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 [...]
Reflections and flying heron at Big Beef Creek at the Hood Canal
Abstract Reflections on Big Beef Creek at the Hood CanalKitsap Peninsula – Puget Sound, Washington, USA©2010 Ed Book
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 [...]
Pacific Madrona bark peeling
Pacific Madrona (Arbutis Menziesii) ©2009 Ed Book The Pacific Madrona, native to the Pacific Northwest coastal lowlands, is an evergreen broad-leafed hardwood tree that is scattered about the forests and shores of our Kitsap Peninsula in Puget Sound. The leaves are thick, oval shaped, and leather-like and linger for a few seasons. The [...]
Starfish Riot in Penn Cove – Whidbey Island – Puget Sound, Washington, USA ©2004 Ed Book ‘posting this to test posting from the Live Journal ‘Post Page’ vice my usual Mac X-Journal client. It’s much slower but seems to do everything albeit not as intuitively. Peace
The Garry Oaks of Klickitat Canyon
autumn Garry oak, Klickitat County, Washington ©2008 Ed Book Peace
Takh Takh Meadow and Mt Adams in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest
Takh Takh Meadow and Mt Adams ©2008 Ed Book Did you recognize this as a HDR (High Dynamic Range) image? It’s my first try using Photoshop CS3. I have been bracketing exposures for a long time but this is my first try at combining them via HDR. In the past, I’ve used bracketed exposures for [...]
Klickitat River Canyon
©2006 Ed Book Autumn in the canyon of the Klickitat River near Mt Adams (volcano) in the Cascade Range just north of the Columbia River–the dry east side with forests of Garry Oak mixed with Ponderosa Pine. Peace
