I love this photograph for the story behind it. A few years ago a French woman contacted me and said that all was well, but I lived in nice forest whilst there was no such thing where she lived. I asked her where she lived and being a stubborn person who likes to prove other people wrong, I decided to go there on the vey next trip to France. I booked a hotel for two nights in the area and on my way further south I stopped over there and in the early morning we drove up to the nearest forest, only 5 minutes from where this woman lived. I was not convinced about the conditions. It had been 38 degrees for 2 weeks, but we went up there anyway. A patch of fog hovered over the mountain road and I called out : stop! to my husband who dutifully stopped the car and let me out. This was the first image I was able to create, right on the side of the road. The forest turned out to be amazingly beautiful and I had to chuckle that I had been able to prove her wrong. Especially when weeks later I posted this image and she said: "that is what I mean, we don't have forests like that over here"
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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