The Gate to Heaven

• Prize
  Bronze in Nature/Macro
• Photographer
  Dorte Bech Pedersen
• Photo Date
  2023-04-16

When the winter has gone the male toads come out from their winter hibernation and slowly walk to the nearest lake. In the water they keep their head above the water looking for a female toad to mate - this toad was waiting in "The gate to heaven".

I don't travel to photograph but I travel when I photograph - I travel into the world of dreams, fairy tales and myths. I have deep roots in nature photography but it is the artistic interpretation that is the driving force. I work in a monochrome universe - a beautiful and aesthetic platform where reality as we know it disappears and the impression remains - "the impression that lives in my mind".