Fall Phenomenon by Ellen Borggreve

Patiently waiting for the sunbeams to line up with the direction of the branches on this early morning in autumn, so this scene would be elevated to something more magical than just a mundane forest path, was very satisfying. The atmosphere on these early morning in October can change within seconds and just watching the spectacle of sunbeams piercing through the foliage in ever changing fleeting compositions is utterly mesmerizing. This is one of those examples that show how transient these scenes can be, not just because of fleeting conditions, but also because this scene no longer exists in this form, with many trees having fallen over or damaged.

Created by Ellen Borggreve.

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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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