Architect: Samuel Hurst Seager. Queen Anne design. Opened 1887.
Cheam Street, Avonside
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Methodist Church 68 Harewood Road Papanui
Light Relief: We are flushed with too many puns about this image! However you know your sewers are in trouble when the liquefaction comes up through the pipes! Taken after the 6.3 magnatude quake hit Christchurch 22 February 2011.
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Demolition continues on the old Beckenham shops after the 7.1 magnitude earthquake in Christchurch on the 4th September 2010. So sad to see history die - both buildings and business. Took this image in HDR and processed in PhotoMatix and PaintShop Pro 8. Below are two other images of the shops one soon after the earthquake and the other sever...
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Our Street - Cleaning Up (28.02.2011) Woolston Christchurch Canterbury New Zealand © 2011 Phil Le Cren Photo Taken With: Canon EOS 1000D + Canon EF/EF-S lenses + 10.1 effective megapixels + 2.5-inch TFT color LCD monitor + Eye-level pentamirror SLR + Live View shooting. + EOS Built-in Sensor cleaning system + Wide-a...
Shops, Ferry Rd (04.03.2011) Woolston Christchurch Canterbury New Zealand © 2011 Phil Le Cren Photo Taken With: Canon EOS 1000D + Canon EF/EF-S lenses + 10.1 effective megapixels + 2.5-inch TFT color LCD monitor + Eye-level pentamirror SLR + Live View shooting. + EOS Built-in Sensor cleaning system + Wide-area 7 poi...
Shops, Cnr Aldwins Rd & Linwood Ave (03.03.2011) Linwood Christchurch Canterbury New Zealand © 2011 Phil Le Cren Photo Taken With: Canon EOS 1000D + Canon EF/EF-S lenses + 10.1 effective megapixels + 2.5-inch TFT color LCD monitor + Eye-level pentamirror SLR + Live View shooting. + EOS Built-in Sensor cleaning s...
Shops, Cnr Aldwins Rd & Linwood Ave (03.03.2011) Linwood Christchurch Canterbury New Zealand © 2011 Phil Le Cren Photo Taken With: Canon EOS 1000D + Canon EF/EF-S lenses + 10.1 effective megapixels + 2.5-inch TFT color LCD monitor + Eye-level pentamirror SLR + Live View shooting. + EOS Built-in Sensor cleaning s...
Shops, Papanui Rd (08.03.2011) Merivale Christchurch Canterbury New Zealand © 2011 Phil Le Cren Photo Taken With: Canon EOS 1000D + Canon EF/EF-S lenses + 10.1 effective megapixels + 2.5-inch TFT color LCD monitor + Eye-level pentamirror SLR + Live View shooting. + EOS Built-in Sensor cleaning system + Wide-area 7 p...
Shops, Papanui Rd (08.03.2011) Merivale Christchurch Canterbury New Zealand © 2011 Phil Le Cren Photo Taken With: Canon EOS 1000D + Canon EF/EF-S lenses + 10.1 effective megapixels + 2.5-inch TFT color LCD monitor + Eye-level pentamirror SLR + Live View shooting. + EOS Built-in Sensor cleaning system + Wide-area 7 p...
Cliff Face Above Sumner Beach (10.03.2011) Sumner Christchurch Canterbury New Zealand © 2011 Phil Le Cren Photo Taken With: Canon EOS 1000D + Canon EF/EF-S lenses + 10.1 effective megapixels + 2.5-inch TFT color LCD monitor + Eye-level pentamirror SLR + Live View shooting. + EOS Built-in Sensor cleaning system + Wid...
Oxford Terrace Baptist Church on the corner of Madras St and Oxford Terrace, and alongside the Central City Fire Station on Kilmore St.
Typical lateral damage to houses caused by the 7.1 magnitude quake in Christchurch at 4.35am on the 4th September 2010.
The line that runs across this picture is the subsidence line - everything this side of the line has sunk by about 50 cm.
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this one looks pretty bad sadly.
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Riverside reserve near Parenga Place.
The distinctive red brick Piko Wholefoods seems to have survived. That building dates from 1905 and was originally a painter and paperhanger's premises.
Cracked facade. Corner Oxford Terrace, Worcester Street. Designed by Joseph Clarkson Maddison and built by J Otley, 1902.
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The unforgettable beauty of lavender Occurs in both the earth As well as part of the many changing Shades of the daily heavens on high. Is quickly there, and then is gone. Light violet, lavender, How unique is its special glow, Colored in nature in light lilac, Amethyst, and airy, purple indigo. From a poem by Gil Saenz
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Compare this Jan 2011 shot with one taken earlier.