Cursed Swamps and Mellow Marshes

It’s a cursed place, this swamp on the northern edge of Račna karst field landscape park … This was the fifth time we visited this place, and the record is, well, less than satisfactory. The first flight was OK (early in our KAP career, still learning the basics). On the second visit there was no … Read more

A Coda to the Moving River

We talked about the intrepid Romans who (maybe) moved a substantial part of Ljubljanica river closer to a marble quarry of Podpeč … to end the story we went to the other side of Podpeč to check out how they connected the new channel with the old one. Just to put things in perspective – … Read more

Move Me a River

Oh my … as we went to Ljubljana Marshes landscape park again (for the gazillionth time) to do some kite flying, kite testing and of course kite aerial photography, we certainly did not expect this KAP session to be so cool. It was really amazing. A warm, soft, golden light of an early spring afternoon … Read more

Golden Hour at Ljubljana Marshes

This weekend was perfect for kite flying and kite aerial photography … we had a couple of great KAP sessions and got gigabytes of photos. And this session was the most beautiful of them all. Most of the words we’d use to describe it would feel superfluous, so – here are Ljubljana Marshes in their … Read more

Bragging Time – again!

It’s great to start a new year with an award … We’ve just learned that one of our kite aerial photos won a “Photo of the Year 2020” award on Slovenian Wikipedia! This kite aerial photo of Ljubljana Old town was taken in extremely difficult wind conditions and the kite was launched from a place … Read more

Good Riddance, 2020 – and Happy 2021!

What shall we say about this bizarre, long, awful year? And it started so well … Girls dance at the opening ceremony of 31st IKF Gujarat 2020; Saputara, Gujarat, India. Photo Ragvanj Nikuni We had such a fantastic time flying kites in Gujarat, India … we met old friends and made new ones, and the … Read more

Flying Kites on Independence Day

On 26th of December Slovenia celebrates Independence day – the day in 1990 the results of a plebscite showed almost everyone living in Slovenia (95 % of those who voted and 88 % of all eligible voters) wants it to be an independent country.. So the day after Chistmas is a holiday here – and … Read more

Blue River

Days were passing by and the bleak November turned into the bleak december … Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December … and it looked as if you’d ask the Raven will the wind blow again o’er this wretched land, the ominous bird would just quoth … Nevermore. But then, three weeks … Read more