These trees are sort of a part of me, a part of my family history and a part of my husband's life as well. These trees are ancient oak trees. In their years of glory they enchanted painters and a stream flowed past them. When I was a child, the stream still had water in it, other old oak trees on the right were still there and the scene was not as overgrown as it is now. Yet, in all my life I did not manage to get a decent photograph of them, one that would do my feeling about them justice. They were like trees from a fairytale, mighty and old. We still visit them very often, the way you visit a family member, to see how they are doing and I kept trying to make a good image in this chaotic woodland scene. One day in September it worked out with a little bit of fog to give this some atmosphere and with the greens of the foliage still intact.
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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