William Sefton Moorhouse

I swung by the eastern end of the Botanic Gardens this afternoon, parking over by the Canterbury Museum and close to the peacock fountain. The riot of colour that greets visitors at this end of the gardens is stunning, with two tone tulips and a host of other bulbs blazing their Spring colours with glee.

I'll be back another day to capture the full majestic colour, but today mono again rules the day, the dramatic sky and backlight on this statue just too good to refuse.

A native Yorkshireman, Wm Sefton Moorhouse was a one of Christchurch's early settler elite - a career politican, magistrate, police superintendant and later mayor of Wellington. Eponymous thoroughfares and mountains commemorate his service to the early days of the Canterbury and this wonderful statue, cast in 1885, was placed in the gardens in his honour.