This photograph captures the hushed poetry of a winter morning at the edge of a quiet stretch of water. Bare trees, their branches like graphic lines against the misty sky, stand like sentinels along the shore. The morning mist hangs over the landscape like a soft veil, blurring the horizon into a dreamy void. The reflections of the trees in the calm surface of the water are subtle and fragile, like memories slowly fading away.
The colours are subdued and earthy: cool greys dominate, with a hint of brown here and there in the trunks and a faint green glow in the water. The absence of bright light enhances the atmosphere of contemplation and tranquillity. There is no movement, no sound - just the breath of winter enveloping the landscape.
Photographically, the composition is carefully constructed: the trees form a rhythmic pattern that guides the eye along the shore, while the mist adds depth and mystery. This image is an ode to silence, to the beauty of the unspoken, and to the power of simplicity in nature.
                                
 
                                
                                        Father - Photographer - Engineer - Pizza lover - Springsteen fan - Traveller
I'm Ben - self-taught landscape photographer from Belgium,  in search of light and stillness since 2016.
At 45,  I took a camera in my hands for the first time. A late start,  perhaps,  but proof..
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