20120131_8129_1D3-400 Eathquake damage

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Houses teeter over the edge above Redcliffs School.

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Houses above Main Road, Sumner.

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Damaged houses above Shag Rock.

20120131_8153_1D3-400 Conatiner wall

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Part of the container wall to stop rock falls on Main Road, Sumner.

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20120128_8071_1D3-400 Redcliffs wall

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The sea wall at Beachville Road, Redcliffs, after the earthquake. It used to be straight and level - not now! As a teenager I went fishing off this wall.

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Part of a house that fell can be seen on the rocks above right hand containers.

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20120805_7441_1D3-600 Newstalk ZB building starting to go down 06 #2642

20120131_8167_1D3-400 Shag Pile

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What more can one say except that Shag Rock is now about one third it's original height. Whitewash Head in the background with the road that now drops over a cliff.

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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!

30 seconds later the dust drifts across the city.

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20120805_7586_1D3-600 30 seconds later the dust drifts across the city. Following the demolition of the earthquake damaged Newstalk ZB building. #2649

20120118_7814_1D3-17F East on Cashel.

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17mm M42 Takumar Fisheye on a Canon 1D MkIII (1.3x crop factor) via an adaptor ring.

20120529_5558_1D3-400 Waters Edge Demolition [Explored]

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Demolition of the relatively new seven-storey Waters Edge Apartments in Ferrymead continues. CERES Environmental NZ are doing the job for CERA (Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority). Some will be pleased to see this block go as there was lot of resentment to it being built on the site of the old Ferrymead Tavern, Selected for Explore, #347...

20121018_9144_1D3-60 Tunnel building

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Built in the early 1960s for the Lyttelton Road Tunnel, it was severley damaged in the February 2011 earthquake and is not currently used.

20121124_0566_1D3-67 Cunningham House

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Cunningham House at the Christchurch Botanic Gardens is still closed due to earthquake damage. I wonder if it will ever re-open or suffer the demolition fate many other iconic structures in Christchurch have.

20120321_2416_1D3-24 Fallen Cone

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A month after the 1st anniversary of the deadly Christchurch earthquake (22/02/11) a road cone lies on New Brighton Road, alongside the Avon River. Part of the earthquake 1st anniversary remembrance was for people to place flowers in road cones (and there are hundreds of thousands in the city). Many had flowers in them, as this one did. Photo ...

Beachcomber Dairy

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20120321_2397_1D3-47 Beachcomber Dairy Corner of New Brighton Road and Rawson Street, New Brighton. This diary is inside the suburban red zone and will probably be demolished some time in the future. See how the earthquakes have moved the footpath - the post and phone box used to stand straight! This is one of the Teleccom Wi-Fi hotspot boo...