Past Exhibit - “Wilderness and Waterfalls” by Terry Fredrick

(Main Lobby Area, Mullins Library)

Wisconsin native Terry Fredrick has taken to the natural scenic areas of Arkansas like a duck to water. As a member of both the Ozark Society and the Ozark Highlands Trail Association, Fredrick frequently leads hikes to remote and trail-less areas so that others can enjoy the beauty of the Ozarks, too. In fact, Fredrick has rambled through and explored almost every nook and cranny of the Buffalo National River Wilderness Area and the surrounding Ozark National Forest—and he has the pictures to prove it.

“Wilderness and Waterfalls,” an exhibit of photographs by Fredrick currently on display in Mullins Library, features pristine and natural Arkansas scenes that we would otherwise not get to see, without strapping on hiking boots and backpacks and taking a mighty long walk. Lush and verdant foliage, exposed rock bluffs from eons of erosion, and water, always water—these are the characteristic features of the Ozarks that Fredrick captures through his lens.

And just how do you like your falling water? Fredrick’s images feature twenty variations of that perennial favorite from the Ponca and Upper Buffalo Wilderness Areas and the Ozark National Forest. Fredrick says, “From water flows life; I am attracted and intrigued by it. Its appeal never ceases.” Whether falling 50 feet in a narrow ribbon in “Graves Creek,” fragmented into innumerable asymmetrical steps in “Transcending Falls,” or swirling imaginatively into curling maiden’s hair in “Jackie’s Falls,” Fredrick’s images of waterfalls halt time and lure the viewer to linger in awe of nature’s wealth and variety.