Having recieved his Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology in 1968 at age 23, Ed braced himself for two years of graduate school. When his first daughter was born in January of 1969, he purchased a Minolta point-and-shoot 35mm camera to document the new family member. That was the beginning of the end of the Anthropology career. Hopelessly infected with the “photo bug”, he began reading everything he could get his hands on relating to photography, squeezing out Anthropology studies. While Anthropology was “circling the bowl”, Ed took a job with a County Probation Department to put food on the table, but continued in his photographic affliction. A few years later, Ed got his first SLR and spent all his spare earnings on film, processing and equipment. Throughout the 70’s Ed sold framed nature images at art fairs and through local gift stores. Mushroom photography started to take its hold during this time. In 1979 Ed had his first article published in Petersens’s Photographic entitled “How to Photograph Mushrooms”. Photography was put on hold for a few years while he put himself through law school, but he continued to market his work through art fairs. From the mid 80’s on, he took time out from the practice of family law in the Fall and Winter months to chase fungi and refine his skills in photographing this elusive subject. In 1990 Ed moved up to Medium Format (a Mamiya RB-67) and gradually phased out of 35mm. During the 1990’s his work was being seen at mycological fairs, restaurants, nurseries and gift stores. His mushroom photographs were the subjects of an “Earth Day” celebration show at the Heritage Art Gallery in 1993. In 1994 he completed and began marketing a self-published book entitled: Mushrooms and Light: The Nature Photographer’s Guide To Photographing Mushrooms. Hundreds of these books were sold throughout North America and Europe. In 1997, Nature Photographer Magazine published Ed’s article entitled: Mushrooms: Obj ets d’Art. In 1998 he got his first digital camera and began to explore the world of digital imagery. By 2001 the film cameras were history and all work was being created digitally. During the 1990’s while shooting medium format, Ed began to experiment and develop techniques for shooting panoramic images. It wasn’t until the move to digital imagery that panoramic photography really took hold and classic images began to be created. Throughout the 90’s and to the present, Ed refined his skills in Photoshop and continues to utilize this software in the creation of all his photographic images.