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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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Outlet Creek flows through an autumn forest in the Klickitat Canyon, Klickitat County, Washington, USA ©2008 Ed Book (all rights reserved - DO NOT COPY)   http://edbookphoto.com
Outlet Creek in the Klickitat River Canyon, Washington

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Late afternoon autumn light in the canyon of the Grand Ronde River, Blue Mountains, Oregon, USA ©2008 Ed Book (all rights reserved - DO NOT COPY)   http://edbookphoto.com
The Grand Ronde River Canyon - cutting it's course through the Blue Mountains

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gold canyon sides and blue sky reflections on the Grand Ronde River, Blue Mountains, Oregon ©2008 Ed Book (all rights reserved - DO NOT COPY)   http://edbookphoto.com
Blue Sky + Gold Canyon + Flowing Water

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Winter Camp Wash - Arches National Park, Utah - panorama ©2004 Ed Book (all rights reserved - DO NOT COPY)   http://edbookphoto.com
©2004 Ed Book
larger image here ~750k )

This December 8,'04 image was exposed on seven frames of Fujichrome Velvia 50 ISO film in a tripod mounted Nikon F4s camera, scanned with a Nikon Super Coolscan LS-5000 film scanner, panorama stitching with no adjustments with PhotoShop CS3 Photomerge tool, and optimization in Photoshop CS3.


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Klickitat River Canyon in autumn - Garry Oak - Cascade Mountain Range, WA   ©2006 Ed Book (all rights reserved - DO NOT COPY)   http://edbookphoto.com

©2006 Ed Book


Contrary to appearances, in this image the view is looking down-slope into the canyon, not up.

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Klickitat Canyon rim - Cascade Mountain Range, WA  autumn   ©2006 Ed Book (all rights reserved - DO NOT COPY)   http://edbookphoto.com

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autumn in the Klickitat Canyon, Garry Oak and Ponderosa Pine, Cascade Mountain Range, WA   ©2006 Ed Book (all rights reserved - DO NOT COPY)  http://edbookphoto.com


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Autumn in the canyon of the Klickitat River near Mt Adams (volcano) in the Cascade Range just north of the Columbia River–the dry east side with forests of Garry Oak mixed with Ponderosa Pine.

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Klickitat Canyon, WA cascade range, Garry Oak, autumn  ©2006 Ed Book (all rights reserved - DO NOT COPY)  http://edbookphoto.com

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Black Dragon Canyon - San Rafael Swell, Utah  © 2004 Ed Book (all rights reserved - DO NOT COPY)  http://edbookphoto.com
Black Dragon Canyon - San Rafael Swell, Utah                                      ©2004 Ed Book

Pentax Optio S40 camera

'taking a break from printing, studying, writing, and some other stuff... now, back to work -- after I feed the llamagirls and take Hoodoo for a walk and work off the excellent Indian cuisine we had at the Gandhi Restaurant in Silverdale -- [info]yurtmeister Pat took us... Thanks Pat!


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Snake River Canyon, WA  ©2006 Ed Book (all rights reserved)   http://edbookphoto.com   DO NOT COPY
Snake River Canyon - Washington                                                         ©2006 Ed Book


Just before visiting the Palouse, we drove down the Snake River Canyon downstream from Lewiston, Idaho and Clarkston, Washington in thick fog. When the fog was finally clearing, I stopped to make a few photographs. Just after this spot, the road runs up one of the side canyons and tops out in the Palouse.

Note that this is not the wild Hell's Canyon of the Snake where it winds along through the Seven Devil's Mountains towering 7,000 feet above the river, much deeper than the Grand Canyon of Arizona/Utah.

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Box Canyon of the Cowlitz River
First, about the photo. A couple weeks ago, I was at the Box Canyon of the Cowlitz River in Mount Rainier National Park. I looked down about 185 feet into the narrow slit that the Cowlitz abraded with its glacier silt and found that because of the heavy overcast, there wasn't a large difference in luminance value between the top and bottom and that the Canon 1Ds Mk II camera with it's DMax (density range) could record detail in both shadow and highlight areas. Film, especially Velvia transparency, wouldn't be able to handle the density range but here is the result of a digital capture.

