Another great year behind us! A number of workshops and lectures with companies and tourist organisations, a big joint venture campaign with Visit Ljubljana to promote Central Slovenia, two Instameets we have organised at home and two we joined in Croatia, next one already in January at Plitvice Lakes! Our @igslovenia community still growing and engaging is what gives us a satisfaction and pays for hundreds of hours spent to bring you the best photos from as various locations of Slovenia as possible.

So, The Best Of … Lets’s start with the best nine photos by number of likes. What comes as a small surprise is that all nine are from different artists given the fact that more than 50 photographers were featured more than once in 2017 and fifteen of them were featured five or more times. So here we go, from left to right and top to the bottom (all Instagram handles and links, more or less all of them also have a Facebook account which you can find): Jošt Gantar @jostgantar, Emmet Sparling @emmet_sparling, Andrea Papazzoni @andrewpapa, Luka Esenko @lukaesenko, Iztok Medja @iztok_medja, @roamaroo, Stephen Barna @barnadrift, Jani Peljhan @janipeljhan, Dragan Gavranović @photocorax.

Our selection of the year is in fact not a selection at all since we just counted the number of features by the artists. On the other hand this number of course reflects our selection through the year. We are trying to feature high quality photos of different locations and not to repeat a single photographer too many times. But just as it happens with photos of Bled – throughout the year we post many of them and some photographers get more features than others simply because they are highly active and post different locations of superior quality.

There are 16 of them who got at least 5 features, 8 of them more than five. Please note that photos used here are screenshots from Instagram only and that they not necessary corresponds to the actual featured photos on our profile.

Jošt Gantar @jostgantar is the artist with the most features of all.

In the next group very close to Jošt are:

Luka Esenko @lukaesenko:

Around Logatec

Ana Pogačar @anapogacar:

Homec near Kamnik

and Jaka Ivančič @jaka_ivancic

Piran

Next group with the approximate same number of features consist of:

Katarina Veselič @katarinaveselic

Bled

Gregor Škoberne @gregorskobernephotography

Bohinj

Aleš Krivec @dreamypixels

Pokljuka

and Nejc Suhadolnik @neworx

Krn

Eight photographers were featured exactly five times each.

Peter Zajfrid @peterzajfridphoto

St. Ana, Brezovica

Iztok Medja @iztok_medja

Vršič

Andrej Tarfila @andrejtarfila

Sorško polje

Dani Turnšek @daniturphoto

Pristava, Cirkulane

Dani Kla @dani.kla

Bled Island

Uroš Abram @uabram

Jamnik

Luka Kotnik @lukakotnikphotography

Piran

and Jan Čermelj @jancermelj.

St. Jakob.

We thank you all for participating, tagging and engaging. Love you all,

Sanja and Zoran