Plethora

On the morning that I photographed this woodland scene with sun rays, I initially thought that the conditions were not good in this forest on the Veluwe and so I drove to another one instead. There I photographed in magical misty conditions and after a few hours I drove back to this forest and to my surprise sun rays were appearing everywhere in the forest. I spotted these beech trees of which the diagonals mirrored those of the sun rays in the background and with the dominant branch mirroring the lines of the sun rays on the left of the image. Even those these days some software creates sun rays, I choose to stick to natural sunbeams as only nature can create them like this. To create them would be to miss out on the real magic of nature and I am not willing to give up on the experience.

This artwork is offered by Ellen Borggreve

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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