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Scottish Highlands and Isle of Skye

November 29, 2018 By travellingoven Leave a Comment

This is my third and last blog post about my trip to Scotland few months ago, here you can see blog posts about one of my favourite cities ever, Edinburgh and the city I have visited for the first time after living there about ten years ago, Glasgow. After spending few days in those amazing cities my friend and I rented a car and took a road trip to Scottish Highlands and Isle of Skye. Five days was definitely not enough to explore everything but we did a LOT in those days, I’m talking waking up very early, hiking, taking thousands of photos, enjoying breathtakingly beautiful nature, stopping our car every 5 minutes because there is something beautiful we just HAD to photograph, taking portraits of cutest Scottish sheep and Highland cows, having no internet service, watching sunsets, indulging in comforting Scottish food and black tea, possibly a whiskey (or gin!) or two! 🙂

If you never visited Scotland yet, I highly recommend taking some time to explore the Highlands as the nature there is ‘out of this world’ beautiful and you can really disconnect from the rest of the world for a while and be there present, breathing, taking it all in and feeling free and alive. At least that’s how I felt…

Also, can we say a word or two about the weather. We all know that if you travel to Scotland, you’ll most likely get wet at least few times, I mean rain is something that is just a part of the whole experience and the weather shouldn’t stop you in any plans (as long as it’s safe of course). I learned that still while I lived there because if you would start cancelling trips every time there is a bad weather forecasted, you would never go anywhere trust me. So just make sure you dress appropriately and go wherever you wanted to go! Also, the moody weather and dark clouds are perfect for photography so yaaay, I want to go again! We travelled there in July and since the rest of Europe was going through a heat wave at the time, we really really enjoyed refreshing cooler weather. Yes, it did rain a bit and it would get quite windy too but honestly we didn’t care. We were too busy having a wonderful time!

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Una River and Plitvice Lakes National Parks

November 8, 2018 By travellingoven 2 Comments

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!