Oh, how I miss this valley

I miss this little valley and some other places in Slovenia, which are only about one hour of driving away, and yet unreachable.

So today I want to share some photos of the Šunik Water Grove (Šunikov vodni gaj) in the Lepena Valley in Slovenia with you, which I have made last Autumn, Winter and shortly before the Lockdown when the world was still in order.

The first two photos were made in September and show a close-up of the beautiful mossy green boulders in the stream, and the middle part of the waterfalls there.

Further down in this post, you might remember this little pool on the right in the photo below if you see another photo where it is frozen.

After parking your car you have to walk for a few minutes on a nice trail along the stream and when you arrive at the water grove this scene is what you see first.

The bridge on top of the image leads to the circular path around the water grove, but at first you should go left to the base of the first and biggest of the waterfalls. Later you will see this waterfall photographed from another angle.

The next photo shows the view down the stream when you reach the upper part of the waterfalls. You come from from the the left side and have to go to the right over the bridge to continue the circular path back to the beginning.

On the left side you might recognize a little part of the beautiful beech tree forest where I am also very often practicing woodland photography.

This photo shows the same trees as the photo above, but photographed about 2 months later from the bridge, viewing up the stream.

There was less water in the stream, but ice and some icicles were to see in January, and maybe you recognize the pool which was in one of the other images above too.

My last visit to the water grove was in March, but because there was more water in the stream than I had expected I was rewarded with a beautiful view and one more photo of the big waterfall at the beginning of the water grove.

Actually, I wanted to go there in Spring when the snow melts on the mountains and the waterfalls are mighty and beautiful, but as you all know, there's no chance to leave my own country at this time.

But I do not moan nor complain, because we are doing well and life is already getting more and more "normal" again.

All photos were shot with the Canon EOS R and one of these lenses: Canon RF 24-105mm f/4 L IS USM, Canon EF 70-200mm f/4 L IS II USM, Canon EF 16-35mm 1:4 L IS USM, Canon EF 50mm 1:1.8 L STM, SIGMA 105mm 1:2,8 DG MACRO HSM, SIGMA 150-600mm F5-6.3 DG OS HSM C.

I leave all EXIF and IPTC information stored in the pictures.