You see more as you spend more time in one place just watching. I call this, “peeling back the onion,” and it’s yielded great photos over the years.
Tag: Christchurch
NZ Day 15: Goodbye Bottom of the World
I left the coastal road with it’s heavy trucks behind and rode into the rural Canterbury Plain. What started as a bad day turned very, very good with the sun shining and the fresh air blowing through.
NZ Day 2, Part 4: Wrapping up Christchurch
If my interest in a place can be judged by the number of photos per hour I feel compelled to take, then Christchurch has to be one of the most interesting places I’ve been in years.
NZ Day 2, Part 3: Christchurch, Millennials’ City
Say what you will about hipsters, urban millennials, or however else you choose to define them, they seem to be making this place their own and seem to be doing a better job of improving things than the fossilized “reformers” elsewhere.
NZ Day 2, Part 2: Christchurch, Container City
The lowly shipping container has become a pretty important element of post-quake Christchurch. They can be made quite beautiful and it almost seems a shame that they will eventually be replaced with something else.
NZ Day 2, Part 1: Christchurch, Quake City
Even for those of us who have experienced earthquakes elsewhere, it’s hard to comprehend how big a deal the 2010-11 quakes were here until you’ve walked around and seen the city.
NZ Day 1: Christchurch
Arrived in Christchurch on Wednesday mid-day, after a delayed departure from LAX that meant a rebooking on the next connecting flight from Auckland.
NZ Arrival: So this is Christchurch
Even with the delay, I got here before my hotel room was ready, so I wandered around, had lunch and picked up a few things like butane for my camp stove.