Surprise! It rained again today… and I saw RED! I love red coats – in fact I was wearing one when I snapped the lady walking along Cashel Mall.

It’s been raining quite consistently today, and we are being warned there will be a lot more rain tomorrow.  In fact I think pretty much all of New Zealand is being inundated with rain at the moment.  These two shots are some of bright spots I found in the city – the flowers (cyclamen) are outside the Dusk store down Poplar Lane and the girl with the pink umbrella and bag was on the corner of Manchester and High street – and I thank her for being one of the few people with colourful umbrellas – black umbrellas are so boring to photograph!

Spotted at the antique store on Madras street and snapped through the windown standing on tippy toe. I kind of imagine the knight might sit down and write a letter at the table.

For some time I’ve been thinking about photograhing mannequins – especially after being inspired by local photographer Tony Bridge’s mannequin shots.

It was not my intention to leave the house tonight and photograph mannequins – it just happend.  I often just park the car somewhere and wander fairly aimlessly, stopping whenever I get a moment of inspiration. The Mannequins have been photoshopped rather a lot (I’ve added a lens flare for dramatic effect!). I’ve so enjoyed playing around with these photos that I’m going to do more of it this week – so stand by for lots of uber photoshopped pics of Christchurch! My apologies in advance to the photo purists who loathe and despise photoshopping! – (you know who you are!).

Spotted this evening on an inner city street. Tui is a popular brand of beer in New Zealand.

Spotted driving down Durham Street.  All I am going to say is that the ‘mind boggles’. Am resisting all pathetic attempts at innuendo!

I was walking down Manchester street near Lichfield and noticed this window with a sketch of what looks to be Christchurch (stadium, mountains, cathedral). I caught the passing traffic in the reflection and the shadow top right is me!

Yum! Mrs higgins oven fresh cookies are on Worcester street just down from the Regent cinema. The smell is divine. My friend (you can see her shadow in the pic) thinks they have a fan blowing out the aroma of cookies onto the street to entice passerbys.

This is pretty stunning. Probably one of my favourites, but there are more great ones to come yet in Grafitti Week!