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Lower Deception Falls
Mt. Baker - Snoqualmie National Forest
Washington
October 2025
Tucked away along Highway 2 in the Cascades, Deception Falls is a hidden gem of Washington’s wilderness. Crystal-clear water rushes through moss-covered rock and cedar forest, filling the air with the sound of pure mountain energy—an easy hike that feels like stepping into another world.
This section of the historic Deception Pass Bridge in Washington state stretches 975 feet from Pass Island (left) to Whidbey Island (right). The county line between Skagit County (north) and Island County (south) runs through the center of the channel.
Authorized first by the Washington State Legislature in 1929, the construction bill was voted by Governor Roland Hartley at the request of Ferry Operators led by the feisty Berte Olson. The Bill was passed again in 1933 and a new governor, Clarence Martin, signed it in to law. Construction started almost immediately. The bridge was dedicated and opened to traffic on July 1, 1935.
The cantilevered bridge is situated a 180 feet above Deception Pass. The area around it has become Washington's most visited state park. The Bridge was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
Not visible in this photo is a second span, The Canoe Pass Bridge, which, at 511 feet long, connects Pass Island to Fidalgo Island to the north. Together, both spans total 1,486 feet in length, excluding the short road across Pass Island that links them.
The summit seen behind the bridge on the left is Bowman Hill, located on Fidalgo Island. This photo was taken from North Beach. Everything pictured in the photo lies within Deception Pass State Park.
Deception Pass State Park was established in 1923 on land gifted by the U.S. military. During the Great Depression, the Civilian Conservation Corps built park facilities and worked on access roads to the bridge, with most of their work completed in 1934 and 1935. The park includes land and facilities on both sides of the bridge.
For centuries, Coastal Native tribes inhabited the area around Deception Pass. In 1790, Spanish sea captain Manuel Quimper, aboard the Princesa Real, named the pass "Boca de Flon." Two years later, on June 7, 1792, Joseph Whidbey of the Vancouver Expedition rediscovered the pass. Initially, Captain George Vancouver and Whidbey believed that Whidbey Island was a peninsula. The discovery of the narrow waterway confirmed it was an island, and Vancouver named the passage "Deception Pass" due to the earlier confusion. He named the island after Whidbey.
Don't be fooled by the calm turquoise sea: in the background is the Dimitrios II, a ship that ran aground during a storm on the rocky coast of western Cyprus.
Nicht täuschen lassen vom ruhigen türkisfarbenen Meer: im Hintergrund die Dimitrios II, ein im Sturm auf Grund gelaufenes Schiff an der felsigen Küste West-Zyperns.
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Lower Deception Falls
Mt. Baker - Snoqualmie National Forest
Washington
October 2025
Tucked away along Highway 2 in the Cascades, Deception Falls is a hidden gem of Washington’s wilderness. Crystal-clear water rushes through moss-covered rock and cedar forest, filling the air with the sound of pure mountain energy.
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Part of the scenic area is the lower trails where you can see these creek beds full of wonder.
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“Oh what a tangled web we weave
When first we practice to deceive”
Sir Walter Scott, 1808
(Unedited shot. And it should stay that way I think.)
North Beach is part of the expansive beach on the south side of Deception Pass west of the bridge. It’s scenic, accessible, and very popular.
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The image I posted before this one, of the beach at Deception Island, was mistaken by some people for a black & white image. Most of the island is monochrome - black sand beaches, volcanic hills on the caldera and snow - but there is some colour on the island in the moss and lichen which grows there. So, except for the man-made structures, this is just about the most colourful picture you can take of Deception Island.
Deception Island is so named because from the sea it looks like a normal island, but once you cross through the gap called Neptune’s Bellows, you can see that is actually the caldera (crater) of a volcano. Deception island is an active volcano (steam can be seen rising from the water from the heat) and it erupted most recently in 1970.
Deception Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.
I made a short film of what I saw in Antarctica. If you'd like to see it, head over to YouTube or you can watch it here on Flickr.
If you'd like to see all my Antarctica images together, you can visit my Flickr Antarctica album.
I wrote three blog posts about this amazing trip to Antarctica. If you'd like read about the trip and see some more documentary/BTS images, you'll find the blog posts here:
Antarctica, Part 3 (where I describe the visit to Deception Island)
The sheer north face of Capitol Peak (14,137 ft; 4,309 m) rises above the Capitol Creek drainage to commanding heights over golden clones of Quaking Aspen (Populus tremuloides), Aspen-Snowmass Wilderness, Colorado. Capitol is one of the most difficult peaks to ascend in the Elk Range, and its famous knife-edge is clearly visible from this vantage as we look southward up the creek.
There was an interesting article in High Country News recently about the way social media has transformed people's perception of danger and responsibility in these mountains. In 2017 alone five people died on this peak; some were relatively experienced and some were not. To a few, the fatalities seem to have strengthened the allure in the sense that people report having 'crushed' what they perceive as a challenge, building imaginary points in the land of selfies and social media stoke. It cannot be said more plainly: People do not crush mountains. We are wise to respect our own limitations when in their proximity, and in return they give us a sense of the wild and that which is unconquerable. It is easy to deceive oneself that because others have posted victorious summit photos, it must be safe, as if wilderness and weather ought to interact predictably on the one or two days we have allocated ourselves for the adventure.
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I was working on a technique taught by Christopher O'Donnell for dodging and burning and picked this image out because the sky needed a lot more texture. He uses solid fill layers to dodge with and, although a bit complicated, it works well. These are old abandoned structures on Deception Island, Antarctica. It was one of the few places where we were free to roam around and hike a bit. I liked the shapes and colors of the structures against the naturally bleak atmosphere of the day.