The faint mist on an early August morning proved to offer the perfect conditions for this pocket of woodland on the moors of the Veluwe. The combination of mist and light produced an almost silvery, metallic shine to this photograph and it was one of those magical moments that you know you have made a photograph that is very "you". This is why this is undoubtedly one of my very favourite images and one that fills me with joy every time I look at it. These silver birches who almost glimmer against the matte backdrop with grass and oak trees is one I enjoy tremendously. The little tuft of orange oak leaves in the background ties this image together.
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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