Richard Robinson

Maori Wars -Waikaremoana.

Richard Robinson — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 21:32:31 +0000

The Richard Marshall Collection 1927-2004..Pictured : Waikaremoana Wreck December 1982.The remaining wreck of two boats built in 1869 to help in the war against the Maori Leader Te Kooti that were then sunk when in Waikaremoana when they were no longer needed.

I once found a photograph my grandfather Rich Marshall took of the scuttled whale boat built in 1869 to help in the war against the Maori Leader Te Kooti. The boats were scuttled in Lake Waikaremoana when Te Kooti had allready fled the area.

With Hawke Bay to dirty to go Shark Diving, last week Quentin Bennett who had dived it many many years ago and myself went in search of the wreck. Beautifull little dive.

I hope everyone has the chance to spend some time with their familys over the break and catch you all in the new year.

" alt="" width="500" height="333" />

A Brown Trout (Salmo trutta) swims past the remaining wreck of two whale boats built in 1869 to help in the war against the Maori Leader Te Kooti. The boats were scuttled in Lake Waikaremoana when they were no longer needed..Thursday 23 December 2010..Photograph Richard Robinson © 2010.

New Zealand Geographic Photographer of the Year.

Richard Robinson — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 03:13:36 +0000

Thanks everybody for the fantastic response to winning
New Zealand Geographic Photographer of the Year last week.
It is important to acknowledge that behind
the photograph’s is a fantastic team of friends, dive buddies and family whom
without the support taking these images would not be possible.

Cheers

Richie

A pod of False-killer whales (Pseudorca crassidens) off coast of the Poor Knights Islands Marine Reserve New Zealand. Typically pelagic their off shore distribution makes them hard to study therefore little is known about their lives. The pod approached me as I was ending a 100 minute dive at dusk. With no strobe power left and a memory card nearly filled I knew every frame had to count, this being my favorite of the chance encounter. .Tuesday 20 April 2010.Photograph Richard Robinson © 2010

" alt="" width="500" height="333" />

"Secret Lake" Quentin Bennett is one of New Zealand's diving pioneers. Back in the 70's he used to pack his gear across Hawkes Bay backcountry in wheel barrows, looking for freshwater dive locations. Eventually he found this lake, with water as clear as gin-you can see from one side clear across to the other. Its location remains a guarded secret because the algae growth is very sensitive to disturbance. This frame sort of immortalises Quentin in his world. .Sunday 28 February 2010.Photograph Richard Robinson ©2010.

" alt="" width="500" height="272" />

Sir Edmund Hillary is carried into the Holly Trinity Cathedral to lie in state the day before his formal funeral..On a day where New Zealand literally came to a stop I knew I needed to get a different angle. I negotiated to be in the Cathedral before anybody else to secure the spot to capture this moment in New Zealand History..Monday 21 January 2008.New Zealand Herald Photograph Richard Robinson.

" alt="" width="500" height="333" />

Underwater Explorer and Deep Sea Diver Diver Pete Mesley is illuminated by a shaft of light as he ends a dive underneath the ice of Lake Alta at an altitude 1837 meters in the Remarkables Mountain Range near Queenstown in the South Island of New Zealand..Saturday 04 September 2010.Photograph Richard Robinson © 2010.

" alt="" width="500" height="333" />

A Jason's Nudibranch (Jason mirabilis) off Tatapihi Island in the Mokohinau Island group, Hauraki Gulf, New Zealand..I have a fascination with Nudibranchs's. A creature that most people are unaware exists. .I always try to capture them in a way that I have not seen them photographed before..Saturday 17 October 2009 ..

Ice Diving Lake Alta New Zealand.

Richard Robinson — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 21:00:04 +0000

Diver Pete Mesley heads up the Remarkables Mountain Range in Queenstown, South Island of New Zealand to go Ice Diving in Lake Alta at an altitude of 1837 meters with the Cromwell Dive Club on their 23rd annual trip to the lake in held in conjunction with Scuba Steve Wanaka. Saturday 04 September 2010.Photograph Richard Robinson © 2010.

