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 [...]
What defines the subject of an image?
My Mom used to pull out her Kodak box camera and line up my sisters and me, look through the viewfinder, and when she could see us smiling and looking at the camera, and in the center of the frame, would push the doohickey. One click and we were done till the next photo occasion. [...]
Puget Sound crossing calm water fog clouds and blue sky
Puget Sound crossing Washington, USA ©2011 Ed Book Although I live on a peninsula in Puget Sound, I don’t often cross to Seattle on the ferry so I never get jaded by the experience. To me, every crossing is different. Last week we crossed when there was a low thin fog just over the water [...]
Bald Eagle and Great Blue Heron intimidation confrontation
Bald Eagle Great Blue Heron confrontation – Images by Ed Book ©2011 Ed Book This heron must have found a sweet, or rather fishy spot as none of the other herons along the shore were being harassed but even when two or three herons would frequent this spot, the eagles would take offense and [...]
airborne at the Hood Canal
Flying Bald Eagle at the Hood Canal of Puget Sound ©2011 Ed Book Peace
Why did the Bald Eagle hide in a tree?
So the fish couldn’t find it. or? Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus)in aDouglas Fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii)along the Hood Canal of Puget Sound ©2011 Ed Book Peace
gathering of Bald Eagles at the Hood Canal
I wonder what this mature eagle had to say to the group. I watched as a mature bald eagle lost a fish to another eagle while in flight. Then, I heard the victim screeching in typical eagle discourse and then watched six eagles land along the shore with the muggee in the center. This eagle [...]
Bald Eagles at Lone Rock
We’ve been having a few sunny clear days lately and I’ve spent a couple of them, when the tide was out, down the hill where Big Beef Creek flows into the Hood Canal. The tide flats are broad there and covered by oyster beds. These very rough textured beds make for lots places where small [...]
Reposting this from my Alpenglo LiveJournal
I’m posting this for Mike Bay, a local friend in response to an image he posted on FaceBook and also because not all who subscribe to this LJ also see the posts at my Alpenglo LJ (which is really messed up now that I no longer have the image server that I linked to for [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Bald Eagle Bath Time
Adult Bald Eagle teaches its offspring how to bathe – Big Beef Creek at the Hood Canal of Puget Sound ©EdBookPhoto see the sequence of the parent Bald Eagle teaching its offspring how to take a birdbath here… Peace
Dance on the beach
Bald Eagle dances on the beach along Puget Sound’s Hood Canal at the Big Beef Creek estuary ©2010 Ed Book Watch the birds enough and you’ll see more than you expected. Peace
escape from hurry hurry land by boat by night
leaving Seattle by ferry at night – across Puget Sound ©2011 Ed Book Peace
he swoops he strikes he flies but he missed
Bald Eagle strikes the water and misses in a fishing venture in Hood CanalKitsap Peninsula, Puget Sound, Washington ©2010 Ed Book If you caught something every time you went fishing it would instead be called "catching". This bird was fishing along the shore and as an immature, was unsuccessful in catching much more often than [...]
Bald Eagle flight training along the Hood Canal
Bald Eagle parent and two offspring flight practice at the mouth of Big Beef Creek on Hood Canal Kitsap peninsula - part of Puget Sound ©2010 Ed Book These young eagles hung out near their parent between flights along the shore, looking for small fish trapped in the oyster beds as the tide retreated. Their [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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
Last week on the Skagit River Delta
Skagit River Delta – Images by Ed BookSnow Geese, Trumpeter Swans, and Bald Eagles wintering on Fir Island of The Skagit River DeltaPuget Sound, Washington, USA ©2010 Ed Book Last week I was up at the north end of Puget Sound where the Skagit River which collects snow and glacier melt from the north [...]