A new photography exhibition has opened in the CatStrand focusing on the way the landscape of the Glenkens is being altered in differing ways.
New Zero Footprint 12 Years On - Visual Land Use Conversations is the work of local couple Morag Paterson and Ted Leeming from Glenhoul.
Much of the show draws inspiration from their 11-acre smallholding where the duo have created a palette of natural regeneration, native woodland planting and garden.
Morag told the News: “We are hoping it will generate conversations around changing land use locally.
“It is changing so rapidly with farming land being given over to forestry while other areas are being rewilded.
“One way or another this will radically change the landscape we think of mostly as something unchanging.
“On our hill, land ownership has become more diverse –
but that is not the case in other areas where big investment companies are buying up land.”
The exhibition explores this theme through habitats inside the boundary of a smallholdings and outside where landscape, cultural identity and biodiversity could alter rapidly over the next decade driven by new agricultural subsidies, forest policies, mining and the rush to secure carbon credits through natural capital.
The exhibition runs until March 1.
