Napier Botanical Gardens

Napier Botanical Gardens
Napier Botanical Gardens

Last Saturday saw us in Napier at the wedding of a couple of friends.  It was a very relaxed wedding held in the botanical gardens and I had offered to take some of the wedding photos for them.  I was worried that my lack of mobility was going to be a problem but there were lots of others with cameras there so I don’t think they are going to be lacking in images.

Napier Botanical Gardens

When we were doing the family groups and formals, there were bellbirds flying about in the trees above us – really close.  They seemed to care not that there were a bunch of rowdy people in their garden and if I had my big lens with me I would have had so many awesome opportunities.  Alas I was focused on the happy couple and decided to come back the next morning for the bellbirds.

Napier Botanical Gardens

Of course the bellbirds got the memo and the next morning there wasn’t a single one to be seen anywhere.  I did find a couple of fantail chicks and they will be featuring in another post but what caught my attention the most was the flowers.  I am not really a flower person photographically but I am really happy with how these turned out.

Napier Botanical Gardens

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