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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Festive Postojna 2024/2025
A photo series by Žan Kafol showing Postojna during the 2024/2025 festive season.
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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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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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Festive December in Postojna
Festive Titov Square in Postojna; a festive night in Postojna; Postojna at night.
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Second National Geographic Win
After last year's win (archive) in the 2022 National Geographic photo competition, I was convinced it could not happen again this year. Surely someone else has to get a chance, right? Last year's winning photograph…
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Najdena (Lipert) Cave
While searching for the mythical Lipert (Lippert) Cave, Najdena Cave was found, potentially answering many questions raised by Putick's research. Viljem Putick, a Czech caver and forester, had…
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Rok Ferengja & Rok'n'Band – Cultural Pulse of Summer, Postojna
A photo series by Žan Kafol from Rok Ferengja and Rok'n'Band at Kulturni utrip Poletja in Postojna.
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Zeppelin over Postojna
A 75-METRE ZEPPELIN ALSO FLEW LOW OVER POSTOJNA TODAY The Goodyear Blimp visited Slovenia as part of its European tour. At about 13:20 it crossed the Austrian-Slovenian border west of Maribor. Its route…
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The Hundredth Cave
Jama pod Turkovo ogrado, also known as Jama na Grahovnki, is number 100 in the cave register and therefore appears on maps as the Hundredth Cave. It is 100 metres long :) and 23 metres deep. It lies beyond…
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Betalov Rock Shelter
For Statehood Day, the two of us did a quick photo shoot in Betalov spodmol to make an original, funny photograph with the Slovenian flag. We also squeezed through some narrow parts of the cave and examined…
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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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Rakiški Zatok Nature Reserve
A stork nests on a chimney in Rakitnik. It will probably return for years, like the one in Planina whose nest has occupied a chimney for 20 years. It chose the chimney of a farm manor or outbuilding built in…
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The Moon and Sovič – Astronaut
Ana dressed as an astronaut and flew from Sovič to the Moon. Cyril and I photographed her. The first woman on the Moon!
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The Moon and Sovič – Ozzy, Maša and Tjaša
After admiring Cyril's exhibition Postojna beneath the pale moonlight, we got in touch and have since carried out several photography sessions together, as we still have quite a few ideas. This time we tried…
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Rakov Škocjan – Rope Technique
Learning rope technique. Location: the Little Natural Bridge, Rakov Škocjan. We met these two students in front of the entrance to Zelške Caves.
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Cave beneath Predjama Castle
What a funny name. A cave beneath a castle that stands before a cave. True recursion. The Cave beneath Predjama Castle is in Predjama, beneath Predjama Castle :) Almost exactly a year after I took Matej Blatnik…
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Flooded Rakiški Stržen
A photo series of the flooded Rakiški Stržen watercourse, photographed by Žan Kafol.
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Indoor skatepark Postojna, Kras
A panoramic view shows ramps and worn wooden floors inside the old Hotel Kras indoor skatepark in Postojna. A photo story by Žan Kafol.
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