This is a personal space for my stories.
My name is Jasmin Ferhatović. I started my first blog almost ten years ago. At that time, I began publishing my essays and short stories on the blog, and in the meantime, I published my first two books in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian.
My passion, besides writing, is photography. So any photos on my website will be my own work. No software edits the photos, and they are as real as they can be. My writing and photography will always be actual and something real.
Each post is a snapshot of life. Sometimes it’s a full story, sometimes just a single frame — but always something real.
This section will be a new chapter for me as I am not a journalist nor have I ever had a good sense of reporting through photography, but I will give it a try and hope it will be worth it.
The books, bookstores, and libraries were always inspirational for me, places I could go. As part of my writing and creativity, I need to say that music also played a major role in all my work, somewhere in the background.
One of the unavoidable daily moments is a black coffee in the morning, like the one shown in the photo. It seems to me that this section will have its good moments.
A few of my favorite captures — moments that didn’t need words.
Otkrit ću vam jednu tajnu, ako budete strpljivi pa pročitate tekst do kraja. Jer kako sada stvari stoje, postali smo toliko nadrndana vrsta da nemamo strpljenja niti fokusa da saslušamo prostoproširenu rečenicu koju nam neko izgovara a kamoli da saslušamo malo duži monolog koji nam neko izlaže. Svi negdje žurimo, svi smo u nekoj brizi,…
Kao i obično započnem pisanje sa tekstom koji mi izgleda a i djeluje užasno dosadno i onda samo promijenim stranicu i okrenem se novom listu. Rečenice u prvom tekstu mi izgledaju predugačke, kao da želim da strpam sve u jedan red pa onda to izgleda kao da ga đak prvak piše , a onda pokušavam…
Nekada davno sam imao dar da kad nešto kažem , ma koliko to zvučalo – otkačeno i nesuvislo, da se to i obistini. Nije da sam planirao šta da kažem ili da sam razmišljao o bilo čemu, a najmanje o događajima koji bi uslijedili. Ali nekim čudom ono što bih rekao, da ne…
Nisam mislio da ću se baviti aktuelnim temama u svom pisanju ali eto čovjek nikad nije načisto kada će doći trenutak da se okrene oko sebe i shvati da je krajnje vrijeme da se nešto kaže i van onoga o čemu obično piše. Da – pogađate , ne zato što se oslanjate na svoju intuiciju…
Jutros se, osim snijega na balkonu, pojavio i jedan crni kos, šćućuren u saksiji. Nije pjevao, samo je promatrao park prekriven snijegom. Lijepa je ova zima, bijela i spokojna. Unosi mir u tople domove i dječije duše koje uživaju u zimskim igrarijama. A meni vraća osjećaj iz djetinjstva kada sam radostan, kroz zamagljen prozor, gledao…
This morning, in addition to the snow on the balcony, there was also a common blackbird, huddled in a flowerpot. He didn’t sing; he just watched the snow-covered park. It’s a beautiful winter, white and calm. It brings peace to warm homes and children’s souls who enjoy winter games. And it brings back to me…
This time we live in brings significant changes. This is manifested in everyone’s life. I am not spared from these changes either. And one of them is, let’s say, that I no longer get up on the right foot when I wake up in the morning. I started getting up on my left. The second…
Our desires are a strange thing. Are they prompted by some of our knowledge of future events so that they appear so suddenly, in a way that is not understandable to us? They occupy our thoughts, so it seems to us that these are our desires and hopes, unaware that this may be just our…
Sleep a lot, waking up without a clock alarm, and having a good black coffee in the morning. The air around is always full of ideas when the morning mood is peaceful.
When the sky is blue, it is time to go out for a walk and get some captures. Each day brings something new and exciting in the surroundings of my camera.
As time goes by, I am realizing that social media is not my favorite place to publish photos, so I am turning my original blog site into a photo-writing site.
Socializing had always been a great part of my life, even when social media was not as developed as it is today. I enjoy being around people, but as I get older, I am increasingly drawn to nature.
“I visit this lovely blog every here and there with a cup of coffee. The posts remind me to slow down and see beauty in small things, as this cat in the photo.”
Stockholm, Sweden
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