This picture was the subject of one of my two post processing examples for the book Woodscapes and the eBook that comes with it. It was taken on an incredibly gloomy winter morning. The fog was dense and the light was flat. I went to a small pocket of gnarly oak trees that I have photographed many, many times and all of a sudden peering through my telephoto lens I spotted this scene, something you would not ever notice when passing this group of trees. This is what I love so much about photography. It is wrong to think that we photograph reality, we photograph fragments of reality and it might be a reality that no one other than you might ever see. It is what I call the magical side of reality. The trees forming the arch are now no longer there unfortunately as these overhanging branches are fragile and can snap off in heavy storms. But in that moment in time, this scene existed, it was almost unworldly and I did my little dance after capturing it, filled with joy that I had been able to capture it.
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.
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