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')

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ps 'climbed it many years ago.

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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 Book

I 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.

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©2007 Ed Book
Casio EX-Z1000


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©2007 Ed Book


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©2007 Ed Book


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©2006 Ed Book


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Tatoosh Sunset                                                          ©2003 Ed Book

Nikon COOLPIX990 Focal Length: 17.2mm White Balance: Auto Digital Zoom Ratio: 1.00 2003/08/14 20:18:08 Exposure Mode: Programmed Auto AF Mode: AF-S Saturation comp: JPEG (8-bit) Basic Metering Mode: Multi-Pattern Tone Comp.: Auto Sharpening: Auto Image Size: 2048 x 1536 1/18.2 sec - f/3.4 Flash Sync Mode: Not Attached Noise Reduction: Color Exposure Comp.: 0 EV ConverterLens: None Sensitivity: Auto

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( Can you see what the problem is? )

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Current Mood: working

Olympics and the Jupiter Hills                                                       ©2006 Ed Book

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Current Music: Hello It's Me - Todd Rundgren

This past week, I attended an Eddie Soloway workshop on Whidbey Island. It was a good experience for me with an excellent and insightful instructor and sharing and talented fellow students. I highly recommend Eddie's book One Thousand Moons with photographs that I can best describe as inspiring. (you know I make good recommendations)

I returned home from Whidbey Island via the Keystone-Port Townsend ferry across Admiralty Inlet and then south on the Olympic Peninsula and across the Hood Canal floating bridge to my home here on the Kitsap Peninsula. Because of holiday traffic, I had to wait about three hours in the queue while three sailings whittled at the waiting line of cars, trucks, and motorhomes. I worked on my laptop, read, and dozed while I waited in the rain. This time of year, there is only one ferry on the run and I imagine that the weather caused it to fall a couple hours behind schedule in it's expected half hour crossing. I could have returned home from the other end of the state in the time it took to travel the sixty-some miles.

Here's a photo I made a couple days ago looking out across the Strait of Juan de Fuca toward the Pacific of the USS Stennis. I think it's home ported in Everett but it could have been in the shipyard in Bremerton about a dozen miles from here. (I try to avoid Bremerton and the shipyard in particular so probably wouldn't have noticed if it had been there.)
(many years ago, I served on one of these aircraft carriers as a nuclear reactor operator and crossed the Pacific a couple times as well as all over the South China Sea, Tonkin Gulf and Gulf of Cambodia.)

USS Stennis in the Strait of Juan de Fuca                                            ©2006 Ed Book

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Olympic Mountains from Nika Trail                                                  ©2006 Ed Book

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Duckabush Valley - Olympic Mountains, WA                                            ©2006 Ed Book

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( this sky )
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Olympic Mtns. Quilcene River drainage and Marmot Pass - ©2005 Ed Book

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Quick and dirty pan to document the current view from our deck...

( click here to see the 350k version  )

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Mt Constance first snow from our deck this evening

yurtmeister (who's in Ohio right now) asked if there was snow in the Olympics yet and just about sunset the clouds over the Hood Canal (fjord) cleared to show this view of Mt Constance... I'd say there is a little snow-looks like down to about 4000 ft.

'see the face?

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©2005 Ed Book all rights reserved

Earlier today, Mt St Helens was putting out a steam flume from the lava dome.

Mt Hood is lost in the haze to the left of Mt St Helens... I made this image a little while ago and now all light is lost in the sky save the glows from the cities: Seattle, Olympia, Vancouver, Portland, and Yakima...

and now, I leave this mountaintop to drive down to cross the Nisqually River and then up the valley to Mt Rainier NP and Paradise...


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ps 'wish Cookie was with me this trip

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©2005 Ed Book all rights reserved

I walked around the deck to see the last light of the sunset and placed the Pentax Optio S40 digital camera on the handrail, set the mode to "take as long as it takes" and tripped the shutter... moved my hands from the camera and waited a few seconds. Then, walked ten feet to download the image to my PowerBook and with a little optimizing, here it is... wanna see Mt St Helens? BRB

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©2005 Ed Book all rights reserved

I made this image about ten minutes ago here at High Hut just after sunset with the Pentax Optio S40 digital camera.

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Mount Tahoma Trails - Snow Bowl Hut

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The sun was slipping behind 11,000 ft Telegraph Peak when I was near Badwater in Death Valley and the wind was kicking up dust--Godrays resulted.

Camera: Canon EOS 1Ds MkII

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'after I groomed a bit farther, another view to the southwest opened and I managed to hold the camera against the Pisten Bully frame long enough to make an image. Then I groomed on in darkness...one of the headlights is burned out and I'm glad I was almost at my turn-around point. I couldn't groom up the last slope toward the lookout another mile because the snow wasn't deep enough to bury a chain blocking the access. Maybe after the snow fall, that's due tonight... 9-15 inches predicted... but we'll see what really happens...



