Photo Blog

On a roll

Posted on 6 August 2021 This eye-catching art helps beautify a construction site in Taranaki Street. © 2021 Ross Collins

In sunshine and shade

Posted on 5 August 2021 After transferring a pilot onto the bulk carrier 'Spica Harmony' arriving from Dunedin, the Centreport pilot boat 'Te Haa' was moving into position in Cook Strait, just outside the Wellington Heads, to offload another pilot from another bulk carrier, 'TS Echo', which was departing to Marsden Point yesterday. © 2021 Ross Collins

Tête-à-tête

Posted on 4 August 2021 Two chaps had rafted-up their kayaks for a chat on Wellington Harbour off Seatoun Beach on Sunday. © 2021 Ross Collins

You'll be missed - yeah right!

Posted on 3 August 2021 Seen from the Karaka Bay wharf, 'Viking Bay' was passing Ward Island and the North Shoal Light as it was finally departing from Wellington Harbour yesterday. © 2021 Ross Collins

Dads 'n' lads

Posted on 2 August 2021 An unexpected catch was being attended to by one father late yesterday on the Seatoun Wharf which was packed with young fishermen on what was likely to be the last weekend before the wharf closes until late in 2022 for significant strengthening and other remediation work to its piles, cross members, decking and other structures. © 2021 Ross Collins

Taking it in

Posted on 1 August 2021 While at Wahine Park on the Wellington South Coast yesterday I noticed this chap enjoying the beautiful weather sitting on a driftwood log looking across Tarakena Bay and the Cook Strait to snow-covered peaks on the South Island's Kaikoura Range.. © 2021 Ross Collins

Now and then

Posted on 31 July 2021 Historic Shed 13 on the Wellington waterfront, built in 1905, is overshadowed from across the street by the modern lines of the Deloitte Tower which was completed in 2018. © 2021 Ross Collins

Time's up!

Posted on 30 July 2021 Sixteen days after arrival, the Covid-ravaged Spanish fishing boat 'Viking Bay' seen quarantined at Queens Wharf yesterday with no sign of the infected crew on board must be due to depart Wellington any day now - surely! © 2021 Ross Collins

Throwing a line

Posted on 29 July 2021 Shore crew were hauling on mooring lines being dropped from the tanker 'STI Maestro' as it was berthing at the Burnham Wharf in Evans Bay last week. © 2021 Ross Collins

On the hunt

Posted on 28 July 2021 While I was waiting for a photographic opportunity above the waves at Breaker Bay last weekend, these guys had been suiting up and preparing their equipment to enter the water in search of crayfish beneath. © 2021 Ross Collins

Little catch, big catch

Posted on 27 July 2021 While waiting at Point Halswell on Wellington Harbour for another photographic quarry, I saw the potential for two distinctly different returning fishing boats to move into my frame at the same moment - and I was ready! © 2021 Ross Collins

Rust bucket

Posted on 26 July 2021 The Japanese vehicles carrier 'Pleiades Spirit' was showing the effects of 13 years at sea as it was departing from Wellington Harbour en route to Zhoushan, China yesterday afternoon. © 2021 Ross Collins

Getting the shot

Posted on 25 July 2021 When I noticed that the Australian support vessel/tug 'Offshore Surveyor' was heading towards the Wellington Heads yesterday, I was quickly on the case with my camera gear. Then, without warning, a local helicopter with its starboard passenger door removed swooped in, obviously for a photo shoot. Shortly later, the vessel turned to return to port. I have no idea why 'Offshore Surveyor' is in Wellington although I did spot it here more than a week age. © 2021 Ross Collins

Li'l buddy

Posted on 24 July 2021 I went to Tarakena Bay on Wellington's South Coast late yesterday with an entirely different photographic objective in mind. However, when I was befriended by this tiny piwakawaka, the challenge became whether I could get a well-lit image of a very fast-moving target. © 2021 Ross Collins

From the other side of town

Posted on 23 July 2021 Singapore-flagged 'STI Maestro' was being steadied by the Centreport tugs 'Tiaki' (at the bow) and 'Tapuhi' as it was approaching the Burnham Wharf yesterday morning to discharge aviation fuel after a short hop across Wellington Harbour from the Seaview Wharf at Point Howard where it had been discharging other petroleum products since arriving in Wellington in the early hours of Wednesday. © 2021 Ross Collins