another jail I saw in my travels
©2004 Ed Book I found this jail when crossing the Colorado Rockies on my last film photo expedition during late autumn in ’04. I made this capture with the Pentax 4MP point-n-shoot digital camera I was using at the time along with my film camera systems. I am so far behind in film scanning that [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Tunnel in the mountains on the way to Cayuse and Chinook Passes
A couple weeks ago I was in Mount Rainier National Park and along one of the roads they were doing some repaving work. Driving up toward Cayuse Pass, I was following a tanker truck that was going to the worksite. I enjoyed being able to slow to about 10 MPH vice driving the 40MPH speed [...]
Peony macro
Peony (Paeonia suffruticosa) ©2009 Ed Book This is one of the peonies from the garden. The air was moving too much outside so I brought this blossom into the kitchen and set it up on a stand under the skylight. As the sun was going in and out of clouds and changing the light coming [...]
I happened to be there
Red Hot Poker (Kniphofia uvaria) visitor ©2008 Ed Book some others Peace
The Garry Oaks of Klickitat Canyon
autumn Garry oak, Klickitat County, Washington ©2008 Ed Book Peace
Cottonwoods
Cottonwood Grove dream ©2008 Ed Book I should mention that the effect here was not generated in Photoshop but instead in the camera during the exposure… it’s called ‘moving the camera’. Peace
Black Cottonwood x Eastern Cottonwood = Hybrid Poplar
Hybrid Poplar grove, Boardman, Oregon ©2008 Ed Book If you travel east on I-84 through eastern Oregon, you’ll see this grove. Get off the exit and go walk in the grove, It’s quite surreal, all the trees the same size and in lines… I’ve been by here a few times but this was the first [...]
I think I like it (my new ‘pocket pal’)
the Canon PowerShot G9, that is… Here’s one of my first image tests. It’s a miniature dahlia in one of our raised beds. ©2007 Ed Book Canon PowerShot G9, 12MP, ISO200, 1/250sec, f/3.5, macro mode, hand held, backlit flower The G9 is much bigger than my last ‘pocket pal’, more than twice as thick and [...]
Desert Sunflowers
©2005 Ed Book Gerea canescens, Desert Sunflowers (the plant grows about 18″ tall and the flowers are about an inch across. In the other photographs that look like there are portions of yellow ground cover… it’s the Desert Sunflower, they grow a couple feet apart and one has to get down to their level to [...]
