T-904801 Rest Stop on Mt. Rainier, My FIRST Mountain Photo Canvas Print

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Rest stop for Mt. Rainier Guide Service guided party, WA, August 12, 1953. The route climbed was the Gibraltar Ledges, Note the difference between this guided party and modern guided parties. Despite the fact that this route is subject to rockfall, not a single member of this guided party wore protective helmets. Guide Paul Gerstmann is at right; assistant guide Larry Wild is on the left. Other members included Leon Blumer (in large hat), my sister Beverly Cooper, and Bill Dolan. The ropes seen here were made of manilla, which were replaced by stronger materials in a few years. I took picture with an Ansco Panda box camera. This is a restoration of a badly faded image.

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...