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Rainy Day Drive - Pacific Northwest - USA
©2008 Ed Book

We're sorely missing this kind of weather... there was a bit last week but the past few months were way under average...

Here're a few more rain images...

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ps  I didn't push any pixels around in this image... the rain and motion gave the effect produced.

Current Location: Nika Trail (home)
Current Music: Heavy Cloud No Rain - Sting

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-Mosaic Stepping Stones
-Handmade Jewelery
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From Seabeck Highway turn onto Cat's Paw Land and then onto Antler PLace and continue till you get to 5507

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ps provided as a courtesy announcement for all readers who might be on the Kitsap Peninsula on Saturday (no, my work is not shown- I gleaned this from a flier I received from one of the participants at local gas station store)
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Because of the hot weather we've been having here in the Puget Sound latetly, I thought I'd post an image from Mount Rainier that I made at Reflection Lakes last autumn when clear cold nights allowed for some ice to start forming on the lake.  No bugs, very few people, and beautiful autumn color with frost each morning.


Mount Rainier reflected in Reflection Lake with hoarfrost on the shore
 

Current Location: Nika Trail (home)
Current Music: computer fan spewing out heat to cook me

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...who would think a boy and bear would be well accepted anywhere...


well, the bear was wild and I didn't see it dance, but I did see and photograph it eating huckleberries and mountain ash berries, walking down the trail, startling Sally which amused Bronka, and then stopping about ten feet from the trail to curl up under a bush to take a nap.
Sally's website with lots of information about Mount Rainier

This was one of a few cubs I photographed in the Paradise meadows last autumn. I spent about an hour with this guy including waiting twenty minutes while it snoozed.

The cub acted as if there were no people present as it never seemed to look at or acknowledge their presence.

A little later, a coyote came down the trail and it also ignored me except that it did step off the trail when it passed. It was in a hunting mode with a vole or mouse on it's mind. Luckily for these animals, they had evidently not been habituated to people feeding them which is really bad for wildlife because they then depend on humans for food and lose their ability to forage.

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ps ...it's just amazing how fair people can be... (do you know this song?)

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Immature bald eagles in training on an oyster bed along the Hood Canal of Puget Sound, WA, USA
©2009 Ed Book

OK, something a little different...   see the little triangle at the bottom right corner of the image?  It's purpose... to make the image viral...  why would I do that?  publicity, of course.  You may copy the link and post it in your journal (for no fee).  What it does for me is that anyone seeing it can click on it and go to my website to license the use of the image.  (Of course stripping the code that controls the link or screen capture or removing any metadata or modifying the image or such other possibilities are a violation of my copyright.)  But, you do have my permission to copy the code and post it in your journal.  Try it. Let me know if it works or if it doesn't.

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sunset on the shoulder of The Brothers
Olympic Mountains
as seen from Green Mountain on the Kitsap Peninsula in Puget Sound in Washington, USA

I often go for a walk in the forest in late afternoon and often watch the sun set from a clearing through the trees.  On this occasion, a few days ago, I first drove down to Big Beef Creek on the Hood Canal to see if there were any bald eagles lurking about. Seeing only 'eagle dots', I drove south a few miles to one of the Green Mountain State Forest trailheads to hike.  I chose a trail where I would be able to look across a logged area toward the mountains.  Just as I was getting to a place that was open to the west, the sun decided to clock out for the day.

As is often the case, I chose to return to the van by a different route... this time crosscountry... bushwacking... I'd think I'd learn that that choice is often, in hindsight, not the best choice... but an adventure none the less.


more landscape silhouettes


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looking southeast from High Hut into the Gifford Pinchot National Forest in Washington's Cascade Range
 


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It was my first outing with my 500mm lens.  I went up to Hurricane Ridge in Olympic National Park and my first subject was a mother black bear and cub (dots).  They were so far away that I didn't see them browsing way up in a meadow above my chosen spot until someone passing my pointed them out... they were so far away that I had to use a 2X teleconverter making the lens effectively 1000mm and they were still bear dots.    I watched them for a while and decided that it wouldn't be prudent to climb the slope to get closer.   If I did, they would have gone over the mountain.  

A little later, this young buck with thick velvet on his antlers came into view and I decided to follow him and photograph whatever he did... mostly to practice moving and focusing the big glass.  It is big glass and takes a hefty tripod and gimbal head to use.   Here's why the deer came over the hill...



