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08/11 São Paulo, Brazil
07/11 São Paulo, Brazil
06/11 Šoštanj, Slovenia
05/11 Piran, Slovenia
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04/12 Copacabana and Ipanema are two most famous beaches of Rio de Janeiro. They have special meaning for Cariocas. You can wash away daily worries in the sea and fill your body and soul with the energy of the sun. (© Simon Plestenjak)
01/12 Rio de Janeiro used to be the capital of Brazil and is nowdays a touristic superstar, a natural wonder, and a poverty troubled urban phenomenon. (© Simon Plestenjak)
12/12 In Pantanal, the swampy ground does not allow much land traffic. Most of the transport is done by propeller planes and cow farming works just like hundreds of years before, with cowboys. (© Simon Plestenjak)
05/09 For still moments that worked out well. Not that fighters are completely still at anytime though. (© Simon Plestenjak)
05/07 In Vienna, the so called
04/07 All pure-bred Lipizzaners are descendants of certain stallions and mares, who originated lines and families. Breeding goes in natural way, and semen is being taken only for special purposes. (© Simon Plestenjak)
11/11 There is no rule who can sqaut. Homeless, artists, drug dealers, or students - which is a case of the guys on the picture. (© Simon Plestenjak)
10/11 Abandoning the squat means leaving work and memories behind. For the owner it usually means renovating and selling as the property is often left in disrepair. (© Simon Plestenjak)
09/11 Squatters can end up living in different places... library, office, old pub ... This entire building juts behind Old Vic theatre near Waterloo station was squatted by just 7 people, who managed to stay for 3 weeks. (© Simon Plestenjak)
08/11 In many cases squats are established in houses owned by Local Authorities that don't make use of them. This kindergarten is such an example. (© Simon Plestenjak)
07/11 It is in the squatters’ best interest that they move into a really abandoned house, since this means greater probability of staying in for a longer time, legally, without trouble from the police. Making a proper home. (© Simon Plestenjak)
06/11 Squatting is not only about the housing problem, it is also an act of rebellion, a statement against existing social structures, and a way of life. (© Simon Plestenjak)
05/11 People (and dogs) often squat at the same place for as long as three years. More frequently squats last between three weeks and four months. (© Simon Plestenjak)
04/11 The term “squatting” stands for inhabiting empty, uninhabited and unused space without permission of the owner. (© Simon Plestenjak)
03/11 With circa eighty thousand empty buildings within London there is much scope for ‘urban nomads’ to take housing policy in their own hands. (© Simon Plestenjak)
02/11 Under British law living in somebody else’s uninhabited property is not illegal. (© Simon Plestenjak)
01/11 About seventeen thousand people constantly move from one empty house to another in search of a shelter inside the City of London. (© Simon Plestenjak)
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10/11 Paris, France
09/11 Ljubljana, Slovenia
04/11 Bovec, Slovenia
03/11 Paris, France
02/11 São Paulo, Brazil
01/11 Mostar, Bosnia
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11/12 Everybody knows Brazil by football, and you might be surprised that second most popular sport is rodeo. Every year several huge rodeo festivals attract 300.000 to one million visitors each! (© Simon Plestenjak)
10/12 One of many small fishermen villages along 7491 kilometers of Brazilian coastline is accessible only by boat and has one telephone in the village, which serves for all inhabitants. (© Simon Plestenjak)
09/12 Salvador, the capital city of Bahia, is one of the oldest on Brazilian soil. This city also used to be a capital of Brazil once. Colonial architecture attracts rivers of tourists and they attract number of pickpockets. (© Simon Plestenjak)
08/12 The girls are waiting for the contest on the way of becoming beauty models. Beauty is important part of Brazilian culture and the word “beauty” is also used for greetings, agreements and confirmations. (© Simon Plestenjak)
07/12 Rich happening is maybe the greatest advantage of São Paulo next to good restaurants. Modern parties on the level of London and New York go side by side with others on the level of Sodom and Gomorrah. (© Simon Plestenjak)
05/12 Brazil is a host of Football World Championship in 2014 and first Olympic Games ever in South American continent in 2016. On the picture a boy is training football at friendly night themperatures on well lit Ipanema bach. (© Simon Plestenjak)
06/12 São Paulo, the biggest city of South America with it’s around 18 million inhabitants. How many people are hidden between the concrete on the picture? (© Simon Plestenjak)
03/12 A palace in park Laji is a scenery for café and art school. Park is of a special kind – it is not being kept at all, but rather left to nature, who is unstoppably taking back it’s space. Therefore it is kind of museum of natural force. (© Simon Ples
02/12 Cariocas (this is how inhabitants of Rio are called) give this 10-million city a character of a fishing village. At the south end of touristy Copacabana beach fishermen keep working undisturbed. (© Simon Plestenjak)
13/13 Long neoprene suits are also a must for guys from the central European Alps surfing in water below 15 degrees celsius and cold air outside. (© Simon Plestenjak)
12/13 Some of the surfers sleep, eat and seek shelter of strong winds in their cars and vans. (© Simon Plestenjak)
