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 [...]
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
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
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Mt Jupiter alpenglo this week
Mount Jupiter Sunset Alpenglo in the Olympic Mountains viewed from the Kitsap Peninsula Puget Sound, Washington, USA ©2010 Ed Book I had my camera staged and ready for some bald eagle photos down at Big Beef Creek on the Hood Canal and sitting waiting cushioned on the bed in the back of my van… the [...]
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 [...]
Moonset over the Olympic Mountains from Nika Trail
Moonset over the Olympic Mountains Boulder Ridge, The Needles, Buckhorn Mountain, Iron Mountain and the Jupiter Hills from the Kitsap Peninsula in Puget Sound, Washington ©2009 Ed Book Watching the full moon set over the snowcovered Olympic Mountains is a rare treat for me. Although I only have to sit up to see the mountains [...]
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 [...]
northeastern Nevada three weeks ago
riding off into the sunset Nevada style (Great Basin National Park) ©2009 Ed Book I was hoping that this pass-through of this region would include a few days at Great Basin National Park but I was homeward bound and only had a couple days before something I had to be home for… so, my only [...]
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
Last Chance Range
Last Chance Range, Death Valley National Park ©2005 Ed Book
Sleeping Lady Mountain dreams
Sleeping Lady Mountain as seen from Leavenworth, Washington ©2009 Ed Book Notice that the forest has burned. It was a big fire a few years ago that burned a beautiful forest including an area where I often visited to photograph lupine and Balsamroot flowers among the Ponderosa Pine. During the Reagan Administration, a lot of [...]
the snow up there is about ten feet deep right now
…and then, there are the drifts wall of snow The Gifford Pinchot NF from High Hut ©2008 Ed Book Peace ps we saw the first hummingbird of the season today
last April in the snow
near the Puyallup Ridge Trail, Mount Tahoma Trails, Cascade Range, Washington, USA ©2008 Ed Book It gets to be a bit of a challenge when you have to be your own model. (the loneliness most) Peace
a scene from last April
along the Puyallup Ridge ski trail – Mount Tahoma Trails, Washington, USA ©2008 Ed Book Peace
Looking at Oregon from Washington at dawn
Mount Hood in Oregon as viewed from Washington from the north ©2008 Ed Book early one morning about three weeks ago… Peace
Leading edge of a lenticular cloud on Mount Rainier
Lenticular cloud streaming at high speed ©2008 Ed Book Peace