Snow, broccoli pizza, and great-great-great-great grannies: 2013 in pictures: June

Forced perspective.

I didn’t have my lovely G11 camera this month, so most of these photos are shot on my phone.

This is us. I like our slight insectiness.

Pass the parcel at the Pallet Pavilion.

Edgeware witticism.

Gangnam cuzzies.

My great, great-great, great-great-great, great-great-great-great grandmothers.

And then me, Mum, Junior & great-grannies.

Mall ratbag.

Nick Caves vs Higgs Boson in Q magazine.

Snow yo.

NZ Post Children’s Book Awards.

Bus stop on Colombo Street.

New Winnie Bagoes on St Asaph Street.

Reflections in Rehua Marae.

• More June photos
• Writers, artists, and Batman: 2013 in pictures: May
• Ups & downs & openings – bullshit and jellybeans: 2013 in pictures: April
• Decay and bloom – 2013 in pictures: March
• Ups and downs – 2013 in pictures: February
• Partying on – 2013 in pictures: January
• 2012 in pictures

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Writers, artists, and Batman: 2013 in pictures: May

The sea, the sky. New grungy grey art on Colombo Street.

Last days of the BNZ bank on Armagh Street.

Workers on Kilmore Street.

Sunrise.
By the Isaac Theatre Royal facade.

Looking over to Ronnie van Hout through the Exclesior facade on Manchester Street.

Odeon on Tuam Street.

Skateboardy park action in St Albans.

New Brighton.
Ferris wheel.

Burnt up art guy.

Beautiful lady.

New art in the Restart. Mike Hewson zushes up the Lichfield Street carpark.

“They removed the tussocks and filled in the ruts”.

Someone’s got their ID card for Monsters University. We took thesewhen we went to the Star Trek movie – my first time at the movies in four years.

Happy 10th birthday to the Christchurch Art Gallery.



Christchurch Art Gallery puts another bit of art up in the Restart.

Bishopdale Park.

Another demo on Manchester Street.

A new Cathedral Square walkway opens. This sign on the Government Life building carpark is especially poignant: “Unknown cars, unrecoverable, still extremly flooded”.


I was interviewed on tv walking through.

Sir Max Hastings and Sylvie Simmons for the Christchurch Writers Festival.

We get a sign.

Off to the Auckland Writers and Readers Festival.





Sylvia Nasar.

A family portrait. And Batman.

• More May photos
• Ups & downs & openings – bullshit and jellybeans: 2013 in pictures: April
• Decay and bloom – 2013 in pictures: March
• Ups and downs – 2013 in pictures: February
• Partying on – 2013 in pictures: January
• 2012 in pictures

Ups & downs & openings – bullshit and jellybeans: 2013 in pictures: April

Sunset in St Albans.

Bullshit and Jellybeans – CPIT Library Edible book competition.

New parts of town open …
Demolition on High Street.

Workers zush up the streetscape as Colombo Street between Tuam and Hereford reopens.

Nail polishes still on their shelves.

Kindy market.

Stormtrooper on Tuam Street.

Art on a fence in Kilmore Street.

Sometimes the interplay of machinery and nature is heartbreakingly beautiful.

We love the Annisa Victoria Vintage markets at the Pallet Pavilion.

Manchester Street reopens.

High Street.

Edgeware paperback centre.

Armagh Courts demolition.

Clouds over the Government Life.

Mike Hewson art on Colombo Street.

Hearts for Christchurch.

The groovy chairs arrive on Gloucester Street.

New Regent Street reopens.

A porthole looking out onto Gloucester Street.

Another wiry infestation by Hotel So.

Public Trust Office, Oxford Terrace – where Mum and Dad met.

Losing myself in Reuben Patterson’s art.

Window on Hereford Street.

Superduper Autumn slide.

Bookarama.

ANZAC Day.

Art on Colombo Street.

A bit more of Cathedral Square opens up.

See also:

• More April photos
• Decay and bloom – 2013 in pictures: March
• Ups and downs – 2013 in pictures: February
• Partying on – 2013 in pictures: January
• 2012 in pictures