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 Tatoosh peaks beyond Mazama Ridge - snowstorm©2008 Ed BookPeace Tags: -print available-, forest, high key, landscape, mount rainier, mountains, snow, trees, wa, white, winter
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 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') Peace ps 'climbed it many years ago. Tags: -print available-, alpenglo, blue, landscape, mountains, olympic mountains, sunset, wa
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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 Mountains, Washington©2006 Ed BookI 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. Peace Tags: -print available-, kitsap peninsula, landscape, mountains, olympic mountains, puget sound, sky, sunset, wa, waterflow
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 White Pass, Wenatchee National Forest, Cascade Range, Washington©2006 Ed Booksome like it vertical Peace Tags: -print available-, forest, landscape, mountains, snow, trees, wa, white, winter
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 Mount Tahoma Trails north district near the Morge Lakes Cirque©2008 Ed BookI'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. Peace Tags: -print available-, forest, landscape, mount tahoma trails, mountains, snow, wa, winter
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 Kitsap Peninsula - Puget Sound lowlands (bog along Sesame St up the road from Nika Trail©2007 Ed BookContrary 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. Peace Tags: -print available-, forest, kitsap peninsula, landscape, nika trail, puget sound, snow, trees, wa, white, winter
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 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 BookPeace Tags: -print available-, alpenglo, blue, clouds, landscape, moon, mountains, olympic mountains, pink, puget sound, sky, snow, wa, winter
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 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. Peace Tags: -print available-, abstract, california, death valley, desert, nature events, pattern, people pics, phot expd, rock, self portraits, surreal
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