torek, junij 17, 2008

IAS 2008 short report

Last Sunday I visited the biggest airshow that has ever happened in Slovenia. My friend Oki Blatnik is a pilot, so he got free tickets but unfortunately we did not have privilege to enter area after safety fance (mainly because my accreditation (as official photographer for www.enpuls.com was canceled).
Anyway, I manage to take some quite nice photos of airplanes in action although my working angle was reduced to just about 30° (I has airplane "exhibition" in front of my standing position), so I often caught parts of other planes (on the ground) on the pictures.
Pilots of acrobatic airplanes have unbelievable skills and they are also very brave to fly few meters above ground with velocity which is often higher than 150 km/h (while performing air stunts!).
If you will have opportunity to see something like that, don't hesitate.
Here are some pictures, I have lots more on stock but no time to get them ready for publish :S








Defence minister of Slovenia










when she saw that I am taking picture of her, she sent this kiss to me ;)















Pilots on solid ground are surrounded with lovely girls :)


angry with myself because I cut her hand :(




sobota, maj 31, 2008

Peru and Bolivia

I think I haven't yet published this here at my blog.
From July 7th to August 12th I won't be at home...I am going to Peru and Bolivia to see how people are doing there and to take some pic of people and landscape.
I will be traveling with an expirienced backpacker Simona, she has alrealdy seen lots of places on the Earth.
Fot that occasion I have already bought new, walk around lens (Canon EF-S 17-85 IS 4.5-5.6, circular polarizer and remote switch).
I hope I will be able to make some really great photos like those when I was at North America (USA).
But before leaving, in this minute I am late for friend's weeding where I am official photographer. I guess I will show some weeding pictures here too ;)

This is pic from last weeding where I was official photographer

nedelja, maj 18, 2008

Rescue mission

Yesterday my niece Loti found 2 little birds (my mum said they were Šmarnica birds) on a ground. They fell from the nest which is above house's entrance door.
Birds were really tiny ones and I guess they were learning how to fly. While I was chasing them to catch them to put them back in the nest they jumped from a "little cliff" and successfully landed :)
My niece was really excited, so I gave her my gloves, so she could hold one of them for a while.
Of course I took some photos of a birds and my niece.
After photosession I climbed ladder and put little birds back in the nest and wished them success at their next flying attempt :D
I hope they won't fall into any cat's claws...








nedelja, maj 11, 2008

Pariz in Bruselj

Vedno znova mi prihajajo obdobja, ko ne uspem po več mesecev nič napisat na blog... :(
Čas mi kradejo vse mogoče aktivnosti...plezanje, smučanje, demonstriranje, vodništvo, poroke, fotografiranje, tekme in sevede zraven še služba.
A nekaj dni nazaj mi je Simona (folk, berte njen blog, punca ma super smisel za pisanje!!) dala ultimat...no, pravzaprav sem si ga dal kar sam. Rekla je, da je obupala nad mojim blogom (mja, nč čudnega, če sem pa tako neresn!!), a sem ji odvrnil, da imam končno fotografije iz Francije pripravljene za objavo. Ker mi sevede ni verjela, sem se obvezal, da jo peljem na večerjo, če ta vikend ne bo objave. In evo mene, pišem v nedeljo tik pred iztekom roka ;)
Ampak to ne pomeni, da Simone ne želim pelat na večerjo. Simona, kljub temu te vabim na večerjo...ko pridem spet v LJ, grema ;)
Aja, po dveh dneh preganjanja po hribih, se mi ne lubi pisat v angleščini. Če koga to moti, ga pač naj :P
No, v začetku aprila sem bil 4 dni v Franciji in Belgiji. S prijateljico Nino, ki študira Human Rights v Bruslju sva se dobila v Parizu in ga mal prelaufala (spala sva pri "neznanki" iz www.couchsurfing.com z imenom Marianne...žal nimam nobene njene slike). Po tem pa sva se odpavla še v Bruselj, ki pa ni nič posebnega.
Pariz je super mesto, prava metropola, z res lepo arhitekturo in super načinom transporta! Res me je navdušil. Zagotovo se še vrnem.
Ostal mi je še kar precejšen del Louvra za pregledat, Eiflov stolp od zgoraj in zagotovo še kaj.
Ja, prvič sem se zares vozil s podzemno železnico. Navdušenje popolno. Zelo enostaven in izredno hiter način transporta. Logiko podzemne železnice sem osvojil v 10 minutah (vaaa, ka sm js pametn in dojemljiv...hahah). Še nisem potoval enostavneje ;)
No, v Parizu sva z Nino obiskala Notre Dame, Rodinov muzej, Mont Mantre, Louvre, Peruan museum, Eiflov stolp (nisva šla gor) in Art de Triumf ter Elizejske poljane...vmes pa se "kregala" kateri del Slovenije najbolj pravilno govori Slovensko...mja, Nina, moram priznat, da maš kar prav....če boste Gorenjci nekoč vsaj za polovico zmanjšali izpuščanje samoglasnikov, boste kar blizu pravi Slovenščini :D
Aja, vidla sma tudi Bruselj, ki pa ima bistveno manj za pokazat kot pa Pariz. Edino podzemna železnica je novejša (en majčken plus). Bruseljski ponos je "lulajoči" deček ali kakor se je izrazila Nina: "Poscanec" :D. Kip "Poscanca" je velik "neverjetnih" 50cm. Ko sem ga zagledal, sem padel v prikrit krohot in se odpravil dalje. Nisi fotografirat se mi ga ni zdelo smotrno...le nekaj "snapshotov" več bi imel.
Na drugi strani pa moram rečt, da pa je Belgijska čokolada res tako dobra kot se govori ;)
Edina zanimiva stvar v okolici Bruslja je še poleg botaničnega vrta (ki pa ga ponavadi lahko vidiš v vsakem večjem mestu po svetu) Atomium, 102m visoka skulptura, ki predstavlja 9 atomov povezanih v mulekulo. Zanimiva "stavba". Super za slikat.
Na poti domov pa me je čakal še en izziv...čimprej se pripeljati iz Trevisa do doma, saj je naslednji dan treba v službo.
Sevede se Ryainair ni izneveril stari tradiciji in tokrat zamujal kar debelo uro (due to logistical problems). To mi je sevede ravno za toliko prestavilo prihod domov. V Trevisu mi je po asfaltu "zletel" GPS, kar je sevede vodilo do nerganja, sočnih besed in slabe volje...saj je le-ta bil izposojen. Hvala Andreju Lubeju, da ni nič kompliciral za tisto prasko na ohišju! No, po spitem Red Bullu (pijem ga zelo redko) sem prispel domov ob 3eh zjutraj.
Na mojo veliko žalost pa se (tako kot čakanje na letalo) vstajanje za službo ni zavleklo za debelo uro in me je ob 6.30 telofon na "trdo" vrgel iz postle. Ob 7.30 sem že veselo vegetiral v službi (se opravičujem svojemu delodajalcu za verjetno precej neproduktiven delovni dan).
Nina, hvala za super izlet in gostoljublje v Bruslju. Super je blo. To morma še kdaj ponovit!!
No, o lepoti Pariza in nekaterih drugih motivih presodite bralci sami.
Foto robe je ogromno disku, tako da bom v naslednjih dnevih in tednih še kar nekaj objavil. Upam!
Simona, verjetno neb blo slabo, da mi daš spet kak "izziv"...tako kot si mi ga dala za tale prrispevek :)
Za več slik klikni tukaj.



