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Copyright: Denis Cemazar (Danzi) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 114 W: 58 N: 278] (2150)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2008-01
Categories: Architecture
Camera: Canon EOS 30D, Canon 100-400mm L IS USM
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2008-05-09 14:22
Viewed: 165
Points: 14
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
The kozolec (hayrack) is a free standing, permanent, mainly wooden, vertical, open but roofed device for drying and storing the goods, hay and grain. It is the only ethnical architecture I know. It exists exclusively in ethnical territory of Slovenian nation.

The use of the hayrack: at first, it was used for storing grain (food for the people), and later, for storing fodder (for animals only). Today, due to the introduction of cheaper technology, it is only a remnant of former times.

The form of the hayrack depends on its function. On steep slopes hayracks are single stretched ones, with supports, if necessary. They can be found on plains, too, where they consist of many "windows". Further away from homes and in places where it often rains, they have a projecting roof attached to one "window" for the protection of carts and people from sudden downpours. Double stretched hayracks are built when windy conditions create a need for additional stability. Their main function is storage and they are generally more useful than the single stretched ones. There are two types of double linked hayracks: one can be found to the north of the Sava river, and the other to the south of it. They differ only in the proportions and in the size of their fronts.


Hope you like it and thanks for looking :)

*Denis
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Hi Denis
Wonderfull scene, very well captured. Great pov and very nice compo.. Very good notes as well
TFS and best regards
MESUT ILGIM

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  • bisok Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 70 W: 53 N: 85] (492)
  • [2008-05-09 14:36]

Hello Danis

This is wonderful panorama, great captured. Very interesting POV. Excellent composition. Great colours and sharpness. Interesting note as well. Well done. Thanks for sharing.

Greetings from Poland.
Mirek

An excellent nature scene with good light..
Good details..

Hello Denis,

Lovely off-centre composition perfectly balanced by the large tree!
The diagonal of the slope, follows nicely the slope of the roof of the hayrack also giving nice composition.
Lovely sharpness and details.

Kind regards,
Bev :-)

Hello Denis,

This is a wonderfull capture of this very uncommon house. You are right, not to put it in the center of the image! The fact that everything is frozen makes the whole thing magic!

Have a great day!

Hello Danzi. Winter landscape. Not spectacularly and nevertheless worth seeing. Despite the sunlight one feels cold weather. Well seen and exemplary composes. Best regards, Wolfgang.

Hello Denis,a lovely balanced picture with beautiful colours and light.
Your notes are interesting.
The hayrack is an interesting structure;I like the way the light shows through it.
Tfs, regards Jean.

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