{"id":41044,"date":"2023-05-11T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-10T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=41044"},"modified":"2023-06-28T21:14:06","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T09:14:06","slug":"fun-with-friends-photos-8-from-marion-drolsbachs-nz-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2023\/05\/11\/fun-with-friends-photos-8-from-marion-drolsbachs-nz-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun With Friends: Photos #8 From Marion Drolsbach\u2019s NZ Visit"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Marion Drolsbach, translator extraordinaire \ud83d\ude42<\/p><\/div>\n

Marion Drolsbach, as those who\u2019ve been following will know, is a book translator (English to Dutch) and we first met when she was translating The Heir of Night<\/em><\/strong> into Dutch.<\/p>\n

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\u2019 Flat that separates a local lake, Waiwera (Lake Forsyth) from the southern ocean.<\/p>\n

Every time I see that sky I think: wow, I bet readers would love to see that \u2013 with the added bonus of featuring Marion (on the left) and myself (right) awa\u2019 off in the vasty distance. \ud83d\ude00 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.<\/p>\n

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Photo credit: Malcolm Timperley<\/p><\/div>\n

In the most recent post in this series<\/a> I mentioned Canterbury\u2019s braided rivers influencing the Telimbras in The Wall of Night<\/strong> series.<\/p>\n

Similarly, Birdling\u2019s Flat has appeared directly in my poem titled birdlings flat<\/em> <\/a>and influenced the setting of my short story, The Spit<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

~*~<\/p>\n

Preceding Posts In the \u201cFun With Friends\u201d Series<\/strong><\/p>\n