Ben says
Gorgeous. That’s the rst word that springs to mind when looking at Kai’s early
morning lightscape. And I love his message: these are indeed dark times, but where
there’s light, there’s hope. Kai has performed a delicate balancing act, using focus and
depth of eld to ensure the pine tree grabs the eye while retaining just enough detail
in the background to create depth and further interest. There’s also an enticing feeling
of natural warmth and believable contrast that could very well have been lost at the
editing stage with a less subtle hand. Just one question: compared to the right half of
the image, the left half is rather subdued and uninteresting (cover the right side with
your hand and you’ll see what I mean), so would a portrait crop with the lone pine tree
in the centre of the frame have greater impact?Nathan Sadlek
My wife and I had just made our way
around the back of the Milwaukee
Art Museum when I noticed the sun
shining through the ‘wings’ of the
Quadracci Pavilion. The zig-zag
pattern on the ground caught my eye and it felt as
if the building, lawn and pavement were somehow
woven together by the shadow and light.Ben says
Any image that makes you look twice and question
what you’re looking at gets a big tick in my book,
and Nathan’s almost abstract depiction of the
Milwaukee Art Museum certainly got my attention.
It’s a spectacular building but when reduced to a
series of graphic lines and shapes, it becomes
something else entirely, more a Paul Klee artwork
than recognisable architecture. Less is always
more in my humble opinion and I wonder if Paul
could have gone even further, losing the small trim
of blue at the top of the frame, or even
experimenting with upright compositions to create
con ict with the sweeping horizontal lines.Kai Hornung, Hanover
It was a beautiful morning at Seiser
Alm, Italy. I started by looking at what
most people look at: the rolling hills,
mountain huts and iconic peaks. But
what excited me most was this
‘moment’ happening away from the main view and
how the early morning light highlighted this brave
tree standing strong in the morning fog. For me this
image is a sign of hope, of the bright inside the
dark, of us keeping our dreams alive.