The mossy roots of a beech tree in the famous Speulderbos with a slightly misty autumn woodland in the background. I was teaching a workshop when I got out of the way to let my client make his photographs without me looking over his shoulder and I grabbed my small camera to see if I could find something to photograph in the meantime. I had tried to photograph this tree numerous times before, but this is a difficult fellow to capture. This time it worked, I photographed this without a tripod and with the dancing beech trees in the background. This moss on the roots of this slender beech trees makes it look like a fairytale.
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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