Sara

In father's workshop

Pahor's coronation* & Protestival

"Come and see us Janez!" - in the spirit of new age, Children of Socialism(Otroci Socializma, a cult punk band) transformed into Children of Oportunism(Otroci Oportunizma) and unlike Brane, who refuses to go and watch his late neighbour, Janez refuses to meet with the people.  

3rd anti-government gathering in Ljubljana, 7.12.2012

1st All-Slovene Uprising, 21.12.2012

Such Rhetoric

is a part of the problem, not the solution...

We demand

a legal, social state. Down with current Slovene government.

Matic

You've probably seen quite a lot of photos of masked demonstrants in the past few weeks, but this one is different in an important aspect - if people on most of the photos wore bandanas in order to cover their identities and to fight the police, Matic wore it exclusively in order to fight low temperatures at thursday's demonstrations. 

Nikon F100
Sigma 28 1.8
Kodak Portra 400

University of Ljubljana's protests against proposed cuts in educational system - part two

University of Ljubljana's protests against proposed cuts in educational system

Ljubljana, 6.12.2012

Demonstrations, decorations & snow

... were the story of the 3rd anti-government gathering in Ljubljana. A rather unusual combination, but what matters is that people are finally starting to respond.

Sara

"Students? Well, finally!" *

Members of Iskra protesting against proposed reforms of our educational system at anti-government protests in Ljubljana, 17.11.2012.

Is the time running out for our system of free post-graduate education ?

Boris Pahor

Boris Pahor during an interview in Konzorcij bookstore which celebrated writer's 99th birthday and recent publication of his newest book, Knjiga o Radi (Book about Rada).

Trnfest - Katalena

10000000000

V zadnjih dneh bivše Juge je bil lahko vsakdo miljarder. Pa vseeno ni imel za burek.

20 let kasneje se zgodba ponavlja. Razen miljard. 
--
In ex-Yugoslavia's final days everyone could be a billionaire. Unfortunately, that doesn't mean one was also rich, though.

20 years later the story repeats itself. Except for the billions.

Flight back

A bit corny, right? Nevertheless, it rounds up the story of IPhO well - it started in black and white in a morning rush towards the airport, it ends in beautiful colors of the setting sun somewhere between Germany and Slovenia. And what a ride it was ;)

Frankfurt

Only about an hour away from home. Feelings? Mixed.

IPhO 2012 - Harry Kroto, closing ceremony and a group portrait

Let's start at the end - with the gold medalists, quite simply because a group photo of them celebrating their success seems suitable to open today's post. What follows are photos from the inspiring lecture of '96 Nobel Prize Winner Harry Kroto, some additional scenes from the closing ceremony and a group portrait of our team for the very end.

IPhO 2012 - Rakvere & AHAA

View of the medieval Rakvere castle

My blog posts are not going to make a classic report on IPhO 2012. After all, the latter if foremost a physics competition while I don't have any photos of the actual competition - no, not even a single one. First of all, we weren't allowed to bring anything but the officially approved calculator and some pencils to the actual competition. Attempting to do otherwise would almost certainly result in disqualification of the whole team, which would be... well, you name it. Secondly, had I taken the camera with me, I should have left it on the bus for the whole duration of the competition. Again, it would only be an additional concern.

Anyway, this post shows photos from medieval Rakvere Castle and from AHAA science centre.

IPhO 2012 - the journey and day 1

I've decided to split the story of IPhO into several smaller posts - starting with the one about our journey and the first day spent in Tallinn. As the photo above implies, Sunday of 15th July started pretty early for us - with a morning rush towards the Jože Pučnik Airport (I'll probably never get used to the name, though...)

IPhO 2012 - Life in Tallin & Tartu

As promised, here comes a slightly longer post with street photos of Tallinn and Tartu - not too long, though, as photography was not among mine prime concerns during the week spent up there ;)

Tartu

We've just returned from Physics Olympiad in Estonia and here's a little photograph showing a piece of Tartu's life. More photos are coming up soon.

