The Trollables
Three times three hundred years...
The Swedish island of Öland, primeval dull, a pearl, lots to do, nothing to do... We had already heard many stories, stories that all contradict each other. The only thing left to do is go and see for yourself.
A little search on the internet yielded the name Trollskogen. Trollskogen translated as Trollenbos was my first trigger, a second trigger was a picture of imaginative trees that had decided not to grow in height, but let themselves curl into the most graceful shapes.
A small piece over a nine-hundred-year-old oak tree, the Trollekskogen was the deciding factor. An oak tree, at least one that is nine hundred years old, must be a peculiarity, because an oak tree grows for three hundred years, then it lives for three hundred years and then dies for three hundred years.
Öland, here we come! Här kommer vi
My name is Gerry van Roosmalen, photographer and author with a passion for images and stories that touch. After years in the corporate world, I followed my heart and chose photography in 2002. I completed the Fotovakschool in Apeldoorn, specialising in portrait and reportage photography.
Documentary and landscape..
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