Lightning Tree

Fabulous place as well as photo!

Best, Virgil

I have a great liking for soft muted colours which is actually

handled quite beautifully by Fuji Velvia film. It is the thick hoar

frost that has muted the colours of the hills, moss and bracken and

it was breathlessly still too.

wow. Im a little jealous of you - I wish I am the one that found this tree =D

 

the picture overall is pretty, but PERSONALLY, as an amture, what I would think is that the lake somehow distracts the tree.

 

when I first looked at your picture, I was looking at the mountain and the lake, and then when I read your title, I started to focus on the tree.

but hey, it's a cool pic nontheless

Thanks Joshua you are right the tree does get mixed up with the backdrop I think that is why it appeals to me it has a sort of element of jig saw puzzle about it. A sort of beguiling confusion that distracts yet maintains interest.

Super! Very interesting and unique!!

yes i too love the muted colours Ian this time of year, as always you have done a great job capturing to light....regards david

Ian,

 

I saw this photograph in the October issue of Outdoor photographer magazine and was stunned. I love the muted colours, the detail in the hillside, reflection and of course the tree 'split asunder'. It is a joy to be able to see the photograph in more detail online.

 

Always enjoy your work,

 

regards,

 

 

Ben

When I first saw this image it was as part of your portfolio as one of many on a page and small.

I got the impression it was a tree standing out from a group of others, as the burns running down the mountain behind and reflected in the loch, look like brush in the small image, and it intrigued me. Only when I opened the image I saw that it was a single tree.

 

Possibly the tree was split by the cold freezing water caught in the cleft and expanding over a period of time, and/or the sap freezing. I've seen many trees, mostly pines, in Germany and Switzerland that have been snapped by the extreme cold, snapping off some way up the trunk, and it's not from the weight of snow they are carrying, but from the cold freezing them, causing the trunk to explode.

 

The tree probably still lives on as the fallen branches still have a connection to the roots.

Love your portfolio, especially the Glencoe shots, was there in 1994, and actually passed through when they were filming 'Highlander', we didn't realise at the time, the road was lined with people dressed strangely, all waiting for coaches to take them back to town. Fantastic scenery, first visited in 1964, and would love to go back again some time.