Hidden Realms by Ellen Borggreve

This ancient beech tree has had its most glorious years behind it, but is so eye-catching in its slow decay that I keep coming back to it. This time I went there in the midst of summer, a slight mist was in the pine tree woodland in the background and this helped set the right atmosphere for this magnificent tree with some old oak trees in the background. The foliage was still green but the ferns were already changing colour due to the drought of this particular summer. I opted to make this a high key image to give it a brighter and perhaps more inviting mood

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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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