Fall Tango by Ellen Borggreve

Twisted beech trees in the famous Dutch forest Speulderbos being backlit by sun beams. The last autumn leaves are still hanging onto the lower branches which combined with the warm winter light adds to an inviting woodland atmosphere. I captured this scene whilst teaching a workshop in quickly changing conditions around noon. The balancing act in this image really caught my attention and the backlit trees stand out like silhouettes in front of the magical light. I also really like the autumn leaves which create horizontal lines as if they are perfectly balanced even though the scene looks unstable.

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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