The Spell by Ellen Borggreve

This little oak tree looked like it was putting the other oak trees under its spell. The oak trees in this tiny woodland area are all small and gnarly. Their trunks mostly covered in moss and their branches twisted and curled. Some look like corkscrews others look like wide spirals. Not one tree is the same, all unique and I have spent many hours photographing on the square meter. I am not one to rush from hotspot to hotspot, I tend to take a lot of time in just a small area and to observe really well. I don't like to hurry or be hurried and so, it is not unusual if I stay in one place for 4 hours. This way I usually find something new to photograph every time, new relationships between these trees that I did not se on previous occasions and in all seasons there is something new to be discovered.

Created by Ellen Borggreve.

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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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