• Home
    • Favorites
    • New images
    • series
    • intimate
    • water
    • mountain
    • forest
    • aerial
    • night
    • urban
  • ABOUT
    • workshops-with-me
    • Northern Spain - April 2025 (last spots)
    • Kellerwald, Germany - Oct. 2025 (sold out)
    • Magical Winter in Western Harz, Germany - Jan. 2026 (only 2 spots left)
    • prints
    • Online Training
    • Licensing
  • BLOG
  • listen
  • contact
  • Sonic Front
Menu

KAI HORNUNG PHOTOGRAPHY

LANDSCAPE AND NATURE PHOTOGRAPHY ART
  • Home
  • Portfolio
    • Favorites
    • New images
    • series
    • intimate
    • water
    • mountain
    • forest
    • aerial
    • night
    • urban
  • ABOUT
  • workshops
    • workshops-with-me
    • Northern Spain - April 2025 (last spots)
    • Kellerwald, Germany - Oct. 2025 (sold out)
    • Magical Winter in Western Harz, Germany - Jan. 2026 (only 2 spots left)
  • Services
    • prints
    • Online Training
    • Licensing
  • BLOG
  • listen
  • contact
  • Sonic Front
×

If you like reading my blog please consider subscribing to my newsletter. I frequently post blog articles exclusively available to my subscribers.

Here are my articles ‘open’ to everyone.

Some refresh: with that beautiful waterfall deep in a forest. And on my homepage, too.

Some refresh: with that beautiful waterfall deep in a forest. And on my homepage, too.

Update to my homepage

Kai Hornung August 6, 2021

I think this was necessary and long overdue: a restructuring and update of my homepage.

  • a simpler and easier way to get into the main content

  • my work presented in themes instead of locations/countries

Here is why:

It was January 2018 when I launched this homepage. My own digital home where I have the sole decision on when and how to present my work, other than trusting photo sharing sites or social media to show my images. It was the time that I decided my photography should be more than a passionate hobby. A time where I started investing into and sort of ‘professionalizing’ my art.

I had enough images to show. But I didn’t have what I then thought was important: a variety in locations. Well, I was starting out and falsely believing that I would need a decent portfolio of location images. So to kick my homepage off, I divided it into sections of images with mountains, water, forests and cities. I think it was half a year later that I changed it into sections based on locations that I had photographed: Dolomites, Lofoten, Faroe Islands, Portugal, Iceland, Germany and others. These sections grew as I kept on traveling and photographing.

What also grew was the awareness that I started to get less and less fascinated by photographing the so called iconic locations. My photography matured. At least that is how it did feel to me. And seeing how some of my images got imitated and that people started following to the locations I went, I stopped sharing location informations. Not to prevent people from ‘redoing’ my images (in a way I do take this as a compliment, really), but in order to try to protect the sometimes fragile places and not have them be overrun. Ultimately I did sign up for Nature First. And being sensitive on location sharing is one of the principles in which I do believe.

And although I still like seeing great locations with my own eyes, my art is not focused on the location itself anymore, but much rather on what I do express and how I do frame a scene. Bottom line: it doesn’t make sense anymore to present my work sectioned in countries or those specific areas.

I even considered structuring my images by feeling or emotion. But I guess that might be a stretch for some viewers browsing my gallery on my homepage. And I want your time spent here be worthwhile and not confusion. So I let that idea go.

Lastly, I did get rid of the “cover” page which showed an animated gallery and on which you had to press “enter” to get to the inside of my homepage. I still liked this cover, having it work like a cover of a book. But I get it that every click a visitor does on a homepage has to serve a purpose and that you have to have your content be available with greatest ease. And so the “cover” page had to go.

Enter the stage: the updated homepage of yours truly. And with this, I do hope you find browsing my homepage and new galleries interesting, maybe even inspiring. With less thought on where images were taken. And with more emphasis on how they connect with you and what becomes of them in your mind. Enjoy!

In blog, news Tags blog, blog post, update, news, homepage, kai hornung
← Settling with yourself (about finding style)Leftovers and b-sides →
BLOG RSS

Search Posts

Post Archive
  • March 2025
  • February 2024
  • December 2023
  • March 2023
  • February 2023
  • January 2023
  • December 2022
  • August 2022
  • April 2022
  • August 2021
  • February 2021
  • October 2020
  • August 2020
  • May 2020
  • March 2020
  • February 2020
  • August 2019
  • February 2019
  • September 2018
  • August 2018
  • June 2018
  • April 2018
  • February 2018
  • January 2018

Here are my articles for German page Fokus Naturfotografie:

  • Workshop Tagebuch Island

  • Nicht gut genug?

  • Der Weg zu Deinem Stil

Finde Artikel über Landschaftsfotografie und Naturfotografie, Tips und Tricks zum Fotografieren, Reisen, Kamera und Ausrüstung.

 

© 2025 Kai Hornung

No reproduction, publication, or rehosting of any content on this site without express prior written permission. Commercial and editorial licenses available; please use the contact form for more information.

Impressum / Legal Info Datenschutz / Privacy policy

Fokus Naturfotografie