These small oak trees look like a bouquet of flowers in the way they all bend into another direction, creating diagonal lines in the frame. I love this scene very much and even though I have photographed it in many conditions, it never quite worked as well as in these winter conditions. In autumn the colours here are dull and if mist occurs it turns everything into a muddy shade of brown. It is one of those paces where you often get fog, but it never looks great. It is dull and dreary with muddy muted colours. On this morning though the snow reflected the light and scene was bright. It changed this into the winter fairytale I had dreamt of and it is a picture I am still utterly pleased with, which is often the case for this pictures that I have had to work hard for
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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