Highland Ponds: Slovenia’s Photographic Heritage

Slovenia’s Photographic Heritage

In the Slovenian highlands, there are numerous mountain pastures that, due to the carbonate rock base, face a shortage of surface water.

Farmers are left with only rainwater, which they try to capture and retain in ponds to water their livestock. The bottom of the ponds, which are located in natural depressions, is sometimes fortified with stones and clogged with clay.

Ponds in the highlands are micro-location wetlands, important for the life of amphibians. They also represent an important landscape element of mountain pastures. That is why they have been captured by landscape and ethnological photographers in the past.

The collection of presented photographs is part of the photographic collection of mountain pastures, which is kept in the photo library of the Gorenjska Museum in Kranj, Slovenia.