One morning in January I got a message that there was snow not that far from my home and that it was probably going to disappear within the next hours. Where I live, there was not snow and snow now being a rare occurrence in this country I immediately got in the car to hopefully make some images. There was snow, but it was raining hard and I was completely alone apart fro one other completely drenched woman who walked past me at great speed. The snow was melting very fast and so I rushed to get to this spot. Little did I know that the almost black stripe underneath the large branch of the beech tree in the front was a bad omen of things to come. This branch fell off a month later. When I set up the camera, the sun peeked through, just for a minute. I managed to get to images of this scene, one vertical and one horizontal with the sunlight lighting up the tree trunks. The mist in the distance makes this feel like a lovely cold winter morning when actually it was quite dreary, but just for a moment....it was also magical
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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