A photograph of a residential street. The photograph is captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The corner of Moore and Cass Streets, Kaiapoi".
A photograph of a damaged bridge. The photograph is captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Askeaton Drive, Kaiapoi".
A photograph of a damaged house. The photograph is captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "1 Azalea Place, Kaiapoi".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "193A (rear) and 193 (cleared site) New Brighton Road".
A digitally manipulated image of a shop window. A vase is visible in the window, and the sillhouette of a mannequin in the background. The photographer comments, "The title came from the pot and the E on the window. This is a building that has been off limits since the Christchurch earthquake. The E was sprayed on the window by rescue teams after searching the building and finding it was empty. This is a very old wooden building that looks OK from the front, but terrible from the side as the previously adjoined building has been demolished.
A photograph of an empty, overgrown section on the corner of Orari and Waitaki Street in Bexley.
A photograph of a sign on a house reading, "Red zone, yeah right". The photograph is captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Featherston Avenue, Pines Beach".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 23 March 2012 entitled, "Seeing Red".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Barbadoes Street cemetery showing fissures in the bank".
A snapshot from GPS Boomerang's SmartBird flight over the Christchurch red zone on 5 June 2012, looking over the Arts Centre with Christ's College to the right.
A photograph of a crane outside the former Christchurch City Council building on Tuam Street.
A laminated sign for the 2011 Festival of Flowers attached to a wooden planter. The plants in the planter are dry and dead. The photographer comments, "The theme for the 2011 Festival of Flowers was 'burst! of water'. The Christchurch February earthquake came and water and sand called liquefaction burst out of the ground all around the area. Ironically the plants for the festival were left unattended in the cordoned off red zone and they would have loved a little burst of water".
A digitally manipulated image of two chairs sitting among rubble. The photographer comments, "There is a strip of land that has been declared as the red zone. This means that the houses facing towards the tidal estuary must be abandoned as they are on land that has been declared uneconomic to repair after the Christchurch earthquakes. These chairs are at the front of one of these properties that will be bulldozed. These seem to be saying come hell or high water we will not be moved".
8 Velsheda Street, Bexley, Christchurch, across the road from my house was demolished a week or so ago, just one of many demolitions of Red Zone properties at the moment. This house was about ten years old and suffered land damage during the 4th September 2010 and 22nd February 2011 earthquakes. The same fate awaits my house later in the year o...
A story submitted by Shelley to the QuakeStories website.
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 18 January 2012 entitled, "Dampening the Dust".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 20 March 2012 entitled, "Shaking and Shattering".
A snapshot from GPS Boomerang's SmartBird flight over the Christchurch red zone on 5 June 2012, looking over Manchester Street with the Holiday Inn in the background.
A snapshot from GPS Boomerang's SmartBird flight over the Christchurch red zone on 5 June 2012, looking over Manchester Street with the Holiday Inn in the background.
A snapshot from GPS Boomerang's SmartBird flight over the Christchurch red zone on 23 December 2012, looking down Worcester Boulevard with the Arts Centre in the bottom right.
A snapshot from GPS Boomerang's SmartBird flight over the Christchurch red zone on 23 December 2012, looking over the Arts Centre with Christ's College to the right.
The damaged tower of Christ Church Cathedral. The photograph was taken from a walkway that was opened up to allow the public to see inside the Red Zone.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Oxford Terrace pump house".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The new Press building on Gloucester Street at dusk. The central city red zone now has office workers and lights on".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The lights are on at the new Press building, the first office workers to return to the central city red zone".
A snapshot from GPS Boomerang's SmartBird flight over the Christchurch red zone on 5 June 2012, looking over the Westpac Trust Building towards the Holiday Inn.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Oran and Waitaki Streets, Bexley".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Road working machines blocking the entrance to Ottawa Street".
A bed of sunflowers growing in the garden surrounding the Coffee Zone kiosk, with some sweet peas behind. The garden was a project supported by Greening the Rubble.
A story submitted by Lindsay McKenzie to the QuakeStories website.