E-mail: edberg@edbergphoto.com
After U-High closed I went on to Central Jr. High and West High. Ever uncertain of what I wanted to do when I grew up, I attended Harvard College for the liberal education. Little did I know I would be quickly swept up in a pressure packed, overachieving environment that triggered my competetive instincts. The result was that I majored in physics and did quite well academically, but was miserable for the four years of college.
Things improved when I went to grad school, also in physics, at the University of California at Berkeley. I got my Ph.D. in 1988 and stayed on doing research there for an additional seven years, but something was always lacking. I could do the work, but the spark that could make it magical was missing for me.
Things changed radically
for me in 1995. The project I was involved with was coming to a close
and my girlfriend was living on the east coast. It was time to make
a change of some sort. I had picked up a camera ten years earlier
and taken to photography in a way I'd never taken to physics. The
gorgeous scenery of California had also captured my heart on backpacking
trips and other travel, and I combined my love of photography and of the
natural world to become a nature
photographer. The passion for photography burned within me, and
I seemed to be getting quite good at it. I decided to move east to
be with my girlfriend, leave the world of physics behind, and hang out
my shingle as a freelance photographer.
Things have been going well ever since. Ann and I married in 1996 (in Iowa City at the Unitarian Church) and my business has been gaining steam. I am now turning a small but tidy profit with an upward slope every year. Anyone who is interested in checking out my heart's expression may visit my website at
Ann Parsons and I now live in Bowie, Md., just outside of Washington, DC. Ann is an astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. When I'm not travelling west to return to shoot in the mountains, I teach at a local Community College, take on paid shoots, and exhibit in galleries and arts fairs. People may feel free to e-mail me at
edberg@edbergphoto.com.
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Timothy Edberg
Leaning Toward Light Photography
6511 Homestake Dr. South
Bowie, MD 20720
(301) 809-5857
http://www.edbergphoto.com