ENDANGERED: Fine Art & Photography Contest 2022 Submission - Photography Category

A trek in the Western North Carlina mountains during the falling leaves leaf peak season provided this beautiful mirrored reflection surrounding a streamside pond Burnsville NC 2020. Textured brown wood designer frame Plexiglas. Additionally already endangered and absent from some of my landscape images are the beautiful American chestnut trees which became virtually endangered by what was described as ink disease gradually since the 1800s which steadily killed the chestnut in the southern portion of its range. The final blow happened at the turn of the 20th century when a disease called chestnut blight swept through Eastern forests. The species also devastated by a fungal disease came from Chinese chestnut trees introduced into North America from East Asia.