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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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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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 ©2007 Ed BookI made this image last weekend after a workshop where I was helping out. The composition was good as was the idea to display the ripples and reflections in the foreground. I used a polarizer to increase the contrast and deepen the color and cut haze but I used it at minimum so the water would still reflect. Although the sun was behind me, there were enough clouds bouncing light around that there was still some effect -- and the sun wasn't exactly in line with my lens. There's a big problem with this image and the other dozen I made with the clouds moving across the sky was that I set up and chose f/9 for aperture because it's about the sharpest for this lens (about two stops down from full open with the aperture). I focused about a third of the way from the water in the foreground to the mountains so they would both be in focus (hyperfocal distance) but unfortunately, I moved the lens after I last looked through it and screwed up the distant focus. But, the image is a good example (a good example of what can happen wrong when you don't pay attention to what you're doing). Peace Tags: alpenglo, clouds, landscape, mountains, olympic mountains, phot discussion, wa, waterflow
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 ©2007 Ed Book I once served in the Navy... so many years ago that it seems it was a different lifetime or dream recalled. Between a year+ of electronics schools and another year+ of nuclear propulsion schools I spent a few months here and there aboard a few ships working as an Electronics Technician. One of the jobs given to the newbies was go out on the yardarms to repair antenna that lived in that rare air out there. I had a problem with it though. Although I loved getting high (physically), until that point in time, I had an intense fear of heights. Climbing the stairs of a fire tower, after a few stories, my feet would refuse to allow me to lift them to the next stair-tread, my fingers would grip the handrail so tightly that they would cramp. I could only loosen their grip if I was backing down. When given the chore to go aloft, I told of my fear and was told to take my time and use multiple safety lines and just do it. I was always game for trying... I put on three sets of safety lines and went aloft... I spent hours up there on the mast trying to get the courage to go out on the yardarm where the antenna I was to repair snickered at me. I couldn't do it and climbed down. My chief was understanding and said I could try again the next morning... I did, and again I failed but at least I enjoyed the view and the welcome breeze in the June heat. The third day, I tried again and inch at a time I conquered that yardarm. I got out there by not looking down. Luckily the ship didn't move and the wind didn't blow the man down. After the work was complete, I looked down... no big deal, I was so high on my accomplishment and the fact that I was so physically high that the ground appeared as if I was in a low flying airplane. I should mention that the ship I was on was the aircraft carrier USS America in the shipyard in Portsmouth, VA and the yardarm I had navigated was 250 feet up. The following few days the shipyard put up scaffolding to the top of the mast so it could be painted and the job would have been much easier... My chief had been both messing with me and giving me confidence. My division was the owner of the mast and all the electronic equipment - communications and radar antenna and we had to paint it all too. Almost everyone in my division refused to do the high work and I volunteered. I spent the summer aloft in the cool breeze with a view and a few friends... Our chief was afraid to go aloft himself to check on us so when the job was finished, we lingered a few more weeks till they took down the scaffolding... When the scaffolding was in place I didn't feel the need for a safety line let alone the three that I started with. Remind me sometime to tell of the time we dropped a five gallon bucket of redlead paint onto the flight deck from up there... and what we painted on the top of the TACAN raydome at the top of the mast that only the helo pilots could read. and what we left up there as a pennant on the lightning rod... bad boy after that, I had no problems with heights till I fell forty feet while rock climbing. Peace Tags: -print available-, alpenglo, nautical, puget sound, wa, whidbey island
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 ©2007 Ed Book'spent the past week helping Charles Needle with a closeup photography workshop up on Whidbey Island at the Coupeville Arts Center. It was a busy week with classroom time and visits to a few locations on the island to do field work. I signed up for this workshop as an assistant to be a student but because 20 students are more than a handful for one instructor, I didn't take my Canon SLR out till after the workshop ended. I did enjoy myself helping and kibitzing, giving assistance and ideas to the students and it was an especially rewarding experience for me. More about that later because I was seriously sleep deprived and a cold tripped me and beat me up. Today, I slept all day listening to my body. I stayed on Whidbey Island an additional day after the workshop and Charles and I visited one of the gardens again to record a few GBs of images for ourselves. On Saturday, the brig, Lady Washington and her consort, the ketch, Hawaiian Chieftain arrived for a few days of tall ships in Coupeville and I was there on the dock to make some images at sunset. Peace Tags: -print available-, alpenglo, nautical, puget sound, wa, whidbey island
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 ©2007 Ed Book Mt Wow, Mt Beljica, and Mt Adams from the Puyallup Ridge Trail. Peace Tags: -print available-, alpenglo, landscape, mount tahoma trails, mountains, snow, wa, white, winter
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 ©2007 Ed Book Peace Tags: -print available-, alpenglo, clouds, forest, landscape, mount tahoma trails, mountains, snow, sunset, trail, trees, wa, white, winter
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