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
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
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
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
It was not an easy session, but when one waits for almost a month to fly a kite again, one does not trash-talk the moody wind … 😉 Between the hamlets of Zgornji Kašelj, Vevče, and Zalog on the eastern edge of Ljubljana basin a huge cylindrical structure rises by the Zaloška road: It’s a … Read more
This was a quick and neat KAP session in Tivoli City Park just outside Ljubljana Centre proper … the wind was strong, the park was almost empty due to pandemic restrictions, it was a nice flight. The Picavet we used is designed for two cameras (usually a near-infrared and a conventional one), so flying it … Read more
Kozler’s forest is the largest remnant of once extensive forest bogs of Ljubljana Marshes. It’s a beautiful and kinda mysterious place, and with the vast fields around it it’s a great kite flying and kite aerial photography spot. When, of course, the wind isnt’ that crazy. The wind was strong that sunny autimn afternoon, but … Read more
This was really frustrating … we went to one of the most charming and interesting places in Slovenia -and all we got are a couple (no, really – two!) good kite aerial photos … Hrastovlje. This fortified church dates back to 14th century – just after the plague ravaged the countyside – and is dedicated … Read more
In late 3rd century AD a guy from Tergeste converted to Christianity and since it was the time of Persecutions of Nurian, hid in a cave on the Karst edge high above the town. While he got spiritual guidance in that cave, he also got arrested and was executed, probably in 284 AD. His name … Read more
Materija lowland is a long dry limestone valley in the southwestern Slovenia, leading from the Karst edge above Trieste towards Rijeka and the Kvarner gulf. The streams that flow from the unpermeable flysch hills of Brkini that created deep blind valleys on contact with the limestone disappear into karst underground. And on the edge of … Read more