I took up photography as an undergraduate at the University of Iowa, exhibited locally and won a couple of awards. Graduate school, full-time teaching, and 10 years as an academic department head pushed photography out of the picture. Hurricane Katrina inspired me to pick up a camera again. I produced “WATERLINE: an interactive photo installation,” a critically acclaimed work that was exhibited fifteen times throughout Louisiana and in Florida and Philadelphia. It’s now available as the book, “WATERLINE: landscape with voices.” Now retired, I work part-time as an Episcopal deacon. I became a certified Master Naturalist in 2018, founded a chapter of Louisiana Master Naturalists in my area and do conservation education through that organization. I’m a satellite member of D’art Gallery, a co-op located in the Denver arts district. To see my work, search online for #HardHatArt, #PerformanceArt, #EarthAbstracts, #ArchitecturalAbstracts, #StreetEncounter, #CreatureEncounter. Visit my photography blog: https://edge-essence.com/blog/.
