when light rays and forms are arranged in ways to cause notice of the ununiform...

The Anza-Borrego Desert State Park is the largest in California's state park system and is located east of San Diego and just west of the Salton Sea and adjacent to the Mexico border. The images in this gallery were made in 2005 when the southwest deserts experienced a historic flush of lush spring growth and verdant growth because of the past few seasons having above normal rainfall.

From cabins to skyscrapers and between.

Autumn--Mother Nature's way of giving us something to remember in the sparse times ahead before the rebirth brought by spring.

Bird: a warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrate distinguished by the possession of feathers, wings, and a beak and (typically) by being able to fly.

Classic Mini Cooper FL to WA Roadtrip A friend and I drove two classic Mini Cooper automobiles from Orlando, Florida to the Kitsap Peninsula in Washington. The trip was supposed to be a photo trip with most being off the freeways but once on the road, our agenda changed and the trip although not the most direct route was of a rush rush nature. I didn't have time to take my DSLR out of its pack even once but did make many photos with my point-n-shoot Canon G9 camera along the way when not in heavy traffic. I put the images together as a photo essay called Photos from the Highway at 65MPH.

light and suspended moisture paint the sky canvas...

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These images of Death Valley are from my last trip there when I visited a couple of remote areas in the north end of the National Park-the Eureka Valley and Eureka Dunes and to the Racetrack Playa home of the mysterious sliding rocks.

These images were made with the Magnavox Droid 5MP camera as part of the smart phone.

This is an archive of images I've posted in my photo blog at http://edbook.livejournal.com that I started in 2001. I've been posting in the blog regularly since. Many of these images are available for licensing for use. Contact me for details.

energy production and transmission

...some images chosen to show the variety of my work...

Flowers... wild and domestic, some are macro images with details that fill the frame and some display the flowers in their environment.

rivlets, streams, brooks, waterfalls, tumults, rivers and trickles---anything riparian

trees gathered together as the Lorax would prefer

when man attempts to bring the bounties of plants into his backyard to take all his spare time...

The Grand Ronde river starts in the Blue Mountains in Oregon's northeast corner and flows through its canyon in generally a northeasterly direction. It enters Washington in its southeastern corner and flows into the Snake River at the Idaho/Washington border.

grasses, what can I say, I like grasses...

Mammals that live on the land - four legged warm blooded and often have bodies covered by fur or hair

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very close - closeup - macro

Marine animals like fish, whales, fish, and fixed location creatures.

If it doesn't fit anywhere else, it may be found here.

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when shutter speed is the defining criteria of an image.

mountains, hills, ridges, mesas, volcanos, cliffs, some with snow, some without...

Mount Rainier, the crown of the Pacific Northwest

Mount Tahoma Trails is a hut-to-hut cross country ski and snowshoe trail system near the SE entrance to Mount Rainier National Park at Ashford, Washington.

At the Longmire village in Mount Rainier National Park this bridge can be found providing a crossing of the Nisqually River. The bridge provided the only access to the park from the southwest when the Nisqually River flooded in November 2006 and closed the normal route out of the park. It also accesses the Longmire Community Center across the river from the village.

Images found along the way as I travel having to do with the nature of my conveyance along the road.

Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument is located adjacent to the Mexico border. The monument is home to Organ Pipe Cactus and Saguaro Cactus and many wildflowers. The flush of spring bloom was due to the above rainfall for a few seasons.

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...when a human being in an image is the story...

from macro to overall scenes - botany

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I found these pictographs along a volcanic cliff near the Yakima River in Washington State. When they were painted or who did it or for what reason has been lost in pre-history. The do give the impression of some spiritual happening at this location that impressed the artists enough to tell us of their experience.

signs, signs, everywhere signs, taking up the scenery educating my mind...

The Skagit River Delta serves as a wintering ground for hundreds of thousands of Snow Geese, Trumpeter Swans, and Bald Eagles. It's located at the north end of Puget Sound and is the mouth of the Skagit River which collects water from the northern Cascade Mountain Range and carries it to Puget Sound.

I live on the Kitsap Peninsula in Puget Sound and when leaving the peninsula I have a few choices - a land route, ferry, or by bridge. Going south to Tacoma, the route crosses the Tacoma Narrows served by two suspension bridges. I photograph the bridges often and am adding some of those images as I make them as well as construction images of the new bridge opened to traffic in July of 2007.

images found on or near the west coast of the United States, especially, the Pacific Northwest.

the majority of the images in this gallery were made in the Cascade Range of Washington State, especially near Mount Rainier.