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 [...]
VIEWS FROM THE HIGHWAY AT 65MPH my new book
VIEWS FROM THE HIGHWAY AT 65MPH by a photo essay by Ed Book | Make Your Own Book Peace
My LiveJournal Blog is nine years old
On the 15th of this month, I will have Nine years of posting in my LiveJournal. In the spirit of celebrating the anniversary of my birth for a week vice day–which I started doing a few years ago when I missed my actual birth"day"–I’ll celebrate this LiveJournal anniversary for a week… whatever that entails… maybe [...]
morning light on the Sneffels Range from Dallas Divide
Sneffels Range autumn morning light from Dallas Divide San Juan Mountains, SW Colorado ©2009 Ed Book I recorded this image last month during my autumn tour. It was one location that I wanted to visit on the tour… in fact one of the locations that has been calling me since my first visit a few [...]
Autumn at Mesa Verde
reposted from HERE Mesa Verde oak in autumn – Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado Peace
last sunbreaks hitting the ridge across the valley
Book Cliffs across the Colorado River Valley near Grand Junction, Colorado as viewed from Colorado National Monument did I mention that that’s the Colorado River in that valley? nope? That’s the Colorado River in the valley in the distance… Peace
Coke Ovens at Colorado National Monument
or Beehives from Utah that crossed the line… (if you’ve seen the highway signs in Utah, you’d know what I mean) Peace
rainbow rock
found this on the side of a canyon along the way… Colorado National Monument, Colorado Peace
Colorado National Monument with Fruita and I-70 beyond and beyond that some more mountains
and up here no sound… nothing… except my heartbeat and a feeling of Peace
on the cliffs across the canyon
I wondered how long these rocks had been there and how long till they find a lower resting place… the scale? This scene is about fifty feet across in my estimation… and a very small portion of the digital camera frame… see how fuzzy it is. Colorado National Monument, Colorado Peace
Ice at Colorado National Monument
It was the kind of dry cold teens temperatures that trick one into going out with just hat and vest. And then, it gets you. (good thing that one of the things I have up under my hat is a heater… Peace
Colorado National Monument
After breakfast in Fruita, I drove up to the Colorado National Monument. The roads were snowy but passable with my van and trailer. Traffic was practically nonexistent. The morning light was beautiful. Peace
West Slope Viet Nam Veterans Memorial
At the rest stop on I-70 at Fruita, Colorado, you’ll find a Viet Nam era helicopter hovering over a monument… it’s the Viet Nam Memorial for the west slope of Colorado with the names of those who fell in Viet Nam from western Colorado. This is a large metal flag that is displayed there… I [...]
South Park
Darkness enveloped the broad valley of South Park as I crossed it and when I got near the far side, I came to the village of Hartsel. I had to imagine that the kids from the TV program lived in this town. This was the jail there. it was dark when I made this photo [...]
cabin high above Colorado Springs in the mountains
While in Colorado, I had an assignment to photograph a cabin for an ad to rent it… the owners use it all the time vice only a couple weeks a year like many places I saw on the trip I made my photos with a film camera but also made some exposures with the digital [...]
Kissing Camels at Garden of the Gods with Pike’s Peak in the distance
if you look closely, you can see a hole in the rock which forms the space between the “kissing camels”. In the distance is Pike’s Peak. Pike’s Peak is significant because of it’s massive size and 14,000′+ height, it can be seen for hundreds of miles and was a beacon for early travelers as it [...]
Garden of the Gods, Manitou Springs, Colorado
I didn’t get a chance to make photographs there with my film camera but plan to return when I can… or hopefully with a new high end digital… in the distance on the right, the mountain is Cheyenne Mountain where NORAD is located… (inside the mountain) I photographed a cabin (for my neice-in-law’s parents) in [...]