orthodox christms eve

The Christmas Eve, when a traditional oak log (badnik) is brought to the home. This log is cut by the father of the household and his older son, while the table is being set for the Christmas Eve supper (Posna Vechera). The dinner cannot have anything derived from animals, and it cannot be cooked using cooking oil or other types of fat. The traditional dinner usually consists of baked fish. The dinner is the last day of a traditional 40-day Orthodox Lent, which is done in a way to honor the Virgin Mary for carrying baby Jesus.
In Tetovo traditionally people are wearing masks and streets have some kind of carnival atmosphere...
Creativity of the masks is reason lots of camera flashes to flash on them...


[ photos & story by Samir Ljuma ]

other sides of bitola

[ photo by Zlatko Parmakovski ]

fast death

[ "Do you know how do they call the schnapps we are drinking ?
no
Fast death.
I wonder why..."

somewhere in Kocani... photo by Zewlean ]

fly fly fly

[ photo by Gjorgji Orovcanec ]

Breakfast

[ somewhere in Skopje... photo by Darko Hristov ]

Rockabilly

[ these great photos are bringing us back 1994 in Skopje, where this group of hot-shots were making the all the girls sweaty and nervous :-)

... photo by the wonderful Vladimir Pavlovski ]

parking place

[ photo by Milena Stanishlevik ]

red yellow blue

[ a car-collor palette in Ohrid ... photo by Gjorgji Orovcanec ]

I'm not cold

[ a poor kid on the streets in Skopje ... photo by Zewlean ]

girl, her dog and two fishermen

[ Skopje ...by the Vardar river bank... photo by Paion ]

vision ( визија )

[ photo by Gjorgji Orovcanec ]

spiral

[ photo by Darko Hristov ]

do you have my size?

[ a shop stand somewhere in Skopje ... photo by Nigel Langford ]

Where is my home ?

[ ...location - well probably Skopje... photo by Zewlean ]

Hogar and the Macedonian flag

[ @ a Skopje Motor Summit ... photo by Vladimir Pavlovski ]

ajvar raw materials

[ Bit Pazar - Skopje ... photo by Nigel Langford ]

a table for two

[ somewhere in Veles - there is a table for 2 ... photo by Ana Jakimska ]

Old Bazaar - Turkish Bazaar

[ photo by Panoramas ]

go away

[ this red buses (most of them 30+ years old) are like a Skopje - landmark, they are all over the city since they are a vital part of what should be the public transport system... ]

[ photo by Mite Kuzevski ]

human in a box

[ photo by Gjorgji Orovcanec ]

our house in the middle of the street

[ photo by Ana Jakimska ]

vanilla sky

[ photo by Darko Hristov ]

wired

[ photo by Milena Stanishlevik ]

...just follow the sign ...you'll get there

[ photo by Gjorgji Orovcanec ]

skopje street

[ photo by Darko Hristov]

cause she's a very stylish girl !

[ photo by Paion ]

Give me some cash

[ photo by Zewlean ]

Public Space

[ photo by ArchiTechTone ]

Cidade de deus

[ photo by Zewlean ]

Gjul

[ photo by Zewlean ]