Photo Journal

Mt. Kamniski vrh used to be one of my favorite short hikes. It's just high enough for a quick training climb and the views from the top are great - weather permitting, of course. On July 1, it was very humid and for a moment my friend Manca and I even thought we were going to get soaked by rain. After a few minutes at the top we hurried by to the valley, just making it before the dark fell.

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My boyfriend and I booked a one week vacation on Fuerteventura, one of the Canary Islands, a few months ago, but one day before we were supposed to leave my bf got ill and had to stay home. So I took my brother with me and we had a blast. Fuerteventura is such a beautiful island!

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On the second day we rented a car, a small Opel Corsa, and started cruising the island. After visiting salt pans and exploring the nearby arid landscape in the middle of the day, we ended our day trip at the dunes and beaches near Corralejo.

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On the third day we made a loop around the northern half of the island. After driving through some otherworldly landscapes in beyond La Oliva, we visited two coastal villages, Los Molinos and Las Playitas, and then ascended to the magnificent lighthouse on a 200-meter-high cliff. The drive back over the Betancuria pass was one of the most spectacular on the whole island.

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Shooting the not-so-spectacular sunrise at Corralejo dunes was the first order of the day. In the afternoon we explored the northern beaches near El Cotillo.

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This was a long, but fantastic day. We started early and drove all the way to the south of Fuerteventura to see the town of Morro Jable, the white sandy beaches of Sotavento, the southern tip of the island with two lighthouses and the wild beaches at Cofete.

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On Sunday we had to stay in the hotel because Peter wanted to watch Formula One on TV. :) Well, some lounging around the hotel pools didn't really hurt. We did, however, head out in the afternoon, first to the Corralejo dunes, then to the valleys around La Oliva and finally to Los Molinos again.

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The average number of rainy days in May is 0. Yes, zero. Well, on that day, it rained. In Ajuy, there were only dark clouds, driving around la Pared and Sotavento was also dry, but we couldn't escape the rain on the way back through the otherwise picturesque Betancuria landscapes.

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One week ended too quickly. We went to the Corralejo dunes one more time, had a quick dip in the Atlantic ocean, returned the rented car and flew back home in the afternoon.

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The first day the road over the Vršič pass was opened I made a loop over two alpine passes and through wonderful valleys. The spring colors were at its best and the greens contrasted the whiteness of the snow-capped mountains so strikingly I was speechless at times. It was a great day for a road trip, the last one with good weather before a series of gloomy, rainy days began.

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Last year's Easter was cold and snowy. This year it was the exact opposite. Sunny, warm (about 20°C), the nature budding everywhere. And just like last year, we drove to Lake Cerknica. What a difference! Before enjoying the greenery around the lake, we visited the Big Natural Bridge at Rakov Škocjan. The water level was so high that many places along the river bed were inaccessible. To see what it looks like dry, have a look at September 2007.

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The first April Sunday was unbelievably warm. After opening the barbeque season and filling our stomachs with delicious ribs, our ex-neighrbors and I climbed the hill of Špica above Kamnik. There was a lot of haze in the air, but it's always interesting to see things from above.

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My friends' son, Svit, turned nine months in early April. He's a good-spirited baby with lots of energy and he is one step away (literally, hehe) from walking by himself. :)

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With so much snow skiing is still possible at most Slovenian ski resorts. Because I hadn't skied on my home ski ground, Velika planina, for quite a few years, I decided to go there last Sunday, despite the fact that I had visited it many times this winter already. Velika planina is a place you can't easily get tired of! :)

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Foto klub Koroška came for a visit to Foto klub Kamnik last Saturday, and the two clubs climbed Mt. Velika planina in the afternoon. It was good to exchange information and get together with like-minded people, plus it was a lot of fun! And Velika planina never fails in terms of photographer's heaven. :)

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With the altitude of 1495 meters, Mali Golak is the highest summit (if we can call it that) of the Trnovski gozd plateau. Until a week ago I didn't even know it existed. :) I really need to explore this part of my country in a greater depth.
It was a nice hike through some beautiful beech forest with great views from the top - supposedly Mt. Blanc can be seen on a really clear day!

