This is an image from my roots series, which I started creating after both my parents died within a very short time. I created because I need to connect to the beauty of life again and photography helped me through the worst of my despair. On this day in August we were hiking through a forest with our dog when all of a sudden it started to pour down and we could hear a thunderstorm approaching. I quickly set up my tripod and created this image. The mist in the background is actually the approaching rain. The trees in the background had striking colours which you see often when a thunderstorm is on its way. I had only one lens with me with a fixed 50mm focal length, but it is true what they say : the best lens is the lens you have with you and so this turned out to be one of my top 5 personal favorite images. The painterly feeling of this scene caused by the weather conditions is something I really enjoy.
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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