Cover image feature

Our cover image this month captures the Wentworth Falls soon after the recent heavy rains. They are always a magnificent sight but all the more so after the storms. There are a number of lookouts from different aspects from which this waterfall can be viewed. This photo was taken at a lookout about half way into the valley which is accessed from the foot of Falls Road.

My photography and bushwalking companion friend had been waiting quite a while to observe and document this event. With blue sky, crisp clear air and so much water in this extraordinary wilderness so close to home we enjoyed an exhilarating day.

My friend Denys contributes many wonderful photos to this magazine including the cover, those on these two pages and many others through the magazine. Denys’ interests also include beekeeping, the produce of which is available at Wollemi Gems in Katoomba, Denys’ amazing opal, gem, jewellery and gift shop. He is also a lapidarist, a collector and a skilled and enthusiastic clock repairer. See page 20 for more details. mix with the actual mosses growing on the rock shelf by this stream. One might say the images often play tricks on the way the mind usually sees things.

Denys who is madly passionate about photographing nature, strives to compose images which not only capture a scene but also challenge the viewer’s imagination, as with the photo at right where shadows from an overhanging tree fern

After the heavy rains of late April, streams and waterfalls were inundated. (above) Muddy waters swelled this usually quiet creek. This photo plays with the light, shadows from a fern tree above dance on the mossy rock (below) A closer view of part of the Wentworth Falls cascading into the valley below