These uprooted trees looked like creature from a distant past. Almost prehistoric in their appearance, they shone in the sunrise of this beautiful misty morning. This soft atmosphere is one that I have hardly ever seen.Fog can be so many things, it can be cold, dense, gloomy, eerie, but it can also be still, serene and inviting. It can be magical and that was exactly what it was on this early morning in June. The photograph Unraveled was also made on this same morning. It was created in a time of my life after I had just lost both my parents and I was unconsciously drawn to photograph roots. It was not until much later that I realized that in a way these tree portraits represented me and were almost self portraits.
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..
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