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The sun kept inviting me out to the fresh air, and by 2 p.m. I was in my car driving towards Gorenjska. I didn't know where I was going and I turned off the highway instinctively and ascended towards the Ljubelj pass. I hiked up the Zelenica valley at the side of the ski run, hardly met anybody, and enjoyed the beautiful views. Oh and got whipped by the wind, of course. :)) On the way back I stopped by the Dolžanova soteska gorge and had a colorful sunset around Kranj.

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Winter sunrises are something special. A few fellow photographers and I climbed the snowy Velika planina plateau in the dark just in time to catch the dawn. The sunrise was glorious. We hiked around with our tripods and tried to capture the magical light.

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After more than two weeks of rain and warm weather it started to snow again. Yesterday the view from my window was truly as it should be in early February - white! Last night it snowed some more and we woke up to 30 centimeters of snow. After shoveling the snow off my car I went for a walk around Mengeš but was soon forced to return home as it started to rain! I was completely wet in a matter of minutes and so was my camera. Oh well, I really do hope the snow holds and the weather returns to its wintry self.

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Peričnik is one of the most majestic waterfalls in Slovenia during winter. Over 50 meters high, it freezes across a wide cliff in thousands of icicles, forming a frozen organ. Together with two fellow photographers I made the trip there and just in time, too! When the sun hit the waterfall, many of the icicles came crashing down, and the weather warmed up the following day, which made the situation even worse.

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Today's trip led us to Jamnik, a hill above the Ljubljana basin with great views across to the Kamnik Alps and the Karavanke range. The late afternoon light was sweet, but it got even better after sunset when it turned pink and blue. Oh, and we were waiting for the full moon which didn't rise until after we left. :)

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We spent the New Year's with friends in a hut on the Rogla plateau. The scenery is beautiful, and apart from skiing you can also cross-country ski and hike around the numerous walking trails. I went for a long walk one afternoon and was amazed at the sights. And I didn't mind the cold as I was too busy admiring the nature and taking photos!

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While skiing on Rogla for a few days around New Year's I took a few photos with my compact Olympus. The first day was especially cold - around -14 degrees Celsius at noon! - and everything was enveloped in snow and ice! It was magical. In the next couple of days the temperatures rose a bit and some of the snow on the trees melted.

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On Christmas Eve, there is a midnight mass on the Velika planina mountain. I went there in 2006 as well, and the experience had me so enthralled I decided to go on the night trek again and try to capture some of the beauty of a winter night. And indeed, it was beautiful. Many people with torches came and the procession was visible from afar. There was almost no wind to mess with my tripod and long exposures, yay! :)

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This was a cold experience! We wanted to get some fresh air, so we drove to the nearby plateau of Menina planina, then walked to the top and back. The views were great, but because of the wind my fingers nearly froze! Supposedly, there are bears in this area, which made the hike all the more interesting. ;)

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There were some really foggy days in November, and knowing what a great photo op they can be I grabbed my camera one late afternoon and drove to nearby fields. The more I took photos, the more spectacular the light became. The sun was struggling to penetrate the fog, but it didn't quite succeed. And I left with a hundred or so photos and very pleased with the photo session.

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We had a busy first November weekend and only had a couple of hours in the afternoon to go somewhere for some fresh air and maybe a photo or two before sunset. Pokljuka is always a nice place to go, and there were no other people at the meadow of Javorniki. On our way back we stopped in Bled as I simply couldn't resist capturing the reflection in the lake well after the sun had gone down.

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We spent the last October weekend in Soelden, Austria, where the first alpine skiing races of the season took place. Apart from watching the races on Saturday and Sunday, we also did some skiing on the glacier. It was a fabulous weekend, with excellent weather and great skiing!

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We went testing some ski equipment in mid October. Mölltal glacier in Austria is one of the few ski slopes where there's snow all year round, and it's only a two-hour drive away from Mengeš. The weather was a bit fickle and at times it was difficult to ski due to diffused light. We were thrilled anyway as the ski plate we were testing proved to be excellent and a big improvement over the others.

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A few members of our photo club decided to go on a hike to the mountains to capture some of the fall colors. Snow at higher altitudes prevented us from going to Slemenova špica, but in the end we had a fantastic time around Mt. Soriška planina. We climbed a few hills and explored the remains of bunkers and trenches from WWI, all the while being fascinated by the rapidly changing weather. From sun and blue skies to dark clouds and snow in a matter of ten minutes! As a conclusion to a perfect photo outing we stopped at Lake Bohinj.

