{"id":41206,"date":"2023-06-29T06:30:12","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T18:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=41206"},"modified":"2023-06-28T21:39:31","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T09:39:31","slug":"fun-with-friends-ending-as-we-began-photo-10-from-marion-drolsbachs-nz-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2023\/06\/29\/fun-with-friends-ending-as-we-began-photo-10-from-marion-drolsbachs-nz-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Ending As We Began \u2013 Photo #10 From Marion Drolsbach\u2019s NZ Visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_40797\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40797\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-40797\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Aug-2020-Marion-in-Findhorn-03-150x119.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"119\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Aug-2020-Marion-in-Findhorn-03-150x119.jpg 150w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Aug-2020-Marion-in-Findhorn-03-300x237.jpg 300w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Aug-2020-Marion-in-Findhorn-03-768x607.jpg 768w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Aug-2020-Marion-in-Findhorn-03-1024x809.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Aug-2020-Marion-in-Findhorn-03.jpg 1291w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-40797\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marion Drolsbach, translator extraordinaire \ud83d\ude42<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Today we come full circle, ending (close to) where we began with this \u201cFun With Friends\u201d post series.<\/p>\n<p>As those who have been following along will know, Marion Drolsbach is a book translator (English to Dutch), and we first met when she was translating <strong><em>The Heir of Night<\/em><\/strong>. So I was delighted, toward the end of last year, when she visited New Zealand, together with her husband Malcolm.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-31488\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Kind-van-de-Nacht.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"170\" height=\"284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Kind-van-de-Nacht.jpg 170w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Kind-van-de-Nacht-90x150.jpg 90w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 170px) 100vw, 170px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Both are keen photographers, so I have been able to extend the pleasure of the visit by featuring some of their photographs, chiefly Marion but a couple from Malcolm as well.<\/p>\n<p>If you can remember back that far, (but otherwise the \u2018Preceding Posts\u201d below may help \ud83d\ude09 ) awa\u2019 back on <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2023\/01\/19\/fun-with-friends-photo-1-from-marion-drolsbach\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 19<\/a>, I began the series with a sunrise \u2013 and today will end with another photo of the same sunrise from the same spot.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_41211\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41211\" class=\"wp-image-41211 \" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Hakatere-Sunrise-1_small2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"422\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Hakatere-Sunrise-1_small2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Hakatere-Sunrise-1_small2-150x106.jpg 150w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Hakatere-Sunrise-1_small2-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Hakatere-Sunrise-1_small2-768x540.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-41211\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: M Drolsbach<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Innit wonderful?<\/p>\n<p>I do hope you have enjoyed the series &#8212; and if you have a favourite, do let me know in the comments. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>Many, many thanks to Marion and Malcolm for letting me share their photos here. If want to check out more of their life literary and photographic on t\u2019wild wild \u2019webs, you could start with Twitter:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Marion_UK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marion Drolsbach<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MalTimperley\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Malcolm Timperley<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">~*~<\/p>\n<p><strong>Preceding Posts In the \u201cFun With Friends\u201d Series<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2023\/01\/19\/fun-with-friends-photo-1-from-marion-drolsbach\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Photo 1: Sunrise<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2023\/02\/02\/fun-with-friends-photo-2-from-marion-drolsbach\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Photo 2: Pied Stilt<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2023\/02\/23\/fun-with-friends-photos-3-4-from-marion-drolsbach\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Photos 3 &amp; 4: Wrybilled Plover \u2014 Ngutuparore<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2023\/03\/16\/fun-with-friends-photo-5-from-marion-drolsbach\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Photo #5: Rivermouth &amp; Blackbacked Gulls<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2023\/04\/13\/fun-with-friends-photos-6-7-from-marion-drolsbach\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Photos #6 &amp; #7: Black-Fronted Tern<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2023\/05\/11\/fun-with-friends-photos-8-from-marion-drolsbachs-nz-visit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Photo #8: Birdlings Flat 1<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2023\/06\/08\/fun-with-friends-photo-9-from-marion-drolsbachs-nz-visit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Photo #9: Birdlings Flat 2<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we come full circle, ending (close to) where we began with this \u201cFun With Friends\u201d post series. As those who have been following along will know, Marion Drolsbach is a book translator (English to Dutch), and we first met when she was translating The Heir of Night. So I was delighted, toward the end [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,19,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friends","category-funstuff","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41206"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41223,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41206\/revisions\/41223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}