NZPhotographer Issue 35, September 2020

CHRISTCHURCH OLD SOUTH SHORE JETTY
F11, 3s, ISO64
I had just brought the new Nikon D810 and hadn’t tested it out much when I took this shot.
During the day I had been watching the clouds and had the feeling that something amazing was going to
happen in the sky at high tide.
I decided to go and see what I could come up with down at the old broken jetty near South Shore, as well as
watch what nature would put on display. The old broken jetty was one of those locations I wanted to shoot and
capture something amazing at before it got replaced. It was a warm night and the sky lit up, it was calm with
little wind so the glow of the sky in the water was reflected. Two forces of nature were on display here on this
particular night, the power of the earthquake that displaced the jetty, twisting it, breaking it, and separating
the beams plus the other force how beautiful the Christchurch sunsets can be.
Now replaced with a completely new jetty it’s still a good place to go and shoot at if you haven’t been before.
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