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Our choir, Cantemus, went to Serbia to participate in a festival named after the greatest Serb composer, Stevan Mokranjac. We spent two days in Negotin, Mokranjac's birth town, and on the way back we saw the Djerdap canyon and stopped briefly in Belgrade.

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Our photo club is organizing an exhibition in August, which has become traditional in the last few years. This time the topic is traffic, roads, paths, vehicles, bridges and the like - but the photos must be taken in Kamnik. We got together for a photo shoot a couple of times - it's more motivational to go out and take photos with your friends than to do it alone. Both times we only covered the town center, but I think I can dig up some of the older photos in addition to these. :)

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After sunset the sky went crazy. The light was was really that eerie orange and pink and red.

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A short walk in the fields behind my apartment building produced a handful of photos. It was more about exercise and getting some fresh air than making top-quality pictures. :)

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Despite the cloudy weather I drove to a nearby field full of clover and poppies. It paid off - the clouds cleared enough for the sun to peek through and illuminate the fields with warm, late-afternoon light.

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Predaselj Gorge was cut by the Kamniška Bistrica river and is up to 30 meters deep. It's accessible in a few places and quite popular for canyoning - hence the steel ropes. I didn't have enough time to explore the whole area, but I did manage to snap these photos.

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Some people say that lady's slipper (Cypripedium calceolus) is the most beautiful orchid in Slovenia. We explored one of the smaller valleys off Kamniška Bistrica and found these.

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Our choir was invited on a tour to Germany where Primož Trubar, the famous Slovenian Protestant reformer from the 16th century and the author of the first Slovenian printed book, lived and worked. We had a few concerts and saw a number of towns.

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Choosing Mt. Vogel as a skiing destination proved to be an excellent decision as the weather provided me with some spectacular sights. As if the scenery itself wasn't enough. :)

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Easter 2008 was snowy. Even though it was gloomy and cold, I can always use different moods of the weather as an excuse to go out and shoot some pictures. And the mood was something special indeed. Hills around Lake Cerknica were enveloped in fog, and it was surreal to drive through woods on a snowy road. We concluded our trip by visiting St. Ana hill south of Ljubljana.

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After a few quite warm days in March we were greeted with some more snow. It didn't last long in the valley, but it peppered the mountains nicely. Views from Mengeš fields were spectacular as always.

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One early morning in mid-February a few members of the Kamnik photo club took the first cable car to the mountain of Velika planina. We spent the whole morning walking around and taking pictures - and most importantly, hiding from the wind! It was sooooo cooooold and we took every opportunity to seek shelter in any of the huts.

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In at least one respect, winter is the best time to visit Blejski Vintgar Gorge. There are no other visitors around who would stomp on the wooden footbridges, cause vibrations and make it impossible to take photos from a tripod. :)
On the other hand, the nature is not as colorful as in other season, but I was surprised to see quite a few red leaves on the footbridges and the water was emerald green since it hadn't been raining for a while.

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A relatively warm February day was spent strolling around Lake Bled and climbing the hill to visit the cliff-top castle.

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I wanted to take some dramatic photos of Bohinj at sunrise. After getting up at an ungodly hour and driving in the dark for an hour, I was met by a cloudy morning at Lake Bohinj. No beautiful sunrise to speak of, so I snapped a few photos and went for a cup of coffee. An hour or so later, the sky cleared a bit and I did manage to take some pictures of this photogenic place.

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I had a ten-minute photo session with my friend's kids. Yes, minimal DOF is a dangerous thing. :)

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Happy New Year and may it be full of beautiful photos! :)

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The last week in December was foggy in the valley and more or less sunny in the mountains. Snowy Velika planina plateau was a great getaway from smog and fog and I was refueled after a few hours of hiking across the snow-covered slopes.

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On Christmas day you can either stuff yourself silly or do something more productive. :) The latter option seemed more appealing to us, so we drove to Notranjska and first explored a bit of Planinsko polje and then headed to Lake Cerknica, which was almost completely frozen and full of iceskaters. Before going home we stopped at Rakov Škocjan where I snapped a few photos.

