Some holiday snaps

7 February, 2010
By Raphael Fraser

I can haz panoramas 8)

I’m currently enjoying a fortnight off work, spent back home in NZ with family. We’re staying at my parents’ bach at Snell’s Beach, and there’s some lovely scenery. I’m really starting to enjoy the panoramas I can do with Autostitch on the iPhone.

This was one I took today, at Tawharanui. It really captures the beauty of it much better than individual regular shots:

This one down at Snell’s Beach came out a little funny, with a few curves to the distant shoreline, weirdly:

This is the view from my Grandmother’s place next door:

Even smaller ‘panoramas’ from just a couple of shots capture the moment better than normal/smaller pics:

(I’m not sure how well that last one is coming up compressed/web-ified; in the original file the tree where it faces the Sun looks almost as though it’s glowing.)

I’ve got some cool normal shots too. Here’s a Sunrise from my grandmother’s place:

There are some other cool shots, but I haven’t got them off the iPhone yet – and hey, we’re only a couple of days into our two weeks anyway ;)

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2 Responses to Some holiday snaps

  1. Maria on 11 February, 2010 at 7:11 pm

    I am Toran's mother. What relevance does a mother's view have? That's exactly the sort of attitude that contributed to Toran's death.The FDA note that family and friends are those most likely to observe side effects from fluoxetine that may be precursors to suicide. One of the issues in my son's inquest was that Toran, his mother and his friends all observed such side effects and reported them with escalating concern but the psychiatrist involved who only met him 3 times ignored these reports. Failing to listen to families is a very real risk issue in mental health practice as your comment so eloquently illustrates.

    • Raphael Fraser on 12 February, 2010 at 12:59 am

      First of all, I want to emphasise that I am truly sorry about the loss of your son (which is the only reason I'm leaving, and replying to, your comment on completely the wrong post). It is always sad when someone takes their life, and especially so when it is a young person.

      That said, I think you have misunderstood me quite significantly and possibly not read the entire post. I was taking issue with the reporting, not with your distress and anger.

      I will also reiterate: anecdote, no matter how tragic, does not constitute evidence of cause and effect. No-one's opinion is sufficient to determine the safety of a medication. It is a place to start, and through listening, and subsequent investigation, a link was indeed identified between SSRI and increased suicidal thinking. As I have discussed though, they have not led to an increase in rates of suicide.

      I cannot – and would not try – to comment on your son's individual case, but I completely agree with you that listening to families is very important – and it is something I always do … in relation to the individual though; not to issues of efficacy/safety of medications as a whole or a class.

      Again, I'm truly sorry about your son, but I am sure that the team involved were acting in good faith with his best interests at heart. Sometimes it goes wrong; sometimes tragically. That doesn't necessarily mean the clinicians did the wrong thing, or that they didn't care.

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