146209-V Sunrise from Table Rock T-Shirt

Sunrise seen from the top of Table Rock, 4100', 1250m, NC, on the eastern rim of the fog covered Linville Gorge. This is located in Pisgah National Forest in the Blue Ridge Mountains, part of the southern Appalachian chain of Mountains. Image taken in 4x5 film format, December 1973. Image is cropped vertically from original.

Ed began photographing seriously in 1956 when he started shooting in a 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 camera. In 1962 he started shooting in 4x5 film format with a view camera, and over the next 50 years built perhaps the largest private library of large format inspirational, mountain and nature images in North America. He began digital photography in 2007, both adding new images, as well as converting old film from the previous decades, to digital form. All photos are unedited and unaltered except for the digital restoration of the older film images. Over the years his work has appeared in calendars, greeting cards, church bulletins, posters, his own personal wine country and northern California coast postcard line, and many other commercial uses, as...