PicsArt Monthly December Issue 2013 | Page 60

Feature: Artist Odák’s Winter Wonderland Our PicsArtist of the month is Odák (@kadolive), who mystified the PicsArt community with his series of magical winter shots. Snowfall and freezing ice are naturally gorgeous phenomenon, but Odák is gifted for extracting that beauty into killer shots. He finds a way to take these seasonal phenomena that we are so used to and make their beauty seem new and surprising again. He goes in close to capture the crystal shape of individual snowflakes, steps back to watch them fall by the thousands in apparent slowmotion, and just generally takes shots that make the most of the season’s textures, lighting and colors. 60 | PicsArt Monthly @kadolive These shimmering blues and brilliant whites, comprise a crisp palette of cool colors that bring you the bitter cold through your computer screen, while simultaneously causing you to lilt in the wonder of the season’s crystallized beauty. Altogether, Odák’s shots paint a stunning portrait of the winter season.