Return from Slovenia
30th January 2014
I'm back from a very hectic Slovenia workshop - at times I sped round faster than a snowy owl.
Despite my pre-trip worries the weather gave us a break and the first winter snow fell the day before we arrived. The temperature was never greater than 2 deg C and mainly in the region of -2 deg C. Generally I didn't feel the cold and pretty much everything I took with me proved effective at keeping the cold at bay. Except for my feet. Poor old feet. I eventually found a combination of socks and a heatpad that seemed to do the trick.
The scenery was fantastic with the covering of snow and hoare frost and the forests looks particularly amazing. The locations were varied, some new and some old and all worth a visit. An afternoon was spent on a 3 hour hike up a snow covered ski trail on a mountain in Austria until we reached the summit at around 7500ft. It was like walking up the Empire State building whilst being punched around the legs and kidneys by tenacious flyweight boxers. In the end, my body felt like the boxers had won.
So with early starts and late finishes the trip was a hectic one. One night was spent taking a star trail photo when the temperature was about -11C at midnight. And this was before I discovered the optimum sock combination. Poor feet.
During the trip I became the creative force behind 'Priceys Hot Pants' which I'm sure you will be seeing in all good retailers in time for next winter. Unless they exist already. Or unless nobody wants them. Or both.
At the moment images will be located in Latest Work and in time they'll be in Photos of Slovenia
Despite my pre-trip worries the weather gave us a break and the first winter snow fell the day before we arrived. The temperature was never greater than 2 deg C and mainly in the region of -2 deg C. Generally I didn't feel the cold and pretty much everything I took with me proved effective at keeping the cold at bay. Except for my feet. Poor old feet. I eventually found a combination of socks and a heatpad that seemed to do the trick.
The scenery was fantastic with the covering of snow and hoare frost and the forests looks particularly amazing. The locations were varied, some new and some old and all worth a visit. An afternoon was spent on a 3 hour hike up a snow covered ski trail on a mountain in Austria until we reached the summit at around 7500ft. It was like walking up the Empire State building whilst being punched around the legs and kidneys by tenacious flyweight boxers. In the end, my body felt like the boxers had won.
So with early starts and late finishes the trip was a hectic one. One night was spent taking a star trail photo when the temperature was about -11C at midnight. And this was before I discovered the optimum sock combination. Poor feet.
During the trip I became the creative force behind 'Priceys Hot Pants' which I'm sure you will be seeing in all good retailers in time for next winter. Unless they exist already. Or unless nobody wants them. Or both.
At the moment images will be located in Latest Work and in time they'll be in Photos of Slovenia