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Light crystals

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You always have to keep your eyes open for a great pic. That’s exactly what the Grade 10 learner Kobus van Eck from Hopetown did on his way to school. “It was raining softly one night and the next morning we were on our way to school. I looked at the bakkie’s window next to me and saw that the drops of water on the window would make a good photo. I asked my mom, Jacqueline, to stop so I could take a photo. For me the photo symbolises the relief and good fortune that rain brings.” Kobus’s photo is a typical example of an abstract photo, but not so that you don’t know what you’re looking at. That’s the secret: to be able to recognise what you’re looking at. This applies to the drops on the glass, but you also don’t need a lot of clues to realise it’s the sun rising on the horizon. If you have a closer look at the photo, each of the drops have a world of their own inside – and it ranges from the dark areas on the photo to the drops evaporatin­g in the sun. Even though you can see a lot of detail in the photo, it still leans towards the artistic. All the colours and textures on the photo work well together and creates a picture that you want to look at again and again.

 ??  ?? Huawei P10 Lite, 3,83 mm (26 mm on a 35 mm camera); 1/9 000 of a second; f2,2; ISO 50
Huawei P10 Lite, 3,83 mm (26 mm on a 35 mm camera); 1/9 000 of a second; f2,2; ISO 50

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