Cinematic doesn’t do small. So landscapes can easily go the cinematic route. Especially if you have an added scale like miniature cars. These are the hills around the city of Jeddah in Saudi Arabia.

Here the scale is reversed – the bigger sanddunes in the distance and the relatively small dune buggies in front. The bright primary colours of the vehicle add to the cinematic effect. These are the outlying dunes that turn into the large sand desert called Rub’ al Khali that reaches from Saudi Arabian east coast all the way to Yemen.

And now for something completely different. This is the main building of Lorsch Abbey, more than a thousand years old. It is impressive even today but I always imagine what impact such a building might have had on a simple person seeing it for the first time – when all they knew up to then was one storey buildings.

From the same Carolingian period less than a 100 km to the east is the Einhard’s basilica in Steinbach. The cinematic and highly dramatic effect is derived from the play of light and shadows inside.

Another church, a different age and the cinematic effect comes from the golden roofs of the five towers of this Russian Orthodox church in Wiesbaden. It’s located on a wooded hill in the middle of the city and when the sun hits those golden tops it’s goosebump time.

Lens-Artists Challenge #346: Cinematic

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