A Hidden Swamp
On Kostanjevica hill north of the village of Bevke on the western part of Ljubljana Marshes landscape park something strange is hiding in the middle of a dense spruce forest. This hole in the forest is a really bizarre natural phenomenon, a quirk of geology, hidrology, and biology: an isolated raised bog called Mali plac. This raised bog formed at least 15.000 years ago in a bowl-shaped depression on the west side of Kostanjevica hill, at the junction of (semi-permeable) dolo
A River of Many Secrets
River Ižica that slowly meanders across Ljubljana Marshes is a regular target of our kite aerial photography efforts. There are many reasons for that, and it being close, on a flat open marsh with acceptable wind patterns is probably even more important than the other one: the thousands of years of human history that have unfolded along its banks. On a very hot and pleasantly windy summer day we were there again. Targeting nothing in particular - not the UNESCO World Heritage
Kite Catcher
A special category of kite aerial photography is taking shots of other kites in action. It is a difficult and challenging enterprise, requiring skill and patience: it's about precision flying among many kite lines each of them eager to send your kite and camera crashing to the ground, while hoping the camera is aimed correctly The CMYK pilot, the Trilobite and the Octopus flying above Ljubljana Marshes There are masters of this art (like Wolfgang Bieck) and we are nowhere clo
Kites Over the Hot Roofs of Zagreb
The pandemic is slowly receding and two of KAP Jasa kite club members - fully vaccinated, of course - finally got the opportunity to fly kites abroad! We were invited to Zagreb by the president of the Croatian Kite Association, and on a hot June weekend we packed some kites and drove to meet our dear friends, our guides in the world of kites (there probably would be no KAP Jasa kite club if we'd never met Žuža and Žare!) ... We came just in time for a kite making workshop for
The Dreamy Beauty of Southern Carniola
River Krka, the largest river of Dolenjska - Lower Carniola - is the second-longest that flows in its entirety in Slovenia, and the largest tributary of river Sava in Slovenia. Krka springs out of Krka cave at the end of a pocket valley near the village of Krka., and flows through Suha krajina region in a beautiful deep valley flanked by fields, meadows, vineyards and scattered villages. Its name, Krka, is pre-Roman, either from krkā; 'swampy', or a simple onomatopoetic, mimi
