Daydreamer by Ellen Borggreve

Fairytale woodland scene with green beech trees .

The ferns were almost neon green on this particular day in the summer, they were bright and luminous and even though it is believed that one should not photograph forests in the middle of a sunny summer's day, I tend to disagree. Nature is beautiful in all kinds of conditions and one only has to look hard enough to see the magic. These trees are amongst my best tree friends and I have photographed with all kinds of lenses and in all kinds of conditions and this summer version is one that appeals to me greatly

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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.

The focus is on tranquil scenes that seem to lie outside everyday reality, without people in the picture, with subjects that are about to disappear often being the subject. The fleeting patterns in the sand, but especially old forest giants that are disappearing at breakneck speed due to climate change.

Ellen is an awarded photographer at 1x and was named one of the world's best landscape photographers by Photoblog in 2019. Her work has been published in books, Nature Photography Magazine, Focus, Landscape Photography Magazine, On Landscape and many other publications. She shares her knowledge gained during her long career as a soft sculpture artist and designer combined with over 40 years of experience in photography in the many articles she writes for Landscape Photography Magazine and also her own blog. She also enjoys teaching where she puts the individual vision of photographers first.

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