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The last November morning was spectacular. The temperatures dropped below zero during the night and I woke up to a foggy and frosty morning. Soon the sun began to dispel the fog and created magical light. I grabbed my camera and headed to the fields behind the apartment building where I live.

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By mid-November the leaves had fallen from the trees and formed red carpets in the forests. I climbed Stari grad, a hill above my hometown Kamnik, and enjoyed the sweet late-afternoon light. It may have looked like a nice, warm day, but it was actually very windy and I was nearly blown off the top!

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The fall has been quite strange this year. It snowed in the mountains in September, then the snow melted a bit and some of the peaks became more accessible again. In the beginning of November the weather forecast was nice but on the day when I decided to go hiking, I woke up to a gloomy, cloudy morning. I went hiking anyway and was rewarded with a myriad of weather conditions and views.

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On All Saints' Day I drove around Gorenjska. My first destination was Zbilje Lake with its fall colors, and then I went to Jamnik, a hill above the small town of Kropa. I was too late to catch the sun, but the Alps in the distance were still basking in the late afternoon light, so I snapped a few panoramas. And the church there is pretty photogenic in any light anyway. ;)

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Just a quick, maybe ten-minute photo session at Lake Črnava in Preddvor, a small village at the foot of the Kamnik Alps, yielded a few pictures that I found quite picturesque.

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The weather hasn't been extremely photographer-friendly lately, at least as far as sunny fall-colored landscapes go. I did manage to catch a few glimpses of sun rays as well as yellow and red leaves at Lake Bohinj, but clouds were stubborn and wouldn't go away completely. At one moment, the sky was perfect with puffy white clouds, and the red slopes were bathing in the sun.

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I hadn't been to Slovenian Karst (Kras) for a while and since the fall is one of the best seasons to go there, I quickly made a decision one Saturday in late October. Driving around the area I admired the colors of the vine leaves, which ranged from yellow to red. At the end of the day, I visited Štanjel, one of the most picturesque little Karst villages.

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Every second Sunday in October there is a regatta in the bay of Trieste, the biggest in the Mediterranean with about 2,000 vessels participating in various classes and divisions. A group of friends rented a sailboat to see the regatta from the sea and enjoy the sunny afternoon sailing along the (very long :)) Slovenian coast.

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It was a beautiful Sunday, warm and sunny. It would be a shame to stay home, so I scanned a map for a possible destination. I wanted mountain views, and the closest place for this would be Velika planina, but I'd been there a thousand times so I decided to go to nearby Kašna planina instead.

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After visiting the carthusian monastery at Žiče, I headed to Mt. Rogla and hiked to the Lovrenc lake plateau. The area is a high peat swampland and a few small lakes are only fed by precipitation as there is no groundwater. A nearby viewing tower is ideal to get a better idea what the place looks like from above.

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Žiče Carthusian Monastery (Žička kartuzija) is situated near Slovenske Konjice in the Styrian part of Slovenia. It dates back to the twelfth century and is a very interesting place to visit. One sunny Saturday I explored the estate and the ruins with my camera.

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The first weekend in September we headed to Island Krk again. Both Friday and Saturday evenings boasted fantastic sunsets - the former fiery all across the sky and the latter with dramatic clouds.

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Rakov Škocjan is a nature reserve in Slovenian karst region. Its spectacular formations are a truly remarkable sight. I explored the big and small natural bridges during the dry season, which means there was no water in the river bed and it was easier to walk around.

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Our choir had a picnic and I had a chance to take photos of some of the children. When everybody played a game called The Fox Catches the Chicken, I practiced the technique known as "panning" where you set a long exposure time and try to follow the subject with your camera.

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A two-week vacation at the beach - yay! Viganj is a small village on the Pelješac peninsula in southern Adriatic Sea and a paradise for windsurfers and kitesurfers as there is always wind blowing, especially mistral, which is ideal for surfing.

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We stayed in Viganj and drove around the peninsula. Among the places we visited were Orebić, the main town of Pelješac, two small villages of Lovište and Žuljana, and one day we took a ferry across to Island Korčula.

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After two weeks of beach and surfing in Viganj we headed to Bosnia and Herzegovina. The first destination was Mostar, a town on the Neretva River, which was named after the Old Bridge. Mostar is also famous for being on of the hottest places in Europe (some say the world) and when we were there in late August, it was 48 degrees Celsius (118 F) and so hot I couldn't stand still because my feet were burning from the hot pavement.

