Trout season finale

Trout fishing season is coming to its end on Saturday. I it was a good season. It definitely was better then the last season when I started trout fishing. I think I pretty quickly learned to read the water and predict where fish could be hiding. So now, when I go fishing, I don’t just cast everywhere and hope that something will be nearby and willing to take the lure. No, I cast on particular spots and I am1 prepared on possible strikes. These new experiences aren’t in vain, I catch more and loose less fish.

 

 

And here is the winner of this year’s season. 40cm rainbow trout. As for me, caught in difficult conditions. The water was very low and very clear. First I tried to outsmart some chubs, but I failed. They are very hard to catch, especially in conditions like this. Then I changed the spot, I moved some 20-50 meters upstream and overcame the river. I knew there are trouts in this spot, because I caught one on last fishing. First 2 or 3 casts only small trouts followed the lure. But then this big one came from somewhere and ate the Mepps like it haven’t eaten for days.

 

 

 

Unfortunately it swallowed the lure so deep I wasn’t able to unhook it without harm. So it ended on the plate. As you can see I made fillets. They came out very good considering I tried to fillet a fish for the first time. Then, a little bit of pepper, salt, garlic, flour and hop in to the hot oil for a few minutes. Cooked potatoes with garlic and parsley for side dish. Yummy.

  1. more or less, lol [↩]

Cinnamon Girl

Ta komad ga faking zmaga. Tak umirjen ampak poskočen z ravno prav petja v njemu. Ko sem pogledal izvajalca mi je bilo takoj jasno od kje ritmi.

Jasno, Boban i Marko Marković Orkestar ftw! :cool:

Improvised macro photography

Kaj narediš, če hočeš posneti fotografijo v makro stilu, ampak nimaš makro objektiva? Enostavno, vzameš objektiv ki ga običajno uporabljaš1 in ga enostavno obrneš naokoli.

Na tak način slikati je zajebano, ker moraš z eno roko držati objektiv na ohišju, z drugo roko pa ohišje in ob enem še pritiskati sprožilec. pri vsem tem pa še paziti na ostrino slike. Ostrenje slike poteka tako, da se fotoaparat oddaljuje ali približuje objektu ki ga slikamo. Če se vse dela z roke je izostriti sliko še kar lahko, ampak zaradi tresenja rok posnamemo streseno fotografijo. Malo lažje je, če imamo stativ, saj nam potem ta drži body mi moramo samo držati objektiv in pritisniti sprožilec. Je pa ostrenje z stativom oteženo in nepraktično.

 

Se pravi, na en ali drugi način je težko doseči popolnoma ne streseno in izostreno sliko.

To kar vidite spodaj je največ kakor sem se uspel približati ostrini, ostali posnetki so samo slabši.

 

Kolikor sem uspel pogooglati gre za plesen iz rodu Rhizopus, morda je celo Rhizopus nigricans. Videti je tudi, da je kolonija precej čista, saj drugih vrst plesni nisem opazil.

 

 

What do you do, if you want to take a macro photo, but you don’t have macro lens? Simply, you take the lens you normally use2 and turn them over.

Taking pictures this way is difficult. You must hold the lens with one hand, and with other hold the body and press the shutter button. Beside that, you must also pay attention on the focusing of the picture. If you do it all by hand, achieving the focus is fairly easy. You just get closer or move farther from the photographed  objective until you achieve desired focus. But when you press the shutter button, picture will most likely come out shaken, unless you have very steady hands.3
The other way to do it is with the help of  a tripod. In this case you don’t get totally shaken picture, but focusing is more difficult since you can’t move as freely as you can if you hold everything in your hands.

 

So, one way or the other, getting desired focus and unshaken picture together is merely impossible. At leas for me.

What you see below is the best sharpness  I could get.

 

According to Google the mold you can see is from Rhizopus genus, maybe it is Rhizopus nigricans. It also looks like the colony is fairly “clean”4, I haven’t seen any other genera of mold.

 

  1. v mojem primeru je to EF-S 17-85mm 1:4-5.6 IS USM Canonov objektiv [↩]
  2. In my case EF-S 17-85mm 1:4-5.6 IS USM Canon lens [↩]
  3. I don’t [↩]
  4. mono cultural [↩]

Aren’t these BTs beautiful?

Brown trout1 is one one the most beautiful freshwater fish I’ve seen. Especially young BTs are beautiful, with that red and black dots on its sides and with golden fins. And they also fight well, especially if they’re born in naturally in river, not raised in a fish farm and then put in the river. They pull like crazy, they jump, they flee straight in to the main current and so on. I love to fish them. Unfortunately, they are not very common in our rivers anymore, because the allochthonous Californian trout are supplanting them. Men often cause damage to its surroundings without even realizing it.

This little beauty I caught yesterday in one little river called Rašica.2. The river is full of little fishes such as chubs, trouts3 and I even saw a few Graylings. I had a good time these few hours fishing there, I caught this one on the picture, and one a little bit bigger which we didn’t photograph. My friend, Daniel, was a bit unfortunate that day. First,4, he caught one chub, and then he somehow broke the tip of his rod and wasn’t able to fish  anymore. So he was more behind the camera taking pictures of me, fish, river and its surroundings.

  1. BT [↩]
  2. say -š- as -sh- in shit, and -ica exactly as you see it, c is not said as k [↩]
  3. brown and Californian [↩]
  4. at the start [↩]

Jesen stiže dunjo moja

In se je poslovilo, poletje, ali pa morda kar Poletje. Bilo je dolgo in vroče, delavno a hkrati brezskrbno. Do še predvčerajšnjim se je zdelo, kot da je poletje tu. Nato se je končalo kot bi odrezal. Visoke temperature so se umaknile, cel dan je padal dež. Iz omare sem moral izbrskati spodnji del trenirke. Zdi se mi, da bom kratke hlače bolj ali manj kar pospravil vse do drugega leta.
Nebo dolgo in se bo tudi zelena, meni tako ljuba barva poslovila. Zamenjale jo bodo rdeča, oranžna,rjava, rumena… in za nekaj časa bo pokrajina zažarela v raznovrstnih barvah.
Tudi v gozdovih in po poljih bo drugače. Ptice selivke bodo, ali so že, odšle. Nekateri gozdni prebivalci se intenzivno pripravljajo na spanje, medtem ko se drugi intenzivno pripravljajo na paritveno sezono in njihovi paritven klici bodo ponoči odmevali skozi gozdove. Tudi ptičje petje se bo spremenilo, iz glasnega veselega žvrgolenja bo prešlo v tiho umirjeno petje. Dozoreli bodo kostanji in gobe1, v kuhinjah pa si marsikdo, med njimi tudi mi, že pripravlja ozimnico iz raznih kompotov, koncentratov, sušenih in zmrznjenih živil itd.

Takšne spremembe mi prikličejo marsikakšen lep spomin pred oči. Pa ne da sem hud nostalgik, zgolj pogrešam tisto česar ni več. Tako ali tako se bo kmalu začel faks in potem časa za untaplanje v prihetnh spominih ne bo več. Bo pa kljub temu še zmeraj lepo.

 

Tudi sezona ribolova se nikakor ne konča, ta boljše v bistvu šele prihaja…

  1. čeprav gobe ne dozorijo [↩]