One landscape colour digital photograph taken 22 February 2017 showing brass band members at the Canterbury Earthquake Memorial Service. Behind the band is a digital screen showing words of thanks from survivors.
One landscape colour digital photograph taken 22 February 2017 showing guests being seated prior to the Canterbury Earthquake Memorial Service.
One landscape colour digital photograph taken 22 February 2017 showing first responders at the Canterbury Earthquake Memorial Service.
One landscape colour digital photograph taken 22 February 2017 showing brass band members at the Canterbury Earthquake Memorial Service. Behind the band is a digital screen showing an image of flowers floating in the Avon River.
One landscape colour digital photograph taken 22 February 2017 showing cameramen and journalists at the Canterbury Earthquake Memorial Service.
One landscape colour digital photograph taken 22 February 2017 showing the appointed media viewing area at the Canterbury Earthquake Memorial Service.
One landscape colour digital photograph taken 22 February 2017 showing the appointed first responders and public viewing areas at the Canterbury Earthquake Memorial Service.
One landscape colour digital photograph taken 22 February 2017 showing first responders laying wreaths at the Canterbury Earthquake Memorial Service.
One landscape colour digital photograph taken 22 February 2017 showing a gentleman reading messages on a commemoration board at the Canterbury Earthquake Memorial Service.
One landscape colour digital photograph taken 22 February 2017 showing flowers floating in the Avon River as part of the Canterbury Earthquake Memorial Service.
One landscape colour digital photograph taken 22 February 2017 showing a sunflower sitting atop a road works cone as part of the Canterbury Earthquake Memorial Service.
One landscape colour digital photograph taken 22 February 2017 showing an earthquake memorial trellis at the site of the former Canterbury Television building.
One landscape colour digital photograph taken 22 February 2017 showing a commemorative note to, and photograph of, Andrew Bishop attached to an earthquake memorial trellis at the site of the former Canterbury Television building.
One landscape colour digital photograph taken 22 February 2017 showing a bouquet of flowers and a note attached to an earthquake memorial trellis at the site of the former Canterbury Television building.
One landscape colour digital photograph taken 22 February 2017 showing an earthquake memorial trellis at the site of the former Canterbury Television building.
One landscape colour digital photograph taken 22 February 2017 showing Karen Bishop attaching a windmill to an earthquake memorial trellis in memory of her son Andrew Bishop at the site of the former Canterbury Television building.
One landscape colour digital photograph taken 22 February 2017 showing a windmill attached to an earthquake memorial trellis by Karen Bishop in memory of her son Andrew Bishop at the site of the former Canterbury Television building.
One landscape colour digital photograph taken 22 February 2017 showing a bouquet of flowers left at the site of the former Canterbury Television building by the Toyama Language School in memory of earthquake victims.
One landscape colour digital photograph taken 22 February 2017 showing bouquets of flowers and gifts left at the site of the former Canterbury Television building in memory of earthquake victims.
One landscape colour digital photograph taken 22 February 2017 showing a bouquet of flowers left at the site of the former Canterbury Television building by St John New Zealand in memory of earthquake victims and in appreciation of first responders.
73 months after the earthquake that damaged it, the jetty at South New Brighton Domain is still not repaired. Seven years ago it was straight and level.
Dull, flat and orrible (horrible) light meant this image was destined to become monochrome!
20170509_6305_7D2-62 Remembrance (129/365)
Today was the first time I have been to the earthquake memorial since it was completed and opened on 22nd February 2017, six years after the devastating quake that killed the 185 that are named on this wall.
I knew two of the people on the list.
Only two of 20 houses left in the Rawhiti Earthquake Village.
This from the sign on perimeter fence:
"Since 2011, Rawhiti Domain has been used to provide temporary accommodation for those affected by the Canterbury earthquakes.
Over 200 households have used the 20 houses while their own homes have been repaired or rebuilt. The demand for acco...
20170918_6084_7D2-41 Demolition still happening (260/365)
Six ½ years after the earthquakes there are still a few demolitions taking place. This one is a block of council owned flats. Whether the whole complex is being demolished or not I don't know., but here the centre block of three is being demolished.
The green grass is what was sections...
An impressive Cabbage Tree (Cordyline australis) that was in someone's back yard prior to the demolition of houses post the 2011 earthquake.
20171103_5582_1D3-38 Trees in the Red Zone (307/365)
In what used to be sections with houses and yards. Between late 2011 and 2014 the houses (well 95% of them) were removed due to land dropping in the 2011 earthquakes and the proximity of the Avon River, tidal in this area.
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A Phoenis Palm (Phoenix canariensis) that was in someone's back yard prior to the demolition of houses post the 2011 earthquake.