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Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, is a city with a turbulent past. Many of the buildings have been rebuilt after the war, but there are still a lot of remainders of the horror that went on. The old part of town with Baščaršija (bazaar) is lovely and the ubiquitous čevapčići served at every corner are delicious.

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From Sarajevo we drove to the north, past the industrial town of Zenica to Travnik with its impressive fortress Kaštel. You can't visit Jajce without seeing its famous waterfall. It was sad to see, however, that the area around it, which used to be a popular tourist spot, is now in the state of total disrepair. The drive further north to Banka Luka offered some great views of the river Vrbas canyon.

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July 24. The heat wave is over I think. It started to rain in late afternoon and when I looked out the window, the light was freaky and there was a rainbow looming in the distance. The photos are not much, the best I can do from my apartment window. I keep kicking myself for not seeing the rainbow earlier and getting my ass out to the fields to get a nicer foreground. Oh well, there will be other rainbows I guess.

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With the stable hot and sunny weather forecast I decided to spend a couple of days hiking in the Julian Alps. My friend Nataša and I started on a Saturday afternoon by climbing to the Komna hut where we stayed overnight, and the following morning we got up really early to have enough time to hike to some of the nearby lakes and peaks. Due to the heat we came back dehydrated and exhausted, but as usual - it was worth it! :)

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We drive to Island Krk in Croatia at least once a month, but we're rarely blessed with dramatic skies, so the journey is usually nothing to write home about. But this one Friday in early July puffy white clouds embellished the blue sky. Plus I've been meaning to document the landscapes and seascape along the way for quite some time now. This was a perfect opportunity!
And even though by the evening the clouds dissipated, the atmosphere was so crisp and the light so sweet that we decided to climb a nearby hill to watch the sunset from there.

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With the wind blowing and a broken tripod I headed for the beach soon after sunset to get a few photos in the moonlight. The beach in Stara Baška is quite interesting and there's a little bit of everything - there are pebbles, there are rocks, one section is an ordinary beach, another is a nudist beach.
After it got too dark for taking pictures, I just lay on the pebbles and listened to the waves crashing against the rocks.

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Lake Cerknica is the biggest intermittent lake in Europe and a great photo op in all seasons. It goes dry in spring and all you can see are the remaining brooks that meander through fields - which are under water the rest of the year - and finally into the ground.

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One afternoon in late May the clouds seemed interesting, so I grabbed my camera and drove around for a while, capturing the fields and dramatic sky on the way. Later that day the storm approached and the clouds turned dark and ominous.

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It was time to take some sunrise photos again, so I kicked myself out of bed at 4 a.m. and drove to the hill of Sv. Ana south of Ljubljana. From there the views over the Ljubljansko Barje marshland are fantastic. I was hoping for the weather to help me out, and it did - there were mists laying low to the ground until sun came up; then they turned into thick fog that rose all the way up to the hill where I was shooting from. They dissipated soon enough, but by then the light wasn't so great anymore, so my photo session ended at around 7.30 a.m.
Apart from taking photos of the mists, I also played around with bracketing to make HDR (high dynamic range) photos.

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Kittens are little devils. Can't stay still for one second! I had fun chasing her around for an hour though ... and so did she. :) These are mostly fun piccies, some are even slightly OOF (out of focus), but for a more serious photo session I'll need more time, a better preparation and a helper to distract the kitty while I try to get some decent photos of her.

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My brother rescued a tiny kitten after it had been abandoned by its mother. Instead of taking it to an animal shelter, he took the cute little cat home. He only got it yesterday and I just had to go to his house and snap a few photos. They are not very good because it was late and getting dark, but I'm sure there will be more piccies of this cutie here soon.

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May 1 - Labor Day - is a holiday and most people go on a short vacation. I went to the small resort town of Punat on Island Krk to relax for a few days. I only got one sunny day with clear skies and went to the beach a little late when the light was already harsh, so these photos are more or less just documentary.

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April is the month of the oil rape fields. Their yellow colors change as the light changes from sunrise to sunset. Oil rape has to be one of the most photogenic crops. :)

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On a warm Sunday afternoon in mid-April I went to Mozirski gaj arboretum. I'd never been there before although it's not very far from my home. It's relatively small, but tasteful done, and it provided me with many great photo ops. Especially the tulips were positively glowing!

