The Birches

This is quite a well-known picture of mine that was published in calendars and magazines all over the world. It is the horizontal version of Moodiness which is also available in my shop here. The vertical image emphasizes the narrowness of the path where this one focuses on the wide entrance with narrows down in the background almost like a funnel of birches. The path has a naturally yellow shade and the fog turned into shades of green and blue due to the reflections of both the blue sky and the green summer foliage of the trees. In August the foliage turns into a lovely dull dark green which has a painterly feel rather than Spring's bright neon colours, which I often find a bit overwhelming.

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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