Night nominee

Ordinarily during the blue hour, the best white balance is daylight. However, there are certain conditions in which using the fluorescent setting works brilliantly. This is one of them. Typically it works best when a bright moon is up. In this case the moon was high and at 77% waxing. Despite the heavy low cloud and mist, the moonlight still penetrateds, and coupled with the artificial light of the church and castle reflecting off the mist, produced some amazing results!

I got into photography after a four-month journey around Mexico filled me with the desire to capture the wonderful life and scenery that had filled my eyes and fueled my imagination. Unfortunately, back then all I had was a very old compact camera with a severely scratched lens, therefore the images I took really weren’t very good. However, I saw the potential in what was there and therefore decided to invest in my first SLR and start to learn how to take better photos.

In the years that followed, I learned my craft while travelling and focused mainly on travel photography. But when I met my wife, who is from Slovenia, and started travelling in her country, then I started focusing more on landscape photography.


My photography and writing has been published in Mysterious World: Ireland, Lonely Planet, Living Abroad, Bradt Travel Guides, the Guardian and Landscape Photography Magazine, among others.

3rd place in PPOTY

In 2014 I was very happy to receive the runner up award in the travel category of the Professional Photographer of the Year (PPOTY).