For some the vibrant colours of beech and American oak trees are the summum of what nature has to offer. Photographers flock to photograph forests in all shades of orange, bright yellow and red, I must prefer the duller orange brown shades of oak trees, their understated muted colours not distracting from their amazing branch structures. Oak trees don't need neon colours to be special. The reason I keep coming back to these trees is because of their amazing individuality. Even in alleys, oak trees always look like individuals. On this particularly foggy and cold morning the sun lit up the orange leaves and made them look more vibrant than normal, the duller colours hiding in the foggy areas and the brighter ones where the sun reached them. The tree on the from has some natural zebra stripes on the bark, which I think add to its charm tremendously. This could just be an ode to oak trees ;) This is an awarded photograph
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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