11/13 Every year surfing is getting more and more popular, with more surfers and more spectators. (© Simon Plestenjak)
10/13 A nudist beach, which hosts the championship, is logically empty in winter months. (© Simon Plestenjak)
09/13 A national championship is held in December. (© Simon Plestenjak)
08/13 But waves can come up to 2 meters in perfect conditions. The story still lacks more surfing shots from the “good days”, I know. (© Simon Plestenjak)
07/13 You can never be sure how the waves are gonna be. Small waves like this one does not stop surf loving boys and girls to enter cold water. (© Simon Plestenjak)
06/13 Surfers follow internet weather, wind and wave prognosis and drive in early hours for several hours to have their few hours of joy. (© Simon Plestenjak)
05/13 The Adriatic coast is normaly very steep and waves don’t brake. This beach is one of few where waters can form appropriate waves for surfing. (© Simon Plestenjak)
04/13 With boards brought from Portugal, France, Brazil and other surfing countries the guys are well equipped. (© Simon Plestenjak)
03/13 This mostly happens in spring and autmn,m when temperatures are already low. Surfers that come are usually snowboarders and other surf enthusiasts from the region. (© Simon Plestenjak)
02/13 But there might be waves only when south winds blow for several days and the waters of Adriatic sea are being pushed towards northern coast. (© Simon Plestenjak)
01/13 There are no waves in the Adriatic, everybody knows that! But check this out… in recent years enthusiastic Slovenian surfers discovered rare few sports where you can surf. (© Simon Plestenjak)
01/10 Traditional cheese production in Slovenian mountains near Italy date back to 13th century. Local cheese got its actual name in 1756 and the process of production hasn’t changed much since than. (© Simon Plestenjak)
10/10 In old days cheese was the only way to preserve milk from the mountains. Steep Slovenian Alps did also not allow production of huge wheels wanted by the monarchy, therefore a new kind was born and is here to stay. (© Simon Plestenjak)
09/10 Each cheese wheel is dated. This one goes for a special occasion with it’s peculiar date of 08/08/08. (© Simon Plestenjak)
08/12 Neighbor farmers put the milk together. There is a simple rule for community work on cheese that comes from the old days – each famer works according to how much milk he brought.(© Simon Plestenjak)
07/10 Most of the milk is processed into cheese, contributing to about 100 tons of cow and 100 tons of ship cheese annually in the region. (© Simon Plestenjak)
06/10 Milkmen Metod Leban is taking fresh milk to the cheese facilities in village Čadrg. Here four farms supply 15 thousand liters of milk monthly. (© Simon Plestenjak)
05/10 Ship cheese is being produced with same tradition. Local cow cheese of town Tolmin and sheep cheese of town Bovec are two of four authentic Slovenian brands with certified origin. (© Simon Plestenjak)
04/10 Cows return every-day to mountain cottages for milking. Pure mountain air and fresh grass give their milk special taste and quality. Milkmen nowadays use electric pumps to manage the quantity. (© Simon Plestenjak)
03/10 In springtime, farmers lead their cows into the mountain pastures, where they stay until autumn. First November snow marks the end of pasture period (© Simon Plestenjak)
02/10 In the times of Austro-Hungarian empire, the monarchy sent Swiss cheese experts to modernize cheese production in remote mountains of nowadays Slovenia. (© Simon Plestenjak)
09/09 A photo of the looser instead of the winner for the end seemed a good choice to win the award, although there is no focus anywhere. (© Simon Plestenjak)
08/09 The final hit could come from the side, from the bottom or from the top … this is what fighting is about. (© Simon Plestenjak)
07/09 Some of the positions during the fight resemble greek statues, don’t they?(© Simon Plestenjak)
06/09 Different fights end up differently … Some of the fighters are really beaten up, some spit saliva and some even blood. (© Simon Plestenjak)
04/09 In the middle of the match my wide-angle lens broke down, so I had to switch to a non-professional 18-55mm lens. (© Simon Plestenjak)
03/09 Mixed martial arts discipline presents several martial arts: jui-jitsu, boxing, muay thai and wrestling. (© Simon Plestenjak)
02/09 The fights were part of WFC (World fighting Championship) in Ljubljana in 2008. (© Simon Plestenjak)
01/09 This series of photos won the SloPressPhoto 09 award for best sport story. (© Simon Plestenjak)
03/07 Typically, the Lipizzaner is born black and turnes into a white adult horse because of the gray gene. Genetic researches nowdays facilitate breeding process. (© Simon Plestenjak)
01/07 Lipizzaner horses are living treasure of ancient genes and a result of meticulously planned evolution. They were developed through careful crossbreeding. Today, they are an endangered species and are protected by law. (© Simon Plestenjak)
02/07 Lipizzaner got the name after his mother stud farm, Lipica, located in nowdays Slovenia. The origins of the breed date back to 1580 when the Lipica stud farm, at the time within Austro-Hungarian monarchy. (© Simon Plestenjak)
07/07 Lippizaner is a significant cultural issue, which is reflected by a number of arguments, appearing in newspapers as well as in professional and political public. The Lipizzaner has made it even into the theater. (© Simon Plestenjak)
06/07 At the beginning, the Lipizzaner breed was developed for military necessities and cart pulling at the Habsburg court. Afterwards, the Habsburg court was looking for a horse to be used for high profile shows. (© Simon Plestenjak)