Marko Mrse Photography

02/03/2016

Many tribes in Atlas region of Morocco still live as nomads or semi-nomads. Here, a nomadic girl in the mountains above Tizgui.

02/02/2016

We had lunch with a Moroccan. He talked about local women. He used a 'barrel of dynamite' metaphore to explain how loud and assertive Moroccan women can be when angry. Or when they find out they were cheated by a shopowner. We've witnessed one such ocassion. This is silent tribute to that gender trait. Silent dynamite.

25/01/2016

Essaouira (formerly named Mogador) in Morocco. A place where litteraly hundreds of ships go out to harvest fruits of the ocean. Every day.

20/01/2016

Median age in Morocco is 28.1 year of age (and not expecting to rise dramastically anytime soon). For comparison Europe is 37.7 (and expected to reach 52.3 by 2050).

16/01/2015

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14/01/2015

An illusion of reality: work day or a weekend?

13/04/2014

“It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want—oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!” Mark Twain was right. :)

31/03/2014

Spring is here! Snow is melting, rivers are bulging and we are taking our rafts, canoes and kayaks outside. It's time to go out in the nature!

16/03/2011

08/03/2011

Dalmatian Islands

When I was a kid I remember listening to stories told by elders from the
Dalmatian Islands. They talked about times when hundreds of people lived in villages on the islands . It was a time when evenings were spent going from one island to the other to see theater performances, exhibitions and to
socialize. Every island was a like neighbourhood of a large city. It was an
example of cultural and intellectual development in the middle of nature, normally reserved for large urban areas where a lot of ideas and people meet.

Fishing life on the islands is real, personal and healthy. Life is not like a rabitt that you are always trying to catch. It's in front of you - it's slow, durable and smells of moisture, fish and salt. You can feel all its weight. There is no faking - life is brutally honest; tracing its roots in history and nurturing a healthy respect towards ancestors. There is no fear of being forgotten.

On the other hand, toughness and rigidness of life allows for few choices. That's probably what makes life on the islands look easy and appealing for a contemporary traveler coming for a week of holidays - a person used to the unbearable life of making all kinds of decisions every day. On the islands, life is simple with few decisions to be made.

Dalmatian Islands today are home to declining and dissappearing villages with aging populations. Scattered around the hilltops, villages are living museums standing as proof of life that once was.

M

10/02/2011

Venice

When you walk the streets of Venice you can't but notice the crowds of people wandering around the main streets from one architectural wonder to another, stopping for a pasta dish and an espresso in cafes with variable prices depending on your nationality and sucker-index on your forehead. But still, Venice is enchanting in ways more than a cliche can describe.

Streets of Venice tell two things that I, as a visitor, picked up. The first one is the importance of ductile mindset. You either evolve through change or you decay. Once mightiest power in the Mediterranean was trading with everything from textile and products to new paradigms like Arab numbers and banking system. The later gave it the competive edge and it became more affluent, powerful which lead to a nation that is more rigid, less discerning and less open for innovations. It resulted in a steady decline typical of so many powers of the past.

The second one is that we are still driven by the same desire as were people in Rennaisance. A prestigious ride with a gondola, or a meticuously designed fasade were enough to fill one's purpose of existance. Today, these presigious designs are beautiful, but trivial symbols upon which we now look as a tourist attraction.

It seems that today we are all still aspiring to obtain symbols. Venice is here to teach us a lesson that the most valuable things are the ones we don't see - the attitudes, worldviews and the kind of things you feel as we walk through the narrow streets of the Old Venice, like a spirit that waits to be awaken. What we see is just a beautiful byproduct.

M

07/02/2011

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