Full Moonset
Early this morning there was a full moon full eclipse and I thought I would get up and make some photos but decided to do so if I happened to wake at about o’dark-thirty without an alarm set. I did want to be up and perhaps up on the roof with a 100-400mm lens on [...]
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
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
VIEWS FROM THE HIGHWAY AT 65MPH my new book
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April panorama of the Olympic Mountains from across the Hood Canal on the Kitsap Peninsula of Puget Sound © Ed Book This is the view from our home on Nika Trail on the Kitsap Peninsula in April when the clouds are giving us a break. We haven’t seen them in a few days because of [...]
Mount Whitney in late winter
Mount Whitney along the the Sierra Crest, California ©EdBookPhoto Peace
360 degree panorama along the Rainier Vista Trail
Mount Tahoma Trails hut-to-hut crosscountry and snowshoe trail system – Rainier Vista Trail ©EdBookPhoto.com
escape from hurry hurry land by boat by night
leaving Seattle by ferry at night – across Puget Sound ©2011 Ed Book Peace
moonlight on snow on the Mount Tahoma Trails
My Grandson, Cody, and I were at this location under the past full moon and after photographing the moonrise over Tahoma (aka: Mount Rainier) turned to see this scene. The glow in the distance is from the light of the Puget Sound area some 50 miles away. A very lonely place in winter except by [...]
here’s that word “crepuscular” again
Crepuscular Rays over the Olympic Mountains and Hood Canal of Puget Sound, WA ©2010 Ed Book I overlooked a series of images I made of God Rays last summer till yesterday. I probably skipped them then because most of the images had large burned out areas from overexposure. Yesterday, while looking again, noticed some with [...]
daytrip to the ocean yesterday
Teahwhit Headacross Strawberry Bay from Third Beachin the Olympic National Park, Washington state ©2010 Ed Book ‘took a daytrip to the coast yesterday… was a sleepy day with lucky unrainy portions. Most of our time was spent driving to and from but we had a couple reprises on the trail and beach. For me, fairly [...]
Takhlakh Lake and Mount Adams
12,281ft Mount Adams and its reflection in Takhlakh LakeGifford Pinchot National Forest, Cascade Mountain Ranger, Washington state ©2010 Ed Book I stopped at Takhlakh Lake a few weeks ago when I went down to the Indian Heaven Wilderness and to the Klickitat Canyon in the southern Washington state Cascade Range. There is a forest service [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I want a pond…
…was just looking at some photos a Facebook friend posted of their new pond/waterfall feature in their backyard. My own pond is still under construction… In case you dear readers/watchers/observers don’t remember from way back in this LJ, I used to post photos of the progress on my hill/waterfall/pond as it progressed… I haven’t posted [...]
Crepuscular Rays in the Cascade Range
This is a scene I watched a while a couple weeks ago when I went up to The Yurt and Mount Tahoma Trails trail system to do some work and spend six very alone (lonely) days. It had rained most of the time I was up there but while I was driving down to civilization [...]
Mount Index snow
Although we’re not getting snow down here near sealevel this winter, there is some snow in the mountains. Here’s a few images I made last March up near Mount Index in the Cascade Range (WA). Mt Index WA – Images by Ed Book Mount Index in the Washington state Cascade Range ©2009 Ed Book [...]
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 [...]
turning around from the last image
Mount Adams as seen from the rim of the Cowlitz River Canyon on the slopes of Mount Rainier ©2005 Ed Book After making the image looking up the canyon (as seen in my last post), I turned around and photographed Mt Adams seen across a few ridges to the south in the Gifford Pinchot National [...]
looking up the Cowlitz Canyon
autumn – Little Tahoma on Mount Rainier from the Cowlitz River Canyon ©2005 Ed Book