53. Ljubljana Jazz Festival - 4 concerts, 8 photos.

The equation is simple, I've attended 4 concerts, each shall be represented with two photos. Two seems a fine number, right between one and three, which seem to be too few or too many, respectively. Anyway, I'll rather let the photos talk:

Trumpet and Drums:

53. Jazz Festival Ljubljana: Neneh Cherry & The Thing; Križanke, 30.6.2012

The two

... looking through the window of Cankarjev Dom's Club after the performance of Trumpet and Drums has ended.

Dež

We've seen some heavy rain at today's tournament.
--
Dež na današnjem nogometnem turnirju.

Skokšut. Z današnjega turnirja v ulični košarki.
--
Jumpshot. From today's streetball tournament.

40 let Vala 202 - Res Nullius

Slavc & Soki - Elvis Jackson

Erik Makuc - Slavc

Marko Soršak - Soki 

Portreta z vaje pred koncertom Elvisov na Valovi 40-letnici. 

Brez naslova.
--
Untitled.

Igit Music at Gornji trg, 7.6.2012

Sometimes

you don't need much for a good concert. (Igit Music, 7.6.2012, Gornji trg, Ljubljana)

Rendezvous.

Counterlight, again.

Counterlight

Nikon D200 + Nikkor 85 1.8 AF-S G; ISO 250, f/7.1, 1/400s

Nikon D200 + Nikkor 85 1.8 AF-S G; ISO 250, f/7.1, 1/400s

Nothing special; made while looking for the front lenscap of my prakticar which got lost (the cap, not the lens) today. There were some heavy showers between the cap getting lost and me going back to the crime scene to find it, hence the droplets. Naturally, I haven't found the lenscap, so I'll just have to get a new one, but at least I made two fairly decent shots.

--
Vem, da je bila fotoantika dva dni nazaj, ampak ali se komu kje valja odvečen pokrovček za Prakticin M42 objektiv? (ja, celotna objava je v bistvu malo bolj estetsko dovršeno povpraševanje po izgubljenem pokrovčku)

Trubar's street at 8 o'clock

... an empty space.

St. Anne at 4 o'clock

And how I've seen it... You get the clue, right?
Anyway, there's a little story for those who don't. We planned a trip to St. Anne hill above Ljubljansko barje. Apparently it's a popular location for landscape photography due to its view of the Barje beneath. We planned to get there at around four o'clock (before the sunset, to be more precise), which meant we had to get up somewhere around three. You can already see where this is going, right ?(even those who needed a bit longer to figure out Santa Claus were actually mom and dad) At two I said to myself, let's have some sleep, then I woke up five past three, figured out no one was probably awaken yet and I said something to myself again - this time it was:"damn, let's have another 10 minutes of sleep." When I woke up 10 minutes later it was... 4.20. And, that's about it, happens to the best of us.

At least I haven't missed the morning train which took me to this year's FotoAntika.

Slovene translation:
Zaspal sem, kajpada. Potem pa takole izgleda Sveta Ana na Barju ob štirih zjutraj.

Nočni bus

Nočni bus, ki me je popeljal z Magnumovega predavanja in odprtja razstave v CD. Zdaj pa spat, jutrišnji (današnji?) dan bo v smislu fotofestivalskega dogajanja pester in zanimiv. Se splača ne zamudit.

Jazz Cerkno 2012 - the final evening

Michel Doneda of the Doneda/Kocher/Sambolec/Grom quartet

Jazz Cerkno 2012 - day two, rehearsal and the concert

Jazz Cerkno 2012 - the opening evening

All that Jazz...

Ramon López of the Fernández / Guy / López Trio performing yesterday at the Jazz Cerkno festival.

Uwe

Kropinski at the opening evening of Jazz Cerkno 2012 festival. Be sure there is more to come ;)

Godibodi 2012 - Nula Kelvina