310427 Buildings in Ashcroft Ghost Town T-Shirt

Buildings in Ashcroft ghost town, seen autumn 1978. Population peaked in
1880-1885 when silver was discivered. Town eventually disbanded when ore vein ran out of silver. It is now on National Register of Historic Sites. Image taken in 4x5 film format.

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...