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©2008 Ed Book (all rights reserved - DO NOT COPY) http://archive.edbookphoto.com


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'same composition, moved the reflector a little, the clouds moved a little as did the sun and I chose a different high key approach and increased brightness, lowered mid tone contrast and dropped overall contrast just a bump, increased vibrance and bumped up yellow saturation and nudged up orange saturation... I chose a selective sharpening mask to edges and added a little more detail to the edges...

oh yeah, I turned the photo 90 degrees and flipped horizontal...  to get this:


same Peony composition as the last post
 
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©2009 Ed Book

Poll #1418323 if this were a book cover what would the book be about?
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If this image were on a book cover, what would the book be about?


Camera     Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II         
Lens     Canon 180mm Macro         
Exposure     2.5 sec @ f/32 ISO 100         
Lighting     skylight  partially diffused and reflector
other     tripod mounted camera mirror locked up delayed exposure



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peony part (Paeonia suffruticosa)
©2009 Ed Book

uh...  yeah,  3AM to bed...

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'last week, I went to  a getMETAsmart event put on by The Stock Artists Alliance at Seattle Pacific Univ.  If your photography of any value - any kind of value... you need to know this stuff.  The presentation was excellent.  I'm changing some things I'm doing and will be adding more...

ad hoc quid pro quo so little time so much to know...  

and on my ferry ride home aboard the WA State Ferry Kitsap, I recorded this as well as many others.  That boat has a strange vibration to it different than the others I noticed it when the camera was at my eye and me rising up slightly on my toes to dampen most of the inherent vibration transferred through the deck... actually exchanging vibration for muscle motion...   (and depending on how much coffee and time on the feet... no alcohol involved but it might have helped steady or not)   and it also seems to move through the water differently... it's flow, I mean... (or it may have been someone that steers differently)... </tangent>


Seattle spring night from the ferry Kitsap enroute to Bremerton

©2009 Ed Book

Camera     Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II
lens     24mm
exposure     1/4 sec @ f/4 ISO 3200

key things here are the very slow for hand held camera at age 61 62 on a moving ferry and it's compensation of using an image stabilized lens and very wide (for full frame sensor) lens.... I also rose up on the balls of my feet and leaned against a bulkhead (nautical name for 'wall"). 

Because I was using such a wide angle lens my position wasn't nearly as far as it appears in the image.  I was close enough that I was looking up at the buildings.  You can see the slight tilting of the tall buildings due to perspective distortion from pointing the camera upward.

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Western Sword Fern (Polystichum munitum)
©2009 Ed Book

I was out for a walk in the forest and found some interesting Sword Ferns filling the forest understory.  The sky was clear so some bits of sunlight were getting through to the forest floor which clipped the highlights of any images made showing sunlit surfaces.  ('clipping the highlights refers to areas where the light is so bright that the pixels there record white with no details.  It's okay for specular highlights to clip (specular highlights are spots of light that are usually pin point reflections of the sun as in a drop of water or shiny metal surface in sunlight) because the eye expects them but broader light areas being clipped cause the eye to be uncomfortable... too bright to look at is the feeling the viewer gets.

I was in a deep canyon in late afternoon but the sun was still shining down into the understory blasting clipping at me here and there resulting in  unusable exposures.  On thing I teach my students is that when there is some attribute of imagemaking that is preventing you from making your intended image, then use that attribute in your favor and if possible exaggerate that factor.  (for example, if the wind is moving your subject too much to get a sharp image, then, exaggerate the motion to use it to make your image.

In this case, I got low to the ground with the fern between me and the sun to record the fronds backlighted and glowing with light.

more ferns

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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 from the skylight, I experimented using a small reflector directing it differently for each exposure.  The character of the flower changes considerably depending on where and how intense the primary and reflected secondary sources of light light the subject.   Most of the light being from directly above with indirect diffused light coming from the skylight walls, I used the reflector to direct light at the bottom sides of surfaces to lessen the shadows. 

I used a Canon EOS 1DsMkII camera body with 180mm macro lens.  I checked to see how an added polarizer would treat the flower and decided against using it as there petal surfaces weren't needing to have shine minimized.  I used f/32 for rmost of the exposures to maximize depth of field.  I have some more flowers waiting for their turn tomorrow.

some more peonies

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Red Hot Poker (Kniphofia uvaria) visitor
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Mount Adams as seen from the rim of the Cowlitz River Canyon on the slopes of Mount Rainier

©2005 Ed Book


After making the image looking up the canyon (as seen in my last post), I turned around and photographed Mt Adams seen across a few ridges to the south in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest. I think it's about forty miles distant from this location.

