Silver Dawn by Ellen Borggreve

In the 4 weeks that our trip lasted there was literally only one day that it did not pour down and all of a sudden the wind took a break on this particular morning. I know this place very well and I knew that after a cold night, there would probably be mist over the lake if the sun's warmth would touch the cold surface of the water and so it happened. I have photographed this spot on many more occasions, but this was the most serene atmosphere I ever experienced there. Instead of the usual golden light, the colour remained cool which suited the outside temperature very well, because it was freezing. I opted for a calm composition with horizontals in the frame to do justice to the mood of that morning.

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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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