These trees have been lifelong friends of mine and it is a sad thing that all of a sudden in the past few years they have started to loose large branches and some of the trees have fallen down. I made this image just before the trees in the background suffered heavily from a storm and all of a sudden the tree that I called Grumpy Heffalump ( a heffalump is a lilac elephant type creature in Winnie the Pooh), lost his trunk. I photograph them as characters so the viewer might connect to them and hopefully feel the urge to protect nature, to help save our old trees.
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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