Where Light Sleeps

• Prize
  Bronze in Fine Art/Landscape
• Photographer
  Thomas De Franzoni
• Technical Info
  Sony Full Frame Camera, Sony 70 200 Lens, Iso 1600 F9 1/320sec
• Photo Date
  01/07/2025

This photograph was taken in the early hours on the plains of Castelluccio, Italy, as soft fog drifted over the fields. The hay bales, scattered like punctuation marks in the stillness, evoke a sense of quiet balance and rhythm. The image explores the subtle dialogue between light and shadow, form and emptiness. It is a meditation on solitude, silence, and the poetry of the land when the world has not yet fully awakened.

Thomas de Franzoni is a fine art photographer who uses minimalism as a language of emotion. His images are quiet pauses in time, revealing stillness, fragility, and presence within absence. Through light, space, and delicate contrasts, his work becomes less a record of reality and more a meditation — an invitation to listen inward.