Website up and op again
I’ve noticed my website dragging the past few weeks and visitation dropping. Investigation revealed a server problem and the solution was to migrate to a newer and much faster server… the move took several days, though, because of some problems that the host had to iron out… But, now the site seems to be loading [...]
sometimes
sometimes things break… and we need help to fix them Peace
Lasersoft Silverfast Ai Studio 8 scanning software
My first attempt at scanning with new scanning software Lasersoft Silverfast AI Studio 8 with my Nikon Super Coolscan LS-5000 ED film scanner and I’m impressed…
What defines the subject of an image?
My Mom used to pull out her Kodak box camera and line up my sisters and me, look through the viewfinder, and when she could see us smiling and looking at the camera, and in the center of the frame, would push the doohickey. One click and we were done till the next photo occasion. [...]
Cross-country Skiing season arrives along the Mount Tahoma Trails
This is a practice post while I attempt to get some bugs out of migrating to this blogging engine. Peace
another jail I saw in my travels
©2004 Ed Book I found this jail when crossing the Colorado Rockies on my last film photo expedition during late autumn in ’04. I made this capture with the Pentax 4MP point-n-shoot digital camera I was using at the time along with my film camera systems. I am so far behind in film scanning that [...]
a jail I visited
©2010 Ed Book I was traveling along some back roads in southeastern Washington state and came across this building labeled “JAIL”. I had stopped to photograph the overflowing wheat elevators along the Snake River and included this building in my captures that day. A couple days ago, I was optimizing and adding metadata to images [...]
Douglas Fir visits with the half moon
I’m often surprised to find the moon in some of my compositions. Serendipity or poor recollection of where the moon is at all times… (like right now, I have to look up to see the glow of the moon on the wall across the room. It’s a glow in the dark moon pinned to the [...]
water lily in our pondlet (muck bucket)
A few years ago when I started the pond, digging a big hole and piling the dirt up along with boulders to make a hill for a waterfall, I bought some pond plants and planted them in a couple muck buckets to wait till the real pond happened. This lily persisted and prevailed after all the others [...]
Puget Sound crossing calm water fog clouds and blue sky
Puget Sound crossing Washington, USA ©2011 Ed Book Although I live on a peninsula in Puget Sound, I don’t often cross to Seattle on the ferry so I never get jaded by the experience. To me, every crossing is different. Last week we crossed when there was a low thin fog just over the water [...]
Hood Canal in a simple composition
what is the simplest composition in an image? (show of hands) [I see, no hands, correct, no anything would be the simplest composition, catch my drift now?] But, with nothing to look at, what would there be to look at? So, the ‘nothing’ composition would not work. How about adding a line or a texture, [...]
airborne at the Hood Canal
Flying Bald Eagle at the Hood Canal of Puget Sound ©2011 Ed Book Peace
Why did the Bald Eagle hide in a tree?
So the fish couldn’t find it. or? Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus)in aDouglas Fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii)along the Hood Canal of Puget Sound ©2011 Ed Book Peace
gathering of Bald Eagles at the Hood Canal
I wonder what this mature eagle had to say to the group. I watched as a mature bald eagle lost a fish to another eagle while in flight. Then, I heard the victim screeching in typical eagle discourse and then watched six eagles land along the shore with the muggee in the center. This eagle [...]
Bald Eagles at Lone Rock
We’ve been having a few sunny clear days lately and I’ve spent a couple of them, when the tide was out, down the hill where Big Beef Creek flows into the Hood Canal. The tide flats are broad there and covered by oyster beds. These very rough textured beds make for lots places where small [...]
Home Run!
I was in Bremerton for a meeting a couple days ago and driving by Lions Field I saw that there was a ball game happening. I wasn’t in a hurry but was in the mood for making some photographs. I walked down to the field and liked the diamond grid produced and held my Canon [...]
The Palouse
The Palouse wheatlands viewed from Steptoe Butte More Palouse wheatlands and still more Palouse and click here for even more Palouse including the windfarms of the Blue Mountain foothills ©Ed BookPeace
Reposting this from my Alpenglo LiveJournal
I’m posting this for Mike Bay, a local friend in response to an image he posted on FaceBook and also because not all who subscribe to this LJ also see the posts at my Alpenglo LJ (which is really messed up now that I no longer have the image server that I linked to for [...]
from an old post… anyone remember this image?
hol(e)y cow ©2005 Ed Book The image was from one of my workshops up on Whidbey Island, north of here. We visited a sculpture garden in Coupeville and found some interesting compositions… this one being serendipity. Peace
feeling a little monochrome just now
Close to a Daisy – monochrome macro panorama ©2010 Ed BookGetting close to a daisy can have a panoramic effect – click to see what I mean… Peace
Dyes Inlet from Washington Narrows on the Kitsap Peninsula
Alpenglow on Dyes Inlet near Tracyton on Puget Sound’s Kitsap Peninsula – Washington state ©2011 Ed Book A few days ago, I was in Bremerton to visit to see his spiffy new electric motor scooter and pick up the box that it was shipped in (I always need large strong cardboard for shipping large framed [...]
the dancing forest
or the dancing camera… depending on the point of view Red Alder (Alnus rubra) forest in the South Fork Skokomish River – Olympic National Forest, WA ©2011 Ed Book camera motion blur in the forest …or is it the dancing photographer? Here are some more of the forest from last week [...]
tumbling water to travel down deep canyons and across tidal flows to the Hood Canal in Puget Sound
this water will flow into Cedar Creek and then down the Skokomish to the Hood Canal in Puget Sound ©2011 Ed Book Last week, I spent a few days up the drainage of the South Fork of the Skokomish River in the Olympic National Forest on the south side of the Olympic Mountains. It’s an [...]