In March when I was travelling to Sulawesi and Singapore I visited my gf who volunteered at Tasikoki wild animal rescue centre. She was there for two months but my visit was much shorter. Altogether I spent there one week helping other volunteers, making photos and i also tried out some time-lapse techniques. You can see results here below:

This movie was shot at night at full moon. you can clearly see small fishing boats with lights sailing left and right.  Unfortunately its only 14 secs long cause Nikon’s built-in interval shooting option is quite unreliable and from time to time it just stops shooting Haven’t figured out why yet. Anyways usually I always use remote control with interval shooting…

Sunset over volcano named Two brothers which is clearly seen from Tasikoki’s view tower.

To learn more and to see more photos from Tasikoki read this article I posted at A2A website.

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It has been a while since my last post. The reason is the same as I already mentioned before – I am totally focused on my business with Photography Tours. There is very successful season behind me and now in November I was busy with renovating of Adriatc2Alps website. Now its finally published with many new features;

• New design with new company’s logo. Our designer did a great job, what do you think?
• Clear page structure, much easier to browse.
• New photos in the galleries. Check out time-lapse movies too! The photos are much higher resolution for enhanced viewing experience.
• New way of commenting with your Facebook account. If you don’t follow us on Facebook, now its the time – our community is growing each day.
• Updated testimonials page.

And because this is a photography blog after all, here are some shots I would like to share;

Marsh Tit. Photographed at my parents house where they have fantastic feeding station.

Elegant Swan at Zbilje Lake.

Kamnisko sedlo at the heart of Kamnik-Savinja Alps This year was so busy with tours I only managed once to go mountaineering.

My father’s portrait. He has an Owl couple nesting just by his bedroom window for the last 20 or so years!

First snowfall this season.

Haven’t done much travelling this year (at least for my standards ), but I’ve been twice to Morocco and most likely also for the New Year holidays too.

for more cool photos visit the galleries of A2A website!

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Last weekend I was running a photo camp at Labrca near Tolmin. We were photographing sporting activities such as whitewater rafting, mountain-biking, kayaking, mini rafts, and canyoning. To make a long story short;

• 8 photographers,
• 9 Nikon dslr cameras,
• more than 8.000 shots (good and bad ones ),
• a lot of fun and laugh,
• very patient and cooperative models,
• excellent food,
• freezing water temperatures (which didn’t stop of from jumping into the river every day)
• hot sun, heavy downpours and morning mists

And here are some shots to get the feeling how it was;

Mountainbiking; a great opportunity to try some creative lightning.

Canyoning was the biggest challenge; stark contrasts, steep and slippery terrain and water everywhere. But we’ve got some great shots

Rafting was something I was really looking forward to. I tried with longer exposures and with panning and zooming out.

Mini rafts are great adventure as well!

Having a great and creative models is priceless!

Ok guys that was great, what shall we do next?

Everybody – get ready – here they come!

Some of us tried unconventional techniques.

Come on guys – we are ready – go!  Its only 27m high!

Morning breakfast just few metres away from Soca river – how romantic!

Nidzo making worlds best cevapcici.

Eskimo turn – best seen in HD quality.

Tamara, Dusan, Sergeja, Martin, Katarina, Neja, Crt, Ivan – thank you joining me at Fotokamp! And a big thanks to Maya team, especially Borut, Klemen and Simon – you guys are great!

And for the rest of you guys who missed this opportunity – hope to see you next year!

Photo credits: Ivan Zupic – photo 1, Martin Esenko – photo 8, Dusan Rajh – photos 7, 11.

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The movie was shot from the Ljubljana castle tower, late afternoon after a whole day of rain. Total of 1366 frames combined into a movie with Photoshop. Uploaded to Youtube and added a music. It looks much better in HD resolution (1080p). Do you like it?

Here below are some random photos from April that I took at various places in Slovenia. (Ha, Wordpress did not find any misspellings yet )

A Mallard duck bachelor. He was cleaning his feathers and I took this snapshot. I just happened to be at the right place at the right time…

Young Beech tree leaves. Back lit by the sun, shot against dark background. I could use a larger f-stop to get more DOF though…

Vineyards in NE Slovenia.

Spring exhibit at Volcji Potok. I always like to come back. See the previous posts on Volcji Potok.

I’ve been to Lipica too. The horses were not out to graze yet, but it was a joy to watch the stallions at practice.

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Too busy lately to post anything even though I have tons of new photos to show. Spring is here, my first group is already on the way back home and new guests arriving. This is why I am posting just a few shots of these wabbits so you know I am still alive;)

Wabbits are funny creatures, they have enormous ears, they jump instead of walk and they love carrots. Some people call them rabbits or bunnies but I prefer Elmer’s name Wabbits. I stumbled upon a bunch of them at a farmhouse at Karst area where I usually take my guests while touring Slovenia. They were lovely little creatures, nosy and very cooperative models. It’s a shame that they will end up in an oven.

First when I asked them if I can photograph, they were a bit shy.

