The North Sea beach of Terschelling in a storm with windforce 9 can be a dark and brutal place, yet it is also in a strange way calming with the windswept sand almost floating at high speed over the wet layers of sand underneath. It gives you a feeling that you are not on solid ground as everything is in motion. Yet, nothing clears one's mind as going to the beach on a windy day. The clouds on Terschelling often look like those from old Dutch paintings, ominous and heavy with rain. They give such character to our otherwise flat country.
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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