Together by Ellen Borggreve

These two beech trees have tremendous character and to do them justice I opted to photograph them vertically as if in a portrait. The tree on the left has two trunks which look quite dynamic and the tree in the right, with its robe looks as if it is slowly moving towards the right. It was a very warm August morning and the conditions were far from perfect for woodland photography, but I saw the opportunity of creating a sunstar with my wide angle lens to give this photograph that little bit extra. This photograph was shortlisted in two landscape photography awards and it is one of my favorites.

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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