Poplar Bluff fine art photographer Tim Edington’s work featuring the Ozark Mountains of Missouri is being displayed during September at the Missouri Department of Conservation Nature Center in Cape Girardeau.
Edington will be on hand every Saturday in September to meet the public.
The Poplar Bluff native explains he has been looking through the lens of a camera since he was a teenager, which was well before digital photography, when film was the only medium.
“Without access to a dark room, there was a significant delay between tripping the shutter release and actually seeing the finished product,” he said. “Since the arrival of digital technology, that time delay has evaporated. Before, I was limited to 36 images per roll of film, and now I can put hundreds on a card.”
It is Edington’s hope that at least one of his pieces strikes a chord with those attending the exhibit, “maybe even becoming a touchstone to a memory, a feeling, a conversation, a book, a dream, or something from your past, present, or future,” he said.
Returning to Missouri after living in Texas for decades, Edington says his zeal for outdoor photography is indulged daily but never satisfied. His father majored in forestry at the University of Missouri and instilled a lifelong interest in the out-of-doors. Following his mother’s example, he is almost never without a camera of some kind. Indeed, photography is his passion.
In addition to having a Bachelor of Arts degree from Southern Methodist University, Edington has studied at the University of Salamanca (Spain) and with the Smithsonian Institution in Grand Teton National Park. He graduated from Poplar Bluff High School, and played sports throughout high school.
Edington shares, he seems to have an innate ability to capture magical moments, many of which others tend to be overlooked. Images caught through his lens resonate with audiences.
Samples of these include the following:
• A rainbow trout leaping from the headwaters of the Current River
• A gust of wind rustling the feathers on a bald eagle at Otter Slough Conservation Area
• Dappled sunlight on a flowering dogwood at Lon Sanders Canyon Conservation Area
• Yellow leaves floating on the surface of a slough along Black River
• The day’s last rays of sunshine hitting a cluster of mistletoe in the winter along Current River
• A rope swing hanging from a sycamore tree at Pin Oak on the Current River
• A view from a helicopter of the St. Francis River and farmland west of Lodi, Missouri, taken while he was being transported due to a heart attack
• A mated pair of bald eagles sharing a branch in a cypress tree during a winter storm at Duck Creek Conservation Area
• Sunrise through the mist from a seat on a beaver lodge at Duck Creek Conservation Area
• Lily pads on the surface of a pond at Twin Pines Conservation Education Center
• A bald eagle calling above her aerie
• Blue Spring on the Current River: 90 million gallons of cerulean blue Ozark water per day and deep enough for the Statue of Liberty to be 10 feet under water
• Multiple photos of Big Spring in the Ozark National Scenic Riverways: 278 million gallons of crystal-clear Ozark water every day
• The iconic neon 303 Liquor sign from Poplar Bluff,
• An overhead view of a quintessential Ozark scene at Alley Mill and Alley Spring
• A sepia image of a fog-shrouded angel headstone in the Poplar Bluff Cemetery.
Images are displayed as matted and framed glossies behind glass, stretched canvases, as well as printed on metal. Except for the photographs on loan for this show, every image is for sale, and all of them can be seen at www.TimEdingtonPhotography.com.