This forest does not get a lot of fog, but when it does it looks eerie and mysterious. Due to a large percentage of pine trees in the forest the fog usually looks blueish , especially in the winter the other trees are left bare, without the lush foliage that covers their outreaching branches. Beech trees can have an almost metallic sheen on their barks and I made use of that in this image to emphasize the somewhat eerie and otherworldly atmosphere in this scene. Winter was still young, so the leaves on the forest floor were still retained their orange colour, which made for a nice contrast with the blueish fog. The path leads up and disappears in nothingness and you can't be sure where it will be going. This forest has steep hills that were formed by morenes after the ice age and it can be quite crowded, but on foggy days like these no one seems to be comfortable in this forest and I usually have it all to myself with the exception of the company of boars and deer.
Ellen Borggreve is a landscape photographer and author of Woodscapes and Praxisbuch Wälder fotografieren, among others. She was born and raised in the woods of the Veluwe where her love for trees originated. Besides forests she also likes to photograph Dutch coastal scenes.
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