Ed Geldard is a professional landscape photographer, who, after a short spell in the Lake District, has now returned to live in his native northeast. A former freelance for the Northern Echo Group, he is a keen walker and contributes to many countryside publications. In 1991 he teamed up with the legendary Alfred Wainwright who said that his beautiful pictures 'speak louder than words'. He was commissioned in 1992 for Wainwright's Tour in the Lake District, winner of the Tullie House prize in the Lakeland Book of the Year Award, and has written his own book Travels Through the Lakes as well as several books on Northumberland.