The bleached bones of pine tree roots stand in amongst the barren but eerily beautiful landscape of Glen Quoich, a glen flooded to greatly expand Loch Quoich by damming to house a freshwater reservoir. These roots together struck me as morphologically strangely reminiscent of elephants. Glen Quoich.
Glen Quoich was flooded to accommodate a hydro-electric power plant; its trees were chopped down and the skeletons (stumps and roots) of some of the remnants lie exposed at the water margins. A stark deathly reminder of the fate of the trees of the Glen.
Shortlisted for Natural Abstracts Category in Scottish Nature Photography Awards 2013.
Location: Glen Quoich, Loch Quoich, Lochaber, Scottish Highlands, Scotland, United Kingdom
Photographer: Jason Gilchrist
