Photo of the Week 2025-09-08

 

Friends suggested a walk out to the Lake Huron shoreline at Alvar Bay Nature Reserve.
I'd been there before in both winter and summer but was interested to return.

 

Difficult to assess scale in this image, the roots of this tree were nearly as tall as me at 6' and show hoe shallow these root systems are for trees lining on the alvar, with little if any soil above the limestone rock surface.

 

' uprooted '

I tried to work a composition to show the entire root system. It was difficult given the surrounding vegetation I had to get in front of yet stay far enough back with the 24mm prime lens I had at the time. 

 

DJE