I didn't adjust other than to set white balance (by selecting the gray in the water as neutral) and white and black points in RAW conversion. This is the way the image looks at that point. Now, in Photoshop levels as well as saturation and maybe a little curves adjustments are needed... but... overall adjustments will cause other areas to go beyond density limits.

So... here's another poll... and I'm going to leave it open... no multiple choice...

What would you do? no, that's too easy... how would you do it?

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Stevens Canyon autumn - Mt Rainier National Park, WA  ©2005 Ed Book (all rights reserved)   http://edbookphoto.com
Stevens Canyon - Mt Rainier National Park - ©2005 Ed Book


This image is an example of the dynamic range of the digital camera format and the Canon EOS (Electronic Operating System). Had this exposure been made using Velvia, Provia, or one of the Pro Ektachromes, the limited range the film could handle, from detail in shadows to detail in the highlights, would either show detail in the highlights or shadows but not both... and in fact, in this particular image, if the exposure was set for details in the highlights or shadows, the midtones would be featureless because of the vast range from bright to dark.

When I looked at the RAW image file, I could see that there was detail through the full range of exposure values and adjusted white and black points so Photoshop could further adjust effectively. In Photoshop, the first thing I did was adjust shadows and highlights and then I could do levels adjustments to fine tune how I wanted the image to appear... Had this been film, I would have probably allowed the shadows go black and concetrate on the highlights not going featureless white... (the eye expects to see featureless black without stress but featureless white is usually associated with squinting and it's associated stress... but here, there is detail in both and hopefully unstressing... except that the image is a bit busy for my taste... but that is a personal taste... [in a large print the busy detail would be appreciated––because there would be places for the eye to explore that can't be seen in a small jpg.])

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Skokomish River from High Steel Bridge, Olympic National Forest, WA  ©2005 Ed Book   http://edbookphoto.com
Skokomish River - Olympic Mountains, WA


another from the high steel bridge across the Skokomish.

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skokomish river south fork, Olympic National Forest, WA ©2005 Ed Book   http://edbookphoto.com
Skokomish River north fork - Olympic National Forest, WA


Sunday, I was up the Skok with my Daughter, Lisa, and my three Grandkids, Cody, Parker, and Jaden, and my Son, Seth and his girlfriend, Victoria. We built a campfire and cooked hot dogs (mine veggie, theirs chicken) hiked in the rain and visited the high steel bridge across the river. This image is from the bridge in the rain. After a five week visit here in WA, Lisa and the kids are flying back to North Carolina where they moved last summer. Keith, Lisa's husband, had to stay in NC as he is teaching this summer.

Camera: Canon EOS D1s MkII, 28-135mm lens at 33mm with polarizer, ISO 100, 2.5 sec at f/20 tripod mounted with remote shutter trip, conditions light rain and fog moving through the trees above the canyon.

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mesa arch, canyonlands national park, UT (C)2004 Ed Book edbookphoto.com
Mesa Arch, Canyonlands National Park, Utah


I made this image and then the batteries expired and my fingers went numb... because the sign at the trailhead said it was a 1/2 mile loop trail and I thought I'd walked almost a 1/2 mile, I figured that it would be shorter to go back to the van via the other route although there were no footsteps to follow through the snow... wrong... I lost the trail after a few hundred yards and it was now dark... but I prevailed and made it back to my warm van and drove on in the darkness toward I-70 and west till Green River... I bought gas and breakfast (it was my first meal of the day and I hadn't eaten the day before so breakfast sounded good even though it was late late late...) then I drove on to just before the San Rafael Reef where I stopped for the night at a rest stop on the interstate.

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the camera battery wasn't dead yet and I could still feel my fingers... and my hat was keeping me warm...

so I laid down on the rock swept free of snow at the edge of the canyon by the wind... and aimed the camera, pushed against the rock, in the general direction of the arch...

view through mesa arch, canyonlands national park, Utah (C)2004 Ed Book edbookphoto.com
canyon of the Colorado through Mesa Arch, Canyonlands NP, UT


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I tried to make a photo of the arch with the view through it but hand holding the camera at 4 seconds didn't work especially with me still panting and wheezing from my quick trip through the snow slipping and sliding all the way.