Last week Pete Mesley and I flew down to Wanaka to hang out with Scuba Steve and his lovely family for a few days where we headed off Ice Diving with the Cromwell Dive Club on their 23rd annual trip to Lake Alta at an altitude 1837 meters in the Remarkables Mountain Range near Queenstown in the South Island of New Zealand.

The Remarkables Mountain Range in Queenstown, South Island of New Zealand on the way to the the Cromwell Dive Club clubs 23rd annual trip Ice Diving at Lake Alta held in conjunction with Scuba Steve of Wanaka. Saturday 04 September 2010 Photograph Richard Robinson © 2010.

Steve Bell one of the last three active members of the Cromwell Dive Club chainsaws a hole in the ice of Lake Alta at an altitude of 1837 meters in the Remarkables Mountain Range, Queenstown, South Island of New Zealand on the clubs 23rd annual trip Ice Diving held in conjunction with Scuba Steve Wanaka. Saturday 04 September 2010 Photograph Richard Robinson © 2010.

Steve Traynor owner of Scuba Steve Wanaka emerges from underneath the ice of Lake Alta at an altitude 1837 meters in the Remarkables Mountain Range near Queenstown in the South Island of New Zealand during the Cromwell Dive Club clubs 23rd annual trip Ice Diving at the lake. Saturday 04 September 2010 Photograph Richard Robinson © 2010

Diver Pete Mesley enters the ice of Lake Alta at an altitude 1837 meters in the Remarkables Mountain Range near Queenstown in the South Island of New Zealand during the Cromwell Dive Club clubs 23rd annual trip Ice Diving at the lake held in conjunction with Scuba Steve of Wanaka. Saturday 04 September 2010 Photograph Richard Robinson © 2010

Diver Pete Mesley is silhouetted underneath the ice of Lake Alta at an altitude 1837 meters in the Remarkables Mountain Range near Queenstown in the South Island of New Zealand during the Cromwell Dive Club clubs 23rd annual trip Ice Diving at the lake held in conjunction with Scuba Steve of Wanaka. Saturday 04 September 2010 Photograph Richard Robinson © 2010

Diver Pete Mesley is illuminated underneath the ice of Lake Alta at an altitude 1837 meters in the Remarkables Mountain Range near Queenstown in the South Island of New Zealand during the Cromwell Dive Club clubs 23rd annual trip Ice Diving at the lake held in conjunction with Scuba Steve of Wanaka. Saturday 04 September 2010 Photograph Richard Robinson © 2010

Diver Pete Mesley is silhouetted underneath the ice of Lake Alta at an altitude 1837 meters in the Remarkables Mountain Range near Queenstown in the South Island of New Zealand during the Cromwell Dive Club clubs 23rd annual trip Ice Diving at the lake held in conjunction with Scuba Steve of Wanaka. Saturday 04 September 2010 Photograph Richard Robinson © 2010

R.I.P Moko

Richard Robinson — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 03:09:53 +0000

Moko a Bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) an icon of the small community at Mahia Peninsula New Zealand where she has been adopted and calls home since Easter 2007..Thursday 12 February 2009.Photograph Richard Robinson.

Department of Conservation (DOC) staff say a dolphin found dead in the Bay of Plenty is probably Moko, who has entertained beachgoers on the North Island east coast for the past few years.

The bottlenose dolphin was found on Matakana beach, north of Mt Maunganui, yesterday.

DOC staff would today examine the dolphin, which is understood to be of a similar size and sex to Moko, with the same missing teeth.

Moko was found to have lost eight teeth during an examination earlier this year, possibly from playing with anchor or mooring chains or ropes. He was last seen about two weeks ago and DOC staff said they had been concerned for him because of the lack of sightings.

“Based on the size, markings and teeth of the carcass, we think that this is Moko,” DOC ranger Jamie Quirk said today.

Mr Quirk has worked with Moko since he turned up on the Mahia Peninsula on the east coast in 2007.

