Shower Of Heavenly Light by Ellen Borggreve

This picture was featured as a post processing case in Woodscapes and the eBook that belongs to it. It was one of those serendipitous moments that lift ordinary scenes to the extraordinary, that make it more than it would normally be. Autumn had set in and I was taking a walk over the moors of the Veluwe, the humidity levels were high, yet the amount of fog had been disappointing (if you were to have expectations of glorious fog) and I was musing about this tree, of which the shape appealed to me very much. I knew this could be something, if only I could separate it from the very busy background and low and behold, the sun appeared and made magic in combination with the high humidity levels and I quickly changed lenses to set up for this picture seeing that the autumn leaves in the foreground which I considered to be distracting were now glistening in the sun and were adding to the frame. It is miraculous how things can change within seconds.

Created by Ellen Borggreve.

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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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