Luke Hayes’ Poignant Imagery Of Mysteriously Dead Oak Trees

“No one really knows why this group of trees died”, explains Hayes. “It could be due to a stream of salt “No one really knows why this group of trees died”water from the nearby estuary”, he says, or perhaps something a little more morbid: parasitic organisms or what scientists refer to as ‘Sudden Oak Death’, a disease that infects oaks through their trunks. “Whatever the reason, they create an extraordinary landscape”, Hayes continues.