The First Relaxed Kite Flying of the Year!?

No way! Yes, way … This year has been decidedly odd (and the weather has, for the most part, shown a marked aversion to kites). It’s March already, and we have managed exactly one (1) kite aerial photography session and this single, blissfully relaxed kite-flying outing – our grand total for the year so far. … Read more

A Festival For One

The aromatic smoke of the last beedee rises and swirls, the first warm sunbeams playing with it like mischievous kittens. The dark, cold January is well behind us: the first flowers are just about to bloom, the birds are singing their hearts out … We try to look forward, to smell the spring on a … Read more

One Night in … Izola

“I don’t know how to January!”– Marczin So … when it became clear that after so many years we’d have to spend the great holiday of Uttarayan not in India, but in Slovenia – and not just Uttarayan, the whole bloody January! – we promptly went through all six stages of grief. Denial, anger, bargaining, … Read more

A Castle in the Woods

Beeches be trippin’ … Few people realize that among plants, beeches are the ultimate party animals. They’re cool, they drink a lot (of course), and they’re dressed to impress – those striking silver trunks and vibrant green leaves that sway seductively in the gentle breeze … When conditions are warm and wet, beeches truly thrive; … Read more

Phoenix of the Water: Stržen and Lake Cerknica

The Gods of Winds can be generous around the Old year / New year transition, so we are usually able to head down to Cerknica and take some more kite aerial photos of this exceptional place. Because it’s never enough. And it’s never the same. So we honoured the tradition – and the first published … Read more

Delights of the Sky: 2025 Rare Angon Festival, Bali

Duality, that’s the word. The most vulgar tourism one can imagine (drunken stag parties of entitled overgrown children everywhere all the time) – and the most peaceful travelling through emerald rice terraces. Out.of-place “sport pubs” and neon-polluted “night clubs” – and the most intricately built temples. Four star concrete “all-inclusive” resorts with swimming pools and … Read more

Jogja Unlimited! (A Warm Tale for Cold Winter Nights)

So, you thought we’d forget this? The best kite festivals of the Summer? Forget Indonesia? Yeah, right. Here we go! This story started almost three years ago on a freshly harvested cotton field in Hubbali. Aji and Gregor were relaxing after they managed to convince the Slovenian trilobite to carry three Indonesian cobras into the … Read more

A Watery Surprise

So we decided to visit Planina polje, the fascinating karst field southwest from Ljubljana to catch the Autumn colours that grace its edges, but we completely disregarded the Autumn rains that fell a couple of days before. The paths crisscrossing the Planina polje are off limits to cars (park at the edge and protect the … Read more

No Wind Up There

Sometimes we have nothing to report, no tale to tell. It happens. When there is no wind, there’s pretty much nothing we can do about it. Slovenia in general is … ehm, wind-challenged. And so are the best places here: for every great shot and for each successful kite aerial photography session there are tens … Read more