Beech forests can be insanely colorful in autumn and to be honest, I much prefer the duller greens of the end of summer, but I realize that I am quite alone in this. Most people really love the vibrant yellows and orange leaves of the beech trees in fall. I was teaching a workshop on this particular morning and the night had brought with it some slight mist, which was evaporating faster than I would have liked, but when the sun was piercing through, this scene looked exuberantly vibrant. It was like an autumn fiesta, with orange leaves covering all the paths from sight and leaving a vivid carpet on the forest floor, which contrasted against the green mossy tree trunk of the beech trees of the famous Speulderbos
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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