Photo Safari at Jaša Tomić - Models and Stuff

Jaša Tomić is a town located in the Central Banat District of Serbia. It has a population of around 2.900 people.

NMR Info portal and Photo Club CD13 from Zrenjanin organized second Photo safari in Jaša Tomić. Why do they call it a safari i am not sure :) This was my first visit to event of this kind and i did not know what to expect. Start of the safari was planned at 9AM so at 8 a friend of mine and me were on the road. Past 7-10 days were really hot for this part of a year but as we got closer to Jaša clouds were gathering and we started making jokes how last photo gathering that we tried to attend was canceled because of bed weather and we were not aware of it and how this will be the same :)

So this is second post about this photo safari, first one was about photographers that were there with us and this one is what we seen and what was prepared for us.

Rain was falling so the first location was a church. Strange thing about it is that construction design is Catholic, but after the flood in Jaša Tomić, people from Vatican came with an idea to help renovation but then said it is not a Catholic church because the altar is turned in different way. People say that there is 2 more churches like this, one in USA and one in Romania.
This is not a photo from the day of photo safari as there was to much people there but i wanted to show you how the church looks from outside.

Church is closed and is used just few times in a year, but it looks fascinating, especially when you go inside.

They organised a folk dancing group that had a short performance. One candid while they were waiting.

Abandoned building in the center

Also they organised some models to photograph on the safari. As i was first time there i was not comfortable to "kidnap" a model so i was photographing most of the time while others worked, this are some between the shots.

This is an abandoned warehouse of the company that went bankrupt maybe 20 years ago. Don't know, maybe one of the workers was reading this. Do you remember Dynasty? I was very young when it aired here in Serbia.