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It’s springtime in the Balkan Mountains, and in a lush expanse, Bulgarian photographer Georgi Georgiev has his lens focused on something tiny.

That’s a pattern she has also seen at a fossil site in Europe’s Balkan Mountains, where a minimum of two Homo lineages were present and interacted.

During a warm spell about 46,000 years ago, a small band of people took shelter in a cave on the northern slope of the Balkan Mountains in what is now Bulgaria.

This summer, for our fifth wedding anniversary, Paul and I drove south of my hometown, Sevlievo, for an hour or so to the Balkan Mountains.

These are situated on the heights of Mount Haemus, the extremity of the Balkan Mountains, which overhangs the Black Sea.