Fun With Friends: Photos #8 From Marion Drolsbach’s NZ Visit
Marion Drolsbach, as those who’ve been following will know, is a book translator (English to Dutch) and we first met when she was translating The Heir of Night into Dutch.
The majority of the photos were taken at the mouth of a Canterbury braided river and by Marion herself. Today’s photo was taken by her husband, on an ocean beach called Birdlings’ Flat that separates a local lake, Waiwera (Lake Forsyth) from the southern ocean.
Every time I see that sky I think: wow, I bet readers would love to see that – with the added bonus of featuring Marion (on the left) and myself (right) awa’ off in the vasty distance. 😀 Quite aside from that, I do feel that the photo gives an amazing sense of the aloneness and immensity of a landscape that is predominantly ocean and sky.
In the most recent post in this series I mentioned Canterbury’s braided rivers influencing the Telimbras in The Wall of Night series.
Similarly, Birdling’s Flat has appeared directly in my poem titled birdlings flat and influenced the setting of my short story, The Spit.
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