The Narnia Tree

This is a wonderful evergreen Holm Oak (Quercus Ilex) in Conwy, beside the estuary. I'm not going to give the exact location as it's not a famous tree, but locals and many visitors who are familiar with Conwy will be able to work it out. I call it the Narnia Tree because CS Lewis is said to have been influenced to create his fictional landscape by a similar Holm Oak in Northern Ireland, where he spent time as a young man.

It was love at first sight when I found this tree and I've been experimenting with photographing it for some time now, which isn't easy. It's very large and also growing at an acute angle over the water, with no clear vantage point to photograph it from. I've given up trying to get more of it in the frame and have instead gone with trying to just capture the essence of the tree, showing it against the adjacent bench for scale.