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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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I recently ran across an article about Artist Statements and there were a few reproduced to show the gamut of what artists are writing. I have written them myself and have always felt that my wording was much simpler than so many of the ultra-pretentious ('can't find the appropriate words). Then, often, after writing such re-read them again after some time to soak, and gee, found the pretentiousness in my own words.

I'm currently using one along with an unconventional resume for my gallery work and thinking (from my own experience of reading those of others) that it doesn't matter what is said (nobody reads them-all the way through) certain words must be used...

universal, all-encompassing, transcendent, mystical, deepening, glowing, unchanging, photographic, visionary, luminous, spiritual, life-affirming, artistic, intrinsic, insight, reality, perception, experience, concept, unveiling, realization...

I use some of them. 'how 'bout you? I double-dare you to share yours.

here's mine )

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buttoning out of layer (shirt buttoned to another layer shirt)  ©2007 Ed Book  (all rights reserved - DO NOT COPY)  http://edbookphoto.com



a new fad, I was (accidentially) first.


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watch this  ©2006 Ed Book   http://edbookphoto.com

My 17" PowerBook died. (drowned, so says AppleCare) (keep juice away, far away from these things.) I had to replace it and since they quit making that model, it was replaced by the 17" MacBook Pro (warning danger Intel inside)

This new MBP looks like the replaced PB with a few small differences–one being the camera lens mounted in the screen frame.

The computer has a program I tried out called Comic Life. I guess it's to make comic books. Along with the camera that has some special effects, I gave it a try.


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Ed on skis near Griffin Mtn near the Yurt Mount Tahoma Trails ©2006 Photo by Pat Gleason
Near Griffin Mtn.                              ©2006 Photo by Pat Gleason


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Ed Book at sea in the Caribbean aboard USS Essex CVS9  ©1969 Ed Book (all rights reserved DO NOT COPY)   http://edbookphoto
at sea aboard USS Essex in the Caribbean    ©1969 Ed Book


Camera: Yashica J7, Lens: 50mm, Film: Kodachrome II

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I met and photographed lots of folks on the trails this past weekend. As I get time, I'll post images I made of these skiers, snowshoers, and hikers... but here's a teaser, heh, This photo was made by Noah Tratt. I met Noah a couple years ago when his group skied to High Hut... that's where I saw them again this weekend. Good snow conditions... good grooming (*pats self on back*) and I got onto my skis a few times along the way to test the trail... I skied mostly uphill... I do better going uphill--I'm not in a panic like when my skis go by themselves.

If I photographed you and you don't see your photo here soon, please email me. ed at edbookphoto dot com

Noah caught me near High Hut and was surprised to see me actually on skis...

(please note that, yes, the Ed guy is fat but that fact is exaggerated in this image because I had two hats, a pair of gloves, and a water bottle stuffed into the front of my jacket--the red vest actually does zip shut)

Ed Book on skis near High Hut - Mount Tahoma Trails (MTTA) ©2006 Noah Tratt


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Ed Book at Colorado National Monument (C)2004 Ed Book
rosy faced me longing for my Cookie


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I knew there would be some way out...

ed escapes (c)2004 Ed Book edbookphoto.com


because the fort was being restored by prison inmates I knew there would be a way out... I found that one of the bars wasn't fully nailed at the bottom (the spike was there but was cut off where it entered the log behind)


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jailkeeper Ed (c)2004 Ed Book edbookphoto.com


who's the badboy?

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ed and horny ed (c)2004 Ed Book edbookphoto.com


'wonder why I wear that hat all the time?

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Ed meets Ed (c)2004 Ed Book edbookphoto.com


he was as shocked as I was...

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Ed pulls the ring - Fort Supply, Oklahoma (c)2004 Ed Book edbookphoto.com


I just couldn't resist...

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JIGGITY JIG JIGGITY JOG... THANK YOU LORD FOR ANOTHER SAFE RETURN HOME

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ps more later... I'm exhausted and have a lot to catch up on...

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being delayed because of the weather and then also because of feeling under the weather...  but, I'll be on the road soon westward... wonder what route I can take were the traffic won't try to push me at 75mph... and where the snows aren't... and where the wind won't blow my, now empty, trailer off the road... 

