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According to Native American lore, Multnomah Falls was created to win the heart of a young princess who wanted a hidden place to bathe. Although you can see the top portion of the falls from the highway, to view both tiers you have to walk to the viewing area located in a carved-out opening in the rock face. Tilting your head up in the narrow rocky confines of the steep cliffs, you get a mind-boggling perspective on the sheer magnitude of the falls.

Multnomah Fallz

This is without question my favorite photo I’ve ever taken. The other day I shared why Multnomah is so special to me and this photo feels, to me, like the sort of photos that I’d see on IG back when the app was new. The PNW Instagrammers perfected those moody, cloudy, foggy, rainy, grey day shots and made the rest of us dream of running into the wilds of the Pacific Northwest with classic American made boots on our feet, @woolrich socks, @filson1897 shirts, and of course a @pendletonwm blanket spilling out of a @bradleymountain backpack, and a @loyalstricklin leather mug in hand for good measure. I spent years begging Paige to teach me to shoot like those folks shot, to me they were legends and greats, and the coolest of cool back then, now I just call them friends. But to have shot this shot, in a way that felt effortless is crazy to me. In that moment I was so confident with all my settings, my framing, my everything that it just felt so natural. When I look at this image I think of all the hours of forcing my friends to teach me how to adjust my camera, how to properly plan a road trip, and how to really really step into a moment and savor it while still documenting it. I could ramble on and on, but as I was mailing a print of this photo yesterday I just kept looking at the stack of them on my table in awe that I took that. #folk #liveauthentic #livefolk #pnw #multnomah #oregon #columbiariver #instagrammer #vsco #exploremore. (at Multnomah Falls, Portland, Oregon) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ch4p_g6uVyW/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Dang ol', don't do it. Just say no . . . . . . . . . . . . #waterfalls #heroin #tlc #nancyreagan #ropeadope #multnomah #gorge #naturephotography (at Multnomah Falls - Columbia River Gorge, Oregon) https://www.instagram.com/p/CkUZw5lpzJZ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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