SLOVAKIA

Slovakia is a country of my birth. Invincible but vulnerable, strong but tender, majestic but humble...Below are the pictures I've taken during my visit in 2005/2006. The winter that year was severe but as far as I am concerned, there can never be too much snow. It was time to play, time to sit next to the fireplace, time to feel the warmth and coldness of being at home...

Most pictures were taken in or around Banska Bystrica - a town of 93,000 people situated in the heart of Slovakia.
www.bbb.sk

"Who are we? Where do we come from? Where are we heading? It is usually in an unsuspected moment that clues to the eternal questions rise from the depth of the human knowledge. Ideas may spring up in the bustle of a city, in the mystic gloom of a cathedral, or in the stillness of mountain tops. Haven't you ever encountered such a mystic experience? If not then you have probably never slept under the starry midnight sky, with the gently rustle of the forest leaves all around and the stars of Orion shining above your head. Throughout such a magic night questions come inevitably flowing into our mind..."

V. Barta, Forests and People