1M6443-H-Limber Pine Frames the Palisades Canvas Print

A limber pine, PINUS FLEXILIS, in the White Mountains frames the Palisade Group in the Sierra Nevada, CA. Owens Valley floor, seen at lower left, is a full 10000', ~3500m, below the 14000-foot peaks of the Palisades. Image taken in 4x5 film format July 1974.

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...