I live in the Gelderse Poort and the sunrises in the late winter and early spring can be magical. Fog builds up so easily over these wetlands at sunrise and there is not a single morning exactly the same. On this occasion the sun burned through the fog very quickly, but the water is still showing the results of the frost of the night before. This became a very monochromatic scene because of the fog and the lack of foliage. In the distance the water disappears in the direction of the German border, following the original flow of the river Rhine which is now of course canalized and or nearly as idyllic as this stream
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..
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