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 [...]
tree farm
Douglas Fir forest and clearcut on the Toandos Peninsula in the Hood Canal of Puget Sound ©2011 Ed Book I made this image yesterday over on the Toandos Peninsula on my return home from visiting my Son’s family down near Olympia. I took the long way home and had interesting rain squalls mixed with sunny [...]
360 degree panorama along the Rainier Vista Trail
Mount Tahoma Trails hut-to-hut crosscountry and snowshoe trail system – Rainier Vista Trail ©EdBookPhoto.com
THE OAKS OF KLICKITAT CANYON
ANNOUNCING MY NEW BOOK: Preview THE OAKS OF KLICKITAT CANYON just sayin, Peace
autumn morning moisture in the mountains
clouds form in the valleys at night when the air cools and burns off again in the morningTahoma State Forest – Cascade Mountain Range – Washington state ©2010 Ed Book Autumn in the Cascade Range starts with cooling nights and moisture saturating the air to form clouds that fill all the valleys. At dawn, looking [...]
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 [...]
Mount Adams autumn book cover
Mount Adams from Conboy Lake National Wildlife Refuge in Klickitat County, WA ©2010 Ed Book This image, new book cover for a hiking guide book by Sasquatch Books. I’ll be down in this area in the next week again as well as some other favorite Cascade Range locales for autumn images. And I’ll be setting [...]
stepping into autumn wetly
I was not ready for autumn as I was up in the mountains to photograph the last of the wildflowers. There hadn’t been a hard frost so the flowers were still blooming, making up for a late summer. But, there were some clear nights where heat is lost via radiation to space. When this happens [...]
The forest near The Yurt
Although it rained all of the six days I was up at The Yurt early this month, it didn’t rain continuously. When it wasn’t raining, I was out and about in the forest, on the trails–light maintenance, trimming errant branches that will be snowladen and hanging low over the ski trails and a hinderance to [...]
fjords/bays/peninsulas of west Puget Sound
In my last post I mentioned the peninsulas/islands/hills/fjords formed by the last ice age. Here’s a view from the top of a hill near here: Hood Canal – Dabob Bay – Quilcene Bay Kitsap Peninsula – Toandos Peninsula – Olympic Peninsula of western Puget Sound in western Washington state ©2010 Ed Book It’s rural but [...]
out in the woods Monday testing a new camera
forest on the Kitsap PeninsulaPuget Sound, Washington state ©2010 Ed Book What camera was used to make this image? would you believe a camera phone? yes, the Motorola Droid slight adjustment for optimizing with Photoshop Lightroom Not much adjustment is possible with jpg captures. Peace
backlit Western Sword Fern
Western Sword Fern (Polystichum munitum) ©2009 Ed Book I was out for a walk in the forest and found some interesting Sword Ferns filling the forest understory. The sky was clear so some bits of sunlight were getting through to the forest floor which clipped the highlights of any images made showing sunlit surfaces. (‘clipping [...]
Big Leaf Maple with moss and Vine Maple and Stinging Nettles
alpenglo in the Duckabush River valley rain forest – Olympic National Forest, WA USA ©2008 Ed Book Big Leaf Maple, Vine Maple, Stinging Nettles, mossPeace
a walk in the forest
late evening passage – Kitsap Peninsula, Puget Sound, Washington, USA ©2009 Ed Book ‘went for a walk in the forest this afternoon, made photographs got dark no light got lost surprised by getting lost Peace
and along the trail…
Bobcat tracks along the trail ©2009 Ed Book I see Bobcat tracks along the trail often but have only seen an actual cat a couple times and it was in the summer. Their main food is the Snowshoe Hare which I noticed this winter being rare probably because of the extremely deep snows of last [...]
a scene from last April
along the Puyallup Ridge ski trail – Mount Tahoma Trails, Washington, USA ©2008 Ed Book Peace
The Garry Oaks of Klickitat Canyon
autumn Garry oak, Klickitat County, Washington ©2008 Ed Book Peace
Garry Oak
(Quercus garryana) Garry Oak, Gray Oak, Oregon White Oak, White Oak, Post Oak, Brewer Oak, Shin Oak ©2008 Ed Book Peace
old growth forest
Ohanapecosh River Valley just outside Mount Rainier National Park, Washington ©2008 Ed Book I prefer to camp in this forest when I’m in the area although there are many campgrounds near. Peace
Cottonwood Poplar grove Black Cottonwood x Eastern Cottonwood
Cottonwood grove – Boardman, Oregon©2008 Ed Book Peace