Elowah Falls photograph. McCord Creek plunges more than 200 feet from a lip of basalt to create Elowah Falls in the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area. Named after an early homesteader who settled on the land below this waterfall, McCord Creek is greatly reduced in flow by mid summer and Elowah Falls may blow away on the wind before reaching the ground. Due to the abundant rainfall and its low elevation, the Columbia Gorge is a verdant paradise of enormous old-growth firs, dripping moss gardens, waterfalls, and ferns all along its 80-mile length through the Cascade Mountains of western Oregon. This vertical photograph was captured with a 6x7 format camera. All photos in these fine art photo galleries may be ordered as fine art framed prints or for stock photography usage.