Views from the Bay
from the centre of New Zealand: pictures and observations
Archive for June, 2010
Eric Chittenden, 1909 – 2010
In: Nelson events
29 Jun 2010Last week I attended the funeral of Eric Chittenden, a chemist who spent almost all of his working life (49 years!) at the Cawthron Institute. He joined Cawthron in 1926, having left school four years earlier when he was 13. He had no formal qualifications and started in a very junior position as an assistant [...]
Finding the pony
20 Jun 2010I’ve just been listening to a child psychologist on national radio talking about optimists and pessimists. It reminded me of a management problem I faced at Cawthron Institute where I took rather a risk in order to communicate successfully. The problem involved a young Ph.D. student from Japan. He had just discovered that his supervisor [...]
Vehicles endemic to Westhaven
In: Photographic
11 Jun 2010Westhaven Inlet is such a remote region that the vehicle population appears to have evolved its own special characteristics. Here’s an example:
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A mystery donor
8 Jun 2010One day in the early 90s I got a telephone call from one of our clients in Christchurch. His Japanese wife had been working as an interpreter for a gentleman currently living in Christchurch who had expressed a great interest in visiting an organisation carrying out environmental research. He wondered whether the Cawthron Institute would [...]
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Founders book fair
5 Jun 2010Today I was helping out at the annual book fair, raising money for Nelson’s “Founders Heritage Park”. It’s quite an operation, raising a six-figure sum. An hour before the doors opened, the queue was already substantial:
Microstock photos
In: Photographic
3 Jun 2010I came across a discussion which included a thought provoking link on the perils of saving company money by using low-cost images: The article shows how the same image can be used over and over, in a variety of contexts, companies and countries. As long as each ad designer is unaware of the other examples, [...]
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This blog presents the images and observations of someone who has had a long and successful career, ranging from heavy engineering to environmental sciences, from paper machines to marine biology.
The digital revolution has enabled Graeme Robertson to devote much of his time to a rediscovered passion, photography. His images have won national competitions and been published in magazines and newspapers.
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- Mavis: I hadn't realised that you had pruned the tree again ! but it looks ok doesn't it , and the colour i [...]
- Albatross Encounter: Not sure why I hadn't stumbled upon this before! Love the images and thanks for sharing! It's been [...]
- Mavis: Gorgeous photos, Graeme, and gorgeous roses too. Thanks for putting their names to them. [...]