Suivre La Lumiere by Ellen Borggreve

This photograph is on the cover of the book Woodscapes that I am the co-author of. It is a special picture for many reasons, perhaps because it is proof of my stubbornness. This was taken in the middle of August when the heath was in full bloom and all photographers flocked on the Posbank, which is not far from where I live. I am an introvert who can't work in crowds and so I did the opposite of photographing the blooming moorlands. I went to the forest, next to the moorlands and saw this dense fog building up. The sun had great difficulty piercing through it and for many hours the scene was so magical that I still consider this the best day of my photography life. There is a sense of reverence watching something like this unfold before your eyes, it comes quite close to a spiritual or mystical experience. This is why I love being out there in the landscape on my own. The stillness of an early late summer morning, the promise of a hot day and the knowledge that everyone else is flocking to on one spot and I, all alone, in a woodland I know so very well and love so very much.

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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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