The roots of this small beech tree looked like giant prehistoric feet on this mountain forest path.
This image is also available on colour, but I really like the monochrome version because this emphasizes the prehistoric mood of this photograph. This huge claw was the root system of a tiny tree, which is amazing when you think about it. It had such a slender trunk and yet, this root system looked ancient and enormous. It was situated on the edge of a mountain woodland and after this there are soon no trees to be found and you enter the world of bare rocks with lichen. I love how this transition from trees to rocks is captured in this photograph, with the tree doing its best to grow on top of these rocks.
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.
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