This must be one of my favorite images. I took this one the second day of Spring, yet the atmosphere in this forest was still cool and wintery. It was very cold and a very dense fog built up under the blue sky. This forest has lots of small pine trees instead of the usual tall and straight trees. I like trees to have a bit of shape to them and these trees being small really helped finding nice little scenes to photograph. This one immediately stood out because of the way the tree curves to the top middle of the frame where the bark on its branch has been lost. Fog is almost a necessity in this forest because without it it is quite chaotic, which is of course lovely, but not great for photography. There is this little white tree trunk just behind the dominant tree that catches the light and really adds to the scene
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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