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Evening light paints moss covered Bigleaf Maples with a warm glow in the Duckabush River temperate rain forest in the Olympic National Forest, Washington, USA  ©2008 Ed Book (all rights reserved - DO NOT COPY)   http://archive.edbookphoto.com
alpenglo in the Duckabush River valley rain forest - Olympic National Forest, WA USA

 

Big Leaf Maple, Vine Maple, Stinging Nettles, moss
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Moss covered Big Leaf Maple and Vine Maple understory are bathed in evening golden alpenglow. Duckabush River, Olympic National Forest, WA, USA ©2009 Ed Book (all rights reserved - DO NOT COPY)   http://archive.edbookphoto.com
alpenglo in the Duckabush rain forest

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A trail passes through a forest canapy on the Kitsap Peninsula in Puget Sound, WA, USA ©2009 Ed Book (all rights reserved - DO NOT COPY)
late evening passage - Kitsap Peninsula, Puget Sound, Washington, USA

©2009 Ed Book

'went for a walk in the forest this afternoon,
made photographs
got dark
no light
got lost
surprised by getting lost

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Bobcat tracks in the snow along a Mount Tahoma Trails cross country ski trail, Washington, USA ©2009 Ed Book (all rights reserved - DO NOT COPY)   http://archive.edbookphoto.com
Bobcat tracks along the trail

©2009 Ed Book

I see Bobcat tracks along the trail often but have only seen an actual cat a couple times and it was in the summer. Their main food is the Snowshoe Hare which I noticed this winter being rare probably because of the extremely deep snows of last year and the resulting dip in population of bunnies and kitties... Also, I've noticed a dip in the frequency of Cougar tracks too this winter. The cats are probably hungry about now and I don't move too quickly--hmmmm, don't tell the kitties.

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...and then, there are the drifts
Fir trees on snow ridge at dusk with forest on the next ridge, Mount Tahoma Trails, Ashford, Washington, USA Washington, USA ©2008 Ed Book (all rights reserved - DO NOT COPY)   http://archive.edbookphoto.com
wall of snow




Winter skyline of the Gifford Pinchot National Forest from the Mount Tahoma Trails High Hut, Washington, USA ©2006 Ed Book (all rights reserved - DO NOT COPY)   http://archive.edbookphoto.com
The Gifford Pinchot NF from High Hut

©2008 Ed Book


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ps we saw the first hummingbird of the season today

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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

©2008 Ed Book

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Aspen grove Glenwood, Washington, USA ©2008 Ed Book (all rights reserved - DO NOT COPY)   http://edbookphoto.com
Aspen - Klickitat County, Washington

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A trail courses through an old growth forest along the Ohanapecosh River in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest, Washington, USA ©2008 Ed Book (all rights reserved - DO NOT COPY)   http://edbookphoto.com
Ohanapecosh River Valley just outside Mount Rainier National Park, Washington

©2008 Ed Book

I prefer to camp in this forest when I'm in the area although there are many campgrounds near.

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Mount Rainier reflection in the water and ice of Reflection Lake, Mount Rainier National Park, Washington, USA ©2008 Ed Book (all rights reserved - DO NOT COPY)   http://edbookphoto.com
Mount Rainier in Reflection Lake early ice

©2008 Ed Book

winter isn't just lurking 'round the corner...

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Hybrid Poplar grove, (Populus) Cottonwood, Boardman, Oregon, USA ©2008 Ed Book (all rights reserved - DO NOT COPY)   http://edbookphoto.com
Cottonwood grove - Boardman, Oregon

©2008 Ed Book

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Hybrid Poplar grove, (Populus) Cottonwood, Boardman, Oregon, USA ©2008 Ed Book (all rights reserved - DO NOT COPY)   http://edbookphoto.com
Cottonwood Grove dream

©2008 Ed Book

I should mention that the effect here was not generated in Photoshop but instead in the camera during the exposure... it's called 'moving the camera'.

