River Road, Avonside

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Christchurch Earthquake 2011 - Lavender

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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

Earthquake Damaged Church on Union Street, New Brighton

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Monumental Masons.

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Compare this Jan 2011 shot with one taken earlier.

Colombo Street - Rob Roys

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Photo taken Jan 2011 - the cracks in the front of the building get a little bigger with each aftershock.

Cathedral Square

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Canterbury Earthquake 2011

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Our Garage - Sandbags (27.02.2011) 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-area...

Canterbury Earthquake 2011

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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...

Canterbury Earthquake 2011

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Our Street - Dust & Burst Water Main (02.03.2011) 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...

Canterbury Earthquake 2011

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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...

Canterbury Earthquake 2011

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Our Street - Sand (27.02.2011) 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-area 7 p...

Canterbury Earthquake 2011

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Eastgate Mall (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 system + Wide-area 7 point ...

Canterbury Earthquake 2011

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Our Street - Cleaning Up (02.03.2011) 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-a...

Canterbury Earthquake 2011

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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...

Canterbury Earthquake 2011

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Eastgate Mall - The Warehouse (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 system + Wi...

Canterbury Earthquake 2011

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Carlton Bar, Cnr Bealey Ave & Papanui Rd (08.03.2011) City 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...

BRICKS4SALE

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OTBC - view from across carpark

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Oxford Terrace Baptist Church on the corner of Madras St and Oxford Terrace, and alongside the Central City Fire Station on Kilmore St.

Part of the ballustrade salvaged from OTBC

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Oxford Terrace Baptist Church on the corner of Madras St and Oxford Terrace, and alongside the Central City Fire Station on Kilmore St.

OTBC front porch - showing displacement of Oamaru stone

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Oxford Terrace Baptist Church on the corner of Madras St and Oxford Terrace, and alongside the Central City Fire Station on Kilmore St.

St Pauls Church - tower has subsided about 25cm

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The base of the tower on the right of this picture has sunk about 25cm so that the lower course of bricks have disappeared below ground level. Meanwhile the other end of the building has sunk about 50cm splitting the building into thirds. The sand you can see is what came bubbling up out of the ground due to liquifaction. Unfortunately the build...

cracks

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richmond cracks

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another chimney

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Manchester St

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view to some of the damage in the distance and the building that might be demolished - brick seven storey building - i've always liked this one : ( .

warped Medway St footbridge

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over the Avon - we hid a magnetic geocache under this one called "Whitebait Watch".

Oxford Terrace Baptist

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this one looks pretty bad sadly.

Christchurch Earthquake - Cathedral Square Open

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A path between the new Cashel Mall shopping area and Cathedral Square was opened this weekend and about 1000 people have gone through every hour. It's the first time this section of city has been open to the public since the 22 February 2011 earthquake.

Christchurch Cathedral Damage

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P1010622

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Blocks made for quilts to be made for those affected by earthquake in Christchurch