This little scene that was photographed on the same day as several other images in the Pine Forests album reminded me of a bouquet of flowers in the way the branches almost fell apart to the sides. The atmosphere was moody due to very dense fog that did not lift for many hours and this was the first picture I made that day. I love the little curved tree trunk without bark in the middle on its way to create a question mark. It mirrors the shapes the the trees more to the middle left of the frame. The fog was so dense that the background was hardly visible at all and it was all too easy to become overwhelmed by the beauty of it all. I met one woman and she said : isn't it like walking in Fairyland? And so it was.
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.
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