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Hybrid Poplar grove, (Populus) Cottonwood, Boardman, Oregon, USA ©2008 Ed Book (all rights reserved - DO NOT COPY)   http://edbookphoto.com
Hybrid Poplar grove, Boardman, Oregon

©2008 Ed Book

If you travel east on I-84 through eastern Oregon, you'll see this grove. Get off the exit and go walk in the grove, It's quite surreal, all the trees the same size and in lines... I've been by here a few times but this was the first time I stopped to make photographs. I plan to return again in different seasons and when I can spend more time.

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boulders and alutumn grasses,Chinook Pass, Mount Rainier National Park, Washington, USA ©2006 Ed Book (all rights reserved - DO NOT COPY)   http://edbookphoto.com
Naches Peak trail - Chinook Pass - Mount Rainier National Park, Washington

©2006 Ed Book

This image caught my eye while working on my LightRoom data base and asked me to post it–so here...


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small waterfall mists mosses and maidenhair ferns near Walker Pass in the Olympic National Forest, WA, USA ©2008 Ed Book (all rights reserved - DO NOT COPY)   http://edbookphoto.com
tumbling water near Walker Pass - Olympic National Forest - Washington

©2008 Ed Book

Before my Daughter and my Grandkids flew back to the east coast, I spent a few days camping with them and my Son, Seth and my new Daughter-in-law Victoria. On the way home, I visited an old friend, this waterfall along the Rocky Brook road that climbs from Walker Pass on US 101 in the Olympic National Forest.

This is one of those places that I keep returning to hoping that the air will be still so I can photograph non-blury Maidenhair Ferns with a long enough exposure to render the water silky. This was the first time the air was still... happy me

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mature conifer forest in the Tahoma State Forest, Cascade Mountain Range, Washington, USA ©2007 Ed Book (all rights reserved - DO NOT COPY)   http://edbookphoto.com
mature forest - Tahoma State Forest - Cascade Mountain Range - Washington

©2007 Ed Book

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sand dune ripples, Eureka Sand Dunes, Eureka Valley, Death Valley National Park, California ©2006 Ed Book (all rights reserved - DO NOT COPY)   http://edbookphoto.com

Eureka Dunes, Death Valley National Park, California

©2005 Ed Book

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Eureka Sand Dune in the remote Eureka Valley of Death Valley National Park, CA, USA ©2005 Ed Book (all rights reserved - DO NOT COPY)   http://edbookphoto.com

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Eureka Dunes at the south end of the remote Eureka Valley of Death Valley National Park, California



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Olympic Mountain stream  ©2007 Ed Book (all rights reserved - DO NOT COPY)   http://edbookphoto.com

©2007 Ed Book

'a photo from a couple weeks ago on the Olympic Peninsula when I was feeling human...

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Red Alder Colonnade on Gold Mountain, Green Mountain State Forest, Kitsap Peninsula, Puget Sound lowland forest, WA  ©2007 Ed Book (all rights reserved - DO NOT COPY)   http://edbookphoto.com


'takin' a break from a project to look at some images I made yesterday while returning home from an appointment. I went for a short walk on Gold Mountain in the Green Mountain State Forest south of home about ten miles. It's January and the Red Alder is showing it's red phase of new growth with catkins soon. Alder is one of the first trees to return after clear cut logging. It grows quickly and is considered a garbage tree because it's brittle and has little strength. It fixates nitrogen in the soils and makes it acidic so the firs, cedars, and pine can start. It's overwhelmingly the most populous deciduous tree of the Puget Sound lowlands.

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Current Location: Nika Trail

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along the Rainier Vista Trail - Mount Tahoma Trails (MTTA) ©2006 Ed Book (all rights reserved - DO NOT COPY)   http://edbookphoto.com

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These trees carry a lot of snow and many bend down across the trail to be a hinderance to grooming... when knocking the snow off the branches spring up to dump snow and if you're not quick, instant snowman...

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ps to give a better idea of scale, the gap between those trees is the logging road which is the trail and about 12feet wide–those are big trees.

