Light Riders by Ellen Borggreve

I was photographing the sun rays in the forest path and had been standing here for an hour, waiting for the rays to appear, disappear and re-appear. All of a sudden the rays re-appeared, but much more subtly than before and at the exact time that I made this image, two horseback riders appeared in the distance, , one moment later and they had taken a turn to the left and the moment had passed. This is what I love so much about landscape photography, the ever elusive moment...That moment that things fall into place and something that looks ordinary in normal conditions is lifted to something quite magical

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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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