Edward "Ed" H. Krebs , is a photographer

Photography

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 and musician

Musician

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 based in Laguna Beach, California

Laguna Beach, California

Laguna Beach is a seaside resort city and artist community located in southern Orange County, California, United States, approximately southwest of the county seat of Santa Ana...

. He works predominantly in monochrome

Monochrome

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 and is best known for his portrait

Portrait

thumb|250px|right|Portrait of [[Thomas Jefferson]] by [[Rembrandt Peale]], 1805. [[New-York Historical Society]].A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expression is predominant. The intent is to display the likeness,...

ure using equipment popular in the 1960s including a 1954 Rolleiflex TLR

Rollei

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 camera

Camera

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, a Mamiya 645

Mamiya

is a Japanese company that today manufactures high-end cameras and other related photographic and optical equipment. With headquarters in Tokyo, it has two manufacturing plants and a workforce of over 200 people...

, and a Koni-Omega 6x7.

Themes that recur in Krebs's work include baseball, beaches, children and water sports.

Krebs also plays guitar, bass and organ in several reggae

Reggae

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 bands, and is the webmaster of HERB (Had Enough Religious Bullshit), a site for anti-Theocracy

Theocracy

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 and anti-religious

Antireligion

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humor with particular emphasis on cartoons.

• Powell, William F.; Krebs, Ed.