Silence by Ellen Borggreve

There is one week every year where the sun rises exactly behind this tree, which I found out quite accidentally, because I don't like to plan my images into minute details. This does not mean that very single year it is possible to make an image like this, because the pollard willow is topped every other year or so and then this scene does not look very magical at all. The branches of the pillar willow are scattering the light into sun rays which makes this such a magical scene. This wetland area is part of the Gelderse Poort in The Netherlands

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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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