G'nite

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'grooming along in the Pisten Bully, the horizon cleared just as the sun was dipping beyond the horizon... I came around a bend and there it was blinding me... I stopped and leaned out the window and recorded this scene... I managed to miss the fiery alpenglo on most of the foreground and if I had chosen to dismount from the groomer, I'd have missed this too. No time to get the film camera out and set up the tripod...

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the where is my van photo.... I walked up to the van and made this photo. looking west... look closely...

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when I left Nevada via Winnemucca headed north into Oregon the sun was dropping over the horizon painting alpenglo in the clouds...



I drove on a while in darkness and when the road started climbing into forest, I stopped for the night at a wide place beside the road where the snow had been plowed...

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blue earthshadow with alpenglo above



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

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Book Cliffs across the Colorado River Valley near Grand Junction, Colorado as viewed from Colorado National Monument

did I mention that that's the Colorado River in that valley?

nope? That's the Colorado River in the valley in the distance...

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photo made from a portion of an exposure from a Pentax Optio S40 4MP digital camera.

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I was crossing Chinook Pass in Mt Rainier National Park as the sun was about to set but was obscured by thick clouds. I stopped to wait to see if they would part like I've often seen just at sunset around the mountain. They did for a few seconds and the light was surreal--metallic-looking as if there was smoke from a distant fire painting the light on the clouds.

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( larger non-scrolling image here )

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This is the same location as the sunset one with the clouds I posted a few days ago. The early morning light was warm in the west and the fog melting from the lowlands. I watched the earthshadow shrink and the valleys fill with warm color. It is exaggerated here because I made this photograph just about the time before darkness and color is replaced by the yellows and full spectrum of sunshine after dawn. Velvia film with long exposures does this exaggeration for me. The waters below are of Alder Lake near Elbe, southwest of Mt Rainier.



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( above the clouds )

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A couple weeks ago I was at Mount Tahoma Trails Association for a workparty and was at Snow Bowl Hut for dinner. I went out to the van to get something from the cooler and found that the clouds that had been hanging around all evening had opened up enough for the mountain to come out and the sun was setting painting alpenglo. I set up the camera and recorded this image. The color is a bit shifted toward magenta from exposing Velvia at a long exposure. I find it interesting and confusing that the suggested filtration for Velvia for long exposures is to add a magenta filter.



The next morning, the mountain was out again and had a cloud located strategically covering a raw clearcut on the foreground ridge (sorta like a figleaf). The mountain had s fresh dusting of snow starting to cover the bare rock beside the Puyallup Glacier.



Nikon F4 camera with 35-135mm lens with polarizer and 81A warming filter so the shadows on the mountain wouldn't go too blue. Velvia film

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Well, I'm back from the mountains... I drove up to Washington Pass on the North Cascades Highway and arrived after dark. The harvest moon rose and painted lunarglo on the sheer faces of Early Winter Spires and Libertybell Mountain and I rose several times during the night to climb out of the van and walk around listening to the total silence and watch the moon. I slept in my clothes and even my shoes so I could get up easily for more moonlight. I rose at 5:30 to get ready for the morning alpenglo on the same surfaces now in moonshadow. I walked out to the overlook, a few hundred feet above the trees below?a vertigo rising experience looking down into the darkness. The morning glow held no color in the east hidden behind Silver Star Mountain and Kangaroo Ridge and then the light hit the tops of the Early Winters Spires and slipped down the smooth faces?the glow lighting the valley. I was ready with my camera set up to record the event. There was little color in the alpenglo but the experience is one I'll remember. I photographed a number of different compositions and found a pond at the base of the mountain to record the reflected rock and explored other locations in the area. Early in the afternoon, I drove down to Winthrop and stopped by the Boulder Creek Deli to see an old friend, Ken (who left the shipyard before I did to cross the mountains to the boonies with his family to find happiness and I'd say he did find it.) Before dark, I returned to Washington Pass to wait for sunset and the alpenglo that I had traveled there for. I was in luck?the sky to the west was clear and the setting sun's warm light blushed the craggy face of Silver Star Mountain with the shoulder of Kangaroo Ridge in shadow. The moon wasn't to rise for another hour but I added it to this digital image I made to show what I had hoped for when I got the idea many years ago of going there for the event of alpenglo and moonrise. Digital manipulation was something not even dreamed of back then. Maybe someday I'll return to this spot and find this image real and not manufactured as I have done in this version. The mountains and alpenglo are real and I darkened the sky and added the moon from an image I made last spring. The image is digital as my 35mm film was shipped for processing today. I wanted to share the experience so took the digital camera.





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sunset on Mount Rainier or Tahoma from the southwest
The mountain is really bare right now from only dusting of snow a couple times this summer. The large glacier is Tahoma Glacier and Paradise is at the far right where the frame meets the mountain and sky. Paradise is at about 5400 ft and the mountain is 14,410 feet.
Camera: Nikon F4, Lens: 35-135mm, Polarizer, Velvia film, exposure info unrecorded

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I made this image a few weeks ago at the Mt Tahoma Trails Association work party. It's sunset over the Cascade Range foothills and Alder Lake in the foreground. Camera: Nikon F4, Lens: 35-135 zoom, polarizer, Velvia film, exposure unrecorded

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