Wayne Eardley, photographer and filmmaker, was born in Montreal. He then spent most of his growing years building tree forts, swimming and fishing in and around the village of Cavan, Ontario. At the age of 12, Eardley studied photography at school. He hated the smell of glacial acidic acid but loved the taste of silver. It was around this time he realized his true calling and passion was photography and not necessarily road hockey.

By grade 10, his images covered Toronto's "Shades" magazine, which was the Canadian version of Andy Warhol's Interview magazine. After high school, Eardley kept up his family tradition of travelling for long periods of time with little and often no money. Upon returning, Eardley worked as a maitre d', farm hand, and sold antiques. It was in the back of this antique shop where he set up a small studio and would more often than not be unavailable for customers, as he was busy composing a still life through his 4x5.

Eardley went to Ryerson University as he could see his career in antiques was collecting dust. After 4 years of film and photography studies, he set up a studio in a historic old school house in Millbrook, Ontario. There he worked for such clients as Bell Canada, Air Canada, Johnson & Johnson, Today's Parent and Canadian Geographic magazines to name just a few. After putting up with insufficient heat for years, Eardley jumped at the chance to move in to a newly renovated studio space in downtown Peterborough (about 1-1/2 hour drive east from Toronto). There he works primarily as a still photographer shooting a mix of work for a variety of clients.

Wayne still travels the globe shooting ongoing personal projects, as well as jobs that allow him too stay in quite reasonable accommodations some with cold and hot water. Eardley loves to work with a plethora of camera, film, and lens combinations, and he custom prints images sometimes using processes that apparently only he understands. Eardley has won many awards for both his photography and his short film work.