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One early April morning I got up before dawn and drove to some nearby fields and waited for the sun to come up. At first the light was bluish and there were mists hanging low above the ground, but as soon as the sun peered from behind the mountains, they disappeared in an orange glow.

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This winter has ended as far as the valleys go. The mountains are having a hard time with the spring, too. The snow is melting by the hour! So I decided to spend a day skiing while there is still some snow. :)
It was already warm in the morning, and by 1 p.m. the snow had more or less turned into slush. But the sun was shining and it was a glorious day!

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In mid-March it was quite warm, but the landscapes weren't exactly green and lush yet. Lubnik Hill above the town of Škofja Loka makes for a nice short climb to just above a 1000 meters. The views - apart from a few stray branches - are great.

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On the first weekend in February, the village of Rateče on the Slovenian-Italian border hosted the international sleddog competition. We were there on Sunday and enjoyed the sun, snow and enthusiastic dogs.

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Returning from skiing in Kranjska Gora, we first came across some mystic ground fog, and later we were rewarded with beautiful warm sunset light. Around Kranj mists were hovering above the fields, and they looked splendid in backlight.

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There is a midnight mass at Christmas on the Velika planina plateau every year. People hike there or take a cable car and walk across the plateau to the small chapel. It's very popular and the procession of people with torches in the dark is lovely to watch. There are always fireworks, too. This year it was so windy it almost blew me away. The photos were taken on a tripod but mostly they are blurry as the wind beat the poor light tripod which I tried to hold down as tightly as possible.

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At the birthday party of my aunt Nataša I took a few pictures of my cousin's three boys. I had no special equipment and I only used ambient light.

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After a long and warm fall, the temperatures finally dropped in early December. While it was cloudy in the lowlands, there was a lot of fog and even frost in the mountains. I went to Mt. Krvavec, which is a popular ski resort in the winter.

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On a late November Sunday I drove to the seaside. I stopped at a small village of Socerb to take some photos of the nearby foggy forest. It really looked haunted. I ended the trip in the coastal town of Koper with a few photos. All pics were taken with a fisheye lens.

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One Saturday morning I spent a few hours at the Railway Museum in Ljubljana. There is a railyard full of old abandoned locomotives and cars as well as a hall where steam engines and the like are exhibited.

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The fall has been really long and warm this year. Maple trees in my garden retained the fiery orange and red colors until mid November.

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I headed out in the late afternoon with my camera. It was a warm November day and the sky looked like there might be an interesting sunset. I took a few more photos from window after I got home as the clouds took on a violet color.

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In the beginning of November, the first snow fell in the mountains. It only barely covered the ground, but it nevertheless felt like it was already winter. I decided to go to Bohinj, then walk to Planina Jezero at 1400 meters above sea level, and finally drive to the Pokljuka plateau.

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A glorious fall day was perfect for a day trip. We drove over Vršič Pass to the town of Bovec and on our way back made a detour and drove on the highest road in Slovenia, to the Mangart Pass. Everywhere the larches were golden and the sky streaked with white clouds. A great day for a road trip indeed!

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October was so warm and nice that it would be sin not to take advantage of it and climb some mountains. Mt. Debela peč is a peak in the Julian Alps that offers great views all around, especially on Mt. Triglav, plus its slopes are covered with larches, which are wonderfully golden at this time of year. The weather that day was a bit quirky - it changed from sunny to ominously cloudy and back three times!

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On a late-October Sunday I drove around Kamnik. First I took some photos of rusty nuts and the like at an old dam, and afterwards I climbed the Stari grad hill to enjoy the sunset.

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Stara Baška is a small village with a campground where I spend quite a few weekends camping every summer. In mid-October it was already quite windy and chilly, and it looked rather odd when the beach was deserted in the middle of a sunny day. But the fishermen persisted in the evenings.

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I often take short trips, just an hour or two, to the nearby places. This one was to a small lake in Preddvor, a village at the foot of the Alps. The foliage is already starting to turn yellow and it won't be long until it is orange and red. While shooting, I had some fun observing the resident ducks and other birds.

