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Playing with my new macro lens. Can you guess what these are?

Answers: black pepper, rosemary and caraway.

Finally took some time off from Maperitive to sort out the pics from last week’s hiking trip around Kebelj, Pohorje. I had to walk for a few hours in a knee-deep snow with the tripod in my rucksack to get some decent tonemapped images.

I finally processed my pics from a trip I made a week ago. I visited Rogla and Lovrenska jezera (Lovrenc lakes, OSM map link). A quote from a local link:

The Lovrenc lakes are not true lakes. They are true high peat swampland, which developed here 8000 years ago, after the Ice Ages. Glaciers retreated, hollowing out the Pohorje tonalite and leaving depressions, which were covered by water. They quickly became marshes and over the centuries, true bogs arose. Lack of contact with groundwater is characteristic and it is fed by precipitations alone.

Here are some of the photos, you can find the rest here, if you’re interested. All photos are geotagged, some of them are made using the HDR tonemapping technique.

I was on a business trip to Dublin this week and my colleague and me managed to get a few hours after work to visit Tree Rock mountain in the south of Dublin (Wikipedia article). As you can see from the photos, the weather was typically summerly Irish

One of the rocks the mountain got its name from…

Panorama of the southeastern Dublin:

The a few additional pictures can be found here. I would have posted the link to OSM map, but it’s in the maintenance mode this weekend and thus unreachable.

Arnica montana, a protected wildflower species:

Nice pattern on this spider, I don’t know what species it is:

And a couple of shots created with HDR tonemapping. Had to carry my tripod for quite a long distance to get these:

The rest of the photos are here.

photo credit: State Library of New South Wales collection

I’ve succumbed to the Twitter craze (well, not really, just experimenting . You can follow me on http://twitter.com/breki74

Topics? Development, OpenStreetMap, Kosmos and other projects I’m involved in, hiking, photography, who knows what else…

A few pictures from my trip to Crno jezero on Pohorje (OSM map) last Friday. I haven’t met a single soul on my 4.5 hours hike, so I had a liberty to wander around and experiment with some new HDR techniques using my tripod.

Crno jezero (“Black lake”) is an artificial lake made on a marshy terrain made for logging purposes some 150 years ago (and used for this purpose until 1959). The name of the lake comes from the dark reddish color of its water. The lake and the surrounding area is now a nature reserve.

Below are some of the pictures I took, you can see the whole set here. All pictures are geotagged.

I haven’t done any real posting for a long time, so at least I’ll post some pictures this time.

Crni vrh (1543 m, OSM map link) is the highest peak of the Pohorje mountain. The area is a real treat for nature lovers and hikers. Since it wasn’t really mapped on the OSM, I’ve decided to take my friends for hiking there and I managed to take a few pictures along the way (here’s the whole set).

Ribnica lake (elevation 1500 m):

A view from the Crni vrh towards the Kope ski center:

Ribniska koca guesthouse:

Some pictures from yesterday’s hiking around Hrastje near Maribor (here’s a map):

You can find the rest of the photo set here.

Yesterday I’ve been hiking around the Bistriški Vintgar area on Pohorje and mapping it. Below are some HDR photos I’ve managed to produce from the trip. I now use a tripod for these things – taking series of bracketed pics for HDR post-processing without a tripod is really problematic (if you don’t know what I’m talking about, don’t worry, just enjoy the scenery).

Otherwise there’s also an old Roman quarry of white marble in the vicinity, but I haven’t visited it this time since the paths were very icy and slippery (I only managed to fall once on the whole trip – but it’s definitively on my “todo” hiking list.

An archeological site called Ancnikovo gradisce, above the Bistrica stream: