The Myth of Mostly Mist by Ellen Borggreve

Scary old beech tree in dense fog. I sometimes smile when I get emails in which the writer states that I am lucky because it is always foggy where I live. Of course this is as far from the truth as possible. I don't live in an area where we have mostly mist, but I do photograph in moments of mist. Sometimes I drive as far as I have to to find it, sometimes it means going up the mountain tens or hundreds of times, but it always means that perhaps 90 to 95 percent of the time I go somewhere and the conditions are not "perfect", but they are always perfect to practice in. There is never a moment wasted in the forest with a camera. On this day though, the snow had started to melt and as it was heating up quickly a dense fog started to build up. This tree is an amazing one which looked totally different from all angles and it gets more character every time I see him. From this angle and in these conditions it looks like a bit of a scary, yet friendly character. This was photographed in the midst of winter, yet the remaining autumn leaves adds the only bit of colour to this somewhat ghostly image.

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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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