Award-Winning Photo

Written By: Luke Osteen | Issue: 2015/04 - April | Photograph By: Peter Ray

Peter Ray has won Highlands-Cashiers Land Trust’s Sunsetennial Photography Contest, Professional Division, with his dramatic “Secret Falls.” The shot was taken in Nantahala National Forest and was selected by Sallie Taylor, executive director of The Bascom. It honors H-C Land Trust’s 100 years’ of conserving Ravenel Park.

One hundred years ago, the Ravenels donated their family land to be a public park for all to enjoy in perpetuity. Since then, Ravenel Park, which is owned and protected by H-C Land Trust.

You can see “Secret Falls” at Hudson Library in Highlands.