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p.1 #1 · p.1 #1 · Slovenian Icon - The Church of St.Thomas

Been a while since I`ve visited the forum let alone post any photos. But a couple of weeks ago I got a perfect oportunity to visit one of the iconic locations in Slovenia and that "woke" me up from my sleep and motivated me to get out there, shoot, process and post the photos.

So here are the images shot on a clear morning after the first days of snow in the mountains. In foreground is the Church of St.Thomas with snow covered Kamnik-Savinja Alps in the background. The bonus of course is the rolling fogg - the one that has at first frightened me as I came to the location because the church was burried in it so I wasn`t sure if I came to the right place

Hope you like them

The Icon

The Icon

Panorama

Kamnik-Savija Alps Panorama

Closer

First snow in the Moutains

Storžič

First snow on Storžič

Cheers, A.

Dec 10, 2022 at 06:18 AM

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p.1 #2 · p.1 #2 · Slovenian Icon - The Church of St.Thomas

I do like them, however I prefer the 3rd here. Do you know if the church is still used?
Douglas

Dec 10, 2022 at 09:13 AM

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p.1 #3 · p.1 #3 · Slovenian Icon - The Church of St.Thomas

What a beautiful setting! The third image is most sublime.

Dec 10, 2022 at 09:48 AM

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p.1 #4 · p.1 #4 · Slovenian Icon - The Church of St.Thomas

douter wrote:
I do like them, however I prefer the 3rd here. Do you know if the church is still used?
Douglas

The main parish church is down in the valley so this one is not in regular use. I can say for the area where I live, these succursal churches are rarely used for mass so this one is probably in use on St.Thomas day and for food blessing on Holy Saturday...

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Rajan Parrikar wrote:
What a beautiful setting! The third image is most sublime.

Thank you Rajan, I like the composition of the first better but the light and colors in 3rd are way better - tried to replicate them in the first image but couldn`t match them

Cheers, A.

Dec 10, 2022 at 02:14 PM

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p.1 #5 · p.1 #5 · Slovenian Icon - The Church of St.Thomas

Looks great, 1st and 3rd...
I would crop it to minimize the white part of the sky showing.

Dec 10, 2022 at 05:12 PM

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p.1 #6 · p.1 #6 · Slovenian Icon - The Church of St.Thomas

Aleksander, these are beautifully executed images. I like the 3rd image with a splash of light on the church and fog really adds to the image. Well done and good to see you back posting. 👍🏻

Dec 11, 2022 at 01:10 AM

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p.1 #7 · p.1 #7 · Slovenian Icon - The Church of St.Thomas

I also prefer 3. It would have been a delight just to see this in the wild, so to speak.

Dec 11, 2022 at 06:26 PM

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xterra07 wrote:
Looks great, 1st and 3rd...
I would crop it to minimize the white part of the sky showing.

I see what you mean, but you can`t crop all off it unless you clip the mountains peak. Thanks for your thoughts.

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keepclicking wrote:
Aleksander, these are beautifully executed images. I like the 3rd image with a splash of light on the church and fog really adds to the image. Well done and good to see you back posting. 👍🏻

Thanks a lot Parul, I am glad to be back

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Craig Gillette wrote:
I also prefer 3. It would have been a delight just to see this in the wild, so to speak.

I agree it was a delight - unfortunatelly I couldn`t come back in the afteroon to shoot the sunset. This church is perfectly located, from shooting location to the mountains is a straight south to north line, so the church is lit at sunrise as well as at sunset :-)

Cheers, A.

Dec 14, 2022 at 01:57 PM

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p.1 #9 · p.1 #9 · Slovenian Icon - The Church of St.Thomas

Superb set. That third shot in particular is really stunning and the fog creates the perfect element to put it over the top.

Dec 15, 2022 at 10:58 AM

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p.1 #10 · p.1 #10 · Slovenian Icon - The Church of St.Thomas

Thanks 🙏

40Driggs wrote:
Superb set. That third shot in particular is really stunning and the fog creates the perfect element to put it over the top.

Dec 17, 2022 at 06:29 AM

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p.1 #11 · p.1 #11 · Slovenian Icon - The Church of St.Thomas

Beautiful images. 1 and 3 stand out to me.

Dec 17, 2022 at 03:40 PM

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p.1 #12 · p.1 #12 · Slovenian Icon - The Church of St.Thomas

Tnx for your thoughts, I too like no1 best for composition and no.3 for light and colors... 😇

Cheers, A.

DaleBerlin wrote:
Beautiful images. 1 and 3 stand out to me.

Dec 18, 2022 at 08:26 AM

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p.1 #13 · p.1 #13 · Slovenian Icon - The Church of St.Thomas

Gorgeous! Great photos!

Dec 19, 2022 at 08:38 AM

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p.1 #14 · p.1 #14 · Slovenian Icon - The Church of St.Thomas

I too like Number 3 the best. Out of interest: would there have been a possible composition from further below, so that one could move the church in front of the dark forest/hill and have the mountain tower behind the church? I would have liked to see that and/or an even thighter composition. What focallenght were you at in picture 3?

Dec 19, 2022 at 08:48 AM

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p.1 #15 · p.1 #15 · Slovenian Icon - The Church of St.Thomas

A tiny Church, in a great setting.
Thanks,

Dec 19, 2022 at 03:34 PM

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p.1 #16 · p.1 #16 · Slovenian Icon - The Church of St.Thomas

davidchai wrote:
Gorgeous! Great photos!

Tnx 🙏

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jj1804 wrote:
I too like Number 3 the best. Out of interest: would there have been a possible composition from further below, so that one could move the church in front of the dark forest/hill and have the mountain tower behind the church? I would have liked to see that and/or an even thighter composition. What focallenght were you at in picture 3?

You could go further bellow, but as I said as I first arrived the church was fully submerged in fog that is why I went higher up the hill, but not much maybe 100m? The 3rd shot was ~200mm.

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Sunny Alan wrote:
A tiny Church, in a great setting.
Thanks,

Thank you very much 🙏

Cheers, A.

Dec 20, 2022 at 11:47 AM

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p.1 #17 · p.1 #17 · Slovenian Icon - The Church of St.Thomas

A lovely set of images with #3 being a favorite.

Derek

Dec 30, 2022 at 01:17 PM


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