Taken soon after the 6.3 magnatude quake hit Christchurch 22 February 2011. Done in HDR to capture some of the "feeling" of what I felt.
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Kaiapoi Volunteer Firefighter Clifford Marshall packs up his house as they evacuate his Grey Crescent house".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Kaiapoi Volunteer Firefighter Clifford Marshall packs up his house as they evacuate his Grey Crescent house".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Kaiapoi Volunteer Firefighter Clifford Marshall packs up his house as they evacuate his Grey Crescent house".
One of the features of the West Coast forests with their extremely high rainfalls is the large quantity of moss, that serve as a background to this mushroom.
A close up of the mushroom
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Kaiapoi Volunteer Firefighter Clifford Marshall and his partner Shannon Webb as they evacuate their Grey Crescent house".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "A mud encased path at the home of Kaiapoi Volunteer Firefighter Clifford Marshall as they evacuate his Grey Crescent house".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "A mud encased bike at the home of Kaiapoi Volunteer Firefighter Clifford Marshall as they evacuate his Grey Crescent house".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Billy McIndoe walks past his boss's swiming pool which had been lifted out of the ground in Grey Crescent, Kaiapoi".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Billy McIndoe walks past his boss's swiming pool which had been lifted out of the ground in Grey Crescent, Kaiapoi".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Billy McIndoe walks past his boss's swiming pool which had been lifted out of the ground in Grey Crescent, Kaiapoi".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Grey Lynn resident Laura Caygill was visiting family in Christchurch on the weekend when the earthquake struck. She was injured by a falling chimney".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Grey Lynn resident Laura Caygill was visiting family in Christchurch on the weekend when the earthquake struck. She was injured by a falling chimney".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Grey Lynn resident Laura Caygill was visiting family in Christchurch on the weekend when the earthquake struck. She was injured by a falling chimney".
Shot from up Hunstbury Hill with a 600mm f/4 on a very grey morning. 8am demolition. The guy behind me only looked up when the sounds of the explosion reahed us and the building was half way down!
Liquefaction silt and sand cover the lawn of a residential property. The photographer comments, "This is a garden inundated with liquefaction. Though most liquefaction is grey in Christchurch there must have been golden sandy beaches before the volcanoes erupted millions of years ago".
Taken soon after the 6.3 magnatude quake hit Christchurch 22 February 2011. A friend tried to get home when the road opened up and her 4 wheel drive went down. We could not get it out! The grey liquefaction has stuck the other car fast. It took less than an hour to grow this thick.
One pair of Mizuno track and field shoes, size UK 9 1/2, in blue, yellow and grey. Amongst the items left at the site of the Canterbury Television (CTV) building, which collapsed during the 22 February 2011 earthquake, was this pair of shoes. They may have been left in remembrance of someone who died in the building or perhaps for someone to us...
A digitally manipulated photograph of the bottom of Victoria Lake in Hagley Park. The photographer comments, "After the Christchurch earthquake in February 2011, Victoria Lake suffered some cracking which broke the previous clay seal. The lake has now been excavated so that the new clay seal can be spread out and flattened ready to be filled again with water. The red pile is the clay and in the background is the grey silt or liquefaction that spewed into the lake from cracks in the lake bed".