I'm currently at North Augusta, South Carolina...  I'll update soon about where I've been since my last bandwidth flooding. 

Thankfulness...  I'm thankful for all the things I have and all the things I don't have....  and most thankful that Cookie is feeling a little better now... and that I'll be back home with her soon...

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walked the moonlit lonely beach last night listening to the surf, watching the silver glazed waves, lost found in prayer... and missing Cookie...

'photographing birds today...

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I encountered a delay in my schedule so detoured to the Outer Banks of North Carolina in the Atlantic. I'm at the library on Ocracoke Island south of Cape Hatteras. I'll be exploring around here for a couple days. My favorite subjects to watch here are the pelicans... they mesmerize as they glide on the air forced up by breaking waves along the beach and skim the water mere inches from the surf... no photos prepared for posting but I will when I get the chance to do so...

Jimmy and Eric left their families today on their call-up... their National Guard unit was activated and is leaving Utah today on the their way to Iraq. i'm without words...

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far away and a long time ago in one of my other lives--I served as an Electronics Technician aboard the USS Essex CVS9 (WWII vintage aircraft carrier). I was on a few months temporary sea duty between a year of Electronics school with another year of Nuclear Propulsion school ahead. The Essex was leaving service after 26 years and in this image we were taking the ship for mothballing at Boston Naval Shipyard.

I had been aboard for her last cruise––to the Caribbean to provide a moving landing strip for students from the pilot training courses at Pensacola and Corpus Christi--a nice respite from the New England winter at our home port at Quonset Point in the Narragansett Bay of Rhode Island. After we returned north, there was an announcement that the ship would be taken from service vice the Med Cruise that had been scheduled.

The last movement of the ship would be only a day's journey up the coast. One of my work stations was the Flag Bridge. It's above the Captain's Bridge and just above the Flight Bridge where flight deck operations are controlled. The Flag Bridge was where the fleet admiral spends a lot of his time controlling the group of ships in a Task Force (a group of ships with a similar mission or support for the fighting ships) when this ship is the lead in the group.

This image was made when we were arriving at Boston Harbor--see the snow in the distance--it was frigid out--so I was sightseeing from one of my equipment spaces--the Flag Bridge. I'd never seen the Admiral or staff aboard so it was my private place. (the one with the best view too)

I was sitting with my feet up in the Admiral's Chair and the Admiral came in. Before I noticed him, he told me to "sit easy" I guess meaning not to jump out of the chair to attention or whatever it is one was supposed to do. He asked me to move to the Chief of Staff's chair so he could sit in his own chair. Sure, no prob. I handed him my camera and asked if I might pose for a photo of the occasion. This is his result.


Ed on the Flight Bridge of the USS Essex arriving at Boston Harbor to decomission the ship.


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a couple years ago, I posted an image in The Mirror Project. I ran across it today when I was avoiding work taking a break from some gardening work (weeding, spreading newspaper with wood chips on top around some vine maple, western red cedar, red huckleberry, sword fern, and douglas maple near the hot tub and pond in progress.

if you've registered a reflection with a camera and you were the subject, it's the place.

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Reply to this entry by posting a picture of yourself in the comment, and post this sentence in your journal. (stolen from [info]cherie who stole it from [info]zookeeper.

ed tripped by snowshoes

take two:

ed up on snowshoes


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My last post was about the fishing boat hauled out at Seabeck. I called the boat Nosmo King )

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Nosmo King fishing boat hauled out at Seabeck (c)1977


'on keeping with no snow posting today... I made this photograph almost 27 years ago about five miles from here at Seabeck Bay. A fishing boat had been purposely run aground so the bottom could be scraped free of barnacles and other clingy stuff... I happened along that morning after a long and hyper night shift at the shipyard doing some very noisy and high energy steam safety valve testing on one of the nuc ships. I was too wired to go to sleep so took a drive to make some photographs. I found this scene when I was walking along the water's edge and was particularly drawn to the reddish color in the Red Alder forest... the catkins were forming as they do mid-winter every year... an early harbinger of spring.

I should mention that this image was made with a Bronica S2A medium format camera with some unremembered print film. A printed version was displayed on the wall for many years and then thinking it beyond it's photograph life from fading, I removed it... later to scan on a flatbed scanner to revive the image by using it as the basis for a digital watercolor painting. Of course, it looks totally different in full size on paper... here the colors look blocky and blotchy...some things that display well on paper don't see justice in small compressed jpgs...

