Creating these pages was lots of fun and hard work. Most of the version 1 of these pages images were our own, either made recently with digital cameras or from scans of old photographs from Rajić-Rako family archives, but the project of this size has required us to reach to other people from Imotski.

The authors are very grateful to the Imotski photographs and reporters: Braco Ćosić, Joško Vukosav, Luka Kolovrat, Polo photo studio brothers, and Zdravko Olujić. They have given us many of their own photographs, that we have used on these pages. Above all, they were always a good company.   Joško Vukosav was always there with an interesting image or scan of an old photograph or map to email it over the Atlantic.  He is the Bazana consultant.

We welcome interesting contributions and would encourage people to consider providing hard to find materials relevant to these pages, like Ms Vlatka Šimunović who has contributed her father's, Nikola Šimunović's, 1950 photos of the first scientific exploration of the Red lake.

Few people can match the energy and the extent of contributions of Prof. Suzana Budimir, the founder of IMOart - Forum Croaticum who has provided a while range of quality materials, some of them coming from the new monthly "Imotske Novine."  Brajo Malić was instrumental in providing original old Modro Jezero photographs of late Rina Mirošević (scanned by Photo Polo), which are now property of Kujundžić family.  He and his sister have contributed many old Imotski photographs and postcards from the Malić family collection.  Kiko Skako has also opened up his archive of old sports, carnival, and historic photographs.  There are many old black and white photographs, all from "Imotska Krajina" archives, courtesy of its editor Ante Aračić and his son.  They are referenced as "IKA".  Most of the photographs where made by Braco Ćosić.  Few of the "Imotska Krajina" articles are reproduced on these pages.  

Milan Glibota, well known publisher and Imotski history author and teacher Snježana Tonković, curator of the Imotski museum provided historic Imotski and Imotski county maps and Topana fortress and Imotski drawings.  Luka Rajić and Joško Vukosav were instrumental in collecting and transmitting the old materials.  Luka Rajić, himself and through his contacts is the final arbiter on historic Imotski information.   Braco Zen has contributed the old song "Niz Tadića ulicu,"  Vlade Vicić has sent "Čuvaj se Jažića bure",  while Sveto Dunda provided the notes.   WWII materials come from Krunoslav Zujić.  Old Carnival photos were provided by Gordana Rako-Radić,  Zdravko Olujić, and fra Vjeko Vrčić, who also has given us many old photographs.

There are many images contributed by Milan Grbavac (digital aerial images) and few by Ante Rebić, courtesy of Joško Vukosav.  Rako Dinko provided a nice collection of Modro Jezero and Imotski photographs.  Tomo Matković, "Podi" has provided few Modro Jezero summertime images, nice Bekija panorama and many useful suggestions.  Koramac has provided Red lake 2007 cliff jump photos.  Davor Todorić has provided many of his slide scans from his collection.  Marko Benzon contributed several nice old photos.  Mate Rebić of www.vinjani.com has lend us former Vinjani churches images.   Gordan Brzica has provided few of the published Imotski County maps and the 3D map and was consulted about Pazar and Djirada pages.  Josip Aračić, the man who keeps us honest and accurate,  made the Imotski and official Croatia links, map of Imotski, and has done lots of  work on the other krajina maps.   His constant support and company has proved invaluable.  The recent map od Imotski County has been contributed by Goran Kukavica. His colleague, Zvonko Babić from Imotski Katastar has contributed Imotski maps from 1835.  D. Grabovac provided a complete list of Proložac surnames.   Marijana Džaja, from Australia, painstakingly extracted all the Imotski villages from the Imotski county maps.  She has also provided photos of Medov Dolac.  Zoran Raos provided photos of his oil paintings.  Ivan Bekavac Pivo has sent us his oil paintings.  Aljoša-Cici Rako have made available many old Imotski Basketball Club photographs. Boženka Rebić helped the project by making free photocopies of several "Imotska Krajina" pages and old photos.   Boris  Ðuzel has sent a photo of St Ivan chapel uncovering on Bazana.

Ulrich Harsch has given permission to reproduce a part of the Peutinger Fifth Map of Europe.  Professor Darko Žubrinić, author of extensive Croatian cultural pages, has made his Hrvoje Glagolitic Missal available for inclusion on the history pages.   Dan Wheadon was invaluable consultant for "The Passion of Christ" pages.

In the music section, we would like very much to thank Ivo Glibota Crni for providing the songs of the Imotski Brass Orchestra and for finding time for several conversations in his office.   Dr. Vlade Vicić generously provided a copy of his CD "Našoj Imoti" from which we have chosen several of his most know songs.   The Imotski Carnival video clips were produced from tapes made by "Photo Video Raos." 

With a project so big we are very likely to miss to acknowledge somebody, so we apologize for all such omissions.
Most of the sideshows are made with . The skin used is a hybrid of few JAlbum contributed skins. The first version of www.modrojezero.org had most of the slides made with MyAlbum.
The pages are full of Javascript code, mostly original contributions from DynamicDrive.com. The menus came from softcomplex site. The magnifiers came from Richard Goode's and Rupert Brooks's work.  New map magnifier,  that we have improved  upon came from  Urs Dudli and Peter Gehrig.

More than half of the images were processed by GIMP, a free image processing tool. The web pages were made alternating Netscape Composer and VIM. There are few other very useful free or Open Source tools that we have found indispensable in our work like Panorama Tools, PTAssembler, and especially .  We are sure that we have missed few others ...

It is also worth mentioning our web host Idologic for excellent support and for being very accommodating.

While all Imotski references start with "Imotska krajina" book by Ante Ujević and many works by friar Vjeko Vrčić, shown on the left image in the Saint Francis church Monastery Museum, there are few other books that we have consulted, that one should find very valuable in researching Imotski and Imotski County: "Čuvari Baštine" edited by friars Marko Babić and Bruno Pezo, "Imotski Zbornik" published by Matica Hrvatska , "Moja Imota" by Petar Gudelj, and "Imotski Moje Mladosti" by Prof. Mladen Mostarčić, as well as a series of articles by Ante Čelan Gaganić in "Imotska Krajina".  We have found, in researching old Imotski, the series of photo booklets by Dr. Veljko Vuković to be indispensable. This gem of a collection complements these web pages; or other way around, very well.

The authors are very grateful to their families for support, lots of understanding, eternal patience, and love.  Their support was instrumental for creation of these pages.