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. [...]
a jail I visited
©2010 Ed Book I was traveling along some back roads in southeastern Washington state and came across this building labeled “JAIL”. I had stopped to photograph the overflowing wheat elevators along the Snake River and included this building in my captures that day. A couple days ago, I was optimizing and adding metadata to images [...]
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 [...]
water lily in our pondlet (muck bucket)
A few years ago when I started the pond, digging a big hole and piling the dirt up along with boulders to make a hill for a waterfall, I bought some pond plants and planted them in a couple muck buckets to wait till the real pond happened. This lily persisted and prevailed after all the others [...]
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 [...]
Home Run!
I was in Bremerton for a meeting a couple days ago and driving by Lions Field I saw that there was a ball game happening. I wasn’t in a hurry but was in the mood for making some photographs. I walked down to the field and liked the diamond grid produced and held my Canon [...]
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
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 [...]
from an old post… anyone remember this image?
hol(e)y cow ©2005 Ed Book The image was from one of my workshops up on Whidbey Island, north of here. We visited a sculpture garden in Coupeville and found some interesting compositions… this one being serendipity. Peace
feeling a little monochrome just now
Close to a Daisy – monochrome macro panorama ©2010 Ed BookGetting close to a daisy can have a panoramic effect – click to see what I mean… Peace
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 [...]
the dancing forest
or the dancing camera… depending on the point of view Red Alder (Alnus rubra) forest in the South Fork Skokomish River – Olympic National Forest, WA ©2011 Ed Book camera motion blur in the forest …or is it the dancing photographer? Here are some more of the forest from last week [...]
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
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 [...]
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