I made this image by putting the camera on a rock and hoped it could gather enough light in it's 4 second exposure at ASA 400. I had to lighten it a lot in Photoshop with a levels adjustment layer and shadow adjustment.

canyonlands view through mesa arch, Utah (C)2004 Ed Book edbookphoto.com


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but! I had a digital camera! with light amplification... at least I could get something... a snapshot or few... as long as I had a tripod for the four second exposure it could extend to. I just wanted to document that I was there and do a little scouting for next time... after all I wasn't even supposed to be there...

I arrived at the pull-out for the trail to Mesa Arch... you'd recognize it as the long arch that good photographers record at sunrise when the sun hits the red cliffs below and reflects wonderful warm light up under the arch where you'd expect shadows. Well, I was there after sunset and couldn't delay any longer on my detour from my detour on my way home. The past few mornings had clouds in the east to block the morning light and the next day would probably be the same (at least I rationalized that).

The temperature was 14 degrees and dropping quickly because it was already half way through civil twilight after the sunset... The sign said Mesa Arch 1/2 mile loop trail... I grabbed the digital camera (forgot the tripod) forgot my jacket, and ran through the 6" deep snow till I ran out of breath (old out of shape me at altitude---geeze how am I going to xc ski this winter?) I continued on generating warmth from my hurry till there it was just as I didn't picture it in my mind. oh no, no tripod... I held the camera against a log and tripped the shutter... after a lot of photoshop work, here is an image of it.

mesa arch, canyonlands national park, Utah (C)2004 Ed Book edbookphoto.com
Mesa Arch, Canyonlands National Park, Utah


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blue earthshadow with alpenglo above

canyonlands earthshadow and alpenglo Utah (C)2004 Ed Book edbookphoto.com


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alpenglo Canyonlands National Park, Utah (C)2004 Ed Book edbookphoto.com


alpenglo painting the landscape and I wasn't at Canyonlands NP yet.

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gooseneck bend in the Colorado River from Dead Horse Point, Utah (C)2004 Ed Book edbookphoto.com
Gooseneck Bend of the Colorado River from Dead Horse Point, Utah


maybe [info]agasfer will comment and share a bit about that road way down there and hopefully some photos.

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'after my full day at Arches National Park in SE Utah (not nearly enough time to get more than a "I gotta come back here" taste of the place) I continued on my way home... [remember from an earlier post that the only reason I stopped at Arches was to avoid driving I-70 in the snow at night and ended up sleeping near Moab and spending the whole day at Arches.]

Well, after my full day out in the cold, I traveled about a half mile out of the park and decided to stop for the night... Instead of parking at the same wide spot beside the road that I had the night before, I turned onto the road that goes to Canyonlands National Park and stopped at one of the turnouts near the beginning of the road.

In the morning, I got up and walked around and climbed around the big rocks that had fallen from the bluffs towering along the edges of the broad canyon. I found some volunteers that wanted to go home with me to play in the water of the pond/waterfall I've been building for the past three or has it been four years... I needed the ballast for the trailer if it's electric brakes were to do other than lose traction and skid should I touch the brake petal on snow or ice...

I had to undo the plywood sheet that I was using for the back door of the trailer (the plywood sheet screwed to the sides eliminated flex in the trailer)

--a word or few about the trailer... It started out as a tandem wheeled (four wheels) travel trailer in 1965 so says it's axle certificate and after a long life making some family happy on vacation was gutted to the metal frame. More framing was added and it was used for a while as an auto hauler (it's about 14ft x 7-1/2ft) and then sides were added to it to make it an open topped cargo trailer... then, the sides were raised and a roof was added with a rear door that also doubled as a ramp.

I bought it a few years ago to haul my llamas to the mountains in. Then, it sat in my pasture for a few years being used only as a shed to store llama stuff...

When my daughter's family moved from Washington to North Carolina, I volunteered to haul their household goods east for them. I had to have the electric brakes redone, as well as bearings and lights and new tires. I found that the wheel-wells would have to be made a bit deeper because it looked like the wheels had scraped somewhere in it's life.

My son, Seth and I worked on replacing rotting wood and then decided that the whole roof and about a foot of the sides needed to be replaced... too big a job for the time available before the leaves would change in the east... We ripped all the rotten wood off and the rear door/ramp. It became an open trailer again and we covered it with a huge tarp after loading the furniture and used a screwed on plywood sheet as a door on the back.

