Autumn trip to The Netherlands

December 1, 2022 By travellingoven Leave a Comment

Recently I spent few days in Leiden and Amsterdam in The Netherlands so here are my impressions and images from the trip…

One of the best things this October was the opportunity to explore and enjoy Leiden, one of the most enchanting cities in The Netherlands and much bigger but equally amazing Amsterdam. This post in not a guide to those places but more a visual diary of my trip and some impressions I wanted to share with you.

Leiden

I’ll first write a bit about Leiden as that’s where I spent more time and I’m so glad I did. I visited it with a friend and had plenty of time to enjoy this charming city in the province of South Holland. Leiden is easily reached by train and the journey from Amsterdam takes between 30 and 40 minutes.

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Autumn in Maksimir Park, Zagreb

November 13, 2022 By travellingoven Leave a Comment

How is this Autumn treating you? Between work I did manage to enjoy some beautiful moments in nature and my favourite season. I wanted to share with you this moody and beautiful early Autumn morning in Maksimir Park, Zagreb…

On another note, I know it’s been too long since my last post! I have so many things that I wanted to post but the time somehow escaped me. This year has been very busy and I didn’t have as much time as I wanted for the blog. Or for creating just for the purpose of creating. But I’m not complaining. I’m so very grateful for all the work opportunities and shooting on great projects and for amazing clients!

Since my blog and my social media pages are so important to me as an outlet to share my photography with people who share the same passion or simply enjoy and appreciate the beauty, I will find more time for that too. It’s a promise. To myself.

I won’t be writing much this time as I want to you to sit back and enjoy this early morning Autumn mood I captured in Maksimir Park in Zagreb, Croatia. I know that some people don’t enjoy these kind of mornings but I find them wonderfully melancholic and beautiful. Melancholy is one of the favourite moods to portray in my photography and often I am more inspired by it than by joy and happiness. Finding beauty in melancholy intrigues me. Also, expressing mood of tranquility, slowing down, ordinary moments… Those are the moments I am drawn to and I feel passionate about. I hope my photography brings something beautiful and peaceful to you too.

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Donja Lokosnica, Serbia’s paprika village

February 10, 2022 By travellingoven 6 Comments

Where is Donja Lokosnica village and why do I write a blog post about it?

Most probably you never heard about the small village of Donja Lokošnica located in the municipality of Leskovac, Serbia. It’s about 45-minute drive from Niš, the third largest city in Serbia. What makes this small village with the population of less than 1000 people so special you may wonder?

Well, in the peppers harvest season the whole village turns red and you can see people in their yards preparing peppers for drying. Peppers are being put out to dry on almost every available wall and surface in the village. It really is a wonderful experience and an interesting thing to see!

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North Macedonia, people and places

January 13, 2022 By travellingoven 2 Comments

MY IMPRESSIONS AND IMAGES OF THIS BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY AND ITS PEOPLE…

Few months ago I travelled to North Macedonia with a small group of photographers and spent a week doing what I like the best. Travelling, photographing, eating the most delicious food and drinking fantastic wine, all in the company of amazing people who share the same interests. To say that I had a great time would be an understatement!

I already posted one blog post from this trip to Macedonia, more specifically about our visit to Pelister National Park so if you missed it and want to see some images of beautiful nature, forests and incredible horses in the fog, you can check it out here: http://www.travellingoven.com/2021/10/pelister-national-park-macedonia/. In that post I also highly recommend the photography tours agency that I used for several of my trips already. So if that is something you are interested, make sure to check out their website: https://www.esenkoworkshops.com and to find out why I recommend them, see my previous blog post linked above. 😀

DOJRAN LAKE

Before saying a few words about Macedonia and about what impressed me the most on this trip, let’s start with these photos of lake Dojran. We visited it on our first morning and it was just such a beautiful sunny day, walking around lake and taking photos was a true pleasure! Dojran Lake is situated in the southeastern part of Macedonia, the summers there are hot and dry and the winters are mild and wet. The mud from Dojran Lake has healing properties and there is abundance of endemic algae species that live in the lake. Lake is known for its traditional way of fishing with the help of birds in reed fences, the so-called mandras. This is one of the few places in the world where fish are hunted with birds.