Douglas Fir visits with the half moon
I’m often surprised to find the moon in some of my compositions. Serendipity or poor recollection of where the moon is at all times… (like right now, I have to look up to see the glow of the moon on the wall across the room. It’s a glow in the dark moon pinned to the [...]
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 [...]
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
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 [...]
earthshadow – hole in the sky – snowgauge
Earthshadow – Fullmoon – Snowgauge on High Hut Ridgebefore the snow ©2010 Ed Book This time of day and that month remembered as pictures on my big screen but also recalled on the inside of my eyelids when I close my eyes. I can’t see it when the clouds cover the sky unless [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
melted frost on the van window
frost melted after sunrise on my windshield at High Hut ©2010 Ed Book I’m going up to The Yurt this evening to spend some time on the trails and work on the new floor trim as well as some other projects I want to finish before snow blocks the logging roads in the Tahoma State [...]
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 [...]
it’s not always sunny in western Washington
‘seems a few clouds images are being posted here and there today so… evening alpenglo on cumulus clouds – Kitsap Peninsula, Puget Sound, Washington ©2010 Ed Book Yesterday evening the liquid sunshine stopped for a while and that strange blue filled the air before a new weather system came in from the southwest bringing in [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
and more Snow Geese
Snow Geese (Chen caerulescens) wintering at Fir Island on the Skagit River delta, Washington, USA. ©2009 Ed Book Canon 1Ds MkII 500mm L IS lens with 2X teleconverter ISO 1000 1/320 sec @ f/16 Peace
more Snow Geese
Snow Geese (Chen caerulescens) wintering at the Skagit River delta, Washington, USA ©2009 Ed Book Canon 1Ds MkII – 500mm L IS lens with 2X teleconverter – ISO 1000 – 1/200 sec @ f/16 Peace
last month at Fir Island on the Skagit River delta
Snow Geese (Chen caerulescens) ©2009 Ed Book Canon 1Ds MkII 500mm 2X teleconverter ISO 1000 1/250 sec @ f/16 Peace
a scene from last April
along the Puyallup Ridge ski trail – Mount Tahoma Trails, Washington, USA ©2008 Ed Book Peace
Leading edge of a lenticular cloud on Mount Rainier
Lenticular cloud streaming at high speed ©2008 Ed Book Peace
the clouds form and then drift off
Mount Rainier and Little Tahoma with Lenticular Clouds ©2008 Ed Book Peace
Halietus luecocephalus
an almost mature Bald Eagleat Big Beef Creek on the Hood CanalPuget Sound, Washington ©2008 Ed Book Help, my lens is too long and the bird is too close. I didn’t have time to take the 1.4X teleconverter off the 500mm lens for this guy. Although this bird looks like a mature, it was still [...]
Diving out of the blue practicing aerial acrobatics
immature Bald Eagle (Aquila Haliaeetus leucocephalus) practices aerial acrobatics ©2008 Ed Book Today low tide on the Hood Canal was a minus 2.5 so I went down with my long lens to see what I could record of the Bald Eagles that surely would be feeding on trapped fish as the outgoing tide isolated them [...]
taking a short break sometimes means…
working on something different a little while ‘ call it refreshing the palette. I’ve been optimizing and printing images for my ‘featured artist’ show next month at the Silverdale Fine Arts gallery … all new prints and in one theme… I’m quite busy getting everything ready… more about it soon. Hood Canal and the Olympic [...]
Merry Christmas
Christmas Eve morning 2007 moonset over Mt Constance in the Olympic Mountains from our home on Nika Trail on the Kitsap Peninsula in Puget Sound ©2007 Ed Book Peace