Microplastics in Postojna Cave: Another Month of Monitoring
With Raffaele, Blaž and Magdalena in Postojna Cave, changing samples for a study of microplastics settling out of the cave air.
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Planina Cave: Technical Work, No Time to Pose
Four boats, two divers and a fast-moving technical operation at Skrivnostno jezero in Planinska jama.
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Crescent Sun 🌒
A partial solar eclipse over Slovenia, seen through cloud and evening haze from Vremščica.
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Calendar 2026
This year I decided to publish my first calendar, featuring the subjects that define me most: the karst landscape and flying in the local area. It is a landscape A3 wall calendar. You can order it on this website:…
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Ice Cave in Paradana
The Great Ice Cave in Paradana is one of Slovenia's deepest and best-known caves, with a history of ice being cut, removed and sold in the late 19th century. Today…
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Festive Postojna 2024/2025
A photo series by Žan Kafol showing Postojna during the 2024/2025 festive season.
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Sicily
We planned a trip along Sicily's southern coast. There were a few days of bad weather (we escaped Catania just before the floods), but it cleared up for the last few days. Most views are from the air, with the odd one…
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Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS (C/2023 A3)
After the monsoon period came three clear days. The peak, when the comet was closest to Earth at 71 million kilometres, or 0.47 AU (47% of the average Earth–Sun distance), was in the previous week (12 October…
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Victory is a State of Mind
In the spirit of recreation's double meaning—Ronaldo's most-liked Instagram photos and a sports day—Tobija, Miha and I decided to climb to the bottom of Javorniško Brezno 2 (a.k.a. Jama pod Volčjim vrhom, KŠ…
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Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis) in Slovenia – May 2024
Seeing the northern lights here is unusual, but because solar eruptions have been more frequent in the current period, we have been able to observe them three times since last year. The Sun reverses its magnetic…
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Markov Spodmol
With all the media coverage of Križna gora and the rising water, I remembered that I had never posted any photographs of Markov Spodmol on the blog, and that we had once turned back quite quickly…
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