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Hello!

My name is Darko.

Sometimes my thoughts fit within 140 characters while other times '1000 words' packed into a single photo is not enough to express myself.

A wise man (Batman) once said: “It’s not who you are underneath, it’s what you do that defines you!”

So here is what I do and what defines me:

Resume

Short version of my resume can be viewed below. For extended version please visit my LinkedIn account.

Employment

2003
Present

Kruna d.o.o.

General Manager

My Role: I was in charge of monitoring and ordering supplies, maintaining the quality of service, maintaining business books and training new workers. I was also in charge of direct sales and completing deals with all foreign and internet customers. Later on, as a side project I founded a web developing company that developed VELUMrent which is now a integral part of Kruna d.o.o.'s business.
My Work: I have implemented advance booking software, significantly improved response quality and time, implemented new polices and procedures for dealing with guests and managed and maintained business relationships with old and new partners. I started the first tourism blog in the region that aimed to improve homeowners businesses with proven renting tips and tricks. While in charge of CM activities Vila Kruna was covered as one of the top 5 Croatia tourism companies in 2010.
2006
2009

Polar d.o.o.

Sales and Support Representative

My Role: I have started as Support Representative. Later on I was promoted to Help Desk Administrator, Help Desk Supervisor and Sales Representative. I earned the right to support customers over Polar’s live chat and was actively involved in development of some new Polar products.
My Work: In three years, as I worked for Polar, I have completed more than 1600 official incidents, had more than 1670 live chats of which 90% were with foreign English based customers. I have completed 55, created 40 and supervised 6 company projects and also worked on more than 200 other company tasks.

Skills

Photo-folio

Couple of my favorite photos can be viewed here. For full sized versions and evan more photos follow me on 500px and Instagram, or follow the link presented with each photo by clicking 'More information' when you hover over it.

Reflection in a drop of rain

One of the experiments for taking photos through water drops

Date:    25.07.2011

Category:   Artistic

Project link:   500px.com/DarkoKontin

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Smoking gun

Photo project which received excellent reviews and was evan featured on 500px.com

Date:    05.09.2012

Category:   Artistic

Project link:   500px.com/DarkoKontin

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Flower portrait

One of the very first photos that took me into photographing nature and extended my interest in macro photography.

Date:    16.09.2011

Category:   Artistic

Project link:   500px.com/DarkoKontin

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Bugs life

Green bug I followed around for couple of minutes on Pašman

Date:    25.07.2012

Category:   Macro

Project link:   500px.com/DarkoKontin

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Grasshopper posing

Still do not understand why he was so still and allowed me to take this photo

Date:    12.07.2010

Category:   Artistic

Project link:   500px.com/DarkoKontin

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Flower and the bee

This one was a tough one to capture, but was worth all the trouble

Date:    16.09.2011

Category:   Macro

Project link:   500px.com/DarkoKontin

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Fly

It is rare that you can see a non moving fly, but here it is

Date:    16.09.2011

Category:   Macro

Project link:   500px.com/DarkoKontin

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Eggs breakfast

Once I started cooking regularly my motives changed. Food became more common sight.

Date:    12.01.2014

Category:   Food

Project link:   Darkova Web Kuharica

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Muffins

The most standard and simple object are proving to be the hardest ones to capture, for me at least.

Date:    16.07.2011

Category:   Food

Project link:   500px.com/DarkoKontin

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Cupcake christmas trees

No description required

Date:    16.09.2011

Category:   Food

Project link:   500px.com/DarkoKontin

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Double rainbows

A very unique sight indeed. I was lucky to carry my camera at the time I saw this.

Date:    24.07.2011

Category:   Landscapes

Project link:   500px.com/DarkoKontin

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Postcard

I was so pleased with this photo that I turned it into a postcard for the place where we our apartments are situated.

Date:    02.08.2012

Category:   Landscapes

Project link:   500px.com/DarkoKontin

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Thor lightning

Several hours of storm chasing resulted in this photo. And evan so I was lucky to get this shoot.

Date:    28.08.2013

Category:   Landscapes

Project link:   500px.com/DarkoKontin

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Contacts

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