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 Sleeping Lady Mountain as seen from Leavenworth, Washington
Notice that the forest has burned. It was a big fire a few years ago that burned a beautiful forest including an area where I often visited to photograph lupine and Balsamroot flowers among the Ponderosa Pine. During the Reagan Administration, a lot of prime National Forest land was sold into private ownership including the banks of the wildly beautiful wild and scenic Icicle River before it could be designated and protected as a National Wild and Scenic River. Cabins were built among the giantic boulders along the shore and bridges to cabins on the other side of the river, and signs that said NO TRESSPASSING populated the once beautiful drive. When the forest burned, all the cabins went away to be replaced by bigger cabins and now fences were added with NO TRESSPASSING signs. Peace Tags: -print available-, blue, clouds, landscape, mountains, sky, wa
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...and then, there are the drifts 
wall of snow
The Gifford Pinchot NF from High Hut©2008 Ed BookPeace ps we saw the first hummingbird of the season today Tags: -print available-, intimate landscape, landscape, mount tahoma trails, mountains, panorama, snow, trees, wa, white, winter
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near the Puyallup Ridge Trail, Mount Tahoma Trails, Cascade Range, Washington, USA©2008 Ed BookIt gets to be a bit of a challenge when you have to be your own model. (the loneliness most) Peace Tags: -print available-, landscape, mount tahoma trails, mountains, panorama, snow, wa, white, winter
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along the Puyallup Ridge ski trail - Mount Tahoma Trails, Washington, USA©2008 Ed BookPeace Tags: -print available-, clouds, forest, landscape, mount tahoma trails, mountains, panorama, sky, snow, trail, wa, waterflow, white, winter
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Tatoosh peaks beyond Mazama Ridge - snowstorm©2008 Ed BookPeace Tags: -print available-, forest, high key, landscape, mount rainier, mountains, snow, trees, wa, white, winter
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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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working on something different a little while ' call it refreshing the palette. I've been optimizing and printing images for my 'featured artist' show next month at the Silverdale Fine Arts gallery ... all new prints and in one theme... I'm quite busy getting everything ready... more about it soon. 
Hood Canal and the Olympic Mountains, Washington©2006 Ed BookI made this image about a mile from our home on Nika Trail a couple years ago and just picked it at random to optimize before checking back into my project. (no, the theme of the collection of images isn't landscape) I'll bet some who keep up with what I post could guess... a subject that's gotten good reviews herebouts on LJ. Peace Tags: -print available-, kitsap peninsula, landscape, mountains, olympic mountains, puget sound, sky, sunset, wa, waterflow
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White Pass, Wenatchee National Forest, Cascade Range, Washington©2006 Ed Booksome like it vertical Peace Tags: -print available-, forest, landscape, mountains, snow, trees, wa, white, winter
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About a week ago, Gene, and Phil, fellow ski patrollers and I skied out to this ridge to scout a hopefully proposed location for a new temporary Mount Tahoma Trails hut about two miles beyond the Copper Creek Hut. The view included Mount Rainier above the Glacier View Wilderness and Mount Beljica, the Goat Rocks, Sawtooth Ridge, Mount Adams, Griffin Mountain, Mt St Helens, Mount Storm King, Puget Sound, and the Olympic Mountain Range. What a day! What a view!
(the image also has three sets of cougar tracks that course along the ridge).
Mount Tahoma Trails - Ski Trooper Ridge - 360º panorama©2008 Ed BookWe are calling the ridge Ski Trooper Ridge to honor the Army's 10th Mountain Division who got their start early in the 1940's on Mount Rainier. The location is on privately owned timber company land and so any hut we would erect would have to be stationed in place temporarily being moved after the snow season. We've been thinking of designing some sort of arrangement of ocean shipping containers mounted on trailers. This hut would be crude compared to our (Mount Tahoma Trails Association) other huts which are actually (3) two story cabins and a two story yurt located along our 50+ miles of cross country ski trails.
( Here's a larger version of this photo (~600K) )Peace Tags: forest, landscape, mount rainier, mount tahoma trails, mountains, olympic mountains, olympic mtns, panorama, photohoop, snow, wa, winter
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Mount Tahoma Trails north district near the Morge Lakes Cirque©2008 Ed BookI've seen lots of cat tracks in the snow this year but they were mostly made by Bobcats. I didn't see any cats though. These tracks were much bigger and there were three sets. I suspect siblings or mother and offspring who were still with her. I have seen Bobcats and fox and martins and rabbits and hares on the trail system and elk, deer, and bear in the summer up there but have yet to see a cougar in the mountains. I'm certain that they have seen me and have seen their tracks on my own. I often ski in remote areas alone and sometimes at night but do so much less lately because I'm paranoid of the big cats. Last week, I was skiing down one of the trails and saw where two sets of cougar tracks entered the trail and were ahead of me going the same direction. It was snowing and they were fresh enough to not have snow in them. I made lots of excuses to myself for stopping, a snack, then a drink, then some photos, and then another drink, and and and till I realized that it would be dark soon and I had a couple more miles to go. I didn't enjoy that ski so had to repeat it again the next day early when I wasn't afraid. (I'm afraid of the dark and of big animals that would like to eat me and can usually handle one fear at a time but when they gang up, they become symbiotic and I chicken out.) I even practiced swinging my ski poles around to be ready for a confrontation. Peace Tags: -print available-, forest, landscape, mount tahoma trails, mountains, snow, wa, winter
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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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 ©2005 Ed BookPeace Tags: -print available-, blue, clouds, landscape, mountains, olympic mountains, panorama, snow, wa, white, winter
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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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 ©2007 Ed Book a couple weeks ago while I was out on Puyallup Ridge after sunset, I set up my Canon EOS 1Ds MkII camera on a tripod and framed in on Mt Rainier and the sky. For this composition, I made about forty thirty-second exposures using a remote release cord so as not to move the camera. In Photoshop, I imported all the individual exposures into one file in register and changed the blend mode of all layers except the bottom to 'lighten'. Peace Tags: -print available-, landscape, mount rainier, mount tahoma trails, mountains, nature events, night, pattern, sky, snow, surreal, wa, winter
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