These ancient chestnut trees are quite challenging to photograph. I tried again and again and spent one entire morning one just a few square meters trying out compositions with just my prime 50mm lens. I had been working on a one lens project and to make this image work, I had to resort to creating a vertical panorama of 5 images that…
Art on canvas looks great on any wall. It truly comes into its own with paintings featuring sharp brushstrokes.
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…