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Some LJ folks seeing my journal get the impression that I know what I'm doing and talking about... Some think that I might be able to answer some questions they have...

Wrong on both counts... What I write about in my posts are my opinions... what I answer when asked questions are my opinions...

I spread my opinions about because I like to talk... anyone who knows me can attest to that... (many get the impression that I just like to hear myself talk) It's true, sometimes...

When I'm alone for a while, I talk to myself. I read somewhere that it's healthy to talk to yourself. Even to ask yourself questions and answer them... You're in trouble though when you ask yourself a question and then say "huh?"

Often, the opinions I state I do so as if they're fact... I do make mistakes. One time I thought I was wrong, (but I was mistaken).

I appreciate it when someone disagrees with me and shares their own opinion. And I especially appreciate it when someone points out something that I've said as being bogus and sheds light on why.

Thus said... it's time for more of my opinions...

There are some questions that folks have asked or topics that have been suggested that I didn't get to for some reason but some of them are still roaming around in my subconcious looking for an opinion. Some, I just don't want to give a simple answer to...

Here are some...
  • what equipment do I use and how do I protect it when I travel?
  • where do I travel to make images and how do I decide where to go?
  • how did I get started stepping from a photgraphy avocation to full-time vocation?
  • what is my background?
  • how do I really make a living?
  • why do I use a henweigh and would I recommend using one?
  • how do I decide what I want to photograph?
  • where do I stay when I travel?
  • why the long hair and beard?
  • why the Santa Claus look-not needing any padding?
  • where haven't I been?
  • where to send money?


I'll think of more, I'm sure... and will post about them when I get time...

Now, what I really was scheming about getting to... I have questions too to ask for me... and seeing that I have a few readers, maybe some answers will help me...

nuff said for now...

that's enough about me...
now about me..... ;p

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I have gone out of my way to not make my LJ a commercial place but have not gotten the commercial part of my website reconstructed yet other than the temporary gallery that you can see. I will try not to solicit business in my journal. But, if anyone does want to do photography or other business with me, I am happy to do so as it's my full-time livelihood (I haven't won the lottery yet - ok, I did win a few times but it was only a few million (in my dreams)... but they only gave me $2.00 and said I was a wiener. I said "don't you mean winner?" "no, wiener")

I will do business via email, snailmail, phone, or face to face and anyone is free to ask anything in my journal but if it pertains to monetary issues I'll respond in email or otherwise.

Does this sound like a thing?

Now for some business... I said I'd try not to but...
Pick one or more:
  1. I'm starving.
  2. The llamas are starving.
  3. I just like money.
  4. I had to send Ilene back to work.
  5. I like to share my photographs but can't afford to give them away free.
  6. It's not a job, it's an adventure.
  7. I'm starving.
  8. other- fill in _________.


If anyone would like information about buying prints or other services (other services:

  • image liscensing for publication or other.
  • assignments.
  • digital imaging services.
  • scanning.
  • print restoration.
  • personal or group instruction in the field or otherwise.
  • workshops.
  • tours.
  • other (fill in) __________.


or if you're just curious what I have to charge...
don't be shy, I won't consider an email request to be a contract unless you make it so...

anything else? just ask...

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Mrs. Book's little boy Eddie.
Eddie in 1st grade Steffin Hill School


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Last night at midnight I didn't do something that I have done for many years at this precise moment. and I didn't do it on purpose. I am usually outside near midnight and I would pick out a star or place in the clouds - depending on my physical location on this continent. I would look back in time a year and think about where I was and what I was doing in my life. Then back another year , etc. as far as I could remember. A one time a year reading of my autobiography in my mind. Then I would think about how it is with me right now, this location and this personal situation I call my wonderful life. Then, I look ahead to what I want to do and where and who I want to be next New Year's night. I didn't do it this year, the looking back part. I decided that I wanted to be in the tomorrow and need not look back, at least, not this year. I just didn't feel like doing it. I'm thinking about today and tomorrow. I must say though, that looking back on this past year I am blessed with a loving wife, good relationships with my family and good friends. God Bless them all.

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We wish all who read this the experience of the Peace of our Lord celebrated today.

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