Rijeka Carnival, Croatia, 10 February 2013
Nikon D700 + 14-24/2.8
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Carnival monkey
March 4, 2013 By 4 Comments
Rijeka Carnival – new book
February 18, 2013 By 9 Comments
Preview of my book of photographs from the Rijeka Carnival in Croatia, available from Blurb…
Held on the last Sunday before Lent, the wild and wonderful Rijeka Carnival is one of the largest Carnival processions in Europe – an enormous event with up to 10,000 participants from around 100 Carnival groups, and well over 100,000 spectators.
Rijeka Carnival 2013 (#3)
February 13, 2013 By 1 Comment
More images from the Rijeka Carnival (Riječki karneval) in Croatia….
Nikon D700 + 14-24/2.8
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Rijeka Carnival 2013 (#2)
February 11, 2013 By 1 Comment
More images from the Rijeka Carnival (Rijecki karneval) in Croatia yesterday….
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Rijeka Carnival 2013
February 11, 2013 By 4 Comments
First few shots from the wild and wonderful Rijeka Carnival in Croatia today – second biggest carnival in Europe after Venice, and always great to photograph. Currently editing in a hotel room in Pula for as long as I can stay awake, so more to follow tomorrow….
Nikon D700 + 14-24/2.8.
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Croatian Miscellany #1 – 10
July 12, 2012 By 16 Comments
The first 10 images from the CROATIAN MISCELLANY series. Click on any of these for a larger view and background information, or head over to http://croatianmiscellany.wordpress.com. 90 more to go….
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Big devil little devil
July 8, 2012 By 2 Comments
Another shot from the Rijeka carnival earlier this year
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Zvončar ‘refuelling’
July 3, 2012 By 6 Comments
Zvončar pausing to drink more wine at the Rijeka Carnival, February 2012
The Zvončari or ‘bell ringers’, with their shaggy sheepskin costumes, horned masks or headdresses and huge cowbells tied to their waists, are a star attraction at the wild and wonderful Rijeka Carnival in Croatia (there are several groups of them). They come from Kastav, the mountainous area inland from Rijeka, and form part of an old pagan tradition in which men wearing sheepskins and cowbells would go from house to house through a village around Lent, driving out evil spirits which may have gathered there over the winter months, and usually drinking liberal quantities of wine in the process.
You can find more images of the Rijeka Carnival – and the Zvončari – here and here, and in this portfolio on my website.
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Two days in Rijeka
June 6, 2012 By 3 Comments
More shots from Rijeka, Croatia, taken while working on a new guidebook for Bradt.
Sculpture outside the City Museum (Muzej Grada Rijeke)
Mural showing Croatian sculptor Antun Augustincic’s sculpture ‘Vjesnica Mira’ being loaded onto a ship at Rijeka in 1954, before being taken to New York where it now stands in front of the UN building
‘The Walker’, a sculpture by Croatian artist Ivan Kozaric, in the Korzo, the main pedestrian street in Rijeka
View of the National Theatre across the Mrtvi Kanal, from the 12th floor of Hotel Neboder
Container ship in the port
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Capoeira
June 6, 2012 By 3 Comments
Local Capoeira group Udruga Capoeira Rijeka (www.capoeira-rijeka.com) performing in the Korzo, the main pedestrian street in Rijeka, Croatia.
(Capoeira is an Afro-Brazilian artform combining elements of dance, martial arts, acrobatics and music.)
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