Notre Dame od znotraj

Eiffel

Louvre

Atomium


Center Bruslja...ja, sej vem, da visi, sam se mi je ni dalo popravljat...lenoba an ;)


Eiffel ponoči




detajl v botaničnem vrto...kje so pa rastline?


Graščina v botaničnem vrtu


Atomium spet


Križ v Notre Dame


Hranilec ptic pred Notre Dame


Tti zmešani angleži se hodjo portretirat v Pariz :D


Italjanka hoče fasat pričjo gripo :D


Nina in js pred Mont Mantre

sobota, februar 09, 2008

I was flying today! I want more...

Yesterday, my friend Oki invited me to go with him up in the air today...to fly with his father's ultra light plane.
Of course, I couldn't refuse that offer.
In the morning we checked weather conditions (clear, no wind), so we sat in the car and went to the Slovenj Gradec Airport.
First we had to check all vital components of a plane then we embark into the cockpit. Oki performed starting procedures and after warming the engine we were airborn in about 15 seconds.
First we were flying in the direction to my home village to see my house from the air, then we continue to Šoštanj and Velenje, then to see Celje from the air. Afterwards we followed Savinja river upstream to Mozirje, Ljubno...Then we entered in area above Logarska valley. We admired the beauty of our mountains.
We were so enthusiastic that we almost enetered Austrian air space by mistake...in that case we would probably get an escort of an Austrian army fighters.
We flew parallel to Olševa summit (but on Slovenian side) to get to Črna na Koroškem, Žerjav, Mežica and Ravne na Koroškem. Then just over the little hill and we saw Drava river and Dravograd city. From there is just minute or two to Slovenj Gradec and from there it takes few minutes to safe landing at Slovenj Gradec Airport.
As you can see in the title of this post, I enjoyed this flight very much although it was occasionaly quite bumpy due to north-east wind which was blowing at heights (on the south-west faces of the hills air expands and develops lots of turbulences).
Oki, I want some more ;) Hehehe... Thanks for today!!

Ohh, pictures are not very good because I couldn't use my polarizer...the windshield and all other windows on the plane are made from polycarbonate glass and if I tried to take a photo with polarizer on, I got strange and ugly rainbow on the pic.... :(


what a nice little plane ;)


Oki is checking vital parts of a plane


Oki-Maverick before taking off


My home village-my house is fourth one from the bottom at the left part of the picture


Castle of Celje over Savinja river


Mountain Oljka and church on it




Wing of an airplane


Oki is mounting a pole to pull the plane in the hangar