Captured in mid winter last year!!  I spent a few hours in the rain photographing a new waterfall!! A very well known one, close to home, but for some reason I had never been there before!! A spectacular fall over richly coloured granite to a rocky creek bed below!! This one only flows in winter after good rain. Typically I tend to shy away from well known spots.  I often go on long solitary hikes, following creek lines and gullies, looking for secret swimming holes and more recently waterfalls and potential landscape scenes to photograph. A way of calming down, and connecting with something far bigger, older and wiser than me.  Generally I have a very loose plan for these expeditions.  I have found it is good to let things unfold by themselves, to allow curiosity and instinct to run the show and see what happens!  Always interesting!! Often these expeditions don’t result in fantastic images and the places I find are not dramatic or picturesque like the well known ones but it doesn’t matter.  More importantly, they are opportunities to play around with compositions, techniques and gear, to find unique scenes that are quietly beautiful or carry a different meaning altogether?  Time and space to let creativity roam free, unhindered by preconceptions or self consciousness and constraint that come when others are with me!  It is how I learn best!!  Having said all that, this is a well known waterfall and there are a few images of this exact scene, downstream from the main falls. I have been watching the weather closely and it looks like rain next Wednesday.  Very much looking forward to a winter of waterfall photography in the Perth Hills.