Marko Raos Photography

Self Portrait
August 2025.
Cam: Canon EOS 650D, Canon EF-S 18-135mm IS STM
#photography #bwphotography #blackandwhite

Beach Time
Novalja Beach, Island of Pag, Croatia, August 2025.
Cam: Canon PowerShot S95
#photography #bwphotography #blackandwhite #candidphotography

Untitled
Queen's Beach, Nin, Croatia. August 2025.
Cam: Canon EOS 650D, Canon EF-S 18-135mm IS STM
#photography #bwphotography #blackandwhite #candidphotography

Time is a Layered Cake
City of Rab, Croatia, August 2025.
Cam: Canon S95
#photography #bwphotography #blackandwhite #architecture #history

Public Works
Zagreb, July 2025.
Cam: Canon PowerShot S95
#photography #bwphotography #blackandwhite #streetphotography #candidphotography

Stranded (temporarily)
Nin, Croatia.
August 2025.
Cam: Canon EOS 650D, Canon EF-S 18-135mm IS STM
#photography #bwphotography #blackandwhite

Nin, Croatia.
August 2025.
Cam: Canon EOS 650D, Canon EF-S 18-135mm IS STM
#photography #bwphotography #blackandwhite

Nin is known for its relentless summer heat due to being built almost exclusively out of blindingly white local stone, and for the fact that it was the first royal capital of Croats when they arrived in their present lands in the 7th century. The area has been continuously inhabited for at least 10,000 years and the town located on an islet is agreed to be approximately 3,000 years old. And you can feel it.

Britulin Shop
A tourist shop in ancient Croatian town of Nin, temporarily closed for midday as is local custom. Full description and story in alt text.
#photography #bwphotography #blackandwhite

Earth Life
Freshly laid asphalt, ancient stone wall and not much else except the relentless burning sun. And yet...
Nin, Croatia, August 2025.
Cam: Canon EOS 650D, Canon EF-S 18-135mm IS STM
#photography

Correction: August 2025.
Why can't I edit posts on BS?

Beach Runners
Queen's Beach, Nin, Croatia. May 2025.
Cam: Canon EOS 650D, Canon EF-S 18-135mm IS STM
#photography #bwphotography #blackandwhite #candidphotography

Marija
This type of boat is ubiquitous all over the Mediterranean, particularly Croatian Adriatic. Used by coastal people as reliable form of transport and communication or just for fishing, this one's hull is built from wood testifying to its age. I wonder what stories it could tell..
#photography

City Living
Zagreb, February 2025.
Cam: Pentax Optio S5n
#photography #bwphotography #blackandwhite #streetphotography

A Conversation
Zagreb, February 2025.
Cam: Pentax Optio S5n
#photography #bwphotography #blackandwhite #streetphotography #candidphotography

Stupid.

Untitled
Island of Pag, Croatia. May 2025.
Cam: Canon EOS 650D, Canon EF-S 18-135mm IS STM
#photography #minimalistphotography

Arrival
Island of Pag, Croatia. May, 2025.
Cam: Canon EOS 650D, Canon EF-S 18-135mm IS STM
#photography #naturephotography #sun #sea

There Must Be a Café in Heaven
And smoking is still allowed.
Zagreb, April 2025.
Cam: Canon S95
#photography #candidphotography #bwphotography #blackandwhite

Construction
Gajac, Island of Pag, Croatia. May 2025.
Cam: Canon EOS 650D, Canon EF-S 18-135mm IS STM
#photography #bwphotography #blackandwhite

Atypical Portrait of a Cat #11
Gajac, Island of Pag, Croatia. May 2025.
Cam: Canon EOS 650D, Canon EF-S 18-135mm IS STM
#photography #bwphotography #blackandwhite #animalphotography #cats

Garden Life
Just a snap. Coco loves it when she finds me in *her* garden. Cats are so proud of keeping our pride's territory vermin-free and well protected against all nasty intruders. That's how they earn their keep and have done so since the beginning of civilization.
#photography

Atypical Portrait of a Cat #10
Cam: Canon EOS 650D, Canon EF-S 18-135mm IS STM
#photography #minimalistphotography #animalphotoraphy #cats

Untitled
Zagreb, April 2025.
Cam: Nikon D300, Nikkor AF-S DX 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6
#photography #streetphotography #candidphotography #bwphotography #blackandwhite

If You Squint Hard Enough
Zrce Beach, Island of Pag, Croatia. April, 2025.
Cam: Nikon D300, Nikkor AF-S DX 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6
#photography #nature #sun

Inner Borders of the EU #35
April, 2025
Cam: Nikon D300, Tamron 80-210mm f/4.5-5.6
#photography #streetphotography #candidphotography

Dalmatia In April
Another variation on the portrait-orientation0horizontal-stripes composition. For some reason I felt myself drawn to it at this particular time and place.
Novalja, Island of Pag, Croatia, April 2025.
Cam: Nikon D300, Nikkor AF 80-200mm f/2.8 D ED NEW
#photography

Land, Air and Sea
Pag Channel, Croatia, April 2025.
Cam: Olympus Camedia C-8080
#photography #nature #minimalistphotography #art

Photographer's Standoff
Gajac, Island of Pag, Croatia, April 2025.
Cam: Olympus Camedia C-8080
#photography #bwphotography #blackandwhite

Certainly, but why is it so accessible to us? So easy to pick up, no natural? Perhaps it wouldn't be as accessible to some other intelligent animal, like a dolphin, as to a sharp-eyed, long-fingered plains ape... Dolphins might find musical composition much easier to pick up naturally though. :)

On The Prowl
It is possible that popularity of photography as a hobby is at least partially due to the notion that of all the arts it scratches best that old hunter-gatherer part of our brains.
Island of Pag, Croatia, April 2025.
Cam: Olympus C-8080
#photography #impressionistphotography