But soon they were all over the place looking at this strange device clicking madly and moving around.

Hey widdle wabbit, listen to me very carefully.

Mama wabbit checking out what’s going on.

Widdle wabbit with ears.

Widdle wabbit without ears.

Those wabbits are such fun to photograph! If you haven’t tried it I recommend – a great practice if you want to learn how to photograph children… They all have this thing in common – they move all the time.

Oh and there is a wabbit joke:

A precious little girl walks into a pet shop and asks in the sweetest little lisp, “Excuthe me, mithter, do you keep widdle wabbits?” As the shopkeeper’s heart melts, he gets down on his knees, so that he’s on her level,and asks, “Do you want a widdle white wabby or a thoft and fuwwy bwack wabby or maybe one like that cute widdle bwown wabby over there?” She, in turn blushes, rocks on her heels, puts her hands on her knees, leans forward and says in a quiet voice, “I don’t fink my pet python weally gives a thit”

And if you want to shoot some wabbits, play this game. Very entertaining – while I was waiting my photos to upload I completed all levels.

I don’t know why this freaking spellchecker shows so many mistakes in this post?!?

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Last few months have been very busy for me and this is the main reason I haven’t been posting as often as I used to. Most of the time I was (and still am) working on Photography Tours project and the result of hard work was the Creator award we received in December.

And why the End of Winter for me? Because on Tuesday I am leaving to Egypt for 11 days. I will be guiding a group of Slovenian tourists on a classic Egyptian Nile cruise with a short trip to Sinai peninsula.

When I am back there will be just a short time to prepare everything for a business trip to London where I will be promoting photography tours.

After London another overseas trip – this time to Indonesia, more exactly North Sulawesi. My girlfriend is doing voluntary work there and I am going to visit her. I plan to visit a few national parks there so expect new photos here on the blog!

On the way back to Europe I will stop at Singapore for a few days, again to promote photography tours.

When I am back from these trips there will be a Spring already and a new tourist season – no rest for me…

Enough of my plans – here are some photos I made during this Winter at various places around Slovenia.

Lake Cerknica at high water level. A total contrast to the photo at the top which was taken approx one month earlier.

Winter came late this year. First snowfall of the season I experienced in Ljubljana. Here are some more photos of that beautiful day.

Lake Bled. Stunningly beautiful in all seasons.

But the first snow was soon all gone. This shot was made on Christmas day! It was almost 15C which is unusual for this time of the year. So much of “White Christmas”. Well I love the rainbow anyway:)

January finally brought real winter temperatures. These icicles were photographed at Velika Karlovica sinkhole near Lake Cerknica.

I was planning to do star trails at Velika Planina Plateau for many years. This Winter I finally did it and it was an unforgettable experience! Some more cool shots of that night. Trust me – worth to check it out!

Planina cave. A great place to learn cave photography!

A sunset somewhere in SE Slovenia.

Pericnik Waterfall always leaves a strong impression! More photos of it from the last Winter.

My newest toy is a SB-900 Speedlight. What a great piece of equipment! Of course I needed to give it a try immediately. My girlfriend was patient and understanding model – and beautiful of course!

And this is probably the last shot I made before I hit the road. A Shrovetide festival in Ljubljana. I hope for you guys that the Kurenti succeeded to scare away the Winter!

Do you like the photos? Which one is your favourite?

On all my trips next two months I will have my laptop with me so I can post some photos while travelling. Stay tuned!

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Photo by Dan Briski

Photo by Dan Briski

Photo by Dan Briski

Photo by Dan Briski

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Bled is one of the most photographed highlights of Slovenia. No wonder – the place is just calling for it! When you look at the postcards and tourist brochures it seems it is impossible to make some unique shots. Well, there is always a way to get a different photos – you just have to find it.

I have lots of photos of Bled, but they don’t mean nothing to me. Most of them I took while guiding the tourists around.  Just the usual shots… Finally I had an hour off this August and i went for a walk around the lake. The time was just perfect – the sun was setting and the lights around the lake were turning on. Here are some shots I made.

How did I make those shots? Long exposures with camera on the tripod and me running around with my Speedlight. People passing by probably thought I got out of my mind.

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The store room for flour sacks. In the bigger sacks there is wheat flour and in the smaller ones usually a buckwheat or rye flour. (Note the sign “photos forbidden”)

The wheel drive. This is the only part of the mill that is still on the water. Day and night – all the time, except of the high water levels.

Vladimir thinking. He was really open and he told me a lot about the mill, its history and his family. He is the fourth generation owning this mill (his daughter Karmen is running the business now). His family had experienced a lot of good and bad times. I couldn’t believe, that he runs the mill for more than 60 years  already!

The power o the river. A true “green” energy.

The sign at the entrance to the mill. “Mlin” means a mill.

Every miller’s friend – a cat.

If you ever venture to Prekmurje, stop by at old Babic’s water mill! Talk to the family members and you will get a lot of interesting facts. And yes, you can buy flour there. For much more reasonable price than at the supermarkets.

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