Legacy by Ellen Borggreve

Panorama image in black and white of two giant sequioa trees in dense fog. This picture was actually taken the same day as Mr Sandman, but in an entirely different place. Here the fog was dense, but much brighter and I had long waited to make a photograph of these giant sequoia trees that I have known since my earliest childhood. My grandmother took me here very often and I loved the way their branches were so low to the ground. These trees though are incredibly hard to photograph. When I heard that it was very foggy in this area, we got into the car and drove to this park. I knew I would have to work with a panorama and it turned out I needed 7 vertical images to create this image. I had to repeat the panorama series three times because dogs came running past and under my tripod and I had to start over again. It took me a long time before I finally got a series without interruptions :) When I came home I realized that the greens and the browns really distracted from the serene mood of the day and I decided to make this a black and white image. This is an awarded photograph.

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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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