red alder along the road to Paradise
©2008 Ed Book

G9

Peace

Tags: -print available-, forest, mount rainier, mountains, snow, tree, wa, white, winter

warning danger
©2008 Ed Book

G9

Peace

Tags: -print available-, highway, mount rainier, sign, wa, white, winter

Tatoosh peaks beyond Mazama Ridge - snowstorm
©2008 Ed Book

Peace

Tags: -print available-, forest, high key, landscape, mount rainier, mountains, snow, trees, wa, white, winter

Last week while I was in Mount Rainier National Park, I stopped on the Nisqually River bridge that crosses a short distance below the Nisqually Glacier to make some photographs. A tour bus crossed the bridge and parked to unload it's riders so they could make some photos from the bridge. I watched and then got involved myself...




They didn't speak English and I don't speak Japanese but I gave them some business cards and I hope they contact me so I can ask them to sign model releases so I can use the images.

Peace

Tags: highway, mount rainier, people pics, wa

Paradise with twenty feet of snow - Mount Rainier National Park
©2008 Ed Book

last week on big snowshoes

Peace

Tags: -print available-, high key, landscape, mount rainier, mountains, snow, wa, waterflow, white, winter

This month, as featured artist at the Silverdale Fine Arts gallery, I decided to go in a little different direction from my usual printing. I chose to print and frame all macro images. They are archival giclee printed on mouldmade cotton watercolor paper. It was a lot of work printing, matting, and framing forty-some images but I was pleased with my results and here they are as displayed this month.

The artist's reception was Friday and I think a good time was had by all visitors and refreshments were great. As I had gallery duty on Saturday, the reception was extended to all day Saturday too. Thank you to all who attended to show your support of my work.







( a couple more images here )



Peace

Tags: -print available-, about me, macro, silverdale fine arts gallery, wa

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

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.

Peace

Tags: -print available-, kitsap peninsula, landscape, mountains, olympic mountains, puget sound, sky, sunset, wa, waterflow

White Pass, Wenatchee National Forest, Cascade Range, Washington
©2006 Ed Book


some like it vertical

Peace

Tags: -print available-, forest, landscape, mountains, snow, trees, wa, white, winter

White Pass - Wenatchee National Forest - Cascade Range, Washington
©2006 Ed Book

Peace

Tags: -print available-, forest, landscape, mountains, snow, trees, wa, white, winter

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 Book

We 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

Mount Tahoma Trails north district near the Morge Lakes Cirque
©2008 Ed Book

I'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

freshwater from Big Beef Creek freezing in Hood Canal tidewater
©2007 Ed Book

Peace

Tags: forest, high key, kitsap peninsula, landscape, puget sound, river, snow, trees, wa, white, winter