This tree looks as though it was hit by lightening or some other brute force, and the poor thing is completely shattered. Its innards are revealed to all who pass by - the three symmetrical breaks show that its broken beyond repair...and yet despite the sadness of all this there's a benign honesty in this image...it has given up its life but its integrity lives on...
Date: 31/01/2011
Location: Roundwood, Co. Wicklow.
Photographer: Colm Keating