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Anderson Landing Preserve, Kitsap Peninsula, Hood Canal, Puget Sound, WA - wetlands  ©2006 Ed Book (all rights reserved - DO NOT COPY)   http://EdBookPhoto.com
Kitsap Peninsula, Puget Sound, WA                                          ©2006 Ed Book



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tumbling water along Gold Creek, Green Mountain State Forest, Kitsap Peninsula, WA  ©2006 Ed Book (all rights reserved - DO NOT COPY)   http://edbookphoto.com
Gold Creek, Green Mt St Forest, Kitsap Peninsula, WA                                  ©2005 Ed Book



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Paradise Rock Garden - Mount Rainier   ©2001 Ed Book (all rights reserved - DO NOT COPY)   http://edbookphoto.com
Skyline Trail - Mt Rainier NP                        ©2001 Ed Book


This was a poster I produced for the national park a few years ago and don't think I've posted the image here... so here it is. I made the image along the Skyline Trail near the Paradise River above Sluskin Falls. The flowers are Monkeyflowers and Mtn Aster. I had to return to this location four times before the flowers were blooming.

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rail fence in snow - Valley Creek - Stanley Basin - Sawtooth Mountains, Idaho  ©2005 Ed Book (all rights reserved)  DO NOT COPY   http://edbookphoto.com
rail fence in snow                                                                  ©2005 Ed Book


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meadow, bounded by willow and shade- McDaniel Lake, Bethel Ridge, Wenatchee National Forest, Cascade Mtn Range, WA  ©2005 Ed Book (all rights reserved)   http://edbookphoto.com
meadow bounded by willow and shade                                                     ©2005 Ed Book


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Queen Anne's Lace in morning fog, Cade's Cove, Great Smokey Mountain National Park, Tennessee  ©2004 Ed Book (all rights reserved)  http://edbookphoto.com
Cade's Cove Queen Anne's Lace in the fog                                               ©2004 Ed Book


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tree through fog -Cade's Cove, Smokey Mountains National Forest, Tennassee  ©2004 Ed Book (all rights reserved)   http://edbookphoto.com
foggy Cade's Cove, Tennessee                                                         ©2004 Ed Book


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fern and blueberry bush color after the oak show - Delaware State Forest, Pennsylvania  ©2004 Ed Book (all rights reserved)   http://edbookphoto.com
field of fern and blueberry after the oak show                                         ©2004 Ed Book


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Delaware State Forest, Pocono Mtns, Pennsylvania, autumn lane  ©2004 Ed Book (all rights reserved)   http://edbookphoto.com
Delaware State Forest, Pennsylvania                                                    ©2004 Ed Book


'something common to a lot of my images... (if you know my work, you'd pick it out immediately)

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I was driving down the west slope from Smuggler's Notch on Mt Mansfield and saw this scene coming up. I looked in my rear view mirror to see the road clear and pulled out my Pentax Optio S40 digital pocketable camera and made an exposure at wide angle. I cropped it to this image and posted it in my LJ at the Bad Girls internet cafe in Rochester, Vermont.
autumn forest in the Green Mountains of Vermont  ©2004 Ed Book (all rights reserved)   http://edbookphoto.com


I've been reviewing some images I made about that time and decided to rework this image because last year when I was on the road, I was using Cookie's iBook and didn't have the monitor calibrated and was optimizing images to post in the evenings in my van. Optimizing time and sleep time sometimes commingling...

This morning a revisit to this image resulted in a couple different croppings:

In this exposure, I considered the large dark treetrunk in the center to be the subject accompanied by side dancers adorned with autumn costumes so I placed the subject in the center. After looking at the image a while, I decided to crop a little differently because I decided to see the treetrunk not so centered... but, I like the proportions of the wider cropping... and now, I don't know... so there...

autumn forest in the Green Mountains of Vermont  ©2004 Ed Book (all rights reserved)   http://edbookphoto.com


autumn forest in the Green Mountains of Vermont  ©2004 Ed Book (all rights reserved)   http://edbookphoto.com


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Smuggler's Notch Green Mountains Vermont  ©2004 Ed Book (all rights reserved)   http://edbookphoto.com
Smugglers Notch fog - Green Mountains - Vermont                                        ©2004 Ed Book

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Green Mountains ferns in the forest  ©2004 Ed Book (all rights reserved)   http://edbookphoto.com
Green Mountains autumn ferns                                                            ©2004 Ed Book


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Vermont autumn forest  ©2004 Ed Book   http://edbookphoto.com
Vermont Forest from the dark                                                           ©2004 Ed Book


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