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alnus rubra in late winter Nisqually River Valley
redalder with catkins in late winter, along the road to Paradise in Mount Rainier National Park, Washington, USA ©2008 Ed Book (all rights reserved - DO NOT COPY)   http://edbookphoto.com
red alder along the road to Paradise

©2008 Ed Book

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warning danger a head
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Tatoosh snowstorm
Tatoosh Range beyond Paradise Valley in a snowstorm, Mount Rainier National Park, Washington, USA ©2008 Ed Book (all rights reserved - DO NOT COPY)   http://edbookphoto.com
Tatoosh peaks beyond Mazama Ridge - snowstorm

©2008 Ed Book

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snowstorm in Paradise
snowstorm at Paradise - Mount Rainier National Park, Cascade Mountain Range, Washington, USA ©2008 Ed Book (all rights reserved - DO NOT COPY)   http://edbookphtoto.com
Paradise with twenty feet of snow - Mount Rainier National Park

©2008 Ed Book

last week on big snowshoes

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Now showing at the Silverdale Fine Arts gallery
This month, as featured artist at the Silverdale Fine Arts gallery, I decided to go in a little different direction from my usual printing. I chose to print and frame all macro images. They are archival giclee printed on mouldmade cotton watercolor paper. It was a lot of work printing, matting, and framing forty-some images but I was pleased with my results and here they are as displayed this month.

The artist's reception was Friday and I think a good time was had by all visitors and refreshments were great. As I had gallery duty on Saturday, the reception was extended to all day Saturday too. Thank you to all who attended to show your support of my work.

Ed Book's display at the Silverdale Fine Arts gallery as April 08 featured artist ©2008 Ed Book http://edbookphoto.com

Ed Book's display at the Silverdale Fine Arts gallery as April 08 featured artist ©2008 Ed Book http://edbookphoto.com

Ed Book's display at the Silverdale Fine Arts gallery as April 08 featured artist ©2008 Ed Book http://edbookphoto.com


a couple more images here )



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a short break from printing
The Brothers, a mountain in the Olympic Mountains as seen from the Kitsap Peninsula in Puget Sound, WA, USA ©2006 Ed Book (all rights reserved - DO NOT COPY)   http://edbookphoto.com
The Brothers - (named for the Fauntleroy brothers, Edward and Arthur)
Olympic Mountains, as viewed from Nika Trail on the Kitsap Peninsula
Puget Sound, Washington

©2006 Ed Book

'taking a short break from printing (getting ready for displaying new images at our Silverdale Fine Arts gallery in 'Oldtown')

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ps 'climbed it many years ago.

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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.

Sunset over the Olympic Mountains across Hood Canal from the Kitsap Peninsula, Washington, USA ©2006 Ed Book (all rights reserved - DO NOT COPY)   http://edbookphoto.com
Hood Canal and the Olympic Mountains, Washington

©2006 Ed Book

I made this image about a mile from our home on Nika Trail a couple years ago and just picked it at random to optimize before checking back into my project.

(no, the theme of the collection of images isn't landscape)

I'll bet some who keep up with what I post could guess... a subject that's gotten good reviews herebouts on LJ.

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'nother perspective
winter waterfall near White Pass in the Cascade Range - Wenatchee National Forest, Washington, USA ©2006 Ed Book (all rights reserved - DO NOT COPY)   http://edbookphoto.com
White Pass, Wenatchee National Forest, Cascade Range, Washington

©2006 Ed Book


some like it vertical

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waterfall near White Pass
winter waterfall near White Pass - Wenatchee National Forest, Cascade Range, Washington, USA ©2006 Ed Book (all rights reserved - DO NOT COPY)   http://edbookphoto.com
White Pass - Wenatchee National Forest - Cascade Range, Washington

©2006 Ed Book

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big cat tracks in the snow
cougar tracks in the snow - Mount Tahoma Trails - north district at the hoped for new location for a temportary xc ski hut above the Morge Lakes cirque-Mt St Helens is in the distance about 40 miles away, Cascade Mountain Range, Washington, USA ©2008 Ed Book (all rights reserved - DO NOT COPY)   http://edbookphoto.com
Mount Tahoma Trails north district near the Morge Lakes Cirque

©2008 Ed Book

I've seen lots of cat tracks in the snow this year but they were mostly made by Bobcats. I didn't see any cats though. These tracks were much bigger and there were three sets. I suspect siblings or mother and offspring who were still with her. I have seen Bobcats and fox and martins and rabbits and hares on the trail system and elk, deer, and bear in the summer up there but have yet to see a cougar in the mountains. I'm certain that they have seen me and have seen their tracks on my own. I often ski in remote areas alone and sometimes at night but do so much less lately because I'm paranoid of the big cats.

Last week, I was skiing down one of the trails and saw where two sets of cougar tracks entered the trail and were ahead of me going the same direction. It was snowing and they were fresh enough to not have snow in them. I made lots of excuses to myself for stopping, a snack, then a drink, then some photos, and then another drink, and and and till I realized that it would be dark soon and I had a couple more miles to go. I didn't enjoy that ski so had to repeat it again the next day early when I wasn't afraid. (I'm afraid of the dark and of big animals that would like to eat me and can usually handle one fear at a time but when they gang up, they become symbiotic and I chicken out.)

I even practiced swinging my ski poles around to be ready for a confrontation.

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snow in the Puget Sound lowlands
light snow on a bog on the Kitsap Peninsula in the Puget Sound lowlands, Washington, USA   ©2007 Ed Book (all rights reserved - DO NOT COPY)   http://edbookphoto.com
Kitsap Peninsula - Puget Sound lowlands (bog along Sesame St up the road from Nika Trail

©2007 Ed Book

Contrary to some opinions that I may have generated with my last post of some peaks in the Olympic Mountains from our home here on Nika Trail... Although we have views of the mountains like that view, we're not in the mountains but in the Puget Sound lowlands and our home is at about 350 ft above sea level. The Olympic mountains rise to about 5700' along the Hood Canal (fjord) that separates our Kitsap Peninsula from the Olympic Peninsula and the peaks are about 20 miles away.

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Merry Christmas
Christmas Eve moonset over Mount Constance in the Olympic Mts., WA, USA  ©2007 Ed Book (all rights reserved - DO NOT COPY)   http://edbookphoto.com
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

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and now for something completely different (meaning that I'm posting)
mysterious sliding rock on The Racetrack Playa in Death Valley National Park, California, USA ©2005 Ed Book (all rights reserved - DO NOT COPY)   http://edbookphoto.com
sliding rock on The Racetrack Playa in Death Valley, California


'just ran across this and liked how svelte my shadow looked and after the biggest rainstorm in the history of recordkeeping in these parts, the desert looks inviting.


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