These trees are my lifelong friends, I have seen them age, witnessed them losing branches and admired them for their will to survive. These ancient beech trees must have been majestic in their best years. Now they are magical, as if they could only exist on the pages of a storybook, yet, they are real. I can't help but smile at the idea that they have seen me as a toddle and now as an adult with a way too heavy backpack filled with cameras. They patiently pose of the portraits I make of them and they know that I will be back time and time again to see how they are doing, to try to make yet another image, because they are simply too appealing to not make an image of.
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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Germany
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Germany
Germany
Germany
Germany
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Netherlands