Stark, Beautiful Photos of Silent European Forests

By Tom Hawking

Jan. 22, 2014

As an antipodean, one thing that’s always struck me about Northern Hemisphere is just how pleasant the forests are here — no bracken, no leeches, no potentially deadly spiders and snakes. (You just have to watch out for the bears.) There’s a certain serenity to these landscapes, a sense that these are places that haven’t changed for many hundreds of human lifespans. It’s an atmosphere that’s captured beautifully by Hungarian photographer Daniel Kovalovszky in a series called “Green Silence,” which we spotted at Featureshoot — his images find the symmetry and beauty in these stark environments, as well as their quirks (check out the bendy trees!)

Photo credit: Daniel Kovalovszky