... I had my rechargeable power screwdriver with me for the purpose of removing and reinstalling that plywood sheet. Some nice rocks climbed aboard with the aid of a hand truck that was conveniently also riding in the trailer.

I made some photographs both film and digital in that area when the sun came up and then proceeded on my way... opps not on my way home but since I was so near Canyonlands National Park, I just had to go scout it for a future trip there. I wasn't feeling too well after spending all day in the cold the day before and a few hours in the morning so I climbed into my bed and recharged for a few hours. (actually most of the daylight hours)...

then, on toward Canyonlands with a stop or dozen along the way to walk about and make some photos. I detoured to Dead Horse Point state park for some images and didn't photograph seriously because of the haze that had built up during the day... scouting was good though and I made some images for my LJ friends. this is one of the Colorado River Canyon.

canyon carved by the Colorado River from Dead Horse Point state park, Utah (C)2004 Ed Book edbookphoto.com
canyon of the Colorado River from Dead Horse Point, Utah


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cactus with an attitude, Arches National Park, Utah (C)2004 Ed Book edbookphoto.com
Arches National Park, Utah


yes, it did bite me... when I tried to allow a macro lens get too personal with it.

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tower in Winter Camp Wash, Arches, National Park, Utah (C)2004 Ed Book edbookphoto.com
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Winter Camp Wash - Arches National Park,Utah (C)2004 Ed Book edbookphoto.com
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rock terraces, Arches National Park, Utah (C)2004 Ed Book edbookphotol.com
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desert varnish on red rock and Utah Juniper in Winter Camp Wash, Arches National Park, Utah (C)2004 Ed Book edbookphoto.com
Arches National Park, Utah


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winter camp wash, Arches National Park, Utah (C)2004 Ed Book edbookphoto.com
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winter camp wash, Arches National Park, Utah (C)2004 Ed Book
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delicate arch Arches National Park, Utah (C)2004 Ed Book edbookphoto.com
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what were they? I don't know but I would guess mountain sheep. They don't look like any other track I know... anyone know for sure? this is a little smaller than life size.

animal tracks in Arches National Park (C)2004 Ed Book
Arches National Park, Utah


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if you guess that I'd been drinking... wrong... I just had my fingers on the wrong home keys and wasn't looking at the monitor... looked good, so I thought I'd keep it... and now I don't know what I had been typing at the time... here's another of the sandstone showing how the "neurons" as I see them look up close... (I think they're really called dikes) everything in this image was fixed to the rock... even the loose-looking grains were part of the rock... with the main sandstone eroded away around them.

sandstone detail in Arches National Park (C)2004 Ed Book
Arches National Park, Utah


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sandstone detail at Arches National Park, Utah (C)2004 Ed Book edbookphoto.com
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I should mention that the reason the photos I've been posting have been such poor quality as far as sharpness is concerned is because they were made as an aside from my film imaging... and the Pentax Optio S40 4MP camera isn't nearly sophisticated as most of the cameras available out there... I took it along on the trip for snapshots and to make notes for my film images. In this image, the depth of field was poor so I had to choose between close or distant sharpness. Close won. The images I made here with my film camera should be much better because I used an 18-35mm lens at 18mm and had a depth of field from about 8 inches to infinity and used a circular polarizer for better color saturation and haze reduction in the distance.

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sandstone closeup Arches National Park, Utah (C)2004 Ed Book edbookphoto.com


the rock was sandstone which, in the harsh southeastern Utah environment errodes quickly from wind and temperature fluctuations and freeze/thaw cycles... In this view, you can see that the blotchy rock is covered with lichens which further erode the surface. The long tendrils or 'neurons' as they appeared to me, stand up from the rock surface and look like so many strands of string tying down the rock. They appeared to be a quartzlike material that must have been formed and hardened in cracks in the rock or formed as growing crystals... (I only had one geology course in college and so long ago that the only thing i remember about it was the lab classroom and the sweetie that sat across from me.) These tendrils must be a harder material and didn't erode as quickly as the rest of the stone... (IMO)

It was all incredibly surreal to me.

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