I think that this scene may have inspired me to start my "photohoops" 360º panorama images. I don't remember making one at the time but started cooking the idea. Not a follower of [info]photohoops? go look and better yet, make some photohoops and post them... It's not difficult and don't worry about quality, just do it... I purposely (sure) made some quickly and without concerning quality posted some... and then others took a lot of work. I keep making these exposures but just don't get time to optimize and stitch them into one image to post.

EDIT: I just looked to see that Photohoops predated this image so what I said about it inspiring me to make photohoops was bogus. My thinking was faulty... nothing new...


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autumn - Little Tahoma on Mount Rainier from the Cowlitz River Canyon

©2005 Ed Book


about the image... )

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why music, why art? ? )

...from [info]ladycelia's LJ...

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Last Chance Range, Death Valley National Park

©2005 Ed Book


about... )

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Palouse Falls, Spokane River - Washington, USA


'saw where a kayaker went over (on purpose) successfully recently. The river appeared to be at a high flow rate.


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peeling Pacific Madrona (Arbutis Menziesii) Bark, Kitsap Peninsula, WA, USA ©2009 Ed Book (all rights reserved - DO NOT COPY)   http://archive.edbookphoto.com
Pacific Madrona (Arbutis Menziesii)
 
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 habit (structure) of the tree is sinuous with undulations in the main trunk and branches.

The bark produces some of the chlorophyll needed to feed it and in doing so, it changes during the spring-summer seasons.  Starting out green, as it produces chlorophyll, it gradually changes to yellow-green and then to orange and finally orange-red before peeling to reveal a new smooth green layer.  In these photos, you can see the smooth new underlayer and peeling upper layers of the bark.

I made these images while photographing the old Seabeck cemetery about five miles from here.  Seabeck, a timber mill town was one of the first Washington Territory settlements but after the mill burned and the hillsides stripped of the gigantic Douglas Fir, Western Hemlock, and Western Red Cedar forests it was left as a ghost town and is still a tiny village. 
 
 
Arbutis Menziesii Madrona USA WA Washington arbor bark beautiful botany chlorophyl producing bark forest growth laurelwood leathery natural nature north america oregon laurel outdoor pacific madrona pacific northwest peeling peeling bark plant sensous sensual surface texture tree wild wood ©2009 Ed Book (all rights reserved - DO NOT COPY)   http://archive.edbookphoto.com
peeling chlorophyll producing bark
 


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rapids in the Duckabush River, Olympic Mountains, WA, USA panorama ©2008 Ed Book (all rights reserved - DO NOT COPY)   htp://archive.edbookphoto.com
Duckabush River - Olympic National Forest, Washington, USA
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'lots of moving air today so I'm getting skunked at any attempt to photograph the dogwoods and tree peonies currently blooming in the garden.  So, 'thought I'd post motion - a bit thicker than air though.  I enjoyed a quiet time at home with Cookie for my birthday yesterday and am looking forward to the rest of my birthweek festivities.  I put a nix on the parade that they were planning as I considered it a bit over the top. 

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Snow Geese (Chen caerulescens) wintering at the Skagit River delta in Skagit County, Washington, USA. ©2009 Ed Book (all rights reserved - DO NOT COPY)   http://archive.edbookphoto.com
Snow Geese (Chen caerulescens) wintering at the Skagit River delta in Skagit County, Washington, USA. ©2009 Ed Book (all rights reserved - DO NOT COPY)   http://archive.edbookphoto.com
Snow Geese (Chen caerulescens)
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'on Mayday, I was invited to the big city across the water to go see Roy Rogers and the Delta Rhythm Kings at the Triple Door as a guest of [info]yurtmeister. Thank You Pat, I'm still feeling their energy!
Roy Rogers - blues slide guitarist in concert at the Triple Door Dinner Theater, Seattle, WA, USA ©2009 Ed Book (all rights reserved - DO NOT COPY)   http://archive.edbookphoto.com
other images from that night - click here... )
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...sighted in the land of tall noisy canyons
on the east side of the sound named Puget...



