[1] After his discharge from the Navy, Wimberley returned to the San Francisco Bay Area and worked as an electronics technician for Smith-Kline Instruments in Palo Alto, pursuing his photography during lunch hours on nearby.
[2][better source needed] Wimberley shoots on large-format negatives, his subject matter focus is American Western landscapes.
[1][3] In 1985 and 1986, Wimberley traveled to New Zealand and Ireland to photograph human habitation, standing stones and ancient rock walls.
[citation needed] From the late 1980s, Wimberley began to explore abandoned mining camps and ghost towns, for example in the Owens Valley.
He continued to make images of the surrounding landscape, but an increasingly prolific body of work focused on the rock art itself.