see through the lens but also changes the way I see when I’m not. Something as simple as shallow depth of field is hard to describe to anyone who has not looked through lens or seen it in a photograph yet it’s there all […]

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