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Late September was very warm this summer and we headed for the beach for the last time. A few days on practically deserted beaches was paradise. Well, except for the one where windsurfers gather - on a particularly windy Saturday the place was teeming with people and surfboards!

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Košuta is a mountain range on the border between Slovenia and Austria. It consists of several peaks and is grassy on the Slovenian side and rocky and precipitous on the Austrian side. The views from the crest are glorious.

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On a sunny early September day I went exploring the dirt roads at the foot of the Kamnik Alps. The road I took ascended quite high and provided me with splendid views of the mountains. When I returned to the valley, I took a few photos of the Kamniška Bistrica River.

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After many many years I visited the Ljubljana Zoo again one warm Saturday in early September. The sun was too harsh at times for taking good photos, but I tried to work around it whenever possible.

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On my way to beach one warm August evening, I stopped above a small vilage of Punat and spend a couple of hours taking photos at different stages of dusk.

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Kamfest is a festival held on the hill of Mali grad in Kamnik every August. It hosts a number of cultural performances, including concerts, exhibitions and plays. I went to two events, the first one being a concert performed by Katalena, a band which performs Slovenian folk music in different arrangements. The second concert was given by Neisha, a young and very popular singer.

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Spending the whole night at the altitude of 1500 meters can be a cold business even in late July, but it's all worth it after getting photos like these ones.

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One night in late July was especially stormy and there were so many lightning bolts all around me I simply had to set up a tripod at a window and start taking photos for about an hour or so. This is what I came up with.

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I live on the fourth floor and these are the views from my apartment.

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In late April and early May, there is an exhibition of (mostly) tulips in the Arboretum Volčji Potok close to my hometown. The place is literally busting with flowers!

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It was right after a few days of rain, and a really warm, early spring afternoon offered clear blue skies with white puffy clouds. Heaven. :)

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Taking good pictures of cars and motorcycles at a motor show is next to impossible with all the lights and reflections and people getting in the way, so I focused on the hostesses, most of whom were extremely nice, smiling and willing to have a photo taken. Not something I was used to before.

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A cloudy day is always perfect to take pictures of rivers. First, I scrambled along a brook with a tripod to get good angles, and later I did the same on the bank of River Kokra.

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What do you get when you mix cars and mud? ;)

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The Socerb Castle is perched on a cliff overlooking the Adriatic Sea.

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A cold, but gloriously sunny Sunday in mid February was a great day to be outdoors. After skiing for a couple of hours I drove to the Vršič mountain pass at 1666 meters above sea level and hiked to a nearby bunker from WWI.

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The Limbarska Hill boasts a church and at least one station of the cross (in any case, I only saw one). On this cold, but crisp day, I also climbed the neighboring hill of St. Mohor.

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It was a beautiful late December day, and at dusk the colors were fantastic - blue and pink mixed into the fog. It was also very cold, about -15 degrees Celsius. My hands were frostbitten after five minutes of shooting. However, it was worth it!

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On a beautiful, sunny Saturday just before New Year's, I drove to the Dolenjska region, southeast of Ljubljana. The landscape mainly consists of rolling hills, which were covered in snow. I visited a castle, drove along desolate roads and climbed a hill with a church perched on the top. It was a glorious day indeed.

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It was a couple of days after a major snowfall and the nature looked as if taken straight from a fairytale. I decided to visit a local arboretum and take a few photos. That cold day in December was also blessed with special light and a fantastic sunset.

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December is a festive season and there are Christmas decorations everywhere. On Christmas day, I went to our capital, Ljubljana, and enjoyed the lights, festive spirit and some glühwein. :) A few days later, I took pictures of decorations in my hometown, Kamnik.

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It was a glorious day, sunny and cold, and just a week after some heavy snowfall in the Alps. I went for a short hike in the vicinity of Kranjska Gora, a ski resort in the Julian Alps.

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An entertainment park came to town in December. It was bitterly cold when I was there, but people were having lots of fun everywhere.

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A group of photographers visited a coal mine in Hrastnik. The experience was both exhausting and intriguing. You can't possibly imagine what being a miner really means until you spend at least a few hours in the mine yourself. It was stuffy, cramped, dusty, and definitely not a place for people with either claustrophobia or asthma. All in all, an extremely interesting experience I'd recommend to everyone (if they can take it).

