Author Archives: Nigel Paterson

Bibina Foods is currently running a combined editorial and advertising campaign with intouch magazine. The magazine is very popular in the areas around Bibina’s Warners Bay food warehouse, withe its demographic fitting in well with Bibina’s – traditional media still has a place in promotion and intouch fitted Bibina’s needs.   intouch magazine creative –Continue reading “Bibina Foods”

I really love art galleries, but people who take junk and turn it into a story steps it up for me. Add in Victorian-era machinery – steam trains, copper pipes, goggles and the clothing of the era combined with science fiction and you get Steampunk. Oamaru, a coastal town south of Christchurch, is home toContinue reading “Steampunk HQ, Oamaru, NZ”

We rented a flat via Air B&B for our one night in Oamaru, a pretty town on the NZ East Coast which happens to be the presumably self-proclaimed ‘Steampunk Capital of the World’. I love Steampunk, the delightful mixture of Victorian technology with sci-fi, creating ray guns covered in brass tubes, astronauts wearing flying googlesContinue reading “Oamau pier & Penguins”

After the earthquakes of 2010 and 2011 – the latter being the big one – Christchurch’s residents started the big clean up, but they left some interesting remnants of the disaster. Their inventiveness came to the fore too, when many merchants and food sellers needed a place to trade in the devastated city, and the Re:StartContinue reading “Christchurch’s renewal”

The rain was coming down before dusk, the boring grey skies of the afternoon loading upon us as so often is the case in the Land of the Long White cloud. But the rainfall broke up the clouds in time for a spectacular sunset, which i’ve captured here with the Olympus OM-D E-M5 mark II and theContinue reading “Christchurch Sunset”