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wish I could come up with something witty to say about these cows... I made the image on the last day of my autumn tour and just after I was turned around from trying to cross the Gifford Pinchot National Forest in the southern Washington Cascade Range... snow, turned me around, or rather the snowplow I was following that turned around influenced my decision. So, I had to return south to the Columbia River to get to I-5 and homeward... I met these cows near the river where it had just begun to snow and the cows were wandering as they do... even when they ran, their tracks wandered all over... and that says something... In my experience, domestic animals wander but wild animals take a direct route... follow a pet dog's tracks and you're find that there seems to be no reason to the trail... just this way and that and some more that and return to a former location and then this way and that again... but a coyote or wolf track is unmistakable (beside size) in that they move across the land with purpose, no loitering here or there to visit this post or that mailbox to read the latest peemail... so, how do I know these were domestic vice wild cows? they wandered... plus, I don't think I've ever seen a wild cow. (bovine that is) Tags: animals, snow, wa, white
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Snow Geese (Chen caerulescens)
wintering at Fir Island on the Skagit River delta, Washington, USA.©2009 Ed Book Canon 1Ds MkII 500mm L IS lens with 2X teleconverter ISO 1000 1/320 sec @ f/16 Peace Tags: -print available-, animals, bird, nature events, pattern, puget sound, sky, surreal, wa, white
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Snow Geese (Chen caerulescens) wintering at the Skagit River delta, Washington, USA©2009 Ed BookCanon 1Ds MkII - 500mm L IS lens with 2X teleconverter - ISO 1000 - 1/200 sec @ f/16 Peace Tags: -print available-, animals, bird, nature events, pattern, puget sound, sky, surreal, wa, white
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Mount Tahoma Trails Association Pisten Bully 70 cross country ski trail grooming machine©2009 Ed BookHere's Jay getting ready to start grooming again with our ancient Pisten Bully gromming machine after a short break at Copper Creek hut for some tea. I was driving one of the Skidoo snowmobiles pulling a groomer because Jay had become proficient enough to groom without me along... and the old groomer passenger seat is sized like the passenger seat on some Harley's and the ancient machine seems to ride as rough and loud as a Harley of the same age. The skidoos are four stroke 1000cc and smoooth... Then, I parked the machine and skiied up the trail and back down... on my nicely groomed trail. We should have skiable snow until July so if you're at all inclined to get out in it, let me know and when I next go up there maybe I can have some company on the trail. Peace Tags: -print available-, clouds, mount tahoma trails, mtta, people pics, snow, wa, white, winter
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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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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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freshwater from Big Beef Creek freezing in Hood Canal tidewater©2007 Ed BookPeace Tags: forest, high key, kitsap peninsula, landscape, puget sound, river, snow, trees, wa, white, winter
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Big Beef Creek at the Hood Canal tidewater©2007 Ed Bookfresh snow at sealevel Peace Tags: forest, high key, kitsap peninsula, landscape, puget sound, river, snow, trees, wa, white, winter
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Mz Quilcene llama at Nika Trail©2007 Ed Bookllama wool = excellent insulation Quilcene was on a mission in this image. She walked all over the pasture looking for something. It wasn't food as I give them more bale alfalfa and llama vigor (a suppliment which they consider candy) Corn/Oats/Barley (for energy and to add fat in winter). If you know llamas you will probably know what she's intent on finding. What is it? another poll... Poll #1112676 What was Quilcene looking for in the pasture?
Open to: Friends, detailed results viewable to: Friends, participants: 41 New Text Question (the answer can be seen after you answer)Peace Tags: animals, llamas, nika trail, snow, wa, white
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Kitsap Peninsula - Puget Sound lowlands (bog along Sesame St up the road from Nika Trail©2007 Ed BookContrary to some opinions that I may have generated with my last post of some peaks in the Olympic Mountains from our home here on Nika Trail... Although we have views of the mountains like that view, we're not in the mountains but in the Puget Sound lowlands and our home is at about 350 ft above sea level. The Olympic mountains rise to about 5700' along the Hood Canal (fjord) that separates our Kitsap Peninsula from the Olympic Peninsula and the peaks are about 20 miles away. Peace Tags: -print available-, forest, kitsap peninsula, landscape, nika trail, puget sound, snow, trees, wa, white, winter
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Eureka Dunes, Death Valley National Park, California©2005 Ed BookPeace Tags: -print available-, blue, california, death valley, desert, intimate landscape, landscape, pattern, sand dunes, surreal, white
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 ©2005 Ed BookPeace Tags: -print available-, abstract, b/w, california, death valley, desert, intimate landscape, nature events, pattern, surreal, white
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 ©2005 Ed BookEureka Dunes at the south end of the remote Eureka Valley of Death Valley National Park, California
Peace Tags: -print available-, blue, california, death valley, desert, intimate landscape, landscape, sand dunes, sky, surreal, white
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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 BookPeace Tags: -print available-, flower, flowers, garden, green, nika trail, pink, plant, spring, wa, white
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 ©2007 Ed BookI made a few exposures with the 180mm macro lens but couldn't get far enough away enough for the composition I wanted unless I went to get a ladder so switched to the 24-105 macro zoom and added a D500 auxiliary compound closeup lens. The distance from the petals and flower internals was too great for them both to be in focus even with the aperture stopped all the way down so I made multiple exposures with different focus distances. The images were downloaded to my computer and imported directly into Photoshop Lightroom where they were initally adjusted the images narrowed to the two I would use and exported into Photoshop CS3. In Photoshop, I tried the improved Photomerge feature of CS3 to bring both images into one file and align them but found that it also did an automatic blend and I didn't like what parts were used from each image. So, I did it the old way– I put both images in different layers into one file and then lowering opacity of the top layer, I lined up one point common to both layers. Then I chose the Transform command with 'rotate' and lined the center point to swing on at the common point of both images. I then rotated the top image till both lined up where I wanted them. Then I returned the opacity of the upper layer to 100%. The reason both images didn't line up satisfactorily using Photomerge was because when making two exposures with different focus distances, there is a slight change in image size. Then, because the inside of the flower was darker because it was lit by light coming through the petals and the little opening in the flower, I was able to use a Threshold adjustment layer to select only the inside of the flower in the top layer (I would use the upper layer for the petals–the lower layer would be the flower inside) I used a mask based on the selection made using the Threshold adjustment layer and softened the selection edges by applying a gaussian blur to the mask.  Here's an image of the layers palette with all layers when the file size was >6GB. Then, I made curves and saturation/hue adjustment layers and used the new CS3 smart filters so I could go back to what I didn't do with adjustment layers to readjust later if needed for fine tuning prints. Resizing to print at 360ppi at ~24"x30" increased the file size to greater than 6GB and caused my computer to slow way down and it took about two hours for it to resize. It kept stopping along the way to rest and catch its breath, I'm sure. Then, when I tried to save the file, it chugged along again slowly and after generating all it needs to do, refused to save the file because it's greater than the normal Photoshop filesize limit of 2GB. I flattened the file and saved, safely arriving at a filesize about 500MB. I planted the Tree Peony about 6 years ago and last year we had the first four flowers. This year, we'll have over a dozen flowers before they finish. The flowerrs are about 5-6 inches across. We have more Peony but their flowers are different and the blossoms require ants to open them. I'll photograph them when they're ready. Peace Tags: -print available-, flower, macro, nika trail, red, wa, white, yellow
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