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Jesenice is an old industrial town in northwest Slovenia. It used to have ironworks and other heavy industry, but nowadays the former industrial zone is closed and falling apart. Heaven for a photographer though. :)

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I spent a few hours in a narrow valley leading to Mount Storžič. That morning had been the coldest this fall as there was a lot of frost in shady areas.

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It was foggy in the lowlands, so I decided to drive up to the Kriska Mountain at about 1500 meters above sea level and then continue on foot for another hour or so. The views over the sea of fog was spectacular, especially at sunset. On my way down, I even saw some parachuters descending into the fog.

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The fall was slowly coming to an end, the last warm days were saying goodbye, and it was one of the last chances to go hiking in dry conditions. I chose Mount Brana in the Kamnik Alps, a good three hour hike (and climb) to the summit at 2,252 meters above sea level. The weather was great, the views were spectacular, and there were so many things to photograph! All in all I couldn't be happier with the way the hike turned out.

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I found out about a beautiful area in the mountains full of larches, and decided to go and photograph it. Fall colors were peaking and the sight was truly spectacular.

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A late October morning offered a spectacular sunrise with bright orange colors. Afterwards I explored the hills in the area.

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October is the month to pick chestnuts. I have to admit I did more photographing than chestnut picking on this trip. :)

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Early mornings in the early fall are often spectacular. With the fog rolling in the valleys and the foliage turning yellow and red, the landscapes offer gorgeous views. These photos were taken in the hills near the small town of Žiri.

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A group of amateur photographers went to an old town in central Slovenia called Škofja Loka. The themes were mainly the fall and small details.

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This brook hardly flows. What fascinated me was the green surroundings and the whirlpools that sucked in yellow leaves and made for an interesting effect in photos.

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The beginning of October was cold and rainy - perfect for taking pictures in woods. I took my tripod and camera and shot a brook in Kamniska Bistrica. Time flies when shooting long exposures with a tripod!

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Barje is a wetland area south of Ljubljana. This year there has been a lot of water flooding the fields, and it made for some wonderful photo ops.

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As part of Kamfest, a festival organized in Kamnik every summer, there was a performance by oriental dance group Bayani. Some of the dances were truly mesmerizing.

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In the middle of August, another section of a major highway was opened. Before the opening, a couple of hundred people rollerbladed through the longest tunnel of about 3 km. It was fun! How many times does one get a chance to rollerblade on a highway?

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Normally, you can't see any straw bales near where I live as they are all wrapped in that ugly plastic thing, but the other day I got lucky and went shooting them at sunrise. I started before the sun came up and then watched the light change from yellow to red and orange and then to a more white, neutral light.

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One hot Saturday in July I went exploring a valley close to Begunje. First, I focused on a stream in the woods, and later I saw a donkey on a pasture that I absolutely had to take photos of. :)

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It had been raining the day before, and the skies were blue with some dramatic dark clouds. I went rollerblading with my camera and took some pictures of the wheat and corn fields.

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I played with my camera and a tripod a little to achieve that great foggy effect of long exposures of the waves gently engulfing the rocks.

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A few captured moments from my journey to Iran.

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A spring walk around the area that I like very much because it's so photogenic and peaceful.

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One of my favorite locations for shooting fields - and for a good reason, too. There is a nice swell of the fields, mountains in the background and great light from the left in the late afternoon - if the weather is good, of course. And on this particular day, the light was nothing short of spectacular. :)

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On our way to a short getaway at the beach, we were met with such a sunset on Island Krk in Croatia. The sky was on fire!

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It was April, but that day was quite cold in Vienna. There was no point in taking panoramic pictures, so I looked for details.

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April is supposed to be spring time, but not this year. Although sunny, there was still a lot of snow in the alpine valley of Tamar, and the vegetation around Zelenci was still brown from last fall.

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The spring has already begun, but it got cold again in the last few days, and April 1 proved to be an excellent skiing day this year.

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While going for a walk across a field, I noticed all kinds of footprints in the snow.

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A clear February day made for a great hiking opportunity to the hill of Sv. Jakob near Medvode. The light was changing into those wonderful warm colors, there weren't many people around, and I got some exercise to boot.

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It was a cold, but sunny winter day and I drove to a mountain plateau called Menina planina. It's about 1200 meters above sea level and offers great views of the Alps and the valleys below.

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