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Una River and Plitvice Lakes National Parks

November 8, 2018 By travellingoven Leave a Comment

One of the decision I made this year is to spend much more time in the nature as that is something because of work and life I didn’t get to do nearly as much as I wanted and needed and I’m glad that lately I’ve had quite a few opportunities for that, hopefully in the future there will be even more. Nature recharges me and fills me up with positive energy, gives me inner peace and specially when I have my camera with me (almost always) so I can capture some of that beauty and do what I love.

Also, when you do a creative work such as photography, it’s good to sometimes change the subject and shoot something that you don’t necessarily do every day. It’s so important for inspiration and for personal growth to go out of your comfort zone and try out different things. You never know where will the road take you if you never even try… I was so happy to join Esenko Photography Workshops and spend few unforgettable days with a small group of people from all around the world who share the same passion for travel, enjoying nature and photography. We spent our days photographing rivers, waterfalls and lakes, forests coloured in the most beautiful Autumn colours, gorgeous details you can find only in nature but some other cool stuff too such as old abandoned Yugoslav military base Zeljava, Tito’s cave in Drvar (Bosnia & Herzegovina), local people making fruit brandy called ‘rakija’ (which we had to try of course!) etc..

In this post I won’t be writing too much but let the photos tell you the story of this wonderful trip and photography tour. I’ll first start with photos from Una River National Park, situated in the northwestern part of Bosnia and Herzegovina, I hope my photos can show you at least a bit of this natural beauty on moody Autumn days…

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Food Photography & Styling workshop in Croatia by Eva Kosmas Flores (Autumn, 2018)

October 29, 2018 By travellingoven 4 Comments

Those of you who follow me here on my blog and my social media accounts, probably know already how excited I was last year to get an invitation from one of the best food photographers in the world and also the sweetest and kindest person you could meet, Eva Kosmas Flores (blog Adventures in Cooking), to join her and the team and help out at the Food photography & styling workshop in Croatian region of Istria. It was one of the best experiences I’ve ever had since I stepped into the world of food photography and you can read all about that last year’s experience and see all the photos here in this blog post…

How happy and grateful I was to be invited again this year, it’s better I don’t even try to explain it with words! The team this year was the same except that instead of lovely Trisha (blog Eat your beets) other guest teacher was Bea (blog Bea’s cookbook) and oh my, within a day or two she became one of my favourite people in the world , without exaggeration. I’ll tell you more about that later in the post!

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Day trip to Glasgow, Scotland

October 24, 2018 By travellingoven Leave a Comment

If you saw my last blog post about Edinburgh, than you already know how much I love Scotland and that I used to live there about 10 years ago for two years. More specifically I lived in Glasgow so obviously that city has a very special meaning for me as I have so many memories from living there, some beautiful and amazing ones and some not so great ones. You know, just the way life usually goes… The post about Edinburgh was much longer than this one as me and my friend spent three days there and had enough time to wander around and photograph. The trip to Glasgow was a day-trip or more something like half-day trip so we walked around the city centre, visited some places that I wanted to see again, tasted some cookies (more on that later!), had a great lunch and so on…

Not many tourists visit Glasgow but it’s such a fun city to explore and it’s very easy to have a day-trip from Edinburgh as it takes about an hour by train and trains run all day long so that’s the easiest way to visit. The city centre is much smaller in Glasgow so you can see most of it attractions in half day but there are other interesting stuff to see that are further away from the centre, like many museums worth visiting, Glasgow’s university with beautiful architecture, Pollok house and country park, Botanic gardens, Glasgow Science centre and so on… We obviously didn’t have time to visit all these places but I remember them very well from before and if you have a bit more time in Glasgow, make sure you go and check them out!

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Visiting Edinburgh, Scotland

October 11, 2018 By travellingoven Leave a Comment

This Summer in July I spent amazing 8 days in beautiful Scotland, one of my favourite countries. Besides being exciting and wonderful, it has also been an emotional trip for me as I used to live in Scotland about 10 years ago in what seems like a totally another life. It was 2 years of my life that I spent living in Glasgow and I have many beautiful but also difficult memories from that time so it was kind of a big deal for me to be back after so much time.

I’ve been planning that trip with my friend who is also photography obsessed lol so we knew that we wanted to use the time we had in the best possible way to take as many photos humanly possible in the most wonderful locations. We also wanted to enjoy our holidays and that means eating delicious food, drinking lots of coffee and black tea and possible a whiskey (or gin!) or two, driving through the remote locations with only green hills and sheep to keep us company and so on… Scottish Highlands were kind of a priority on our list. Also enough time in Edinburgh to explore and take lots and lots of photos of one of the prettiest cities. Oh well, priority was also Isle of Skye, magical island with ‘out of this world’ scenery. So as you can see we had a lot of priorities, busy schedule but we also wanted to be spontaneous and not plan every single thing because where is the joy in that, right!? 😀 Not an easy task to do all that in just 8 days but I’m happy to report that we DID IT! And we had the best time ever, definitely one of my favourite trips I took…

We started our trip with 3 days in Edinburgh so this post will be about that part of our Scottish adventure. I’ll write another shorter one about Glasgow and than one larger again about Scottish Highlands, gorgeous nature, Isle of Skye, cute animals (read: cows and sheep!) etc.. 🙂 Scotland is amazing country, believe me!