The Twisting Path, Gougane Barra, CorkGougane Barra's planted forest has a particular atmosphere that works well stripped of colour. The conifers here grow in tight, regimented rows, but the path that cuts through them has its own ideas, twisting between the trunks and refusing to follow any straight line. That contrast is what caught my eye. The light was soft and flat, filtering through the canopy in patches and picking out the moss covering the forest floor. Surface roots break through