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Clouds over the foothills

2025-03-19T10:22:00.001+01:00

The foothills of the Karavanke, which I've shot many times, this was in the autumn, I love the play of the shadows and the sun breaking through here and there.

Waiting

2025-02-19T10:12:00.000+01:00

Spring morning, taken while waiting for something.

Ride home

2025-01-31T10:10:00.001+01:00

Early evening shot from Vienna of the trolley.

Surf's up

2025-01-02T10:06:00.001+01:00

Ocean Beach, San Francisco, California.

Winter mists

2024-12-14T10:16:00.001+01:00

Taken last winter not 100 meters from our home. My wife noticed these beautiful mists early in the morning and I literally ran outside to take 3 or 4 photos.

By the train tracks

2024-11-01T18:00:00.000+01:00

A lazy saturday morning in Ljubljana, judging by the light, I think this was taken in the early springtime.

The Rock

2024-10-09T18:00:00.001+02:00

Alcatraz Island, which houses a former military fort and prison, lies in the middle of San Francisco Bay. The photo was taken on the same boat ride as this photo of the Golden Gate Bridge.

Coffee

2024-09-04T17:00:00.001+02:00

A spring morning at the local market.

The hikers

2024-08-14T18:00:00.001+02:00

My daughter, not yet three, with my wife behind her, look towards the Karavanke mountains in the background during a short walk up a hill in the vicinity of Ljubljana.

Watchtowers

2024-07-25T14:46:00.002+02:00

Lifeguard watchtowers stand empty in early november. This is along a long, sandy beach in the northern Italian town of Lido di Jesolo, just across the lagoon from Venice. Jesolo is one of the most popular beach resorts in Italy, but is quiet and empty outside of the main tourist season.

Peaks before the dark

2024-01-03T23:32:00.001+01:00

The last light in a narrow mountain valley, looking up at the peaks. The most prominent mountain here, on the left side of the photo, is Špik, whose name literally means "sharp"

Green fern

2023-12-20T21:36:00.001+01:00

I like ferns.

Railing

2023-12-04T21:33:00.001+01:00

Railing on a boat in Izola's marina.

Golden Gate

2023-11-21T21:45:00.001+01:00

Spent a few day in San Francisco towards the beginning of 2023. I took a boat trip out towards the Golden Gate bridge late one evening with a brilliant sunset. This is one of the better photographs from the trip, I love the lovely gentle golden color on the bottom part of the bridge.

Ginkgo

2023-11-11T21:44:00.004+01:00

A ginkgo tree, one of the last to drop its leaves in this quick shot taken at the arboretum of Volčji Potok early in November.

Tracks on gold

2023-11-01T18:40:00.003+01:00

Another shot from Vienna, right outside the Prater amusement park (shown in the last post).

Monsoon

2023-10-19T20:35:00.001+02:00

Prater

2023-10-10T18:33:00.002+02:00

The Prater is an old amusement park in Vienna (its full name being the Wurstelprater), this is one of its more well-known attractions, the Wiener Riesenrad, constructed in 1987.

Via Col Vento - in harbor

2023-09-23T18:23:00.006+02:00

A quick shot, taken during a calm winter's day in the Izola harbor.

Cyclist

2023-09-23T15:52:00.003+02:00

Taken in Vienna one autumn afternoon with the sun starting to go down.

Fly agaric

2022-06-10T09:36:00.003+02:00

I took this in the fall of last year. I know very little about mushrooms, but from a quick on-line search, I think this is an Amanita persicina, a peach-colored fly agaric. If that's the case, it's of a species distinct of the more widely known Amanita muscaria (the classic red fly agaric).

Forest fern

2022-01-31T10:51:00.001+01:00

I love ferns - they are plants that reproduce via spores and don't have seeds or flowers. This was taken in the forest behind our house during the fall, when the vegetation was yellowing and the early afternoon sun shining through a thinning canopy. The sun seemed to spotlight this specific fern, with most of the surrounding forest darker, and a fallen tree framed it nicely.

Ginkgo bilboa

2022-01-19T10:43:00.002+01:00

This ginkgo tree is potted on our balcony and turned a brilliant yellow during the fall. Going from fossil records, these trees used to be widespread around the world (two plus million years ago) but their range shrank to a small area in China. But they are quite commonly planted all over the world and have a strong significance in a few eastern cultures - among other things, a ginkgo leaf is the simbol of Tokyo, and the tree is the city's official tree.

At the market

2021-11-15T10:46:00.001+01:00

Saturday is, for us, often the day to go to market. Mainly for fresh, local fruits and vegetables, whatever happens to be in-season. Also some locally produced milk, cheeses and such. I'll often stop by either the butcher's or the fishmonger's, especially during the summer, when I buy something to toss on the grill. The shopping takes 20 or so minutes after which comes an hour of slowly drinking coffee.

At anchor

2021-11-08T10:14:00.003+01:00

Another late-summer sunset, taken during our last vacation, this one was during the first days of September.

The harbour-bay was clear as glass,

So smoothly it was strewn!

And on the bay the moonlight lay,

And the shadow of the Moon.

-Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner