20121117_0338_1D3-150 The old Police Station

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Cordoned off after damage from the earthquakes.

20121117_0316_1D3-70 Summit Road Closed

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Obvious seeing why the Summit Road has been closed below Mt Cavendish since the February 22 2011 earthquake. There are some large rocks there!

20120805_7576_1D3-600 Newstalk ZB building starting to go down 141

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20120805_7586_1D3-600 30 seconds later the dust drifts across the city.

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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 ...

20120131_8129_1D3-400 Eathquake damage

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Houses teeter over the edge above Redcliffs School.

20120131_8174_1D3-400 Eathquake damage

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Houses above Main Road, Sumner.

20120131_8198_1D3-400 Eathquake damage

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Damaged houses above Shag Rock.

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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.

20120131_8153_1D3-400 Conatiner wall

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

20120131_8169_1D3-400 Conatiner wall

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

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.

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.

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.

20120129_8116_1D3-200 Pleasant Point Yacht Club

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The small wharf area of the now gone Pleasant Point Yacht Club has already been taken over by the Pied Shags (cormorants). It is under water now except for low tide. Note the dead pine tree in background. Many have died because of the salt water their roots are in.

20120805_7436_1D3-600 Newstalk ZB building starting to go down 01

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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!

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...