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Halietus luecocephalus
Bald Eagle along the Hood Canal, Puget Sound, WA, USA ©2008 Ed Book (all rights reserved - DO NOT COPY)   http://edbookphoto.com
an almost mature Bald Eagle
at Big Beef Creek on the Hood Canal
Puget Sound, Washington

©2008 Ed Book

Help, my lens is too long and the bird is too close.

I didn't have time to take the 1.4X teleconverter off the 500mm lens for this guy. Although this bird looks like a mature, it was still replacing it's immature and ragged feathers. An adult bald eagle wouldn't have approached as close as this guy did, demonstrating a foolish carelessness that may entail a steep cost if it doesn't become much more wary of largest adversary, man.

Canon D1s Mk II with 500mm f/4 'L' Image Stabilized lens and Canon 1.4X teleconverter, ISO 400, 1000sec exposure @ f/6.3 (image cropped to about 1/3 full frame

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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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Lake Crescent and Mount Storm King - Olympic National Park
Lake Crescent and Storm King Mountain - Olympic National Park, WA, USA ©2007 Ed Book (all rights reserved - DO NOT COPY)   http://edbookphoto.com

©2007 Ed Book

I 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).

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Last Chance Range
Last Chance Range from Eureka Valley in a remote part of Death Valley National Park, CA ©2005 Ed Book (all rights reserved - DO NOT COPY)   http://edbookphoto.com

©2005 Ed Book

Last Chance Range from the Eureka Valley in a remote locale of Death Valley National Park, in California


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Bailey Range and Mount Olympus from Hurricane Ridge
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Along the Puyallup Ridge Trail looking toward the lookout
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Mount St Helens from Indian Heaven Wilderness
mount st helens from indian heaven wilderness gifford pinchot national forest cascade range, WA  ©2006 Ed Book (all rights reserved - DO NOT COPY)   http://edbookphoto.com

©2006 Ed Book


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Mount Adams from near Trout Lake
mount adams volcano with a lenticular cloud - Cascade Range, WA  ©2006 Ed Book (all rights reserved - DO NOT COPY)   http://edbookphoto.com

©2006 Ed Book


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Blue Mountain warm evening light
one of the reasons I like to visit Blue Mountain in the northeast corner of Olympic National Park is that the cloulds are always swirling over the ridges and no matter what the weather is like during most of the day, there will be clouds forming along the ridges or if cloudy will open up at about sunset and then the cloud alpenglo show starts.

I wonder if anyone noticed where I used this image in an earlier post. (as part of another image)


9306120906 Blue Mountain evening alpenglo in the clouds Olympic National Park, WA (c) 1993 Ed Book




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