The painter clearly depicted how the current shape of Rakov Škocjan came to be –the karst ceiling collapsed into the cave. In the foreground, there are visitors and a dark arch growing with stalactites, while the background features a sunbaked and silted-up riverbed, with a natural bridge. On the far right, there are even more visitors, attesting to the destination's popularity even back in the 19th century.
Goldenstein depicted several natural landmarks in Slovenia, the Savica Falls (Slap Savice), Waterfall at the Bled Gorge (Slap v Vintgarju pri Bledu), and Waterfall in the Woods (Slap v Gozdu); all three paintings are housed at the National Museum of Slovenia. The National Gallery also houses the painter’s portrayals of St John at Lake Bohinj (Sv. Janez ob Bohinjskem Jezeru, NG S 180), in which the waters of the Savica Falls flow through the Sava Bohinjka into Lake Bohinj. A water feature in a forest (lake, river, waterfall, etc.) was a very popular motif among romanticists. Goldenstein's works feature staffage figures who are not mountaineers or shepherds, but merely people walking about and enjoying the great outdoors; his works were surely commissioned by or at least sold to just such a patron.