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The Gathering

This black and white fine art photograph features a lagoon inhabited by a group of flamingos. The scene is shrouded in fog, creating a soft and muted ambiance. The flamingos, with their long legs and necks, stand quietly in the water, adding a sense of calm to the composition.

Awards

Nature Photography Contest

2025

Bronze

Minimalism

Professional

The Gathering

This black and white fine art photograph features a lagoon inhabited by a group of flamingos. The scene is shrouded in fog, creating a soft and muted ambiance. The flamingos, with their long legs and necks, stand quietly in the water, adding a sense of calm to the composition.

About Artist

Thomas de Franzoni

Photography allows me to translate emotions that words often fail to express. Through light, shadow, and simplicity, I create images that invite reflection rather than observation, where nature becomes a quiet language and every photograph is a space to breathe. I am not interested in recording reality as it appears. I am interested in revealing the emotions that emerge when light touches stone, when water finds its path, or when silence fills the landscape. My photographs are not destinations. They are passages—moments suspended between darkness and light, solitude and hope, inviting each viewer to complete the journey in their own way. Gold Winner Rank #1 Italy - One Eyeland Black and White Photo Awards 2025 Top 4 Photographer - 35Awards Black and White Awards 2025 Photographer of the Year - Architecture, reFocus World Photo Annual (2025) Photographer of the Year - Minimalism, reFocus World Photo Annual (2024) Discovery of the Year - Architecture, Exposure One Awards (2024) Category Winner — Minimalism, Phi Photography Awards (2025) Category Winner - Minimalism, International Artistic Photography Awards (2025) 1st Place — Fine Art, Monovisions Photography Awards (2025) 1st Place — Fine Art, Nexus Photography Awards (2025) 1st Place — Fine Art Architecture, Phi Photography Awards (2025) Gold Winner - Fine Art, One Eyeland (2024) Platinum Winner — Nature / Landscape, EPA European Photography Awards (2024)

Thomas de Franzoni

Photographic Areas of Focus

Abstract, Architecture, Fine Art, Landscapes, Minimalism, Nature, Wildlife

Location

Italy

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