cizucu Presents: 'In the Rain' Award Announcement | Challenge #385

'In the Rain' is a global online photo contest organized by cizucu, open to any creator registered on cizucu. Outstanding works are curated from the submissions, with the aim of discovering new talent as a platform and supporting the community as a whole.

This time, the theme was ‘Rain’.

On rainy days, familiar scenery appears slightly different.
Even rain that may feel melancholic at first glance can reveal a unique beauty only found on such days, if you look closely.

Now, let us introduce the submissions and the awarded works.

selpisro
Crossing

cizucu Editorial Team
On a street corner washed by heavy rain, a figure with an umbrella quietly walks through the light. Blue and red lights flow across the wet pavement, and even the outlines of buses and traffic signals dissolve into the raindrops. In this place where the city's warmth and the night's chill meet, a profound tranquility unique to rainy days resides.

hkr_capturedmoments
A swing in a rain-soaked park on a downpour day

📷 CANON EOS Kiss X7

cizucu Editorial Team
Swings wet from the rain quietly line up in an empty park. Water pooled on the seats, droplets trailing down the chains, and puddles at their feet seem to slowly express the passage of time. In the moist air tinged with the scent of greenery, only the faint echo of children's laughter lingers.

Kei

cizucu Editorial Team
Beyond a rain-soaked window, red and green lights softly unravel, enveloping a solitary silhouette. While the contours fade into the darkness, the presence of the figure standing there remains certain. In the night air where raindrops and streetlights mingle, a silent murmur seems to permeate the scene.

Will.i.am

📷 Fujifilm XT-30 III

cizucu Editorial Team
On a fogged-up glass, a faint silhouette emerges. The light behind leaves only the outline, while the traces of water slowly dissolve the presence. The humid warmth indoors and the sense of night drifting in from outside overlap, imbuing the image with an unspoken stillness.

Thomas_J

📷 LEICA Leica Q2

cizucu Editorial Team
Beyond the train window frame, the evening sky and deep greenery are captured as a single landscape. The faint pink lingering behind the clouds feels like a receding light in the passage of time. The darkness inside the train and the expanse outside form a contrast, evoking the quiet margin after the rain.

BANA photoArt

cizucu Editorial Team
Through a dark window scattered with raindrops, only the light of a vending machine floats like a small city. The glass, heavy with the humidity of the night, pushes the brightness outside into the distance, trapping cold light in each droplet. Amid the sound of rain, time quietly seeps through this image.

How did you find it?
The works gathered under the theme of 'Rain' reflected the quiet emotions and flow of time that lie beyond droplets and wet landscapes.
Rather than concealing the scenery, the continuous rain gently transforms light, color, and atmosphere, creating new narratives.

Even on seemingly ordinary rainy days, there are moments that quietly move the heart. This contest once again highlighted the unique allure of rain. We look forward to seeing the irreplaceable moments you encounter in the next edition.