148115-Toccoa Falls, GA Canvas Print

Toccoa Falls, 186', 57m, one of the highest free falling waterfalls east of the Mississippi River. It is located in the Southern Appalachian Mountains in Chattahoochee National Forest, Georgia. On one terrible night on November 6, 1977, a dam upstream from here broke The resulting flood killed 39 & injured 60 people, most of them in Toccoa Falls College downstream from here. The dam was never rebuilt. This photo taken May 1975.

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...