Ed has served as an Art Director for an international firm; is now a retired visual communication, marketing, and business executive; has taught photographic aesthetics, darkroom, and digital techniques; has an extensive collection of rare and contemporary photography books; is a fine art photo collector; has his music performance photographs represented by the Dalle Photo Agency, Paris; has photos within the Library of Congress’ Historic American Building Survey and Historic American Engineering Record (HABS/HAER) collection; has been published in newsletters, magazines, blogs, and online tutorials; and has had his photos exhibited in numerous art galleries in the Washington, DC area.  He lives in Maryland with his husband and two cats.