The playful solitary dolphin had been a familiar sight around Gisborne before following a fishing boat to the Bay of Plenty earlier this year.

Moko arrived at Pilot Bay in Mt Maunganui on June 3, but has been seen rarely since.

Marine biologist Amy Taylor, who has been making a film about Moko, told NZPA this afternoon she was about to depart on a boat to help identify the dolphin.

DOC Tauranga area manager Andrew Baucke said Moko was a wild animal and his death could have been caused by any number of factors.

“We’ll be taking steps to identify the cause of death and dispose of the body appropriately,” he said.

“This is a sad loss. The way that Moko interacted with people really inspired public interest and care for dolphins and marine mammals and their environment in general.

“I’m sure that those who got to see and swim with him will treasure those memories.”

- NZPA

Sperm Whale (Physeter macrocephalus).

Richard Robinson — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 23:44:33 +0000

While I was in Poland a dead Sperm Whale Physeter macrocephalus was washed into Rikoriko Cave at the Poorknights Marine Reserve, New Zealand. Unconfirmed reports are that the Department of Conservation tried removing it and the skeletal remains are streched over a large distance.

Diver Ian Skipworth looks over the Skeletal remains of a Sperm Whale (Physeter macrocephalus) at Rikoriko Cave, Poor Knights Islands Marine Reserve New Zealand..Friday 25 June 2010.Photograph Richard Robinson © 2010

: Skeletal remains of a Sperm Whale (Physeter macrocephalus) at Rikoriko Cave, Poor Knights Islands Marine Reserve New Zealand..Saturday 26 June 2010.Photograph Richard Robinson © 2010.

Skeletal remains of a Sperm Whale (Physeter macrocephalus) at Rikoriko Cave, Poor Knights Islands Marine Reserve New Zealand..Saturday 26 June 2010.Photograph Richard Robinson © 2010.

Pretty Pods of Poison.

Richard Robinson — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 04:20:57 +0000

Published Weekend Herald Saturday June 26 2010. Written By Catherine Masters.

Seven Days at the Poor Knights Marine Reserve.

Richard Robinson — Fri, 14 May 2010 18:22:42 +0000

Some of the highlights from my first annual Seven-Day trip to the Poor Knights Islands with Quentin Bennett, Andrew Green, Franz Smith and Mary Carney with Ocean Blue Adventures on board their tender Mazurka with Kevin Delonge and Kent Ericksen.

Quentin and various dive companions have been doing this trip every year around the same week in April since the late sixties.

I felt very privileged to be asked along and it was fascinating listening to story’s of trips past and how things have changed and in some cases stayed the same at the Knights.

Certainly the week was one of my best dive experiences, peaking when a pod of False-killer whales (Pseudorca crassidens) and Bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) approached as I ended a dive in Crater Bay. Having come up from a 120 minute dive at dusk on the East Side of the Island with no more power left in my strobes I was forced to really test the 5D Mark 2 in low light with exposures around 60^th second at f2.8 at 1000iso the results are amazing… A few years ago, I would never expected that we could get this quality from digital in saying that a few years ago, shooting film you could not change film underwater, I would have been stuck with a low iso film and would not have got the shots at all.

Unfortunately I am being a tease because I can’t show you the pictures until they are published… keep your eyes out and just a friendly reminder to buy the current New Zealand Geographic in fact get a subscription we are very lucky to have a magazine of this calibre in New Zealand.

Over the seven days squeezed in 21 Dives with a total of 26 hours in the water…

New Zealand Diving Pioneer and Underwater Photographer Quentin Bennett with Eastern Arch on Aorangaia Island in the background at the Poor Knights Islands Marine Reserve New Zealand. Friday 23 April 2010 Photograph Richard Robinson © 2010.

One very cool thing I photographed was sun being refracted through Salps not unusal I know, but the Refracted Prisms were lighting up Snapper…. Rainbow Snapper.

