Category: View — Žan Kafol

Drone view over a narrow Sicilian coastal settlement extending into blue-green water beneath a low bank of cloud.

9 Nov 2024 Aerial photography

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 angles across the starry twilight above a dark mountain ridge and scattered lights in the valley.

24 Oct 2024 Long exposures

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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Ana stands backlit in the dry, eroded bed of Rešeto at Lake Cerknica beneath a dramatic cloud-filled sky.

25 Jul 2021 Aerial photography

Dry Lake Cerknica – Rešeto

I observe Cerkniško polje from the air in every season, on average about 50 times a year, but I simply cannot take good photographs from a paraglider. I have no time, not enough free hands and cannot go exactly where…

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Snow-streaked Snežnik rises beyond forested Javorniki ridges under a clear blue spring sky.

10 May 2021 Mountains

Veliki Kožljek (1,240 m) – Javorniki

Veliki Kožljek offers one of the finest, if not the finest, viewpoints in the Javorniki. It overlooks not only the entire Postojna and Pivka basins, Nanos, Snežnik and the sea, as Mali Javornik does, but…

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Several colourful paragliders circle above the Nanos ridge and hazy Vipava valley in clear blue sky.

19 Dec 2015 Aerial photography

Nanos – Antenna, Vipava Valley

A photo series by Žan Kafol from Nanos, its antenna and views across the Vipava Valley.

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A white summit cross stands on rocky Kucelj above the Vipava landscape beneath clear blue sky.

8 Nov 2015 Mountains

Kucelj near Čaven

A photo series from Kucelj near Čaven by Žan Kafol, featuring the hilltop landscape and the cross on the summit.

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Aerial paragliding view across the Postojna basin, its roads, fields and town stretching towards wooded hills.

23 Aug 2015 Aerial photography

Postojna Basin, Nanos

An aerial photo series of the Postojna Basin and Nanos, including paragliding views photographed by Žan Kafol.

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A paraglider pilot looks over the green Soča valley, with Kobarid and the slopes of Kobariški Stol far below.

22 Aug 2015 Aerial photography

Kobariški Stol, Kobarid

A photo series by Žan Kafol from Kobariški Stol and the landscape around Kobarid.

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A pilot walks uphill from an orange paraglider laid across the grassy launch on Soriška Planina.

15 Aug 2015 Mountains

Sorica

Soriška Planina is a launch site for paraglider pilots aiming to make Slovenia's longest cross-country flights. It was my first time here, and the forecast was poor because of strengthening wind and afternoon storms, so I flew…

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