Serene by Ellen Borggreve

I love the elegant shapes of birch trees and their somewhat fragile appearance. Autumn started early and the foliage of the birch trees was the first to change colour whilst the grass was yellow due to the long drought. The mist turned into a cool shade when the sky above became clear blue. This made the foliage stand out even more. I really like how the dense fog obscure many trees from sight and keeping others clearly visible in the foreground. A couple of trees mirror each others poses and with them looking like they are leaning in, they add some dynamics to this 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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