Scary old beech tree in dense fog. I sometimes smile when I get emails in which the writer states that I am lucky because it is always foggy where I live. Of course this is as far from the truth as possible. I don't live in an area where we have mostly mist, but I do photograph in moments of mist. Sometimes I drive as far as I have to to find it, sometimes it means going up the mountain tens or hundreds of times, but it always means that perhaps 90 to 95 percent of the time I go somewhere and the conditions are not "perfect", but they are always perfect to practice in. There is never a moment wasted in the forest with a camera. On this day though, the snow had started to melt and as it was heating up quickly a dense fog started to build up. This tree is an amazing one which looked totally different from all angles and it gets more character every time I see him. From this angle and in these conditions it looks like a bit of a scary, yet friendly character. This was photographed in the midst of winter, yet the remaining autumn leaves adds the only bit of colour to this somewhat ghostly image.
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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