Nudibranch, Cratena lineata Order: Nudibranchia Suborder: Aeolidina Family: Glaucidae Location :The Canyon, Poor Knights Marine Reserve, New Zealand. Saturday 17 April 2010 Photograph Richard Robinson © 2010

Postcards from Warszawa

Richard Robinson — Thu, 13 May 2010 07:40:25 +0000

Found the best cup of Coffee in Warsaw yesterday. A little cafe called foto. Awesome coffee and old cameras . The Owner gave me a print of Warsaw old town from the 60′s… well at least that’s what I think he said.

Monument to the President and First Lady of Poland Maria and Lech Kaczynski who perished in a airplane crash on the way to the Katyn commemorations a month ago in front of the Presidential Palace in Warsaw, Poland. Wednesday 12 May 2010 Photograph Richard Robinson © 2010.

Polskie Wesele (Polish Wedding).

Richard Robinson — Mon, 10 May 2010 15:38:36 +0000

Tadeusz Zajac dances at the Polish wedding of Izabela Stolarska and Piotr Koziol in the suburb of Marki in Warszawa Poland..Saturday 08 May 2010.Photograph Richard Robinson © 2010.

Maria Stolarska watches her granddaughter leave for her wedding.Polish wedding of Izabela Stolarska and Piotr Koziol in the suburb of Marki in Warszawa Poland..Saturday 08 May 2010.Photograph Richard Robinson © 2010.

Kids help the bride and groom pick up money thrown at them a Polish tradition that brings wealth to the couple in their marriage..Polish wedding of Izabela Stolarska and Piotr Koziol in the suburb of Marki in Warszawa Poland..Saturday 08 May 2010.Photograph Richard Robinson © 2010.

Zygmunt Lewicki, uncle of the bride tells the photographer it is time to drink more vodka at the Polish wedding of Izabela Stolarska and Piotr Koziol in the suburb of Marki in Warszawa Poland..Saturday 08 May 2010.Photograph Richard Robinson © 2010.

Na Zdrowie (Cheers) Bride and groom drink as the guests sing Sto Lat wishing them a hundread years of happy living at the Polish wedding of Izabela Stolarska and Piotr Koziol in the suburb of Marki in Warszawa Poland..Saturday 08 May 2010.Photograph Richard Robinson © 2010.

Postcards from Polska

Richard Robinson — Fri, 07 May 2010 05:50:15 +0000

08 May 2010 On my way to a Polish Wedding, Don’t think it is mine.

May 07 2010 : As beautiful as this country is, at the back of my mind I am still worried that I did not get my passport stamped when I arrived.

In fact there did not seem to be any immigration and Ania had no problems smuggling Kumara into the country for her mum.

A White Lady (Polish Ghost) walks the walls of the Royal Castle in Checiny. First built in 1300 and served as the dwelling of Widows of the Kings of Poland. Tuesday 03 May 2010 Photograph Richard Robinson © 2010.

Part of the 2010 Chopin Celebrations full scale replica's have been painted by artists of the instrument from Pleyel of 1847 belonging to Frideric Chopin around , Krakow, Poland. Wednesday 05 May 2010 Photograph Richard Robinson © 2010.

Richard Robinson

Maori Wars -Waikaremoana.

New Zealand Geographic Photographer of the Year.

Thanks everybody for the fantastic response to winning New Zealand Geographic Photographer of the Year last week. It is important to acknowledge that behind the photograph’s is a fantastic team of friends, dive buddies and family whom without the support taking these images would not be possible.

Cheers

Richie

Ice Diving Lake Alta New Zealand.

R.I.P Moko

Sperm Whale (Physeter macrocephalus).

Pretty Pods of Poison.

Seven Days at the Poor Knights Marine Reserve.

Postcards from Warszawa

Polskie Wesele (Polish Wedding).

Postcards from Polska

Thanks everybody for the fantastic response to winning
New Zealand Geographic Photographer of the Year last week.
It is important to acknowledge that behind
the photograph’s is a fantastic team of friends, dive buddies and family whom
without the support taking these images would not be possible.