Although today represented as "wild", the Velebit mountain was for centuries the habitat of people, a place of coexistence of herders and nature. Every meadow, every smallest piece of land along the 150-kilometer rocky mountain range was used by man as pasture or for growing food. Today, only old photos and piles of stacked stones that were once the homes, "stanovi" of herders and their families tell about it. Velebit's landscapes and narratives about them change because their visitors change too, bringing to diverging perceptions of the environment. Shepherds are few nowdays and their perception of the mountain differs from the dominant one where Velebit is the place of wilderness and desolation. Recent (re)popularization of wilderness has created an imaginary of untouched, "virgin", indestructible and attractive Velebit's wilderness that has been visited by an increasing number of outdoor enthusiasts, as well as it is in focus of travel agencies that see it as an attractive niche for business. Using a rephotograph of the Velebit landscapes, I question the changes in the relationship between man and the mountain, as well as the environmental changes of the Velebit pastures and landscapes.