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Evening light paints moss covered Bigleaf Maples with a warm glow in the Duckabush River temperate rain forest in the Olympic National Forest, Washington, USA  ©2008 Ed Book (all rights reserved - DO NOT COPY)   http://archive.edbookphoto.com
alpenglo in the Duckabush River valley rain forest - Olympic National Forest, WA USA

 

Big Leaf Maple, Vine Maple, Stinging Nettles, moss
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Moss covered Big Leaf Maple and Vine Maple understory are bathed in evening golden alpenglow. Duckabush River, Olympic National Forest, WA, USA ©2009 Ed Book (all rights reserved - DO NOT COPY)   http://archive.edbookphoto.com
alpenglo in the Duckabush rain forest

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Seabeck Bay WA Washington abstract blue color pattern ripples seabeck surface texture water ©2009 Ed Book (all rights reserved - DO NOT COPY)   http://archive.edbookphoto.com


'nother over at
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go look, I'll save a place here for you


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looking down on a ferry worker pointing while directing loading of a ferry. surreal


...something new
at my [info]alpenglo  journal







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A trail passes through a forest canapy on the Kitsap Peninsula in Puget Sound, WA, USA ©2009 Ed Book (all rights reserved - DO NOT COPY)
late evening passage - Kitsap Peninsula, Puget Sound, Washington, USA

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'went for a walk in the forest this afternoon,
made photographs
got dark
no light
got lost
surprised by getting lost

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A white cloud swirls above snowcovered Sleeping Lady Mountain in, Wenatchee National Forest, Icicle River Valley, Cascade Range, Washington, USA ©2009 Ed Book (all rights reserved - DO NOT COPY)   http://archive.edbookphoto.com
Sleeping Lady Mountain as seen from Leavenworth, Washington

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 prime National Forest land was sold into private ownership including the banks of the wildly beautiful wild and scenic Icicle River before it could be designated and protected as a National Wild and Scenic River.  Cabins were built among the giantic boulders along the shore and bridges to cabins on the other side of the river, and signs that said NO TRESSPASSING populated the once beautiful drive.  When the forest burned, all the cabins went away to be replaced by bigger cabins and now fences were added with NO TRESSPASSING signs. 

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A bull elk leads his harem down a ridge at Oak Creek, Cascade Range, Washington, USA ©2009 Ed Book (all rights reserved - DO NOT COPY)   http://archive.edbookphoto.com
Bull Elk and his harem
Oak Creek - Cascade Range
Washington, USA
Canon EOS 1DsMkII
500mm f/4 L image stabilized lens
with 2X teleconverter
ISO 640 1/160sec @ f/9
gimbal mounted on a tripod
I was about a quarter mile from the elk, a comfortable distance for them. Had I been closer, this image would be of elk butts. These animals look a bit ragged because I found them near the end of a rough winter with deep snow–it's the reason they were down in the valley instead of hidden in the forest up on Bethel Ridge. A few of the cows were pregnant and would be birthing their calves soon.


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�2009 Ed Book (all rights reserved - DO NOT COPY)   http://archive.edbookphoto.com
What is that?


It's a or might be a or I'm guessing that it's a Poll #1389377 WHAT IS THAT THING?
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It's a

or maybe a

and if neither of those, it might be a

check the poll results for the correct answer(s) (yes, plural)

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Four cow Elk and a calf at Oak Creek in the Cascade Mountain Range, Washington, USA panorama ©2009 Ed Book (all rights reserved - DO NOT COPY)   http://archive.edbookphoto.com
Cow elk and yearling at Oak Creek in the Cascade Range of Washington, USA
©2009 Ed Book
This image didn't start like this. It started as a 1000mm (looong focal length)capture, and there was a lot of distracting area around these girls. Cropping was a start and then upon closer inspection I counted more legs than five elk would have as there were some more animals partially hidden. In come the clone and healing brushes... and while I was at it, some distracting branches, grass stalks and trees went away. compare the pre-cloning/healing version... )
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A radio collared and tagged bull elk reclines near a cow elk at Oak Creek, Cascade Range, Washington, USA ©2009 Ed Book (all rights reserved - DO NOT COPY)   http://archive.edbookphoto.com
radio collar and tag (there must be some witty caption but I'm not finding it)

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Canon EOS 1Ds MkII
500mm L IS with 2X teleconverter
ISO 640 1/250 sec @ f11
 
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A Bull Elk stands on a ridge with his harem at Oak Creek in the Cascade Range, Washington, USA ©2009 Ed Book (all rights reserved - DO NOT COPY)   http://archive.edbookphoto.com
Bull Elk and part of his harem Oak Creek, Cascade Range, Washington, USA


Canon 1Ds Mk II 500mm f/4 L IS lens with 2X teleconverter

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repost since I'm on a Whidbey kick
sea gulls moving among the sea stars at Coupeville, Whidbey Island, Puget Sound, Washington, USA ©2004 (all rights reserved - DO NOT COPY)   http://archive.edbookphoto.com
gulls amongst the stars

Nikon F4 with Velvia 50 film  ~1/30 sec exposure... the gulls were moving a lot faster than the seastars


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