Derry Moloney’s “Tree of Life” photos have been retweeted by thousands of people on social media.
A series of mesmerising photographs of Lake Cakora at Brooms Head by an amateur photographer on the North Coast of New South Wales have transformed a mundane lake into an extraordinary landscape.
Derry Moroney’s recent aerial photos have generated a huge response on social media, with more than 2,200 people retweeting the photo and more than 230 comments.
“If you look at this photo, at first you don’t think it’s real,” he said.
“It’s kind of like a tree of life.
“At the end of the lake, the water runs out and all the water shows up as a tree of life.”
Biweekly shots
Mr. Moroney said Lake Kakora was blue-green when he first started taking regular aerial photos.
Lake Kakola is a lake and lagoon that intermittently connects to the ocean at Main Beach on Broomes Reef.
(Supplied: Derry Moroney)
Mr. Moroney said he was so amazed by the “spectacular” patterns that appeared that he made it a habit to return to the site every two weeks to photograph its fleeting formations.
Mr. Moroni takes aerial photos of Lake Kakola every two weeks.
“It has once again changed completely,” he wrote of one of the photos.
“Now it has the feel of a golden fire tree with heat waves all around it.”
Rain reshapes the landscape
Mr. Moroni said he began taking aerial photographs of the lake about six months ago, after a heavy rainfall.
Mr. Moroni says the grain of Lake Kakola looks like a “tree of life.
His images of the tree of life were taken after several days of storms in the Clarence Valley.
“The lake water was soaked in tea tree oil and therefore brown in color, and the additional outflow of water created this amazing natural masterpiece,” he wrote.
Lake Kakola is intermittently connected to the ocean.
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