The ANZ Bank was built in 1912. Located on High Street, Christchurch it sustained substantial damage in the Earthquakes and was demolished in 2011.

The old ANZ building in Christchurch, sadly damaged in the 22 February 2011 earthquake, was demolished.

When I moved to Christchurch, I lived in the backpackers across the street for a month and used to visit the Inspirations rock and crystal shop at the street level of this building. Towards the end of summer days the sun used to light the top floor tower whilst the streets below were in deep shadow.

The is a stitched panorama, in the original larger size you can see a sparrow coming in to land at close to the top window.

This image is also available as an A4 to A0 print.

Boaties skip across the Avon Heathcote estuary, Christchurch, with a winter storm looming on the background. Light breaks through the dark clouds in the distance.

A Beautiful Lenticuilar cloud formation at sunset, above Oamaru, North Otago.

Placing filters on your lens can do much more than protect your investment. Here we have an image that has had a red filter applied before converting to black and white.

You can read more about how filters can effect your black and white photography here.

Sumner as seen from just south of New Brighton Pier, taken on the 14th of March 2010.

The summer heat has taken it's toll on the grass of the Port Hills, the heat making it feel like the houses will slowly slip into the sea as the hills melt.

In the distance, a dredge works tirelessly.

Behind Jacksons Pub in Otira a dark path winds up into the native forest.

after a half hours walk you come to a glade filled with the sound of water. A beautiful waterfall cascades down from the mountain side into a dark pool. A rock appears to block the entrance to a cave behind the pool keeping us out.... or keeping something in?

A digital sketch of the Oamaru Breakwater

Silent, it was so silent when I took these photos. The fog covered everything, dampened noise and hair. Not even the birds made a sound.

Two lights, one at the end of the Breakwater, one at the end of Holmes Wharf stand as sentinels in the night guiding the lonely sailor back into Oamaru Harbour to safety.

The Lindis Pass, beautiful mountains rise above the thin ribbon of a road stretching out on it's journey into the distance.

Digitally painted by Derek Golding, the beautiful warm colours will compliment any room.

The Lindis Pass, beautiful mountains rise above the thin ribbon of a road stretching out on it's journey into the distance.

Digitally painted by Derek Golding, the beautiful warm colours will compliment any room.

A break in heavy fog lights up a wave from a distant sunrise at the Oamru Breakwater, Oamaru Harbour.

Captured at 1/1600th of a second the water appears to shatter like glass against the stone.

Lupins abound in the Mackenzie country. This is a digital painting of the beautiful flowers scattered across the district.

Check out this article in New Zealand Geographic about the love/hate relationship with them here.

Canterbury Fire II, a stunning sunset taken from close to the car park at the base of Mount Vernon, Banks Peninsula.

From memory these were taken Late August 2010, 1 week before the first earthquake hit the district.

The panoramas "Canterbury Fire I" and "Canterbury Fire II" were taken before this panorama.

Steampunk HQ in Oamaru is a major draw card to thousands of visitors a year, yet at night, it is the domain of the penguin!

Well worth a visit at night, as is all the Harbour Precinct area

High in the hills above Otematata, a road stretches out into the distance.

A digital painting by Derek Golding.

A road stretches home in the back country high above Otematata, North Otago. Nor-wester weather brings about some spectacular lighting in these locations.

An old shearer's hut stands facing the elements in North Otago.

Digitally painte,d this image brings out hidden colours within the scene.

Being close to the sea and a landmass like the cape provides the artist with some stunning cloud formations.

Here we see Mammatus clouds billowing up above the rear facade of a building on Harbour street.

New Brighton as seen from Sumner Rock. Taken on the 22nd of January 2008.

Strong waves pushed back by a fighting westerly wind.

A Tor is an outcrop of rock in the landscape. Otago has many Tor's scattered across the district thanks to the Geology and weather we experience here.

This is a digital painting showing the natural bonsai like tree, treated harshly by the prevailing winds into this unusual shape.

Steampunk HQ is located in the former Meeks Grain Elevator Building, a historic building registered with by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust as a Category II structure.

A tilt Shift effect is used to create a toy town! 

Oamaru as seen from Forrester Heights, the hill overlooking Oamaru on Cape Wanbrow.

The Church of the Good Shepherd, Tekapo, is a must do for all astrophotographers. 

The Mackenzie Basin offers some of the clearest night skies in the world and achieved status as the world biggest and best Dark Sky Reserve in 2012.

This image shows the Church with our own Galaxy, the Milky Way, rising to the east.

Using a 1000x ND filter lets you take slow exposure shots even in the brightest day.

This image, taken Christmas Eve 2008, just after 9am.