Leon Turnbull Photography

We arrived early in the morning at Punch Bowl Falls. It is such a gorgeous location and waterfall. Indeed, everyone seems to think so. Punch Bowl Falls may be the most photographed waterfall in Oregon, or right up there anyway. Last time I was here, two years ago, there was a big ugly log cutting across the middle of the waterfall. If you know this waterfall well, then you know what I am talking about. That log had been there for many years. Finally, a big storm passed through (about a year or year and a half ago, I think), and all of a sudden the log was gone! Now this waterfall is back to being its incredibly scenic self again.

Usually one needs to wade out into the middle of the stream about knee deep or so, in order to get a good viewpoint of the falls. On this day, the water level was a lot lower so you didn’t really even need to get wet to photograph the falls. But we put on our water shoes anyway, and waded out into the water. Even though we were there at sunrise, there was still some glare from the morning sun on the water.