You might expect that because Ed spent his first ten years on Long Island, just a few miles from the
sandy beaches, crashing waves and pealing seagulls of the Atlantic Coast, he would be photographing
its many moods. Nah! He was given his first camera when his parents moved to Mexico in the late 1940's,
taking their children with them. Since then, he has lived and worked most of his life near the mountainous
backbone of this Continent, hiking and photographing from the Canadian Yukon to the Peruvian Andes.
He studied geology at the Colorado School of Mines for three years, and worked several outcrops in the
Rocky Mountains extracting gem-quality aquamarines and blue garnets, before going to Colorado State
College, Greeley, where he earned his BA and MA degrees. Over the years, he has taught college,
repaired mainframe computers and written computer programs to support his passion, photography.
Before coming to Santa Fe in mid-2005, he was working near the rolling hills of the Appalachians, where
he panned for gold on the weekends and photographed old rail fences, church spires piercing the tree
canopy, and the ever-changing colors of the foliage.
Many of his photographs provide a different perspective of the world around us. For example, instead of
photographing the rock etchings at Petroglyph National Monument, West of Albuquerque, his
photograph entitled “Footprints in Time” shows us animal tracks in the blowing soft sand. They tell us
that an animal, whose image is etched on a nearby rock, came by, as did one of its ancestors more than
six hundred years earlier.
