My name is Edward L. Davis. My primary focus remains coastal and rural, particularly in northern California. I spend much of my time traveling around the West coast, returning to the same location time after time, to capture just the right light and weather.

I was born in the Texas panhandle, one of the last of the war babies (or the first of the baby boomers, depending on how you look at it). I went into the Navy in 1963, and spent my first service year in San Francisco, studying electronics. I had never seen the ocean before, and was overwhelmed and enthralled by the stunning beauty of the California coastline. I took up scuba diving while still in the Navy, and soon became interested in underwater photography, teaching myself the basics of depth of field, aperture, shutter speed and all the rest by trial and error in the murky waters off northern California. Eventually, I became pretty competent with the equipment available at the time, but was continually frustrated with the way my prints would look when they came back from the lab.

I left the Navy in 1976, and took employment at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in Berkeley. I was traveling the coast in my spare time, still doing underwater work and other subjects as well, but still not pleased with the prints I would get back, so I decided to take time off work to learn to do the darkroom work myself. I moved to Half Moon Bay in 1979, doing custom darkroom work, environmental portraits, weddings, and advertising. I have been a photographer for over thirty-five years now, and have been exhibiting my work at art and craft shows since 1989.