December 6, 20248 Comments

An Autumn Evening

During a long walk in a dark and grey forest, the sun briefly but brightly breaks through the cloud cover just before sunset and illuminates the forest in fairy-tale autumn colors, as only the setting autumn sun can do. 

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November 12, 20244 Comments

Feathers Of Light

Evening arrives, turning the trees into feathers of light.

An autumn walk through the beautiful forest Dover Plantation, near the town of Hurup Thy in North Jutland, Denmark.

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November 6, 20245 Comments

Dark Times

We are witnessing the beginning of a pitch-black period. 

For all those who care about nature, about the oppressed, about justice and democracy. 

And for those who care about the rights of women, of those with a different opinion, sexual orientation, of those with a colored skin...

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October 27, 20246 Comments

Drowned Fields

The days of cold autumn rain. Looking out over drowned fields, ten years ago in the province of Groningen, The Netherlands.

Autumn is a beautiful time, a time when nature tenderly covers the fallen seeds with brown and vibrant colored leaves. Food for the new growing season...

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October 25, 20248 Comments

Lost (3)

A gray, foggy autumn day. A day like so many, where you only see vague outlines of the path you are walking. The silence and lack of sight are oppressive at first...

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October 2, 20246 Comments

Echos Of A Dream

It is early in the morning, but it is already light when I wake up. The sunlight filtered through the curtains quickly dissipates the last images of my dream and emerging thoughts disrupt the story...

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September 30, 20244 Comments

Golden Silence

It's early on a beautiful autumn evening, no wind and a bright blue sky. There is silence in the forest. A palpable silence, soft and thick like a wool blanket.
Yellow leaves gently fall to the ground. The sunlight wraps them in gold...

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August 9, 20242 Comments

Duende

Duendes crossing my path on a sunny morning...
In some Latin American cultures, the Duendes are believed to be forest spirits, helpers of people who get lost in the forest so they could find their way home.

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July 25, 20242 Comments

Weeping Pine Tree

Weeping pine tree –
Blue rain falling to earth,
mixed tears of happiness.

Weeping pine tree - A pine tree on a sunny winter day, the sunlight brings tears of happiness, but mixed feelings because of the declining state of nature.

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July 21, 2024Comments are off for this post.

Shivering Trees In Morning Haze

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July 13, 2024No Comments

Gathering (2)

It is early morning on a beautiful, sunny but damp spring day. Sunlight warms the forest floor, patches of fog rise. The trees seem to be moving, appearing out of the mist, as if they are gathering for their morning meeting.

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July 11, 2024No Comments

Dancing Trees

A sunlit open space in the forest, full of young waving birch trees eager to drink the sunlight, surrounded by a beautifully decorated wall of pines and somewhat older birches that move in the wind like in a slow dance...

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July 5, 2024No Comments

Endless Road

Endless Road - A dark, gray and rainy day in June. It is beginning to get dark and the wind is finally abating. A curtain of rain obscures the view. But I know this road, I know we're almost home.

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April 6, 20244 Comments

Crying Pine Tree (3)

Crying Pine Tree

Crying pine tree –
Blue rain falling to earth,
mixed tears of happiness.

It is based on a photograph I made on a walk on a bright sunny day on the threshold of spring, in nature park Lövö, a beautiful fairy tale like peninsula on the Baltic coast in the Kalmar region, Sweden.

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December 31, 2022Comments are off for this post.

The First Light (2)

The first light
Slowly awakening trees,
for a brief moment
woven in liquid gold

'The First Light (2)' is a new artwork in my collection 'Wavy Fields’.

The First Light - Trees in golden morning light - Digital artwork based on fine art photography by Jacob Berghoef
The First Light - Trees in golden morning light - Digital artwork based on fine art photography by Jacob Berghoef

General info on the artwork The First Light

This is a digital artwork, printed with high-quality ink on museum-quality cotton paper (Hahnemühle Photo Rag® 308gsm). The work comes in a limited edition of 10, signed and with a certificate of authenticity.

For these artworks, I start with one or more photographs made by myself. I edit it in multiple process runs and in several layers by color manipulation and adding and editing multiple digital photographic effects. I do that until a surrealistic atmosphere is created that touches me and tells the story I want to tell.

The photograph(s) I begin with has/have an impressionistic, surrealistic or abstract realist style, which is the basis for all my work.

Prints are available, ask for a quote or contact me through a message. Prints are also available in my Saatchi Art portfolio at the artwork page

June 14, 2022No Comments

Refuge (1)

Refuge

Sea turtles
finding refuge
among old-growth

In the new collection Drowned Earth I show you how I see the earth of, say, a few centuries from now in this collection of new artworks.

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November 2, 2021Comments are off for this post.

Feathers Of Light

Evening arrives, turning the trees into feathers of light.

An autumn walk through the beautiful forest Dover Plantation, near the town of Hurup Thy in North Jutland, Denmark.

'Feathers Of Light' is a new artwork in my collection 'Secret Places'.

Feathers Of Light - Evening arrives, turning the trees into Feathers of Light. - Impressionistic fine art forestscape photography by Jacob Berghoef
Feathers Of Light

Prints are available in my Saatchi Art portfolio at the artwork page, ask for a quote or contact me through a message.

ALL WE NEED IS LESS CONSUMING

Through my artworks I ask you to reflect for a moment on the nature around you, on the beautiful feeling that nature can evoke. Thus to think about your actions to support the wellbeing of the earth and everything that lives on it. And on what humanity loses when many of us continue on the destructive path of ever more greed and consuming. And please, reflect on how you can survive in this rapidly changing world…

So do you want to know your ecological footprint? 

Then visit this website: https://www.footprintcalculator.org/home/en 

And do you want to reduce your ecological footprint?

Then ask me, I will help you. For free. Or simply visit my website and choose in the menu for Your Footprint.

And if you appreciate my writings and art and want to support me, you can buy me a piece of fruit here: https://ko-fi.com/jacobberghoef, thank you 🍏 !

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