Views from the Bay
from the centre of New Zealand: pictures and observations
Living legends
21 Oct 2011During the Rugby World Cup, the “Living Legends” project aims to plant 85,000 native trees around New Zealand. A neat and lasting way to provide some offset for the carbon footprint of the RWC. Each site has been selected by the Department of Conservation and will be named after one of New Zealand’s rugby greats. The site chosen for Nelson was the Wakapuaka Wildlife Reserve and our “living legend” is Todd Blackadder. (Excellent choice!)
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I showed some pictures from a field trip to the Boulder Bank in my last post. That morning had some real highs and lows for me. I’ll explain. We went across in the Haulashore Island Ferry. We were landed around 100m from the Lighthouse. It was still very dark against the dawn sky, so I began by exploring the views to the south. Like this one:
Nelson’s Boulder Bank and Lighthouse
26 Sep 2011A couple of weeks ago the local Nelson Camera Club hosted visitors from other clubs from the West Coast to Marlborough. There was an early morning field trip, to Nelson’s Boulder Bank and the Lighthouse:
Nelson knitters run wild!
20 Sep 2011We’ve gone all colourful and Italian, now the Rugby World Cup has started and Nelson is hosting the Italian team. I’ll try to give an idea of the feeling in town with a few pictures.
Pohutukawa versus View
16 Sep 2011The Pohutukawa tree is New Zealand’s Christmas tree, due to the colour of its spectacular flowers.
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The Long Lunch
11 Sep 2011The Rugby World Cup is upon us! We celebrated the arrival of the Italian rugby team with a “Long Lunch” the other day. 800+ diners took over our main street for a few hours.
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Kiwi Flyer
7 Sep 2011The annual Nelson Trolley Derby is to be made into a movie.
Some NZ Rowing History
In: NZ Stories
2 Sep 2011We have been watching on TV New Zealand crews at the world rowing Championships in Bled, Slovenia. They’ve been doing very well (so far). I realised that it is almost exactly 40 years since I watched a race which was an important step along New Zealand’s path to success in world rowing.
Lightstones
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6 Aug 2011Having written a rather harsh review of the lighting course I went on a couple of weeks ago, I thought I should perhaps demonstrate what I learned. So here’s an attempt on some still life shots, of some much-loved pieces that we’ve accumulated over the years from a sculptor by the name of John Edgar.
John Edgar creates objects by cutting and joining stone, usually with other stone but sometimes different materials entirely. Very slow, painstaking work which produces beautiful, tactile objects like this:
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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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